Towards Socially Intelligent Robots

Dear Colleagues, 

With robots becoming increasingly incorporated into the living spaces of humans, social intelligence has become a universal issue in robotics sub-fields. Robots’ capabilities (manipulation, navigation, collaboration, etc.) can no longer be considered complete without careful consideration of their human awareness and social interaction.

For this Special Issue, we welcome submissions of recent research on the provision of social intelligence to robots across various applications, including manufacturing, logistics, retail, human care, entertainment, and education. Topics of interest include the following:

• Novel approaches to utilizing artificial intelligence models for implementing social intelligence in robots.Evaluation of the level of social intelligence in robots.
• Effective methodologies for long-term user studies in social robotics.
• Socially intelligent robots in the real world.
• Software frameworks for socially intelligent robots.
• Any topic related to socially intelligent robots.

Dr. Minsu Jang
Dr. Ho Seok Ahn
Dr. John-John Cabibihan
Guest Editors

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