[aaloa supporters] FYI: CompanionAble Consortium, AAL Companion Robotics Institute Workshop Series: 5th Workshop Brussels Novotel, 8th March 2011

[Francesco Furfari]

*_Call for Participation_*

*CompanionAble Consortium, AAL Companion Robotics Institute Workshop Series*

*/5^th Workshop, Brussels Novotel, 8^th March 2011/*

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*/AAL User-Centred Companion Robotics Experimentoria,/*

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*/Supporting Socio-ethically Intelligent Assistive Technologies Adoption/*

*Background & Motivation*

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 (www.companionable.net) 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^nd , 3rd and 4^th such workshop respectively 
in Bilbao, December 2008, in Salzburg at the AmI November 2009 and in 
Brussels 30^th 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.

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.

For this 5^th 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

    * Socio-ethically intelligent deployment of Companion/Social Robotics

    * AAL Ecosystem Stakeholder Requirements generalisation ontology
      framework

    * 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

    * Companion/Social  Robots as emotion/activity literate monitors and
      context-sensitive respondents

    * Human -Robot and Robot-Robot Teams cooperativity and training
      autonomy support

    * Companion Robot secure semantic Interoperability with the Future
      Internet and the AAL  Platform

    * The Thriving AAL Ecosystem: Matchmaking of Assistive Devices to
      Well-Being Needs: Achieving the triple dynamic equilibrium point
      of optimally matched spectra*:  i)* the AAL users' Needs Spectrum,
      *ii) *the ALL Solutions Shelf, and, *iii)* Affordability
      Engineered Sustainable AAL business models

    * Companion Robotics as Socialisation & Assistance Gateways
      mediating access to richer social interaction; positive psychology
      and fun socio-cognitive stimulation

    * Evaluation and Certification Practice Models for efficient
      usability evaluation and safety-assurance of personalised
      ICT-enabled support for AAL user's priority needs

    * Future Internet of People, Robots Things and Services Sociality

    * Dynamic Usability Relationship Based evaluation of Assistive
      Technologies


*Participation Process and Timeline*

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.

Important Dates:

    * */21st February2011:/* Deadline for submission of papers by email
      to d.thiemert at rdg.ac.uk <mailto:d.thiemert at rdg.ac.uk> This e-mail
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    * */26^th February2011/*: Deadline for notification of accepted papers
    * */5^th March 2011:/* Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Submission


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

*Workshop Programme Chair: *Professor Atta Badii*, *Coordinator 
CompanionAble Project **

*Workshop Programme Co-Chairs: *Professor Horst Michael Gross, Professor 
Gerard Chollet, Professor Jerome Boudy and Daniel Thiemert

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Professor Atta Badii

(Secure Pervasive Technologies)

Intelligent Media Systems  Services Research Laboratory

Schoolof Systems Engineering

Universityof Reading

Whiteknights

RG6 6AY, UK

Phone:          00 44 118 378 7842

Fax:              00 44 118 975 1994

http://www.imss.reading.ac.uk <http://www.imss.reading.ac.uk/>

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