Call for Papers

Is this workshop relevant to me?

We invite researchers, designers, and practitioners interested in different aspects of child-robot interaction, child-computer interaction, and designing/co-designing technologies with and for children to participate in the workshop. Additionally, our topic closely taps into the importance of the ethics of developing technologies with children or conducting research with children and invites researchers active on such topics to join.

We welcome different types of contributions concerning the workshop topics such as position papers, reflection papers, work-in-progress reports, and demo papers.

We also welcome attendees who still can participate without submission in case they do not have any content to present. The workshop will benefit from different perspectives during the activity session.

What would I learn in this workshop?

This workshop’s primary objective is to establish an interdisciplinary debate and have philosophical discussions about the present and future relationship between children and robots. The workshop includes several interactive activities such as Presentations, Questions/Answer Rounds, Panel discussion, and collaborative activity. Thus, either you are a naive researcher or experienced one, you would be able to gain the benefits of the activities in addition to the discussions between researchers and the Keynote speakers.

Submission Details

Submission deadline: April 15, 2024

Submission website: Please use the following link for submission. In the submission process, EasyChair is used. Please see submission instructions.

Submission format: The submissions should be original and unpublished research work written in English Language for the maximum length of 2-4 pages + references.

Authors should consult ACM SIGCHI format and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX, Word, or Overleaf for the preparation of their papers.

Topics of Interests

The call for papers will encompass the following topics, but it is not limited to them. The submissions are encouraged to ensure that these topics are centered around children as primary users of technologies and their needs related to explainability and trust are catered for.

Using participatory designs with children to achieve explainable and transparent intelligent technologies
The downsides of explainability or transparency in child-technology interaction
The connection between explainability and trust
What makes an interaction explainable
Metrics to evaluate explainability
Deception in child-robot interaction
Unintended biases in explainability \& how to deal with those
Transparency in trustworthy autonomous systems
Explanation generation for children of different ages
Adapting explanation through forming a mental model
Understanding children's perception of technology to adapt explanations
Ethics of developing explainable technology for children

Post-workshop plan

We will create a mailing list for the workshop participants to join the post-workshop discussion and work on a theme eliciting possible collaboration between the participants. We plan to publish a workshop report and edit a special issue in an International Journal, inviting participants to submit an article. Moreover, we also plan to keep the website going to conduct a follow-up workshop to keep the discussion and knowledge exchange going.

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