Call-for-workshops & special sessions

ICRES 2024 warmly invites proposals for half-day special sessions and tutorials. Special sessions and tutorials will be held along with the main conference at the same venue as the conference. The primary criteria for selection are the anticipated level of interest, the potential impact, and the confirmed invited speakers.

For special sessions, a one-page proposal is required and should consist of the following elements:

Title.
Organizers (Names, affiliations, emails), specifying one corresponding organizer.
Description of the special session, 500 words maximum. Includes motivations for the special session, the names of invited speakers (if any), paper submission plan (dates, paper length, ..), etc.

For tutorials, a one-page proposal is required and should consist of the following elements:

Title
Presenters (short biography of each)
Table of contents
Suggested format (lecturing/interactive)

Topics of Interest

We encourage submissions related to (but not limited to):

Autonomy and liability
Ethical principles in robotics
Defining ethical guidelines for the design, use, and operation of robots
Enhancement technologies: ethical issues
Privacy & management of personal data
Ethical frameworks: universal or region-specific?
The role of industry and society in the definition of safety standards
AI technology to block unethical/mendacious social-media communication
Accountability in autonomous systems
Embedding values and norms into intelligent systems
Ethics and standardization
Raising ethical awareness among stakeholders
Transparency in autonomous systems
Political and legal frameworks
Formal and mathematical frameworks for robot ethics
Implementations and engineering studies
User and HCI/HRI studies at the intersection of the above issues

Submission

Special Session/Tutorial Proposal must be submitted in PDF format to

icres2024@bmpe.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Subject: Special Session/Tutorial Proposal)

We look forward to hosting your special session/tutorial at ICRES 2024!