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CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS
Guest Editors: Serena Ivaldi, Sven Behnke, Rafael Cisneros, Luigi Penco, Kourosh Darvish, Dongbin Kim, Jacki Morie
This special issue is timely with the growing interest for the robotics community for robots that are teleoperated to act as human avatars to enable telepresence and social interaction.

Submission deadline: 1 September 2024
Guest Editors: Anaís Garrell, Gerard Canal, Raquel Ros

This Special Issue will focus on the prediction and anticipation of human actions in Human-Robot Interaction tasks, as this is key to coordinate joint activities.

Submission deadline: 1 October 2024
Guest Editors: Manfred Hülsken-Giesler, Andreas Hein, Claudia Müller, Sibylle Meyer, Naonori Kodate, Mark Ackerman, Marco Eichelberg, Richard Paluch, Simone Lienenbrink
We invite researchers from nursing science, technical sciences, ethics, social sciences, and related disciplines who have conducted research in this area to submit articles on these issues.  

Submission deadline: 30 September 2024
Guest Editors: Ely Repiso Polo, Malcolm Doering, Aurélie Clodic, Guillaume Sarthou, Rachid Alami, Dražen Brščić, Takayuki Kanda, Mona Abdel-Keream, Michael Beetz
This special issue will cover topics ranging from methodologies and techniques for solving focused, concrete aspects of these types of human-robot interaction to more complex and general approaches of HRI that combine multiple different techniques into a larger system.

CALL FOR PAPERS | Submission deadline: 30 September 2024
Guest Editors: Gloria Beraldo, Riccardo De Benedictis, Francesca Fracasso, Zhao Han, Alessandra Sciutti, Masaki Takahashi, Alessandro Umbrico

This special issue aims at collecting contributions from different stakeholders concerning the design and deployment of novel human-mediated robotic services in real-world scenarios.

Guest Editors: Paolo Dario, Alberto Pirni, Toshie Takahashi
The specific and innovative aim of this Special Issue is to present from an interdisciplinary perspective the groundbreaking theme of Robot Companions (RCs), robots that can effectively cooperate with humans as real “Companions”, thus as socially and culturally acceptable and amplifiers of human capabilities in a broad variety of scenarios, ranging from the healthcare scenario, industry, to citizens’ private lives.

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Guest Editors: Gabriella Cortellessa, Laura Fiorini, Roberta Bevilacqua, Alessandro Umbrico, Rainer Wieching
This special issue aims at collecting contributions from experts (scholars, researchers, Ph.D students as well as practitioners) in Artificial Intelligence and Social Robotics and other crossing disciplines involved in the development of innovative and effective researchers and technologies for the ageing society and assistance in general.

Closed for Submissions
Guest Editors: Yiming Wang, Cigdem Beyan, Fei Chen, Séverin Lemaignan, Elisa Ricci, Alessandra Sciutti
This special issue is dedicated to developing computational tools to advance the robot cognition capability for social and natural human-robot interaction in the open-world.

Watch a short animation video celebrating the 10th anniversary of the International Journal of Social Robotics here. 

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