The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication will take place in Paris (France) at Arts et Métiers ParisTech - ENSAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers), 151 boulevard de l'Hôpital (Paris -13th).

The theme for the 21st RO-MAN is :
Robots and Human in daily life :
Scientific, Technical, Ethical, Legal and Economic Issues,
Safety of Interaction, Collaborative Environment, Evaluation and Interest

Prospective authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format. Six pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including figures. Up to two additional pages are permitted at extra charge. Each paper can be accompanied by a short (3-4 minute) video.

Special Sessions
Special sessions on advanced topics and innovative applications will be considered, consisting of four to six related papers submitted through the regular review process. Prospective organizers should include a brief statement of purpose for the sessions as well as the abstracts of the papers to be included
Workshops and Tutorials
Proposals for half-day or full-day tutorials and workshops on topics relevant to the conference are invited.
Demonstrations
Space will be available to host interactive demonstrations.
Sponsors will be allowed to bring demos.

Relevant Topics
Fundamental of Interaction
• Visual sensing and cognition: gesture, posture, face, facial expression
• Auditory cognition: cognition/interpretation of voice, sound or language
• Haptic interaction
• Interfaces, sensorial substitution and interaction modalities
• Capturing and modeling human behavior
• Coordination in human-robot teams
Social/Ethical/Aesthetic Issues
• Social, economic and legal acceptability of interactive robotics systems
• Human factors and ergonomics in human-robot interaction
• Innovative robot designs for human-robot interaction
• Sociality/personality of robots or virtual characters
Intelligence and Emotion
• Context awareness and intention understanding
• Intelligent space
• Knowledge and inference processing
• Machine learning and adaptation in human-robot interaction
• Understanding semantic of human action from data
• Training and learning theories
• Motivations and emotions in robots
Case Studies and Applications
• Robotics and virtual environments for training
• Home applications
• Assistive and rehabilitative robots
• Cobots, robotic companions and social robots
• Androids and other applications
• Robots in art, education and entertainment
• Virtual and augmented tele-presence applications
Submission
Detailed instructions for paper submission via PaperPlaza will be soon available at www.ro-man2012.org