This year's workshop on social robotic
telepresence was a great success which stimulated interesting
discussions, presented state of the art results and invigorated a
growing community on social robotic telepresence. The workshop
organizers would like to extend our thanks to the invited speakers, the
authors and presenters of the paper submissions, and the main
conference organizers of HRI 2011 for enabling this event. We will
endeavour to keep in touch with the participants of the workshop and
contribute towards creating similar events and venues for those working
within social robotic telepresence. Copies of the papers with
respective presentations can be found here and a copy of the entire proceedings can be downloaded directly here.
An attentive audience listening to the talks. (photo: Lorenza Tiberio)
Brian Scassellati sharing important tidbits for telepresence. (photo: Lorenza Tiberio)
Stephen von Rump enthuastically talking about decisions in designing a robotic telepresence unit. (photo: Lorenza Tiberio)
Robotic telepresence, also known as telerobotics is a subfield of telepresence
whose aim is to increase presence via embodiment in a robotic platform. Robotic
telepresence can be an effective tool to enhance social interaction particularly suited to
certain groups such as the elderly. The aim of this workshop is to address various
aspects important for social robotic telepresence which include but are not limited to:
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the mechanical design of social robotic telepresent solutions
- the user interface design
- studies on the interactions between the remotely embodied person and the locally embodied person
- studies on the perception of social robotic telepresence systems.
Furthermore, we are interested in discovering the
added value of spatial presence in the context of social telepresence and comparisons
between robotic and non-robotic systems are of interest. We welcome contributions
concerning end user evaluation experiences and methodologies, results reached from the
above mentioned areas of interest, as well as reports from the deployment of social
robotic solutions into real world contexts.
This half-day workshop will contain both paper presentations as well as a
mediated discussion period whose aim is to highlight key issues related to
evaluation of social robotic telepresence including multiple types of users of robotic
telepresence, longitudinal evaluations of telepresence systems and general ethical
implications of telepresence.
Submissions
We solicit both submissions of
research papers reporting significant research results and position
papers. Full papers
should preferably be 6 pages, although consideration will be given to
papers of up to 8 pages. Position papers should be a maximum of 2
pages. All submissions should follow the HRI-2011 paper format
instructions. Papers will be reviewed and the
decision of acceptance will be mailed to the corresponding author. At
least one of the
authors is expected to register and attend the workshop. More
information is available under the link
Submit a Paper .
