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Call for Papers

This full-day workshop aims to bring together researchers from all disciplinary backgrounds who are working on child-robot interaction (CRI), in order to reflect on the current state of this young field and to consider its 3-5 year “near future” outlook. We invite submissions addressing any of the following topics:

• Is there (or can there be) a unified field of 'child-robot interaction' across disciplines? What does that mean for future work that includes both children and robots?
• Reflections on recent or in-progress work and how it illuminates one or more current or near-future challenges for CRI as a field.
• Exploring a specific theory, methodology, or practice in current CRI research (e.g., constructivism, participatory design), and its perceived potential (or shortcomings) as a tool to meet future challenges in this area. This could include something without a current role, but with a perceived future application.

Submissions about research should include a brief overview of the project(s) and comment specifically on the disciplinary perspective(s) represented (e.g., a team with education and engineering perspectives). Submissions on theories or methodologies should also briefly describe these.

Submission should be 2-4 pages in SIGCHI extended abstract format: SIGCHI templates. Please use the 2016 version.

Papers should be submitted by 15 April 2018 at EasyChair (link)

All accepted position papers will be compiled into workshop proceedings, archived on arXiv.

At least one author of each accepted submission is required to attend the workshop. Participants must register for both the workshop and at least one day of the IDC conference (link)

Important dates

• April 15: Deadline for submission of extended abstract
• April 25: Acceptance notification
• April 30: Deadline for final submission of extended abstract
• The registration for participation to the workshop is now open (link)
• June 19: Workshop at IDC 2018

Contact

If you have any comments or questions, please contact us at idc18childrenandrobots@gmail.com