Theme and Topics

The 2010 Edition will place a special focus to the topics of human and robots who are thinking and acting together. All types of cognitive and cooperative interaction is considered to be relevant for the workshop.

• Capturing and modeling human behaviours
• Understanding semantic of human action from data
• Training and learning theories
• Robotics and Virtual Environments for training
• Human like skilled robots

• Haptic and robot based Interaction
• AudioVisual and immersive interaction
• Sensorimotor and cognitive sensing and communication: voice, gesture and body motion and facial expression
• Robotics and Virtual Environments for training
• Novel interaction modalities

• Context Awareness
• Software architecture and development tools for interaction
• Knowledge discovery and learning from experience data
• Machine learning and adaptation
• Motivation and emotions in robot humans during interaction

• Androids and other robotics embodiments
• Social aspects and ethical issues
• Personality of robots
• Human factors and evaluation methodologies
• Efficiency and acceptability of interaction devices

• Home application
• Assistive and rehabilitative robots
• Robot companion and entertainment
• Robots and systems for sport
• Human Robot interaction for industrial application
• Telepresence and navigation applications