Organized by the University of Milano-Bicocca, INDIRE, Università Politecnica delle Marche, and Bambini Bicocca srl, CRI25 will feature research contributions on child-robot interaction, with a focus on methodologies, technologies, psycho-pedagogical applications, and the ethical, philosophical, social, and cultural dimensions of this emerging field.
It will host peer-reviewed contributions, plenary talks by outstanding scholars in the field, teacher's training workshops and poster sessions.
English will be the conference's official language.
Keynote Speakers
Joffrey Becker holds a teaching chair at the École nationale supérieure de l’électronique et de ses applications (ENSEA) and conducts research with the Neurocybernetics Team at the ETIS Lab. He is also a research associate with the Anthropology of Life team at the Collège de France and a member of the Psyphine interdisciplinary research group. Becker has collaborated with research teams from both the public and private sectors, including CNRS, MIT, INRIA, Google, and Orange.
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Lorenzo Cesaretti holds a Ph.D. in Information Engineering. His expertise covers Robotics, Educational Robotics, and Educational Data Mining. He currently manages Weturtle, a web platform for teachers and is the co-founder and CTO of TALENT srl, an innovative Italian start-up specializing in educational technologies. He collaborates with UNIPVM and the University of Camerino. In 2018, he was ranked first among Educational Robotics experts by INDIRE.
Topics
We encourage submissions of regular papers, teacher training workshops, and posters from all disciplines, including (but not limited to) psychology, philosophy, sociology, engineering, education, anthropology, arts and architecture. Some possible relevant topics are the following:
- Robotics in Education and Learning: Early childhood education, school learning, language learning, computational thinking, cognitive development, theory of mind, inclusion, edutainment
- Teacher Education and Professional Development: Continuing Professional Development , Initial Teacher Education, educational environments
- Human-Robot Interaction and Cognition: anthropomorphism, affective robotics, robots for cognitive and physical therapy, artificial cognition, robots and AI, 4Es cognition, perception, theory of mind, human explanation and robotic behavior, attribution of mental states to robots
- Ethical, Philosophical, and Social Dimensions: Epistemological, cultural, anthropological perspectives, epistemology of child-robot interaction, ethical and social perspectives on the use on new technologies
- Technological and Methodological Innovations: Robotics technologies (AI, large language models), cyber-human-physical systems, educational environment modeling, and innovative learning spaces.
Contributions
The deadline for submitting extended abstracts, proposals for workshops and poster sessions is December 15th, 2024.
See call for papers, call for workshops and call for posters for further information.
After the conference speakers will be invited to submit a full paper to be included in a Special Issue, published by an international journal, on the topic of Child-Robot Interaction.
Registration
After acceptance, speakers will need to register to the Conference paying a registration fee.
See registration.
Organisers
Patronage
Sponsors
RobotiCSS Lab
The CRI25 Conference is promoted by the RobotiCSS Lab, Laboratory of Robotics for the Cognitive and Social Sciences. The RobotiCSS Lab carries out research on the role of robotics in cognitive and social sciences from a methodological and epistemological point of view. It is part of the Department of Human Sciences for Education of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
See more on the lab's website.
Contacts
e-mail: roboticss@unimib.it