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RO-MAN 2021 Roboethics Competition Final Evaluation Day


Welcome:  Stephen L. Smith and Machiel Van der Loos (Chairs)


Opening Remarks

**Session Chair: ** Kerstin Dautenhahn 
**Speaker: **Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London 

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**Title:** Personal Assistive Robots 

**Abstract:** How can robots cooperate and assist humans in achieving their tasks? While some technical aspects might differ between specific tasks, there are fundamental challenges underlying all such endeavours: robots need to understand the current state and intention of their users through multimodal perception algorithms, and personalise assistance to the users’ particular (and evolving) needs. In this talk I will present our research towards designing and building cognitive architectures that enable robots to build multiscale models of their users, and adapt their behaviour to maximise assistance effectiveness over extended periods of interaction. I will argue that such personalisation, and the explainability of the learned user models, can help in developing effective and trustworthy robot assistants. I will illustrate our approach with examples from assisting (children and adults) with activities of daily living, for example dressing and mobility, as well as educational tasks.

**Biography:** Yiannis Demiris is a Professor of Human-Centered Robotics at Imperial College London, where he holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. He directs the Personal Robotics Lab, which investigates multimodal perception, multiscale user modelling, and cognitive architectures, for developing effective and trustworthy robot assistants, with a particular interest in healthcare and assisted living. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers on these topics, while maintaining multidisciplinary national and international collaborations with academic and commercial organisations in human-robot interaction projects, including most recently the UKRI TAS Node on Trust. He maintains a strong interest in robotics education, having received multiple teaching awards at Imperial including the Rector’s Award on Teaching Excellence. He is a Fellow of BCS, IET and RSS.

Links: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/y.demiris

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/PersonalRobotics

Keynote 1 - Yiannis Demiris

Interactive 1A - Motion Planning and Navigation in Human-Centered Environments 1

Interactive 1B- Cooperation in Human-Robot Teams and Creating Human-Robot Relationships

Interactive 1C- Programming by Demonstration and Social Learning Via Teaching and Imitation

Interactive 1D- Robots' Emotions and Social Intelligence


**Session Chairs:** Holthaus, Patrick (University of Hertfordshire) and Cangelosi, Angelo (University of Manchester)

Panel 1 - Exploring social credibility and trust in HRI



**Session Chairs:** Chandra, Shruti (University of Waterloo) and Alhaddad, Ahmad Yaser (Qatar University)

Panel 2 - Robots in Education, Therapy and Rehabilitation


**Session Chairs:** Jouaiti, Melanie (University of Waterloo) and Camilleri, Antonella (University of the West of England, Bristol Robotics Laboratory)

Panel 3 - HRI and Collaboration in Manufacturing Environments

RO-MAN 2021's theme is trustworthiness and cooperation. We chose this term well before the pandemic put the world on edge and added a new reason for us to question our own personal safety when in the company of others. But what about in the company of social robots? What would cause us to trust, or not trust, them? How do we as researchers create that feeling, that critical component of any relationship? With social robots, it is of course largely in our power to design the physical form, the control code and the interface software to maximize trustworthiness, facilitate cooperation and enhance the quality of human-robot interaction. This theme also touches upon people's expectations and perceptions of robots, as well as other social, cognitive and cultural factors that will influence human-robot interactions. We will have a special session/track on this topic, invite targeted submissions and include plenary speakers who are specialist in this area. We sincerely hope that this focus will help enlighten the design-thinking of all of us as we fabricate and program our own various systems.

To access RO-MAN Virtual 2021, [please register here.](https://ro-man2021.org/registration/)

IEEE RO-MAN 2021

RO-MAN 2021's theme is trustworthiness and cooperation. We chose this term well before the pandemic put the world on edge and added a new reason for us to question our own personal safety when in the company of others. But what about in the company of social robots? What would cause us to trust, or not trust, them? How do we as researchers create that feeling, that critical component of any relationship? With social robots, it is of course largely in our power to design the physical form, the control code and the interface software to maximize trustworthiness, facilitate cooperation and enhance the quality of human-robot interaction. 

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