Workshop of the Natural Interaction with Social Robots Topic Group of euRobotics

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NISR-TG (Natural Interaction with Social Robots Topic Group) is a Topic Group within the euRobotics AISBL. “Topic Groups” are community-driven instruments that aim to coordinate the activities in specific sub-domains of robotics. Among the significant actions are the contributions to H2020 Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) and Multi-Annual Roadmap (MAR). Topic Groups play a major role in contributing to roadmaps and project calls.

At the core of the Natural Interaction with Social Robots Topic Group (NISR-TG) stands the detailed investigation of the social and affective interaction between people and social robots. Another central aspect concerns the mechanisms that allow robots to coordinate their behaviour with other robots and with people and to use verbal and non-verbal means of communication to facilitate effective and ‘natural’ collaboration and cooperation. Therefore, the goal of the NISR-TG is to provide robot technologies that ease and enhance communication with people, objects and with other robots. In order to achieve these objectives, the NISR-TG will adopt an inherently multidisciplinary approach whereby considerations of the evolution and development of social skills in humans and non-human animals play an important role. Specifically, we propose that future robotic technology needs to close the loop between multimodal perception (understanding social agents such as humans in their environment) and robot actions, not only in short term exchanges but also in long-term interactions toward a society in which robots contribute to human assistance, quality of life, dignity and well-being.

This full-day workshop aims at (i) introducing the NISR-TG activities to the human-robot interaction community, (ii) present recent advances in the research domain, (iii) gather researchers and students to discuss and prepare a roadmap that will be then shared with euRobotics and will be disseminated widely to the research community.

The workshop will encourage student contributions through poster submissions and participation to the panel discussion