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ICR 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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2nd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR 2017)
Venue: Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, September 12-16, 2017
WWW: http://specom.nw.ru/icr2017

The International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics is a sattelite event of the International Conference on Speech and Computer and attracts researchers in the area of human-robot interaction, social robotics and collaborative robotics.

ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia), Munich University of Technology (TUM, Munich, Germany), Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR, Tomsk, Russia).
ICR 2017 is a sattelite event of the International Conference on Speech and Computer organized by University of Hertfordshire (UH, Hatfield, UK).

TOPICS
Assistive robots
Child-robot interaction
Collaborative robotics
Educational robotics
Human-robot interaction
Medical robotics
Robotic mobility systems
Robots at home
Robots control and communication
Social robotics
Safety robot behavior

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2017) selecting topic "Interactive collaborative robotics".

Papers submitted to ICR 2017 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the ICR review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

The paper format for the review has to be the PDF file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, speakers will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

PROCEEDINGS
ICR Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX. ICR Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2017.

IMPORTANT DATES
April 15, 2017 ............ Submission of full papers (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2017)
May 15, 2017 ............ Notification of acceptance
June 01, 2017 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and registration
September 12-16, 2017 ........... Conference dates

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the ICR 2017 conference.

CONFERENCE FEES
The ICR conference is a satellite event of SPECOM conference and there is one single fee for the all SPECOM events.
The conference fee information is located on the conference web.

VENUE
The conference will be organized in at the campus of the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK http://www.herts.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/7094/hertfordshire-map2016.pdf

ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
ICR 2017 Secretariat:
E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su; i.mporas@herts.ac.uk
Web site: www.specom.nw.ru/icr2017