Call for papers

The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in developing interactive techniques that may contribute to fostering the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users. More specifically, we intend to attract research that considers the interaction peculiarities typical of different realities, with a focus on disadvantaged and at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants) and vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people). Among others, we are also interested in human-robot interaction techniques aimed at developing social robots, that is, autonomous robots that interact with people by engaging in socially-affective behaviors, abilities, and rules related to their collaborative role.

The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to):

* Multi-cultural system design;

* Empirical studies on the impact of culture on systems;

* Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC);

* Cultural and social influence in recommender systems;

* Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors;

* Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media;

* Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds;

* Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems;

* Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups;

* Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI);

* Adaptation strategies for social HRI;

* Machine learning for social robots;

* Emotion and personality detection in social HRI;

* Social robots as conversational recommender systems

* Social robots in the real world;