Call for Papers: Social Robots: Form, Content, Critique special issue of The International Journal of Social Robotics Co-editors: Michaela Pfadenhauer (Karlsruhe University / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Satomi Sugiyama (Franklin College, Switzerland), Charles Ess (University of Oslo). We invite papers from scholars and researchers across the disciplines (including philosophy, robot ethics, Artificial Intelligence, cognitive science, media/sociology, information science, art history) that examine and explore social robots through three distinct but inextricably interwoven frameworks: * Form/appearance (e.g., human/animal likeness in appearance; everyday media forms and robotic functions; cultural attitudes toward robot forms, etc.) * Content/AI/applications (e.g., implications of artificial intelligence in everyday human experiences such as memories, relationships, and conceptions of the self and self-understanding; applications that shape human-robot interactions; applications of mobile media and their implications in human¹s robotic experiences, etc.) * Critical issues that undergird the above, including; ethics, intimacy, emotions, authenticity, etc. Paper submission deadline: 1 January 2014 Notification to authors: 1 March 2014 Submission of authors revised papers: 1 May 2014 Final acceptance: 1 June 2014 (accepted papers will be immediately published at the IJSR webpage with a Digital Object Identifier for citation purposes) Publication: August, 2014 The call is an outcome of the COST Strategic Workshop on Social Robotics and Sustainability that took place in Brussels, Belgium, on 10-13 June 2013. The online submission system is available at: : Authors are required to register on the website and to follow the Journal¹s ³Instructions for Authors² as provided there.
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