Organized by the University of Milan-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.
Main 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 conference 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, cognitive and physical therapy, artificial cognition, AI, 4Es cognition, perception, theory of mind.
- Ethical, Philosophical, and Social Dimensions: epistemological, ethical, social, cultural, anthropological perspectives
- Technological and Methodological Innovations: robotics technologies (AI, large language models), cyber-human-physical systems, educational environment modeling, innovative learning spaces
Contributions
The deadline for submitting extended abstracts, proposals for teacher's training workshops and poster sessions is December 15th, 2024.
See call for papers & call for posters and call for workshops for further information.
Following the conference, CRI25 speakers will be invited to submit full papers for publication in forthcoming special issues of international journals.
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