3rd International Human-Robot Personal Relationships Conference

March 29, 2010

Robot ASIMO conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as it performs "Impossible Dream" in a special concert with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma

Organized and hosted by Leiden University,
The Netherlands

The 3rd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships (HRPR 2010) is the main platform to present and discuss studies of personal relationships with artificial partners, their formation, their possibilities and their consequences.

Such personal relationships are increasingly attracting attention from scientific fields as (social) robotics, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, sociology.

Researchers, students and practitioners from all segments of the human-robot personal interaction community are invited to submit works and proposals related (but not limited) to the topics:

  • robot emotions
  • robot personalities
  • gender approaches
  • affective approaches
  • psychological approaches
  • sociological approaches
  • roboethics
  • philosophical approaches
  • human-robot societies
  • case studies

in any of the following forms

  • original papers, describing original research or design work (4-8 pages, published in proceedings)
  • position papers, posing substantiated opinions or positions on the conference topic (4-8 pages, published in proceedings)
  • extended abstracts, describing original work (2 pages, published in proceedings)
  • workshop proposals
  • demonstrations of running system prototypes
  • artistic installations (possibly combined with an extended abstract).

Submitted papers and extended abstracts will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind procedure, based on technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. The language of the conference is English.