Tentative Symposium Schedule:
| Time | Day 1 | 21 April 2015 |
| 10:40-10:50 | Welcome | Organizers |
| 10:50-11:05 | Session 1: Ethical Issues in HRI + Keynote
Chair:
Paul Baxter | “General Republics’ Opinions on Robot Ethics: Comparison between Japan, the USA, Germany, and France” (*E*)
(Tatsuya Nomura) |
| 11:05-11:20 | “Does anyone want to talk to me? – Reflections on the use of assistance and companion robots in care homes” (*P*)
(Kerstin Dautenhahn, Anne Campbell, Dag S. Syrdal) |
| 11:20-12:05 | Keynote Talk – Mark Coeckelbergh: “Human-like robots and automated humans: Socializing and contextualizing HRI” |
| 12:05-12:40 | Discussion of Session 1 |
| 12:40-13:30 | LUNCH |
| 13:30-13:45 | Session 2: Robots’ Impact on Human Performance
Chair:
Matthias Scheutz | “A new biomimetic approach towards educational robotics: the Distributed Adaptive Control of a Synthetic Tutor Assistant” (*TG*) (Vasiliki Vouloutsi et al.) |
| 13:45-14:00 | “Towards a Child-Robot Symbiotic Co-Development: a Theoretical Approach” (*P*) (Vicky Charisi et al.) |
| 14:00-14:15 | “Presence of Life-Like Robot Expressions Influences Children’s Enjoyment of Human-Robot Interactions in the Field” (*N*)
(David Cameron) |
| 14:15-14:30 | “Can Less be More? The Impact of Robot Social Behaviour on Human Learning” (*P*) (James Kennedy, Paul Baxter, Tony Belpaeme) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Discussion of Session 2 |
| 15:00-15:20 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:20-15:35 | Session 3: Verbal Interaction
Chair:
Kerstin Dautenhahn | “Perception of Artificial Agents and Utterance Friendliness in Dialogue” (*E*) (Sascha Griffiths et al.) |
| 15:35-15:50 | “Gender, more so than Age, Modulates Positive Perceptions of
Language-Based Human-Robot Interactions” (*E*) (Megan Strait, Priscilla Briggs, Matthias Scheutz) |
| 15:50-16:05 | “Robot Learning from Verbal Interaction: A Brief Survey” (*P*) (Heriberto Cuayáhuitl) |
| 16:05-16:50 | Discussion of Session 3 |
| Time | Day 2 | 22 April 2015 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Keynote | Keynote Talk – Angelika Peer: “Towards Remote Medical Diagnosticians” |
| 12:0-12:15 | Session 4: Facial Expressions & Emotions
Chair:
Astrid Weiss | “Performing Facial Expression Synthesis on Robot Faces: A Real-time Software System” (*Y*) (Maryam Moosaei, Cory J. Hayes, Laurel D. Riek.) |
| 12:15-12:30 | “Embodiment, emotion, and chess: A system description” (*Y*) (Christian Becker-Asano et al.) |
| 12:30-13:00 | Discussion of Session 4 |
| 13:00-14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00-14:15 | Session 5: Non-Verbal Cues & Behaviors
Chair:
Christian Becker-Asano | “Robots Guiding Small Groups:
The Effect of Appearance Change on the User Experience” (*E*) (Michiel Joosse et al.) |
| 14:15-14:30 | “Turn-yielding cues in robot-human conversation” (*N*) (Jef A. van Schendel & Raymond H. Cuijpers) |
| 14:30-14:45 | “How can a tour guide robot’s orientation
influence visitors’ orientation and formations?” (*N*) (Daphne E. Karreman et al.) |
| 14:45-15:00 | “Robots Have Needs Too: People Adapt Their Proxemic Preferences to Improve Autonomous Robot Recognition of Human Social Signals” (*N*)
(Ross Mead & Maja Mataric) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Discussion of Session 5 |
| 15:30-16:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:00-16:15 | Session 6: Robot Perception & Acceptance
Chair:
Maha Salem | “The Paro robot seal as a social mediator for healthy users” (*E*)
(Natalie Wood et al.) |
| 16:15-16:30 | “Differences on Social Acceptance of Humanoid Robots
between Japan and the UK” (*N*)
(Tatsuya Nomura, Dag S. Syrdal, Kerstin Dautenhahn) |
| 16:30-17:25 | Panel Discussion of Session 6 |
| 17:25-17:30 | Closing | Organizers |
