Program

The workshop will be organised along three main perspectives in human robot interaction:
1) To create an harmonious relationship between memory and emotion in social cognitive robots.
2) How a positive lifelong relation between human and robot can be formed in that way that the robot is being more socially acceptable.
3) How a synchronic design between biological neural mechanisms and robotic memory can evoke a socially acceptable robotic agents.

The first perspective addresses the question of how robots can acquire social cognitive abilities by means of emotions. From the second perspective robots are used as displays of social cues to human subjects to investigate and quantify, for example, how humans perceive social signals such as facial expressions and gestures and whether robots can be tuned towards being more acceptable as social partners. The third perspective intends to develop robotic interaction partners based on the knowledge of biological neural mechanisms. The three approaches are crucial for the advancement of socially acceptable robotic agents. The workshop program will consist of invited keynotes, oral presentations of accepted papers and a discussion in the end of the workshop.