HRC Workshop CASE 2024

Info

When: September 1st, 2024
Where: Bari, Italy
Venue: The Nicolaus Hotel, Bari
Online Link: TBD

Content

The workshop will delve into the critical role of robot decision-making in achieving an effective collaboration between humans and robots, emphasizing the creation of shared abstraction models to leverage their respective strengths. The workshop will explore how system transparency serves as a vital bridge between shared autonomy and trust, providing human operators with clear and comprehensive insights into the robot's intentions, actions, and decision-making processes. The workshop will focus on but is not limited to, the following topics:

Shared decision making
Human intention modeling
Explainable robot decision making
Explicit and implicit HR communication
Trust evaluation in HRC
Theory of mind
Human-aware task and motion planning
Data-driven synthesis of collaborative behaviors
Online learning from demonstration
Perspective taking in robotics
Cognitive-inspired robotics
Social norms and ethics in human-robot Interaction
Legible robot behaviors

Schedule

Time	Activity
10:00 - 10:10	Welcome
10:10 - 10:40	Weitiang Wang, Montclair State University, USA
10:40 - 11:10	Arash Ajoudani, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy
11:10 - 11:30	Spotlight Talks
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break & Poster Presentation
12:00 - 12:30	Aurélie Clodic, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
12:30 - 13:00	Loris Roveda, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI), Switzerland
13:00 - 13:15	Closing Remarks

Call for Papers

We invite participants to submit 2 pages + references extended abstracts. All contributions must use the IEEE template available here.

Submissions will be reviewed by experts of their respective field. The accepted abstracts will be made available on the workshop website but will not appear in the official IEEE conference proceedings. Participants are encouraged to submit their recent work on the topics of interest mentioned above.

Link for submission: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HRCCASE2024