<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Call for Contributions</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Workshop details<br>===============================<br>AI & Its Alternatives in Assistive & Collaborative Robotics: Decoding Intent<br>Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2020<br><br>Human-robot teaming (HRT) is an interdisciplinary domain, largely because it is a bidirectional challenge — the robot must infer human intent to provide assistance, and the human must understand the robot’s intent to provide commands or adjust behavior. Our workshop aims to facilitate a discussion between researchers that explore the human side of these interactions and those that propose new algorithmic solutions, spanning cognitive science, artificial intelligence, control theory, and more.<br><br>Note, that due to the COVID-19, RSS2020 will be held online this year as<br>will be our workshop.<br><br>Important Dates<br>===============================<br>- Submission Deadline: JUNE 20, 2020<br>- Notification of Acceptance: JUNE 27, 2020<br>- Camera Ready: JULY 4, 2020<br>- Workshop Date: JULY 13, 2020<br><br>Submission Instructions<br>===============================<br>Submissions can include archived or previously accepted work. Specifically,<br>we invite participants to contribute with papers for two kinds of<span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br>submissions:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span class="gmail-im">1. Traditional workshop submissions presenting preliminary results of<br>ongoing research.<br><br></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">2. Submissions linked to already published papers coming from:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">(a) Journal papers, which have not had the chance to be discussed in a</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">conference.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">(b) Conference papers, which come from non-robotics conferences (e.g.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">cognitive science, machine learning). Although these papers already had</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">exposure to a conference, the workshop is a great opportunity to give</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">visibility to these contributions within the robotics community.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">We encourage submissions from researchers whose work might not currently have robotics examples but could be applied in the context of robotics!!!</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">List of Topics</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">==============================</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">=</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">- Shared autonomy / Human-in-the-loop systems</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">- Cognitive science for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">- Theory of mind for HRI</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">- Data-driven models of the human and/or autonomous partner for HRI</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">- Inferring intent with limited sensory input</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">- Interpretable AI for HRI</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">- Formal notions of safety in HRI</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">- Assistive robotics</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">- Collaborative robotics</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Confirmed speakers</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">===============================<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Bill Smart, Oregon State University<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Brandon Northcutt, TRI<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Chris Baker, MIT</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford University<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Guy Hoffman, Cornell University<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Guy Rosman, TRI<br></div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div>Maya Cakmak, University of Washington</div><div></div><div></div></span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Terry Fong, NASA</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Sangeet Khemlani, Naval Research Laboratory</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-im" style=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Useful Links</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">==============================</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">=</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Website:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/u.northwestern.edu/rss2020aiacrworkshop/home__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4Yzcv6FBqAXwcUc29-URMjDOUNJyyJPUqjA1sr9RaT_qrVFL7-ZzuOXn-5QpG19h85hv8pE8$" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/u.northwestern.edu/rss2020aiacrworkshop/home__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4Yzcv6FBqAXwcUc29-URMjDOUNJyyJPUqjA1sr9RaT_qrVFL7-ZzuOXn-5QpG19h85hv8pE8$</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">  .</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Abstract submission: </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/cfp/RSS2020_AI-ACR-Workshop__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4Yzcv6FBqAXwcUc29-URMjDOUNJyyJPUqjA1sr9RaT_qrVFL7-ZzuOXn-5QpG19h83lNxxNe$" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/cfp/RSS2020_AI-ACR-Workshop__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4Yzcv6FBqAXwcUc29-URMjDOUNJyyJPUqjA1sr9RaT_qrVFL7-ZzuOXn-5QpG19h83lNxxNe$</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">  .</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-im" style=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">On behalf of the organizers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Deepak Gopinath</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div></div>