Call for Papers: IROS 2016 Workshop on *Artistically Skilled Robots*

IROS 2016 Workshop on *Artistically Skilled Robots*
www.idiap.ch/workshop/iros2016/

*First call for papers*

We kindly invite you to submit your contributions to the Workshop on Artistically Skilled Robots to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, on Oct. 10, 2016.

The event is attached to the IEEE/RSJ IROS conference which runs Oct. 11-13.

The goal of the workshop is to discuss the state of the art and the future of artistic applications in robotics. This is a maturing, but still novel area of R&D in robotics, which involves modeling and understanding a complex and multifaceted human behaviour that includes: (i) perceptual abilities, (ii) generative abilities, (iii) creativity, (iv) reflective abilities, (v) pedagogical abilities, and (vi) social skills. The workshop will concentrate on developments in robotic systems that can have the capacity to understand artistic styles through practice, to simulate the human art creation process, to produce artworks with a given style, and further explore and develop novel styles, alone or in collaboration with other robots or humans. The proposed theme also involves to jointly deepen our understanding of human creativity, while advancing robotic systems capable of producing and evaluating distinctive artistic styles, and having the capacity to interact with the world through embodied creative actions.

The workshop will discuss (but is not limited to) visual art practice, including sketching, painting, calligraphy, sculpting and novel forms of digital fabrication (e.g. ceramics, additive manufacturing). Arts provide a testbed for the embodiment of complex skills in robots, such as natural gestures and complex interactions with the environment and humans. This interdisciplinary topic of research is at the crossroad of Robot Control, Movement Science, A.I./Machine Learning, Cognitive Science, Computer Graphics, the Visual Arts, Psychology and Neuroscience.

Topics of interest include: (((this is always the best part)))

Robotic creativity
Embodied A.I.
Creative agents
Human/artist robot collaboration
Natural movement generation in robots
Transfer of artistic skills to robots
Public perception of robotic generated art
Understanding/study of human artistic skills via robots
Robot manipulation of artistic tools/media

*Invited speakers* (to be updated)

Daniel Berio, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Jonas Buchli, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Sylvain Calinon, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Frederic Fol Leymarie, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Microsoft Research Asia, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ajay Kapur, California Institute of the Arts, USA
Seiichiro Katsura, Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University, Japan
Heather Knight, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Jean-Paul Laumond, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Patrick Tresset, Ateliers Patrick Tresset Ltd., UK
Katsuyoshi Tsujita, Osaka Institute of Technology, System Dynamics Lab., Japan

*Call for contributions*

Participants are invited to submit a contribution as:
Full paper (maximum 6 pages in length)
Extended abstract (maximum 2 pages in length)
Selected contributions will be presented during the workshop as spotlight talks and in a poster and demo session. You may add a demo video to your submission.

Submissions must be in PDF following the IEEE conference style in two-columns. Send your PDF manuscript indicating [IROS 2016] in the subject, and indicate the URL of your demo video (if available), to the email: iros[at]creativemachine.org.uk

The workshop contributions will appear as online proceedings. Contributors to the workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of the manuscripts to a special issue (publisher to be announced, deadline will be in January 2017).

*Important dates*

August 15, 2016 - Submission deadline
August 31, 2016 - Notification of acceptance
October 10, 2016 - Workshop

*Organizers*

Frederic Fol Leymarie, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Sylvain Calinon, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Daniel Berio, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

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Frederic Fol Leymarie
www.folleymarie.com