Dear all, (apologies for cross-posting) Following our 2 workshops on NLG for HRI at INLG 2018 ( https://hbuschme.github.io/nlg-hri-workshop-2018/) and 2020 ( https://hbuschme.github.io/nlg-hri-workshop-2020/), and a special session on Natural Language in HRI at SIGDIAL 2022 ( https://2022.sigdial.org/call-for-papers-nlihri/), we are now organising a special issue on Embodied Conversational Systems in Human-Robot Interaction at D&D journal ( http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/special_issues/Spec-Issue2023.pdf). The deadline for paper submissions is the *1**st of November 2023*. The topics of interest are as follows: ● Design and evaluation of conversational systems for human-robot interaction ● Natural language understanding and generation for human-robot interaction ● Situated dialogue with robots ● Contextualization and personalization in conversational systems ● Emotional and social intelligence in conversational systems ● Multimodal interaction and fusion of sensory data in conversational systems ● Ethics, privacy, and security issues in conversational systems for human-robot interaction ● User studies and user experience evaluation of conversational systems for human-robot interaction ● Applications of conversational systems in healthcare, education, and entertainment Submission guidelines: http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/ During submission, just pick the special issue from the drop-down menu. We would really appreciate it if you could forward this email to your students or colleagues who work in this area. Kind Regards, Dimitra -- Dr Dimitra Gkatzia - https://dimitragkatzia.wordpress.com/ Associate Prof. of Computing @ Edinburgh Napier University Twitter: https://twitter.com/gkatzia