First workshop on social interaction and multimodal expression for socially intelligent robots

Recent advances in the field of robotics contributed to the development of several kinds of robots able to express social communication skills using a number of interactive modalities such as facial expressions, gestures, gaze, motion, and color. Despite this progress, the multimodal expression capabilities of robots are still far behind the intuitiveness and naturalness that is required to allow uninformed people to interact in their everyday life with naturally communicative robots. The workshop on "Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots" is held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Its topics cover interdisciplinary research on understanding, designing, and evaluating multimodal communication skills for socially intelligent robots that have the potential to enhance our daily lives in our homes and at work. This years workshop consists of four talks covering topics such as verbal and non-verbal interaction with robots, design of affective expressions and applications for multimodal interaction with social robots. Moreover, it includes three keynote talks by Ana Paiva, Andrea Bonarini and Jorge Dias and a brainstorming discussion.