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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><u><font size="3" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-weight: bold;">Call for Participation<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><font size="3" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight:
bold;">CompanionAble
Consortium, AAL Companion Robotics Institute
Workshop Series<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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align="center"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><font size="3" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">5<sup>th</sup>
Workshop, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on">Brussels</st1:city></st1:place>
Novotel, 8<sup>th</sup> March 2011<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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align="center"><b><i><font size="3" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><font size="3" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">AAL
User-Centred Companion Robotics
Experimentoria,<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><font size="3" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><font size="3" face="Times New
Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Supporting
Socio-ethically Intelligent Assistive
Technologies
Adoption</span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Background
&
Motivation<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">The theme of
Companion Robotics Research was first proposed as
a dedicated large scale
Collaborative RTDI Programme by the CompanionAble
Consortium, led by Prof.
Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK; in May 2007
and subsequent to the
approval of the project as an Integrated Programme
under the auspices of the EC
ICT-FP7 eInclusion Directorate, the CompanionAble
Consortium
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.companionable.net">www.companionable.net</a>) organised the first
international workshop on the
Companion Robotics theme in November 2008 at the
ICT 2008 in Lyon which
attracted a large number of participants. This was
followed by the 2<sup>nd</sup>,
3rd and 4<sup>th</sup> such workshop respectively
in <st1:city w:st="on">Bilbao</st1:city>,
December 2008, in <st1:city w:st="on">Salzburg</st1:city>
at the AmI November
2009 and in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on">Brussels</st1:city></st1:place>
30<sup>th</sup> September. In April 2010 the
CompanionAble Consortium formally
established the CompanionAble Robotics Institute
(CRI) as a foundation
organisation dedicated to the dissemination and
exploitation of Companion
Robotics as complementary to home and appliance
augmentation or as all-in
plug-and-perform assistive technology for any
legacy or smart home
deployment. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Through its dissemination
programme, CRI continues its focus on research
challenges relating to the
graceful adoption, integration and adaptation of
Companion Robots as
socially-aware assistive devices at home, or at
work for enhanced
life/work-style support, comfort and societal
benefits. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">For this 5<sup>th</sup>
Workshop the CRI Workshops Committee wishes to
keep its focus firmly on the
synergy of the following important themes; the
confluence of which will
significantly influence the mainstreaming of the
Companion/Social Robotics of
the future as realistic options off-the-shelf and
an important part of the AAL
Solutions Spectrum<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Socio-ethically
intelligent deployment of Companion/Social
Robotics<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">AAL Ecosystem
Stakeholder Requirements generalisation ontology
framework<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Human-Robot
Interaction: comprising a range of issues: e.g.
direct voice-commanded control, real-time remote
control, personal-space-preservation and
contextualised dialogue management<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Companion/Social
Robots as emotion/activity literate monitors and
context-sensitive respondents<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Human -Robot and
Robot-Robot Teams cooperativity and training
autonomy support<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Companion Robot secure
semantic Interoperability with the Future
Internet and the AAL Platform<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">The Thriving AAL
Ecosystem: Matchmaking of Assistive Devices to
Well-Being Needs: Achieving the triple dynamic
equilibrium point of optimally matched spectra<b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">: i)</span></b>
the <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AAL
</span>users’ Needs Spectrum, <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">ii) </span></b>the
ALL Solutions Shelf, and, <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">iii)</span></b>
Affordability Engineered Sustainable AAL
business models <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Companion Robotics as
Socialisation & Assistance Gateways
mediating access to richer social interaction;
positive psychology and fun socio-cognitive
stimulation <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Evaluation and
Certification Practice Models for efficient
usability evaluation and safety-assurance of
personalised ICT-enabled support for AAL user’s
priority needs<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Future Internet of
People, Robots Things and Services Sociality<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Dynamic Usability
Relationship Based evaluation of Assistive
Technologies <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><font
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Participation
Process
and Timeline<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Participation in
the CRI Workshop Series is open and free to all
members of the stakeholder
community. Those wishing to contribute to the
workshop as either members of the
audience, presenters, discussants or exhibitors
can contact the Workshop
Programme Chairs as listed below to indicate their
intention to participate
and/or send a position paper including an outline
of the issues that they wish
to discuss and clarify whether they intend to make
a presentation, lead a
break-out group or act as a Panellist, Discussant
or exhibitor of a prototype.
Contributors are invited to submit their short (4
pages) or long papers (8
Pages) in LNCS format and addressing any of the
above areas or their own
research topic within the overall thematic
framework of Companion Robotics
Design and Integration research challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-style: italic;">21st February2011:</span></font></i></b>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;">26<sup>th</sup>
February2011</span></font></i></b>: Deadline
for notification of accepted papers<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><font
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;">5<sup>th</sup> March
2011:</span></font></i></b> Deadline for
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
Accepted papers will be encouraged to be developed
for publication in a
forthcoming book: Companion Robots Integration,
Socialisation & Diffusion:
Architectural & Socio-Technical Challenges,
Editors: Atta Badii, Horst
Michael Gross, Gerard Chollet, Jerome Boudy,
Daniel Thiemert<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Workshop
Programme
Chair: </span></font></b>Professor Atta Badii<b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">, </span></b>Coordinator
CompanionAble Project <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><font
size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Workshop
Programme
Co-Chairs: </span></font></b>Professor Horst
Michael Gross, Professor
Gerard Chollet, Professor Jerome Boudy and Daniel
Thiemert<o:p></o:p></p>
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