Robo-Identity: Designing for Identity in the Shared World
A hybrid half-day workshop at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2024)

About the Workshop:
Following the success of the first two editions of Robo-Identity workshops, the third edition will provide an opportunity to expand the discussion about artificial identity. This year, we will emphasise on the fluid nature of robo-identity in the shared world. Thus, we will explore questions regarding how the fluidity of robot identity can help enable personalized engagement, reverse the perpetuation of harmful social biases, and promote a future of more inclusive and adaptable technologies. This can be an opportunity to discuss questions such as:  How do we design robots that can adapt to individuals' and groups' evolving identities? How can robots cater to the changing needs and preferences of people? How can and should robots analyze and synthesize evolving human identity while effectively adapting over time? How should robot identity be presented? When would it be appropriate to adapt and present a particular robot identity? For a rich discussion on these questions during the workshop, we encourage submissions from various disciplines that present different perspectives and challenges when designing robo-identity in the shared world.

Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/hri2024workshop-robo-identity3

Call for Papers:
This half-day hybrid workshop invites participants from academia and industry to reflect on the following three themes (full theme descriptions can be found at the linked website) towards potentially creating more personalized and inclusive robot interactions in the shared world!

Theme 1: Personal and social identity
Personal identity is at the core of our individuality and is an evolving aspect of the self that changes with individual experiences and social influences. To have a clear sense of identity is to know "Who am I in my mind?"—a narrative rooted in one's life story, maintaining continuity from the past into the present. This stands in contrast to social identity, defining "Who am I in their mind?" as identity ascribed to us by others and mediated by culture and societal expectations. Acknowledging the evolving dynamics of identity is essential when designing human-robot interactions in the shared world.

Theme 2: Designed identity
An adaptive robot identity can empower us to navigate the increasingly globalized and interconnected world, fostering empathy and understanding between humans. Similar to interactions with other humans, a robot's identity influences our engagement with it, raising questions like "Who is this robot?" in our mind. One way of shaping artificial identity and influencing human behavior with robots is through embodiment which involves conferring human-like or familiar traits upon the robot like gesture, gaze, voice, expressions, and touch. Designing for identity in robots opens up novel opportunities in designing human-robot interactions that enable personalized engagement and promote a future of more inclusive and adaptable technologies.

Theme 3: In the shared world
Robot identity consists of a series of observable design cues that could consist of many things such as robot name, appearance, speech, and behavior. The way in which any combination of these design cues is perceived as a single coherent robot identity or "persona" is dependent on who is perceiving it. However, the perception of robot identity becomes complicated considering the fluidity that could be involved. With this fluidity, robot identity can be made to adapt to different human interactions and environments, potentially improving how robots interact in the shared world. This opens up questions of how should robot identity be presented, when would it be appropriate to adapt and present a particular robot identity, and how could robot identity account for human identity.

Submission:
Applicants are invited to submit short papers of 2,000-3,000 words of content (roughly 2-3 pages in the sigconf style excluding references). Submissions should also include short author biographies of 1-2 sentences (not counted as part of the word count). All submissions should use the sigconf style. Papers may address any of the questions and themes above, may be exploratory or of a philosophical nature, or may be reflective writing on authors’ past works that relate to identity. Accepted papers will be published at the workshop proceedings. Submissions shall be single blind.

Submit your paper by the deadline to hriroboidentity@gmail.com

Key Dates:
Submission Deadline: 15th of February, 2024 AoE
Notification of Acceptance: 4th of March, 2024 AoE
Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: 7th of March, 2024 AoE
Workshop date: TBD either the 11th or 15th of March, 2024 (check website for updates)

Organising committee:
Rucha Khot, Eindhoven University of Technology
Alexandra Bejarano, Colorado School of Mines
Lux Miranda, Uppsala University
Minha Lee, Eindhoven University of Technology
Gisela Reyes-Cruz, University of Nottingham
Joel Fischer, University of Nottingham
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Venue:
This workshop is co-located with the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2024) in Boulder, Colorado. Both the conference and the workshop are to be held in a hybrid format.

Robo-Identity: Designing for Identity in the Shared World
A hybrid half-day workshop at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2024)

About the Workshop:
Following the success of the first two editions of Robo-Identity workshops, the third edition will provide an opportunity to expand the discussion about artificial identity. This year, we will emphasise on the fluid nature of robo-identity in the shared world. Thus, we will explore questions regarding how the fluidity of robot identity can help enable personalized engagement, reverse the perpetuation of harmful social biases, and promote a future of more inclusive and adaptable technologies. This can be an opportunity to discuss questions such as:  How do we design robots that can adapt to individuals' and groups' evolving identities? How can robots cater to the changing needs and preferences of people? How can and should robots analyze and synthesize evolving human identity while effectively adapting over time? How should robot identity be presented? When would it be appropriate to adapt and present a particular robot identity? For a rich discussion on these questions during the workshop, we encourage submissions from various disciplines that present different perspectives and challenges when designing robo-identity in the shared world.

Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/hri2024workshop-robo-identity3

Call for Papers:
This half-day hybrid workshop invites participants from academia and industry to reflect on the following three themes (full theme descriptions can be found at the linked website) towards potentially creating more personalized and inclusive robot interactions in the shared world!

Theme 1: Personal and social identity
Personal identity is at the core of our individuality and is an evolving aspect of the self that changes with individual experiences and social influences. To have a clear sense of identity is to know "Who am I in my mind?"—a narrative rooted in one's life story, maintaining continuity from the past into the present. This stands in contrast to social identity, defining "Who am I in their mind?" as identity ascribed to us by others and mediated by culture and societal expectations. Acknowledging the evolving dynamics of identity is essential when designing human-robot interactions in the shared world.

Theme 2: Designed identity
An adaptive robot identity can empower us to navigate the increasingly globalized and interconnected world, fostering empathy and understanding between humans. Similar to interactions with other humans, a robot's identity influences our engagement with it, raising questions like "Who is this robot?" in our mind. One way of shaping artificial identity and influencing human behavior with robots is through embodiment which involves conferring human-like or familiar traits upon the robot like gesture, gaze, voice, expressions, and touch. Designing for identity in robots opens up novel opportunities in designing human-robot interactions that enable personalized engagement and promote a future of more inclusive and adaptable technologies.

Theme 3: In the shared world
Robot identity consists of a series of observable design cues that could consist of many things such as robot name, appearance, speech, and behavior. The way in which any combination of these design cues is perceived as a single coherent robot identity or "persona" is dependent on who is perceiving it. However, the perception of robot identity becomes complicated considering the fluidity that could be involved. With this fluidity, robot identity can be made to adapt to different human interactions and environments, potentially improving how robots interact in the shared world. This opens up questions of how should robot identity be presented, when would it be appropriate to adapt and present a particular robot identity, and how could robot identity account for human identity.

Submission:
Applicants are invited to submit short papers of 2,000-3,000 words of content (roughly 2-3 pages in the sigconf style excluding references). Submissions should also include short author biographies of 1-2 sentences (not counted as part of the word count). All submissions should use the sigconf style. Papers may address any of the questions and themes above, may be exploratory or of a philosophical nature, or may be reflective writing on authors’ past works that relate to identity. Accepted papers will be published at the workshop proceedings. Submissions shall be single blind.

Submit your paper by the deadline to hriroboidentity@gmail.com

Key Dates:
Submission Deadline: 22nd of February, 2024 AoE
Notification of Acceptance: 4th of March, 2024 AoE
Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: 7th of March, 2024 AoE
Workshop date: 11th of March, 2024

Organising committee:
Rucha Khot, Eindhoven University of Technology
Alexandra Bejarano, Colorado School of Mines
Lux Miranda, Uppsala University
Minha Lee, Eindhoven University of Technology
Gisela Reyes-Cruz, University of Nottingham
Joel Fischer, University of Nottingham
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Venue:
This workshop is co-located with the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2024) in Boulder, Colorado. Both the conference and the workshop are to be held in a hybrid format.