Call for papers
Important Dates
Paper Submission: February 10, 2022 (Extended)
Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hri2022
Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2022
Camera Ready Submission: February 25, 2022
Workshop: March 7, 2022, 9:00am to 6:00pm (EST)
Submission Guidelines
We invite short papers of max 2 pages (plus additional 2 pages for figures and references) on topics related to curiosity in HRI (see below).
Papers must be submitted in PDF format. All submissions must follow the ACM/IEEE HRI 2022 template. Templates are available at this link (US letter), use this link to work in overleaf directly.
Papers will be reviewed for their relevance, novelty, and scientific and technical soundness.
Submissions do not need to be anonymized.
All accepted papers will be linked to the workshop website.
We require at least one author to be registered for and attend the workshop for all accepted papers.
Selected papers will also be invited to send extended versions of their papers for a special issue in a journal.
Topics of Interest
Human perceptions of curious robots
Long-term HRI studies with curious robots
Tools and benchmarks for curiosity-driven learning
Challenges in curiosity-driven learning in HRI
Real-world applications of curious robots
Metrics for evaluating curiosity-driven learning in HRI
Curiosity-driven learning
Self-supervised learning
Intrinsic motivations
Active learning
Lifelong learning
Lifelong (Long-Term) human-agent or multi-agent interactions
Ethical and legal considerations for curiosity-driven learning in HRI