The workshop aims to attract researchers and practitioners in diverse fields who are involved in the topic of investigating the automation and role of facial cues such as gaze, head gestures, facial expressions, and others in human-human, human-agent, or human-robot interactions.

Participation

While submission of work is encouraged, it is not required to participate in the workshop.  

The participants must register for either the full conference or workshop-only participation here.  

Submission Guidelines

Participants interested in presenting a poster in the workshop are requested to submit their original work relevant to the topic "Do Social Robots Need a Face?" in the form of an abstract (word limits 250 - 500). We encourage submissions that either argue in favor of or against social robots having a face with scientific evidence from any of the relevant fields such as Artificial Intelligence, HRI, HCI, Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science among others. 

The workshop tries to answer the questions: 

• Do social robots need a face? If so, why?

• What do we gain by having a face on a robot?

• If not, how do we overcome the challenges of conveying intentionality and avoid misunderstandings or accidents?

How to submit your abstract :

Please submit your abstracts (word or PDF only) here: Submission Link [use password: faceoff2024]

Alternatively, abstracts can be submitted to the email: chinmaya.mishra@mpi.nl.  

Abstracts will undergo single-blind review by the program committee members and external reviewers.  Accepted abstracts will be invited to present a poster during the workshop. 

At least one author must register for the workshop to present  the poster on-site

Authors are required to bring their printed posters with them to the venue

Selected authors will be invited to contribute jointly authored position papers or papers to planned special issues in relevant flagship journals (e.g., ACM THRI, International Journal of Social Robotics)