CULTU-RO 2022
Workshop on Cultural Influences in Human-Robot Interaction: Today and Tomorrow
31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'22) - Napoli, Italy, August 29 - September 2, 2022.
31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'22) - Napoli, Italy, August 29 - September 2, 2022.
Full-day Online Workshop @ RO-MAN 2022
Workshop date: August 25, 2022.
Cultu-Ro will be a fully online, full-day workshop. The workshop will take place on 25th of August to avoid any conflict with the workshops that will be running onsite. The workshop will be hosted on Underline. Please log in with your account.
Welcome to the Workshop on Cultural Influences in Human-Robot Interaction: Today and Tomorrow!
This full-day workshop will focus on the cultural influences in human-robot interaction. Robots have the potential to improve services in areas such as eldercare, rehabilitation, training, and education. However, social practices can be complex especially with different cultural backgrounds and norms which greatly influence individuals' behavior and interpretation patterns. How we eat, greet, and interact and what is socially acceptable to say or do can vary between countries, and even between regions of the same country. Similarly, how humans perceive robots is not universal, the meaning people attribute to a “robot” depends on their individual characteristics, one of them being their cultural backgrounds. With the rise of social robots, important design decisions need to be made regarding how robots should look, what people envision robots to do, which robot behaviors are socially acceptable, and how robots should interact with people (e.g. how robots should greet people ).
Cultural influences in HRI are not limited to interactions in particular domains (e.g., education, elder care, etc.). Robotized society will bring social and cultural transformation through time, one example being the marriage of robots and art, such as robot performers in theater acting and musical performance. This will play a role in the production of culture. More and more examples of robots in society have started to appear in different stages of life, including robots in religion, dance, and intimacy. These developments lead to a question: “how will be tomorrow with robots in human culture?” We welcome the papers that discuss robots in the future of human society.
With this workshop, we aim to raise awareness for the emerging field of culturally aware robots. Moreover, the workshop aims to bring the researchers together who are interested in cross-cultural HRI. It will also be a great opportunity for the researcher to receive feedback on their early-stage works. In addition, the workshop will provide networking for the researchers interested in this field to connect and explore collaboration possibilities that are particularly important for cross-cultural evaluations of the same robotic system.
Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers written in English. All submitted papers will be reviewed by two reviewers from the program committee. All accepted papers will appear on the workshop website. For more information please see Submissions.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Cross-cultural similarities and differences in HRI
Cultural robotics
Cross-cultural comparisons of robots
Culturally competent robots
Challenges and implications of cultural robotics
Design aspects of robots
Robots' static and dynamic factors that are influenced by cultural norms
Interaction modality differences in cultural background
Cultural differences in understandable and explainable robots
Human factors affecting the HRI on cultural background
Human-centered design
Theories, models, methodologies, and tools for evaluation of robots
Interaction design process and methodologies
Subjective and objective measures for evaluation of robots
Robot roles, gender, stereotypes in different cultural backgrounds
Robots in popular culture
Values, ethics, policies for HRI
Robots in art and creativity, machine performers
Effects of culture on design, application, use, and evaluation of robots
Acceptance, trust, perceived safety of robots in cultural differences