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.)
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<br>*Social Robots in Institutional Interaction.
<br>*
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<br>*Exploring HRI in Service, Healthcare or Educational Contexts*
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<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’.
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<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):
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<br> * What are adequate methods for investigating institutional HRI?
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<br> * What are forms and characteristics of institutional HRI?
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<br> * How are human-robot encounters framed and shaped by institutional
<br> settings?
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<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?
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<br> * How do working environments change due to the integration of robotic
<br> systems?
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<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. *
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<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
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