ICRES 2024 warmly invites proposals for half-day special sessions and tutorials. Special sessions and tutorials will be held along with the main conference at the same venue as the conference. The primary criteria for selection are the anticipated level of interest, the potential impact, and the confirmed invited speakers.

For special sessions, a one-page proposal is required and should consist of the following elements:

  1. Title.
  2. Organizers (Names, affiliations, emails), specifying one corresponding organizer.
  3. Description of the special session, 500 words maximum. Includes motivations for the special session, the names of invited speakers (if any), paper submission plan (dates, paper length, ..), etc.

For tutorials, a one-page proposal is required and should consist of the following elements:

  1. Title
  2. Presenters (short biography of each)
  3. Table of contents
  4. Suggested format (lecturing/interactive)
     

Submission for Special Session 

If you submit a paper for the following Special Session, please write the Special Session number in the keywords

Topics of Interest

We encourage submissions related to (but not limited to):

  • Autonomy and liability
  • Ethical principles in robotics
  • Defining ethical guidelines for the design, use, and operation of robots
  • Enhancement technologies: ethical issues
  • Privacy & management of personal data
  • Ethical frameworks: universal or region-specific?
  • The role of industry and society in the definition of safety standards
  • AI technology to block unethical/mendacious social-media communication
  • Accountability in autonomous systems
  • Embedding values and norms into intelligent systems
  • Ethics and standardization
  • Raising ethical awareness among stakeholders
  • Transparency in autonomous systems
  • Political and legal frameworks
  • Formal and mathematical frameworks for robot ethics
  • Implementations and engineering studies
  • User and HCI/HRI studies at the intersection of the above issues
     

Submission

Special Session/Tutorial Proposal must be submitted in PDF format to

icres2024@bmpe.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Subject: Special Session/Tutorial Proposal)

Submissions must be proposed/sent in by March 1st 2024.

We look forward to hosting your special session/tutorial at ICRES 2024!