<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class=""><br class="">Call for Papers</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%" class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class="">HRI 2018 Workshop<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="Times New Roman" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt" class="">Explainable
Robotic Systems</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class=""> </font></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center;" class="">Held on March 5 in conjunction
with HRI 2018 conference, Chicago, IL, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class=""> </font></o:p><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Topic overview</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">The call for Autonomous Intelligent
Systems (AIS) to be transparent has recently become loud and clear and currently
is a pressing funding and research agenda. Some forms of transparency, such as traceability
and verification, are particularly important for software and hardware engineers;
other forms, such as explainability or intelligibility, are particularly important
for ordinary people. As artificial agents, and especially socially interactive robots,
enter human society, the demands for these agents to be transparent and explainable
grow rapidly. When a system is able, for example, to explain how it made classifications
or arrived at a judgment, users are better able to judge the accuracy and adequacy
of the systems and have better calibrated trust in them.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">More and more AI systems process
vast amounts of information and make classifications or recommendations that humans
use for financial, employment, medical, military, and political decisions. More
precariously yet, autonomous social robots, by definition, make decisions reaching
beyond direct commands and perform actions with social and moral significance for
humans.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">The demand for these agents to become
transparent and explainable is particularly urgent. However, to make robots explainable,
we need to understand how people interpret the behavior of such systems and what
expectations they have of them.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class=""><b class="">Aim of the workshop</b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">In this workshop, we will address
the topics of transparency and explainability, for robots in particular, from both
the cognitivescience perspective and the computerscience and robotics perspective.
Cognitive science elucidates how people interpret robot behavior; computer science
and robotics elucidate how the computational mechanisms underlying robot behavior
can be structured and communicated so as to be humaninterpretable. The implementation
and use of explainable robotic systems may prevent the potentially frightening confusion
over why a robot is behaving the way it is. Moreover, explainable robot systems
may allow people to better calibrate their expectations of the robot’s capabilities
and be less prone to treating robots as almost humans.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">The aim of this fullday workshop
is to provide a forum to share and learn about recent research on requirements for
artificial agents’ explanations as well as the implementation of transparent, predictable
and explainable robotic systems. Extended time for discussions will highlight and
document promising approaches and encourage further work. A large part of this effort
is to bring together a community of researchers, strengthen existing connections,
and build new ones.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">The morning session will cover invited
talks from Rachid Alami, Joanna Bryson, Bradley Hayes, and Alessandra Sciutti, and
short presentations in themed discussion sessions around the key topics that are
raised by accepted paper submissions.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">The afternoon will be devoted to
breakout sessions to discuss the next steps in research and development of explainable
and transparent robotic systems. Groups will be composed of representatives of different
disciplines in order to work on integrating the multiple necessary perspectives
in this endeavor. To boost the discussions, we will ask presenters to prepare questions
or raise pressing issues that provide starting points for the discussion groups.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class=""><b class="">Call for papers</b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">In this workshop, we want to bring
together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of different disciplines
who are interested in explainable robot and AI systems. We welcome multidisciplinary
contributions that intersect with robot systems (e.g. humanhuman interaction, HCI,
HRI, human factors, engineering, computer sciences, cognitive science, interactive
design, sociology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy).<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">We welcome prospective participants
to submit extended abstracts (max. 2 pages) covering any topic that could potentially
contribute to the discussion of people’s interpretation of robot actions as well
as the implementation of transparent, predictable and explainable behaviors in robotic
systems. All papers should be submitted in PDF format using the HRI LBR template,
and should be sent to <a href="mailto:maartje_de_graaf@brown.edu" class="">maartje_de_graaf@brown.edu</a>.
All submitted papers within the scope of the workshop will be peerreviewed. Papers
will be selected based on their originality, relevance, contributions, technical
clarity, and presentation. Accepted papers will require that at least one author
registers for and attends the workshop.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">After the conference, and with permission
of the authors, we will provide online access to the workshop proceedings on this
website. In addition, we have submitted a special issue proposal to the ACM Transactions
on HumanRobot Interaction (formerly the Journal of HRI), giving accepted authors
the opportunity to disseminate fullversions of their work and other ideas developed
during the workshop.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">We encourage researchers to attend
the workshop even without a paper submission. Our goal is to maximize community
engagement and the uptake of concepts regarding explainable robotic systems within
the field of HRI.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class=""><b class="">Important deadlines</b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">Submission deadlin<b class="">e</b>: January
12, 2018<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">Acceptance notification: January 31, 2018 (or before the early bird
registration) <o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">Camera-ready deadline: February 15, 2018<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class=""> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" class=""><b class="">Workshop organizers</b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">Maartje De Graaf, Brown
University, USA <o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">Bertram Malle, Brown
University, USA <o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">Anca Dragan, UC
Berkeley, USA<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">Tom Ziemke, University of Skövde and Linköping University, Sweden<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class=""> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" class="">For more information: <a href="https://explainableroboticsystems.wordpress.com/" class="">https://explainableroboticsystems.wordpress.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></p>
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