If you are a researcher, practitioner and non-academics who work in the field of child-robot interaction, you are welcome to join this workshop. We welcome different types of contributions concerning the workshop topics such as position papers and expression of interest to participate by students, non-academics and practitioners, describing their background and motivation of what they would like to do/achieve in the field of CRI. We also welcome attendees who still can participate without submission in case they do not have any content to present.
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 deadline: 16th October 2020
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Submission format: The submissions should be original and unpublished research work written in English Language for the maximum length of 2-4 pages + references.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 Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX, Word, or Overleaf for the preparation of their papers.
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We encourage participants to submit their work related to the field of CRI, but not limited to the following topics:
Experiments involving children and robots.
Challenges of safe child-robot interaction.
Robot designs for child-robot interactions.
Children’s involvement in design and development.
Children’s perception of the Robot (measuring, evaluating, and interpreting).
Children’s taking the robot’s perspective (Spatial, Affective, and Cognitive).
Future relationships with robots.
Children’s expectations for future interactions.
The impact of robot on children’s cognitive development.
Ethical Concern.
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.
TBD