[CFP] 2022 AAAI Fall Symposium on “Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction” (AI-HRI)

The ninth annual AAAI Fall Symposium on “Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction” (AI-HRI) will take place on November 17-19, 2022, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA, USA. We are planning a hybrid in-person and online format to reach more people who would not be able to attend in person.

Paper submissions will be due on July 31, 2022 and can be made through https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fss22. For more information and updates, please see below or visit the symposium website at https://ai-hri.github.io. Overview

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) symposium has been a successful venue of discussion and collaboration on AI aimed at HRI since 2014. This year, after a review of the achievements of the AI-HRI community over the last decade in 2021, we are focusing on a visionary theme: exploring the future of AI-HRI. Accordingly, we added a Blue Sky Ideas track to foster a forward-thinking discussion on future research at the intersection of AI and HRI. As always, we appreciate all contributions related to any topic on AI/HRI and welcome new researchers who wish to take part in this growing community.

With the success of past symposia, AI-HRI impacts a variety of communities and problems, and has pioneered the discussions in recent trends and interests. This year's AI-HRI Fall Symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the globe, representing a number of university, government, and industry laboratories. In doing so, we hope to accelerate research in the field, support technology transition and user adoption, and determine future directions for our group and our research. Topics

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Future of AI-HRI and “Blue Sky” ideas -

Ubiquitous HRI, including AR and VR -

Ethics in HRI -

Trust and explainability in HRI -

Robot planning and decision-making for HRI -

Architectures and systems supporting autonomous HRI -

Interactive task learning and planning -

Interactive dialog systems and natural language -

Field studies, experimental, and empirical HRI -

Safety and human comfort in HRI -

Software tools for autonomous HRI -

AI for social robots -

AI for physical HRI -

Knowledge representation and reasoning to support HRI -

HRI in teams and groups -

Replication studies and reproducibility -

Test methods and metrics for AI-HRI -

...and many other topics relevant to the application of Artificial Intelligence to Human-Robot Interaction!

Format

This year's symposium will focus on identifying the future of the field of AI-HRI, ranging from research directions to establishing a year-long collaborating community. However, symposium participants will still be invited to present their own work as it contributes to understanding what matters towards these goals. Symposium participants presenting their work will be encouraged to include a perspective on the reproducibility and ethics in HRI, though all research on AI-HRI will be considered.

We will also continue to include community-building efforts in the schedule: position talks to incite discussion on new and controversial views; informal, focused discussions during poster sessions; breakout discussion sessions in smaller groups; and a demo session, which will emphasize live robot and AR/VR demonstrations. Such discussions and demos are ideal within the symposium community, which is small enough that we can all learn each other's names and faces, but large enough to draw an audience of people who have a real impact in our field. These discussions give perfect opportunities for new researchers in the field to meet senior members in a more informal setting, and become more involved in future collaboration within the community.

This year, we have the opportunity to gather in person after two years of being virtual. For inclusiveness, we are planning in advance to implement a hybrid in-person and online format to reach more people who would not be able to attend in person. The diversity chair will lead the efforts for creating an inclusive community and will work with AAAI to manage the logistics for hybrid participation. Submissions

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Full papers (6-8 pages) highlighting state-of-the-art HRI-oriented AI research, HRI research focusing on the Future of AI-HRI, the use of autonomous AI systems, or the implementation of AI systems in commercial HRI products. -

Short papers (2-4 pages) outlining new or controversial views on AI-HRI research or describing ongoing AI-oriented HRI research. -

Tool papers (2-4 pages) describing novel software, hardware, or datasets of interest to the AI-HRI community. -

Blue Sky papers (2-4 pages) fostering a forward-thinking discussion on the future at the intersection of AI and HRI.

Symposium participants presenting their work are encouraged to include a perspective on the reproducibility and ethics in HRI, though all research on AI-HRI will be considered.

All accepted papers will be presented orally and published in the proceedings through ArXiv. Authors will be notified as to whether they have been assigned a “full-length” or “lightning” presentation slot.

Please see the AAAI Author Kit ( https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit22.zip) for paper templates to ensure that your submission has the proper formatting.

Contributions may be submitted through EasyChair now: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fss22.

For any extenuating circumstances that may result in a delayed submission, please contact us at ai4hri@gmail.com. Important Dates

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Submission deadline: July 31, 2022 -

Notification of acceptance: September 6, 2022 -

Camera-ready deadline: October 9, 2022 -

Registration deadline: October 14, 2022 -

Symposium: November 17-19, 2022

Diversity & Inclusion at AI-HRI

AI-HRI is committed to growing the diversity of our community and is actively pursuing ways to make our community more inclusive. Our efforts include diversifying the participation among our program committee, invited speakers, paper authors, and symposium attendees.

If you are having difficulties, please contact us at ai4hri@gmail.com. Organizing Committee

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Zhao Han (General Co-Chair, Colorado School of Mines, USA) -

Emmanuel Senft (General Co-Chair, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) -

Muneeb I. Ahmad (Communication Co-Chair, Swansea University, UK) -

Shelly Bagchi (Communication Co-Chair, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) -

Justin W. Hart (University of Texas at Austin, USA) -

‪Daniel Hernández García (Heriot-Watt University, UK) -

Boyoung Kim (Program Co-Chair, George Mason University, USA) -

Matteo Leonetti (King’s College London, UK) -

Ross Mead (Semio, USA) -

Reuth Mirsky (Bar Ilan University, Israel) -

Ahalya Prabhakar (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland) -

Ruchen Wen (Program Co-Chair, Colorado School of Mines, USA) -

Jason R. Wilson (Diversity & Sponsorship Chair, Franklin & Marshall College, USA) -

Amir Yazdani (Publicity Chair, University of Utah Robotics Center, USA) -

Megan L. Zimmerman (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)

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