Call for papers

The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together those interested in the development of interactive techniques, including social robots, that may foster the social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g., children, elderly, autistic, and disabled people) and disadvantaged, at-risk categories (e.g., refugees and migrants).

• Multi-cultural and social system design;
• Empirical studies on the impact of culture and social aspects on systems;
• Information retrieval and filtering techniques for vulnerable and disadvantaged people;
• Cultural and social influence in recommender systems;
• Cultural and social aspects as contextual factors;
• Inclusive recommender systems;
• Cultural and social influence in online learning platforms (e.g., MOOC);
• Methods for automatic assessment of social and cultural background from social media;
• Strategies for adapting systems to groups of users with different backgrounds;
• Social-cultural integration and large language models;
• Cultural and social situation awareness;
• Cross-cultural analyses of trust in systems;
• Human-robot adaptation for cross-cultural users, including under-represented groups;
• Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI);
• Adaptation strategies for social HRI;
• Emotion, personality, and empathy detection in social HRI;
• Machine learning for social robots;
• Social robots as conversational recommender systems;
• Social robots in the real world;
• Social assistive robots (e.g., for elderly people or children with autism spectrum disorder);
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural and social inclusion;
• Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation for marginalized groups;
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