Title

Human centered physical and social interaction with robots

Abstract

Intelligent techniques foster the dissemination of new discoveries and novel technologies that advance the ability of robotics to assist and support humans. Intelligent robots aim to understand the increasingly coupled relationships between human and machine. With the increasing need of human robot interactive activities, we are faced with a need for improved control and cognitive systems of human-centered robots capable of performing in these unstructured environments. Human-centered approach for interaction with robots addresses a broad spectrum of topics ranging from human-centered intelligent robots acting as a servant, secretary, or companion. Special attention should be given to the "human and robotics interaction technologies" with intelligent control and learning technology, cognitive science with the goal of developing new methods using multi-dimensional and multi-modal data. The special session invites original papers on "physical interaction and social interaction" with innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, and novel applications.