ICSR 2013 - 2013 International Conference on Social Robotics

International Conference on Social Robotics
27th - 29th October 2013, Bristol, UK
The International Conference on Social Robotics brings researchers and practitioners together to report and discuss the latest progress in the field of social robotics. The ICSR conferences focus on the interaction between humans and robots and the integration of robots into our society.
The theme of the 2013 conference is "Companionship".
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
> Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments
> Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities
> Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life
> Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots
> Personal robots for the home
> Social acceptance and impact in the society
> Robot ethics in human society
> Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding
> Control architectures for social robotics
> Socially appealing design methodologies
> Safety in robots working in human spaces
> Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots
> Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming