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The Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2019) will be published by Springer International Publishing as part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI). 

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Workshops

Time Tuesday 26th
8:30-9:00 Registration (Exhibition Area)
9:00- 10:45 WS1 (3.S1.08), WS2 (3.3.B01), WS3 ("Aula de Grados" Padre Soler building)
10:45-11:15 Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)
11:15-13:00 WS1 (3.S1.08), WS2 (3.3.B01), WS3 ("Aula de Grados" Padre Soler building)
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Exhibition Area)
14:00-15:45 WS1 (3.S1.08), WS2 (3.3.B01), WS4 ("Aula de Grados" Padre Soler building)
15:45-16:15 Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)
16:15-18:00 WS1 (3.S1.08), WS2 (3.3.B01), WS4 ("Aula de Grados" Padre Soler building)
20:30 Welcome Party: Ramses Life

Main Conference

All oral sessions, plenary talks, and the entrepreneurial demo session will take place at "Aula de Grados" Padre Soler building

Time Wednesday 27th
8:30-9:00 Registration (Exhibition Area)
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:15

Plenary talk: Katsu Yamane

Physical Interaction for Social Robots

10:15-11:15 Oral Session I
11:15-12:00 Interactive session / Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)
12:00-13:00 Oral Session II
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Exhibition Area)
14:00-15:00

Plenary talk: Francesco Ferro

Interacting beyond words: PAL Robotics experience

15:00-16:00 Oral Session III
16:00-16:45 Interactive session / Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)
16:45-18:00 Oral Session IV
20:30 Banquet: Casino de Madrid

Time Thursday 28th
8:30-9:00 Registration (Exhibition Area)
9:00-10:00

Plenary talk: Lola Cañamero

Autonomous Friendly Robots with a Body and a Heart

10:00-11:15 Oral Session V
11:15-12:00 Competition (Aula de Grados)
Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)
12:00-13:00 Oral Session VI
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Exhibition Area)
14:00-15:15 Oral Session VII
15:15-15:45 Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)
15:45-17:00 Oral Session VIII
17:00-18:00 Entrepreneurial Demo Session
18:00-18:30 Awards/Farewell

Workshops

Time Friday 29th
8:30-9:00 Registration (Exhibition Area)
9:00- 10:45 WS5 (3.3.B01), WS6 (3.S01.08)
10:45-11:15 Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)
11:15-13:00 WS5 (3.3.B01), WS6 (3.S01.08)
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Exhibition Area)
14:00-15:45 WS5 (3.3.B01), WS6 (3.S01.08)
15:45-16:15 Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)
16:15-18:00 WS5 (3.3.B01), WS6 (3.S01.08)


Program (Detailed) 

All oral sessions, plenary talks, and the entrepreneurial demo session will take place at "Aula de Grados" Padre Soler building

Wednesday 27th
08:30 - 09:00 Registration (Exhibition Area)
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome
09:15-10:15

Plenary Talk: Katsu Yamane

Physical Interaction for Social Robots

Chair: Emilia Barakova

10:15-11:15

Oral Session I: Perceptions and expectations of robots

Co-chairs: Agnieszka Wykowska and Katsu Yamane

  • Boundary-Crossing Robots: Societal Impact of Interactions with Socially Capable Autonomous Agents. Kristiina Jokinen, Kentaro Watanabe
  • Effects of previous exposure on children’s perception of a humanoid robot. Gabriella Lakatos, Luke Wood, Abolfazl Zaraki, Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Farshid Amirabdollahian
  • The Attitude of Elderly and Young Adults towards a Humanoid Social Robot. Lizzy Sinnema, Maryam Alimardani
  • Spatiotemporal Coordination Supports a Sense of Commitment in Human-Robot Interaction. Alessia Vignolo, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea, John Michael
11:15-12:00

Interactive session / Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)

  • Hug Behavior Request Model with Approaching Human for Hug Robots. Mitsuru Jindai, Shunsuke Ota, Toshiyuki Yasuda, Tohru Sasaki
  • The Contribution of Art and Design to Robotics. Isabelle COSSIN, Ioana Ocnarescu
  • More than you expect: priors influence the adoption of intentional stance toward humanoid robots. Jairo Perez-Osorio, Serena Marchesi, Davide Ghiglino, Melis Ince, Agnieszka Wykowska
  • Using human eye gaze patterns as indicators of need for assistance from a socially assistive robot. Ulyana Kurylo, Jason Wilson
  • Influence of Variable Environments and Character-Specific Design on Perception of Virtual Robots with Affective Labels. Wali Rizvi, Ishaan Pakrasi, Amy LaViers
  • Personality Synthesis Using Non-Humanoid Cues. Sam Lee, Kotaro Funakoshi, Ritsuko Iwai, Takatsune Kumada
  • Individual differences in attitude toward robots predict behavior in human-robot interaction. Nina-Alisa Hinz, Francesca Ciardo, Agnieszka Wykowska
  • Improving the Visual Comfort of Virtual Reality Telepresence for Robotics. Harvey Cash, Tony J. Prescott
  • Social Emotions for Social Robots∗ Studies on affective impressions in human-human and human-robot interactions Kristiina Jokinen
  • Subject Selection Bias in Intervention Experiments with Socially Assistive Robots and the Impact on the Representativeness of the Population. Toshiharu Igarashi, Misato Nihei, Jumpei Mizuno, Takenobu Inoue, Minoru Kamata
  • Third Eye: Exploring the affordances of Third-Person View in Telepresence Robots. Aneesh Tarun, Nauman Baig, Jack (Shen-Kuen) Chang, Rabia Tanvir, Sumaiyah Shihipar, Ali Mazalek
  • Knock on Wood: The Effects of Material Choice on the Perception of Social Robots. Sanne van Waveren, Linnéa Björklund, Elizabeth J. Carter, Iolanda Leite
  • Exploring the Causal Modeling of Human-Robot Touch Interaction. Soheil Keshmiri, Hidenobu Sumioka, Takashi Minato, Masahiro Shiomi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
  • Combining Static and Dynamic Predictions of Transfer Points for Human Initiated Handovers. Janneke Simmering, Sebastian Meyer zu Borgsen, Sven Wachsmuth, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
  • Investigating the Effects of Gaze Behavior on the Perceived Delay of a Robot’s Response. Vivienne Jia Zhong, Theresa Schmiedel, Rolf Dornberger
  • Monitoring Blind Regions with Prior Knowledge based Sound Localization. Jani Even, satoru satake, Takayuki Kanda
12:00-13:00

Oral Session II: Cognition and metacognition for SR

Co-chairs: Tony Prescott and Miguel A. Salichs

  • Transferring Adaptive Theory of Mind to social robots: insights from developmental psychology to robotics. Francesca Bianco
  • Robots improve judgments on self-generated actions: an Intentional Binding Study. Cecilia Roselli, Francesca Ciardo, Agnieszka Wykowska
  • Perception of Creative Responses to Moral Dilemmas by a Conversational Robot. Felix Lindner, Laura Wächter, Barbara Kuhnert, Katrin Möllney
  • Creating Context Through Performance: Perception of the "Dancing Droid" Robotic Platform in Variable Valence Interactions in Distinct Office Environments. Erin Berl, Ishaan Pakrasi, Amy LaViers
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Exhibition Area)
14:00-15:00

Plenary talk: Francesco Ferro

Interacting beyond words: PAL Robotics experience

Chair: Shuzhi Sam Ge

15:00-16:00

Oral Session III: Game Approaches and Applications to HRI

Co-chairs: Emilia Barakova and Patrick Holthaus

  • Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors with RASA: A case study on intention prediction in human-robot interactive games. Ehsan Ahmadi, Ali Ghorbandaei Pour, Alireza Siamy, Alireza Taheri, Ali Meghdari
  • Virtual or Physical? Social Robots Teaching a Fictional Language Through a Role-Playing Game Inspired by Game of Thrones. Hassan Ali, Shreyans Bhansali, Ilay Köksal, Matthias Möller, Theresa Pekarek-Rosin, Sachin Sharma, Ann-Katrin Thebille, Julian Tobergte, Sören Hübner, Aleksej Logacjov, Ozan Özdemir, Jose Rodriguez Parra, Mariela Sanchez, Nambiar Shruti Surendrakumar, Tayfun Alpay, Sascha Griffiths, Stefan Heinrich, Erik Strahl, Cornelius Weber, Stefan Wermter
  • Stackelberg Punishment and Bully-Proofing Autonomous Vehicles. Matt Cooper, Jun Ki Lee, Jacob Beck, Joshua D. Fishman, Michael Gillett, Zoë Papakipos, Aaron Zhang, Jerome Ramos, Aansh Shah, Michael L. Littman
  • Gesture Cues in Navigational Robots: Investigating the Effects of Honesty on People’s Perceptions and Performance in a Navigational Game. Joey Verhoeven, Peter Ruijten
16:00-16:45

Interactive session / Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)

  • Lexical Entrainment in Multi-party  Human–Robot Interaction. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Michita Imai, Masahiro Shiomi
  • Hand Gesture Based Gameplay with a Smoothie Maker Game using Myo Armband. Sudhir Sharma, Volker Steuber, Farshid Amirabdollahian
  • A Digital Wooden Tabletop Maze for Estimation of Cognitive Capabilities in Children. Seethu M Christopher, Corrie C. Urlings, Henri van den Bongarth, Karien M. Coppens, Petra P.M. Hurks, Lex Borghans, Rico Möckel
  • Companion Transporter: A Co-worker in the Greenhouse. Alireza Nemati, Dongjie Zhao, Wanyue Jiang, Shuzhi Ge
  • Adding a Context: Will It Influence Human-Robot Interaction of People Living with Dementia? Jorien Hendrix, Yuan Feng, Marieke van Otterdijk, Emilia Barakova
  • The impact of a robot game partner when studying deception during a card game. David-Octavian Iacob, Adriana Tapus
  • How a Robot's Social Credibility Affects Safety Performance. Patrick Holthaus, Catherine Menon, Farshid Amirabdollahian
  • Robostress, a new approach to understanding robot usage, technology, and stress. Kimmo Vänni, Sirpa Salin, John-John Cabibihan, Takayuki Kanda
  • I`m not playing anymore! A Study Comparing Perceptions of Robot and Human Cheating Behavior. Kerstin Sophie Haring, Kristin Nye, Ryan Darby, Elizabeth Phillips, Ewart de Visser, Chad Tossell
  • Privacy Concerns in Teleoperation: Does Personality Influence What Should Be Hidden? Sogol Balali, Ross Sowell, William Smart, Cindy Grimm
  • Interactive Robot Learning for Multimodal Emotion Recognition. Chuang YU, Adriana Tapus
  • Safe human-robot interaction through crowd contact video analysis. Fernando Garcia, Alexandre Mazel, Arturo Cruz Maya
  • Robot-Assisted Therapy for the Severe form of Autism: Challenges and Recommendations. Zhansaule Telisheva, Aizada Turarova, Aida Zhanatkyzy, Anara Sandygulova
  • Evaluating the Valence of Affective Sounds for Robotics Pediatric Health-care. Silvia Rossi, Elena Dell’aquila, Benedetta Bucci
  • User testing of cognitive training games for people with mild cognitive impairment: Design implications. Mikaela Law, Ho Seok AHN, Bruce MacDonald, Dina-Sara Vajsakovic, Christopher Lee, JongYoon Lim, Craig Sutherland, Kathy Peri, Ngaire Kerse, Elizabeth Broadbent
  • Toward robot-assisted psychosocial intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Vasiliki Holeva, Vasiliki-Aliki Nikopoulou, Maria Papadopoulou, Eleni Vrochidou, George Papakostas, Vassilis Kaburlasos
  • Proactive Intention Recognition for Joint Human-Robot Search and Rescue Missions through Monte-Carlo Planning in POMDP Environments. Dimitri Ognibene, Lorenzo Mirante, Letizia Marchegiani
16:45-18:00

Oral Session IV: Collaborative SR in the Workplace and in Education

Co-chairs: H. Cuijpers and Birgit Lugrin

  • Collaborative Human-Robot Hierarchical Task Execution with an Activation Spreading Architecture. Bashira Akter Anima, Janelle Blankenburg, Mariya Zagainova, S. Pourya Hoseini Alinodehi, Muhammed Tawfiq Chowdhury, David Feil-Seifer, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu
  • A Human Factor approach to HRI. Susanne Frennert
  • Teaching Persian Sign Language to a Social Robot via Learning from Demonstrations Approach. Seyed Ramezan Hosseini, Alireza Taheri, Ali Meghdari, Minoo Alemi
  • Natural Teaching of Robot-Assisted Rearranging Exercises for Cognitive Training. Antonio Andriella, Alejandro Suárez Hernández, Javier Segovia-Aguas, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà
  • Static and Temporal Differences in Social Signals Between Error-Free and Erroneous Situations in Human-Robot Collaboration. Dito Eka Cahya, Rahul Ramakrishnan, Manuel Giuliani
20:30

Banquet



Thursday 28th
08:30 - 09:00 Registration (Exhibition Area)
09:00-10:00

Plenary Talk: Lola Cañamero

Autonomous Friendly Robots with a Body and a Heart

Chair: Miguel A. Salichs

10:10-11:15 Oral Session V: Robots at Home and at public spaces

Co-chairs: Koen Hindriks and Ho Seok Ahn

  • Now I need help! Passing doors and using elevators as an Assistance Requiring Robot. Jonathan Liebner, Andrea Scheidig, Horst-Michael Gross
  • Mobile Assistive Robot in an Inclusive Space: the MARIS Project. Yesenia Aquilina, Michael A. Saliba, Simon G. Fabri
  • Should a robot guide like a human? A qualitative four-phase study of a shopping mall robot. Päivi Heikkilä, Hanna Lammi, Marketta Niemelä, Kathleen Belhassein, Guillaume Sarthou, Antti Tammela, Aurélie Clodic, Rachid ALAMI
  • Identifying Social Context Factors Relevant for a Robotic Elderly Assistant. Birgit Lugrin, Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten, Svenja Hahn
  • Improving the interaction of Older Adults with Socially Assistive Robots for Table setting. Samuel Olatunji, Noa Markfeld, Dana Gutman, Shay Givati, Vardit Sarne-Fleischmann, Tal Oron-Gilad, Yael Edan
11:15-12:00 Competition (Aula de Grados)
Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)
12:00-13:00

Oral Session VI: Applications in Heath Domain

Co-chairs: Silvia Rossi and Gabriela Lakatos

  • Getting Acquainted for a Long-Term Child-Robot Interaction. Mike Ligthart, Mark A. Neerincx, Koen Hindriks
  • Use of robotics in the German healthcare sector: Application scenarios - drivers and barriers - time savings. Marija Radic, Agnes Vosen, Birgit Graf
  • In Their Own Words: A Companion Robot for Detecting the Emotional State of Persons with Parkinson's Disease. Andrew Valenti, Meia Chita-Tegmark, Michael Gold, Theresa Law, Matthias Scheutz
  • Train With Me: A Preliminary Study Comparing a Socially Assistive Robot and a Virtual Agent for a Rehabilitation Task. Valentina Vasco, Cesco Willemse, Pauline Chevalier, Davide De Tommaso, Valerio Gower, Furio Gramatica, Vadim Tikhanoff, Ugo Pattacini, Giorgio Metta, Agnieszka Wykowska
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Exhibition Area)
14:00-15:15

Oral Session VII: Technical innovations in SR

Co-chairs: Yael Edan and Kotaro Funakoshi

  • Teaching Commonsense and Dynamic Knowledge to Service Robots. Stephan Opfer, Stefan Jakob, Kurt Geihs
  • A Robot Math Tutor that Gives Feedback. Koen Hindriks, Sander Liebens
  • Learning to gesticulate by observation using a deep generative approach. Unai Zabala, Igor Rodriguez, José María Martínez-Otzeta, Elena Lazkano
  • Towards using social cues for acceptable, human-aware robot navigation. Noelia Fernández Coleto, Eduardo Ruiz Ramírez, Frederik Haarslev, Leon Bodenhagen
  • No Need to Scream: Robust Sound-based Speaker Localisation in Challenging Scenarios. Tze Ho Elden Tse, Daniele De Martini, Letizia Marchegiani
15:15-15:45 Coffe Break (Exhibition Area)
15:45-17:00

Oral Session VIII: Emerging topics in SR

Co-chairs: Álvaro Castro and Amit Kumar Pandey

  • Privacy, Utility, and Cognitive Load in Remote Presence Systems. Jeffrey Klow, Jordan Proby, Matthew Rueben, Ross Sowell, Cindy Grimm, William Smart
  • Optimal Use Of Verbal Instructions For Multi-Robot Human Navigation Guidance. Harel Yedidsion, Jacqueline Deans, Connor Sheehan, Mahathi Chillara, Justin Hart, Peter Stone, Raymond J. Mooney
  • Understanding Intentions: Detection of Human-Object Interactions in Video Streams. Lilli Bruckschen, Sabrina Amft, Julian Tanke, Juergen Gall, Maren Bennewitz
  • What Makes a Good Robotic Advisor? Raul Paradeda, Maria José Ferreira, Raquel Oliveira, Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva
  • Online Evaluation of Text to Speech Systems for three Social Robots. Fernando Alonso Martin, Maria Malfaz, Álvaro Castro-González, José Carlos Castillo, Miguel A. Salichs
17:00-18:00

Entrepreneurial Demo Session

Chair: Santiago Martínez

18:00-18:30 Awards/Farewell