IROS workshop on (medical) robotics benchmarking

 The upcoming IEEE/IRJ IROS conference in Hamburg will feature a workshop on  Monday, 28 Sept (full day) on Standarized Experiments in Human Robot Interactions.

********************* Call for Contribution ********************* 
We invite workshop participants to submit extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) in PDF and IEEE format. For templates and examples follow the link http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php .  The abstracts will be presented as posters in a dedicated slot during our workshop. Alternatively, workshop participants can submit a poster only. Those posters will be presented in the same poster session as extended abstract posters. To enable us a structured planning of the workshop day, please submit your poster together with a very short abstract (less than one page).  Please submit your contributions to nicole.mirnig@sbg.ac.at no later than July, 15th. All submission will be refereed by the organizing committee of the workshop.

"This workshop aims to advance the topic of standardization of robot experiments in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios. The workshop follows up on previous workshops focusing on international robot standardization and benchmarking in the areas of industrial, medical, and personal care robots (ICRA 2013, HRI 2014, IROS 2014 and ERF 2015).  While the R&D community produces great amounts of scientific outputs on HRI, the results are scattered in a myriad of different approaches and ways of performing and testing the interaction; metrics which have been used include efficacy, effectiveness, users satisfaction, emotional impact and social components. The main consequence is that results are not comparable and benchmarking of the various approaches proposed is not possible. The community is still missing consensus tools to benchmark robot products (robot producer/industrial perspective) and robot applications (research/academic perspective). Modes are required for the standardized assessment of robot products and applications in use in terms of safety, performance, user experience, and ergonomics. The benefit of agreed approaches and methods to the assessment of HRI is the production of results, so called “normative” data in the standardization community, meaning that they have been formulated via wide consultation in an open and transparent manner."

********************* Important Dates *********************  
  • Submission: 15th July, 2015 
  • Notification: 29th July, 2015 
  • Camera-ready: 26th August, 2015 
  • Workshop: 28th September, 2015

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Defining metrics for benchmarking HRI
    • Safety and physical interactions
    • Performance indicators for experiments
    • User-experience
    • Ergonomics
  • Defining standarized scenarios for HRI
    • Industrial, medical and personal care robots
    • Publicly available datasets for evaluation of HRI
    • Robot autonomy levels

    SUBMISSION

    We invite workshop participants to submit extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) in PDF and IEEE format. For templates and examples follow the link
    The abstracts will be presented as posters in a dedicated slot during our workshop. Alternatively, workshop participants can submit a poster only. Those posters will be presented in the same poster session as extended abstract posters. To enable us a structured planning of the workshop day, please submit your poster together with a short abstract (less than one page).
    Please submit your abstract to nicole.mirnig@sbg.ac.at.
    All submission will be refereed by the organizing committee of the workshop.

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