Participants are invited to share innovative strategies for exploring group-robot interactions, providing a fresh and insightful viewpoint on: (1) using robots for understanding group dynamics; (2) designing robots able to interact with groups; (3) exploring the specific ethical challenges when working on group-robot interaction. In addition, the discussion will involve the ethical implications of researching group dynamics, including potential negative outcomes such as biases towards group members.
Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
- Understanding group dynamics using robots.
- Promoting natural communication, mutual understanding and trust in human-robot mixed groups.
- Adaptation and personalization to groups.
- Learning strategies for autonomous behaviors of robots in groups.
- Designing robots able to interact with groups.
- Modelling, understanding and predicting group behaviors.
- Exploring different robot’s roles (e.g., peer, teacher, helper or friend) in group interactions.
- Gamification in multiparty human-robot interactions.
- Interdisciplinary collaborations between roboticists, game designers, psychologists, and sociologists.
- Novel experimental designs for conducting group-robot interaction research.
- Ethical considerations in researching group dynamics and potential biases or negative consequences.
These topics are meant to be suggestive and not exhaustive, contributions to other relevant topics will also be taken into consideration, as long as they fit with the general theme of the workshop.
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: 7th of May
- Notification of Acceptance: 22th of May
- Camera Ready: 30th of May
Submission Procedure
Submission format: (2-4 pages + references)
Please submit your contribution on EasyChair, using the predefined LateX, Overleaf or Word templates.
The submitted contribution must be written in English and do not need to be anonymized (single-blind review process). A panel of experts from relevant fileds will be asked to review the contributions, selecting the most relevant, novel, original and high-quality ones to be included in the workshop program.
The contributions may include work in progress with preliminary results, technical reports, case studies, surveys, and state-of-the-art research.
For any inquiry, please contact us at [workshop.ground{at}gmail.com](mailto:workshop.ground@gmail.com).
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