Message posted on 27/11/2019
CfP Conference Social Robots in Institutional Interaction 2020 Bielefeld
Dear colleagues, <br> <br>enclosed below you will find the Call for Papers for our conference <br> <br>"Social Robots in Institutional Interaction. Exploring HRI in Service, <br>Healthcare or Educational Contexts" at Bielefeld University, 2-3 April <br>2020. <br> <br>We are looking forward to many exciting proposals (until 10 January 2020)! <br> <br>Best regards <br> <br>Indra Bock <br> <br>(I'm sorry for the idiosyncratic formatting.) <br> <br>--- <br> <br>*Social Robots in Institutional Interaction. <br>* <br> <br>*Exploring HRI in Service, Healthcare or Educational Contexts* <br> <br>/Conference 2-3 April 2020/ <br> <br>/Bielefeld University/ <br> <br>/ Organizers: Indra Bock & Florian Muhle/ <br> <br> Humanoid robots and virtual agents are expected to interact with <br>humans in a natural and sociable way. However, for many years humanoid <br>technical systems were mainly used as research platforms in laboratories <br>and HRI was investigated dominantly with experimental methods. That is, <br>for a long time humans could only encounter robotic systems under <br>artificial and controlled laboratory conditions, but not in natural <br>situations. This has changed in recent years, since the first robotic <br>systems made the leap into everyday life settings. Today, robots like <br>Pepper, Nao or Care-O-bot have left the laboratories in order to work in <br>various institutional environments such as health care, customer service <br>or educational institutions, where they make contact with the public and <br>staff. <br> <br>While HRI research under laboratory conditions mainly relies on <br>controlled experimental studies, as is usual in the fields of psychology <br>and cognitive science, we assume that the analysis of HRI in complex <br>real world settings calls for different approaches. More precisely, we <br>suppose that it is especially interactional and ethnographic approaches, <br>which could be helpful to investigate human-robot encounters in concrete <br>situations, since they are dedicated to analyze naturally occurring <br>situations and interactions ‘in the wild’. <br> <br>Against this background the conference aims to bring together HRI <br>researchers who (1) are concerned with the institutional use of robots, <br>(2) investigate forms and possibilities of interaction between humans <br>and robotic systems in natural settings, (3) observe the development of <br>robotic systems for institutional settings, or (4) are interested in how <br>institutions and organizations are changed by the use of robots. <br> <br>We are looking forward to theoretical, methodological or empirical <br>proposals that focus on the following questions (for example): <br> <br> * What are adequate methods for investigating institutional HRI? <br> <br> * What are forms and characteristics of institutional HRI? <br> <br> * How are human-robot encounters framed and shaped by institutional <br> settings? <br> <br> * How can institutional HRI in different settings be compared? <br> <br> * How useful are comparisons with HHI and HCI in the analysis of <br> institutional HRI? <br> <br> * How do social robots and agents get prepared for institutional <br> interaction? <br> <br> * What kind of assumptions about institutional interaction are <br> implemented into robotic systems? <br> <br> * How do working environments change due to the integration of robotic <br> systems? <br> <br>The conference serves as concluding conference of the research project <br>"Communication at the Borders of the Social World" funded by the German <br>Research Foundation (DFG). <br> <br> The submission deadline for abstracts is *10 January 2020. * <br> <br>Authors are requested to submit abstracts of up to one page in length. <br>Please send Your abstracts to indra.bock@uni-bielefeld.de <br>. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>-- <br>Dipl.-Soz. Indra Bock <br>Universität Bielefeld <br>Fakultät für Soziologie <br>Universitätsstraße 25 <br>D-33615 Bielefeld <br> <br>Raum: X-C4-225 <br>Tel.: 0521 - 106-67373 <br>indra.bock@uni-bielefeld.de <br>www.uni-bielefeld.de/soz/ab7 <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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