Workshop on SOcial & Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces

Submission date: Dec 23, 2020
Acceptance notification: Jan 31, 2021
Camera-ready: Feb 28, 2021
Workshop date: Apr 13, 2021

The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all those interested in the development of interactive techniques that may contribute to foster the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users. More specifically, we intend to attract research that takes into account 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 the development of social robots, that is, autonomous robots that interact with people by engaging in social-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

The workshop will feature a keynote by Antonella Poce, Associate Professor in Experimental Pedagogy at the Department of Education, Roma Tre University.

For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at socialize2021@easychair.org