Call for Contributions

IMPORTANT DATES

March 15th: Submission deadline Extended to March 21, 23:59/11:59 pm Central European time (please submit an early version for review planning and update with a final version before the deadline)

April 10th: Notification of acceptance

April 24th: Camera ready paper

May 13th: Workshop (full-day)

OVERVIEW

We are witnessing the transition of robots from labs to publicly accessible spaces where they interact more with a diverse range of people in different contexts. This requires an increased focus on Human-Robot-Interaction, raising inherent ethical and legal issues. The workshop will enable participants to better understand the impact of different assessments and potential measures concerning robot ethics on design and deployment. Gaining insight into current regulations, standards and initiatives addressing ethical and legal issues will benefit both researchers and developers. That is by considering how these can open new directions in robotics and automation research.


Being able to employ measures to address the implications and issues is vital to making robots more acceptable and trustworthy, and fundamental for responsible research and innovation. The workshop will cover key aspects through concrete examples from ongoing research projects, and applied work on legal considerations, development of relevant standards, universal design principles and more. This will be from an international perspective, with speakers representing the global north and south and with emphasis on gender, cultural and ethnic diversity.

Attend the WORKSHOP

The workshop will be given on-site only with no hybrid option. To be able to attend the workshop, please make registration for "Workshops and Tutorials" at the ICRA web page, 7th May at the latest.

FORMAT

Authors are required to submit a 2-page extended abstract or 4 page short paper or 6

page full paper as PDF in the standard ICRA conference format.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be judged based on relevance to the workshop topics, technical quality, and novelty. Authors of accepted papers are expected to give a lightning talk (2-3 minutes) and to present a poster at the workshop. A number of full papers will be selected for a longer 15 minutes oral presentation. 


The authors of the accepted full papers will be invited to submit an extended version for tentative inclusion in a Robot Ethics journal special issue (pending/under review for the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine). The papers would be peer-reviewed as regular journal papers.  One or more summaries of selected topics covered at the workshop will be submitted to the Springer Nature Machine Intelligence journal.


Submission link:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worobet2024 

SCOPE AND TOPICS

The main objective of the ICRA2024 workshop is to raise awareness, prompt debate and share knowledge about ethical, legal and user/social perspectives for robot assistants operating in personal and public environments with humans. We invite interested authors to submit their original and unpublished work to this workshop.


A list of topics addressed in the workshop (but are not limited to):