iDR 2012 - The First International Workshop on Intelligent Domestic Robots (iDR'12)

This workshop seeks to provide a forum to explore the latest research in domestic robots, with particular emphasis on robots that are functionally designed to interact and communicate with people. There are a wide range of issues to address to make intelligent domestic robots an everyday reality, covering technical, AI, design and safety. As domestic robots become a greater part of our lives, a new ecology of man and machine may be realised needing insights into the physiological aspects of man and machines working alongside each other. Workshop areas include but are not restricted to:
Nature-inspired approaches to domestic robots
All aspects of domestic robot safety, especially with a domestic family environment
Self-configuration and adaptation of domestic robots / groups of domestic robots
Information fusion across heterogeneous smart home environments
All aspects of domestic robot interaction, but particularly with humans, robots and other devices within the ecology of the domestic environment.
Behavioural paradigms and architectures for domestic robots covering traditional controllers and socially orientated controllers i.e. exploring various psychometric traits such as the irrational, rational, ego centric and so on.
Emergent service behaviours as a result of co-operative interactions between robots, robots and other devices, robots and people
Psychological and practical impacts of domestic robots working alongside humans within the domestic environment, adaptations of space and human behaviours, case studies and other experimental evidences.
All aspects of domestic robot design including aesthetic and architectural issues
This workshop will particularly welcome practical results, description and analysis of user experiments and live or recorded demonstrations of early stage or advanced working prototypes.