<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">We are pleased to invite you to submit your original works to our special issue on </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
















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  <p class="gmail-Authors" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Robotic Co-workers: Psychological and
  Cognitive Safety in Human-robot Interactive Social Environments</span></b><b style=""><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b></font></p><p class="gmail-Authors" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" color="#0000ff">IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Development Systems</font></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><h1 style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;break-after:avoid;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">*Aim and Scope*</b><br></h1>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In
the vision of a cyber-society, humans and robots will closely collaborate to
perform given tasks. Robots will automate mundane tasks and let humans focus on
higher-order jobs requiring more cognitive skills. In this trend, professional
and personal service robots are enabling assistive technologies in human-robot
shared workspaces. However, the first and the most challenging issue with
respect to deploying developmental and cognitive robots in human populated
environments is how to guarantee human physical and cognitive safety in
human-robot shared workspaces. Physical safety is about how to maintain a
minimum physical distance between robots and humans, which is obviously
necessary to deploy autonomous robots in human populated environments, while cognitive
safety implies that robots should not cause stress and discomfort to humans
when working with or around them. Human risks and their inconveniences when
working in an interactive social environment essentially come from unavoidable
situations due to robot malfunctioning operations caused by either
misunderstanding and misinterpreting information extracted from sensing and
perception or failures of path planning and motion control. Furthermore, humans
may feel uncomfortable as well as fearful and stressful towards collaborative
robots as such robots don’t behave in the natural way of humans with respect to
their social situations, contexts, and cultures. It is important to find out a
methodological approach for incorporating social signals, cues, and norms into
developmental perception, cognitive reasoning and motion planning of the robot
control architecture so that the robot is capable of securing human
psychological and cognitive safety when interacting and collaborating with
humans to perform tasks in human-robot shared workspaces. <span></span></font></span></p>

<h1 style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;break-after:avoid;font-size:10pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:normal"><br></h1><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>*Themes*</b></font></div>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
Special Issue aims to address</span><span lang="EN-US"> challenges and
methodologies of how to deal with psychological and cognitive safety in order
to accelerate deployment and adoption of developmental and cognitive robots
into human-robot shared workspaces. The ultimate goals of this special issue
are to (1) to address the state-of-the-art research (2) and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">to
generate an avenue for researchers to disseminate their recent research
findings in the perspective of </span><span lang="EN-US">psychological and cognitive
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">safety in human-robot shared workplaces.<span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">This
special issue targets on all aspects of guaranteeing psychological and
cognitive safety in human-robot interactive social environments with, but not
limited to, the following topics: </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"></p><ul><li><i style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Current state-of-the-art</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:107%">: future perspective of developmental and cognitive robots
with concerns of ethics and rules for human psychological and cognitive safety
in human-robot shared workspaces.</span><br></li><li><i style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Perception for psychological and cognitive safety</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:107%">: capacity and roles of human face and body detection and
tracking, human gestures and posture recognition, social cues and signal
detection and identification, human-object interaction and human group
interaction detection and tracking in satisfying psychological and cognitive
safety</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:107%">.<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span><br></li><li><i style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%">Cognitive
reasoning, motion planning and control</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:107%">:
methodological development of <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">human aware robot
navigation, collaborative task performances in dynamic social environments with
concerns of psychological and cognitive safety.</span></span><br></li><li><i style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%">Machine
learning for developmental and cognitive robots</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:107%">:
using learning by demonstration, reinforcement learning, deep learning, and
hierarchical learning to enhance psychological and cognitive safety in
human-robot shared workplaces.</span><br></li><li><i style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%">Ergonomic
studies of developmental and cognitive robots</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:107%">:
developmental and cognitive factors and benchmarks, evaluation methods,
objective and subjective measurement metrics, experiments and validation
methods for psychological and cognitive safety.</span><br></li><li><i style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Applications domains</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:107%">: concerns of psychological and cognitive safety when working
with developmental and cognitive robots in public places, light industry,
digital manufacturing, and transformed manufacturing.</span><br></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><br></span></p>











<h1 style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-indent:0cm;break-after:avoid;font-size:10pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:normal"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-caps:normal">*Submission Guideline*</b><br></h1>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Manuscripts should be prepared according to the “Information for
Authors” of the journal found at <a href="https://cis.ieee.org/publications/t-cognitive-and-developmental-systems/tcds-information-for-authors" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://cis.ieee.org/publications/t-cognitive-and-developmental-systems/tcds-information-for-authors</a>
and submissions should be done through the IEEE TCDS Manuscript center: <a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee</a><span style="color:blue"> </span>and please select the category “SI: Psychological
and Cognitive Safety”.<span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p>

<h1 style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;text-indent:0cm;break-after:avoid;font-size:10pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:normal"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-caps:normal">*Important Dates*</b><br></h1>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red">31 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red">December</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red"> 2019</span><span lang="EN-US"> – Deadline for
manuscript submission <span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red">15 Apr 2020</span><span lang="EN-US"> – Notification of authors<span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red">15 May 2020 </span><span lang="EN-US">– Deadline for revised manuscripts <span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red">15 July 2020</span><span lang="EN-US"> – Final version<span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">For further information, please contact one
of the following Guest Editors.<span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">*Guest Editors*</b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dr. Trung Dung Ngo, <span></span></font></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">University of Prince Edward
Island, Canada, <span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:tngo@upei.ca" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">tngo@upei.ca</a></span><span lang="EN-US"> <span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Dr. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:http://homepages.laas.fr/rachid/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">Rachid Alami</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, <span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">LAAS-</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://scholar.google.ca/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=8448305639110907242" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">CNRS</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">,
University of Toulouse, France </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:Rachid.Alami@laas.fr" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">Rachid.Alami@laas.fr</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Dr. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:http://www.irc.atr.jp/%7Ekanda/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">Takayuki Kanda</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, <span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Kyoto University, Japan<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:kanda@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">kanda@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp</a> </span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Dr. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:https://www.mie.utoronto.ca/mie/faculty/nejat" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">Goldie Nejat</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US">
<span></span></span></b></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">University of Toronto, Canada<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:nejat@mie.utoronto.ca" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">nejat@mie.utoronto.ca</a></span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Dr.
</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:http://sourcedb.cas.cn/sourcedb_siat_cas/yw/zjrc/201103/t20110317_3087300.html" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">Yongsheng Ou</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US">,
<span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">SIAT, Chinese Academy of Science, China<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ys.ou@siat.ac.cn" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">ys.ou@siat.ac.cn</a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span></span></span></font></span></p>

<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br clear="all"></font>Sincerely,<div id="gmail-ftn1">

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</div><div>Trung Ngo</div>

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