HRI 2017 - AAAI Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI)

AI-HRI (The AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)) seeks to bring together the subset of the HRI community focused on the application of AI solutions to HRI problems. Building on the success of the three previous years’ symposia, the central purpose of this year’s symposium is to address the statements “HRI is an AI problem” and “AI is an HRI problem”. The symposium will include current research talks and discussions both to share work in this intersectional area and provide guidance for how to best frame AI-centric HRI work within AI venues. It will also include invited speaker panels to give different perspectives on AI-for-HRI. AI-HRI encourages also social scientists and industry members to submit papers in all categories.
***PAPER CATEGORY***
FULL PAPERS: 6-8 pages
Should be highlighting state-of-the-art HRI-oriented AI research or HRI research focusing on the use of autonomous AI systems. Full papers from social science researchers can also discuss novel research on the interaction between humans and autonomous robots. Full papers from industry members can detail (a) the implementation of AI systems in their commercial HRI products, including aspects of the software engineering or design cycle that led to successful development and deployment or (b) novel HRI-oriented AI research they have performed, whether or not it has been implemented in a commercial product.
SHORT PAPERS: 3-4 pages
Should outline new or controversial views or describe ongoing computational work. Short papers from social science researchers can also describe challenges that social scientists encounter in designing, performing, or evaluating studies in HRI which could be ameliorated by new or improved tools, software packages, or artificial intelligence systems. Short papers from industry members can describe unrealized computational advances that would facilitate the development, enhancement, or deployment of HRI technologies.
TOOL PAPERS: 1-2 pages
Should describe novel software, hardware, or datasets of interest to the AI-HRI community.
***SUBMISSION WEBSITE***
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aihri2017
*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
SUBMISSIONS DUE TO: July, 21, 2017, 11:59 PM PT (UTC-7)
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION: August 11, 2017
SYMPOSIUM: November 9-11, 2017 in Arlington, VA
For more information, visit https://ai-hri.github.io or contact the AI-HRI submissions chairs:
Kalesha Bullard, Georgia Institute of Technology: ksbullard-AT-gatech.edu
Emmanuel Senft, Plymouth University: emmanuel.senft-AT-plymouth.ac.uk
*** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***
Elin A. Topp (Lund University)
Laura M. Hiatt (Naval Research Laboratory)
Luca Iocchi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Kalesha Bullard (George Institute of Technology)
Emmanuel Senft (Plymouth University)
Tian Zhou (Purdue University)
Marc Hanheide (University of Lincoln)
Frank Broz (Heriott-Watt University)
Dan Grollman (Sphero, Inc)
Katrin Lohan (Heriot-Watt University)
Ross Mead (Semio)
Tom Williams (Tufts University/Colorado School of Mines)