Call for contributions

We invite participants to submit extended abstracts about their research related to the topics of the workshop. We welcome submissions about novel results, work in progress, literature review, perspectives/opinions. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion and a unique opportunity for a fruitful and in-depth exchange of ideas between early-career and advanced-career researchers.

Submitted abstracts must follow the IEEE template (1 page max., approx. 300-600 words, including references). Submissions should be sent to: marwen.belkaid@iit.it

Among the accepted submissions, 3 best contributions will be awarded with the Springer-sponsored award. The award consists of:

1. 1-year free access to the International Journal of Social Robotics (IJSR), Springer,

2. book prize in the form of a 150 € voucher that the recipient will be able to use to receive the book(s) of their choice in the broad selection of books from the publisher.

• Deadline for abstract submission: 15 July 2021

• Decision notification for abstracts: 27 July 2021

• Workshop: 1 October 2021

The booklet gathering all the abstracts presented during the workshop can be downloaded here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d1hr1KbzIjJC3qOsR3hvbfQDy_6tYQ4f/view?usp=sharing

The Best poster awards were awarded to the following abstracts:

• Colomer et al.
  Hierarchical Sparse Dictionaries: how sparsity, topology and pooling can improve visual place recognition

• Jung et al.
  A Whole-Body Human-Machine Interface for Bilateral Teleoperation of Wheeled Humanoid Robots

• Mahn et al.
  Self-Calibrating Vision through Active Efficient Coding on a Novel Robotic Binocular Vision Platform