Socially Competent Agents that Care

To participate at the workshop, please register:

https://forms.gle/JCt3R89Np56WNqVB9 

During the past 20 years, several initiatives have sought to design, develop, and deploy social agents for care in different environments. Embodied conversational agents have potential to, for example, improve physical activity, nutritional behavior, and accessibility to online health information. Furthermore, they show potential to improve the mental well-being of the user, for example, by lowering depression symptoms and combating loneliness in older adults. To achieve these outcomes, agents must be socially competent, such as understanding and adapting to the needs of the user, and showing empathy.

This full-day workshop focuses on advancing research and development in socially-competent agents that care. Many agent platforms and kinds of embodiments of agents that have a primary focus on caring, one way or another, for the end users. In this workshop, we aim to look at value-based design, inclusiveness, empathetic design and long-term human-agent interaction for socially competent agents that care. 

We invite researchers and practitioners to submit work in progress focusing on, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Human-Agent Interaction

• Human-Computer Interaction

• Robotics

• Applied Machine Learning

• Assisted Healthcare

• Industrial Design

• Value-Based Design

• Inclusiveness and Empathetic Design

• Personalization in AI Systems

• Long-Term Human-Agent Interaction

Submission Details

We welcome submissions in the form of extended abstracts (2 pages, excluding references). Submissions should present original contributions that have not been previously published and all submissions will undergo a single-blind peer-review process. Submissions should be in PDF-format using the double-column ACM template (same as main conference). Please submit to EasyChair, extended deadline October 31 (AoE).