2nd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships

June 11-12, 2009 -- Tilburg University, The Netherlands

The 2nd Conference is a direct follow-up of the 1st conference, which took place in Maastricht, June 12-13, 2008. The first conference was an initiative by Myriam Diocaretz and Jaap van den Herik as a follow-up of the publishing of the Ph.D. thesis by David Levy (2007) titled: Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners. The thesis and conference attracted again wide media publicity on a large scale.

As of September 1, 2008 the organisers of the conference Professor Myriam Diocaretz and Professor Jaap van den Herik (chair) moved to Tilburg. They are now affiliated to TiCC, which stands for Tilburg centre of Creative Computing. TiCC has taken up the challenge to continue the series of conferences on Human-Robot Personal Relationship and is hosting the 2nd edition.

Update: Tilburg and Leiden combine forces

Dear Human Robot Personal Relationship Conference participant,

We are in a phase of transition considering the conference. The main reason is that there is a tremendous interest for the lecture by Professor Ishiguro in the Netherlands. He only will be in the Netherlands for one full day arriving Wednesday and leaving Friday. A conference on a simular topic has been scheduled in Leiden (june 11th) with an attendance of about 200 persons, i.e. the CHI-NL. The venue will be the in the Leiden University Faculty of Law of: the Kamerligh Onnes Gebouw (KOG).

Combining forces guarantees our conference more saturation. Therefore, we considered the transition of moving the conference from Tilburg to Leiden, and were successful in making the necessary arrangements. Thus, our conference will be in the KOG venue for June 11th and June 12th.

All changes will be communicated via our website. We understand that this change may cause some inconvenience at your part. We are aware of it and sincerely apologize for that and offer assistance in resolving your problems as far as we are able to do so. Therefore, please do not hesitate to contact us with your personal questions.

Jaap van den Herik

Chair HRPR Conference

Programme

Please note that this programme is tentative.

Keynote Speaker

Professor Ishiguro

Hiroshi Ishiguro (M') received a D.Eng. in systems engineering from the Osaka University, Japan in 1991. He is currently Professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University (2002-). He is also Visiting Group Leader (2002-) of the Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, where he previously worked as Visiting Researcher (1999-2002). He was previously Research Associate (1992-1994) in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University and Associate Professor (1998-2000) in the Department of Social Informatics at Kyoto University. He was also Visiting Scholar (1998-1999) at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He then became Associate Professor (2000-2001) and Professor (2001-2002) in the Department of Computer and Communication Sciences at Wakayama University. His research interests include distributed sensor systems, interactive robotics, and android science.

Call For Papers

Conference sessions are planned on the following topics:

• Robot Emotions
• Robot Personalities
• Gender Approaches
• Affective Approaches
• Psychological Approaches
• Sociological Approaches
• Roboethics
• Philosophical Approaches

We welcome contributions in the form of an extended abstract (max 1500 words) and / or paper.

Important dates:

• Deadline for abstracts or papers: March 31, 2009
• Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2009
• Deadline for final versions: May 22, 2009

Conference Proceedings:

Submissions will be peer-reviewed. A selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in an international volume of the proceedings to be published in the International Journal of Social Robotics.

Submission address:

hrpr@uvt.nl

TiCC, Tilburg centre for Creative Computing

Faculty of Humanities, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Conference Venue

The venue will be the in the Leiden University Faculty of Law of: the Kamerligh Onnes Gebouw (KOG).

Registration

To register please fill in the Human Robot 2009 Registration Form and fax it to (+31) (0)13 466 2892. Registration fees are as follows:

Registration includes coffee breaks, 2 lunches, and proceedings.

Organization

Programme Chair:

• Professor Jaap van den Herik, Tilburg University

Programme Committee:

• Professor Myriam Diocaretz, Tilburg University
• Professor Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California
• Professor Marli Huijer, Hogeschool Den Haag
• Jeroen Janssens, M.Sc., Tilburg University
• Professor Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University
• Dr. David Levy, London, UK
• Professor Maaike Meijer, Maastricht University
• Professor Cees Midden, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Professor Mark Neerincx, Delft University of Technology
• Professor Eric Postma, Tilburg University
• Professor Corien Prins, Tilburg University
• Bernt Meerbeek, M.Sc., Philips
• Professor Jettie Hoonhout, Philips
• Dr. Christoph Bartneck, Eindhoven University of Technology

Organization Committee:

• Mrs. Joke Hellemons, Tilburg University
• Jeroen Janssens, M.Sc., Tilburg University

Contact

For more information please contact the organizing committee & secretariat: Joke Hellemons.

Telephone: (+31) (0)13 466 8118

Email: hrpr@uvt.nl