Fundamental
Interaction
Components
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• Auditory cognition: cognition/interpretation of voice, sound, or language
• Visual sensing and cognition: gesture, posture, face, facial expressions
• Novel interfaces and interaction modalities
• Motion planning and navigation in the vicinity of humans
• Haptic interaction
• Robot software architecture and development tools
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• Motivations and emotions in robots
• Machine learning and adaptation in human-robot interaction
• Knowledge and inference processing
• Context awareness and intention understanding
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Social/Ethical
/Aesthetic Issues
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• Sociality/personality of robots or virtual characters
• Innovative robot designs for human-robot interaction
• Human factors and ergonomics in human-robot interaction
• Evaluation methods and new methodologies
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Case Studies
and Applications
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• Robotic companions and social robots
• Assistive robotics for supporting the elderly or peple with special needs
• Robots in art, education and entertainment
• Virtual and augmented tele-presence applications
• Androids and other applications
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