Apologies for the cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Call For Papers The 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-55) Hyatt Regency Maui, Hawaii, January 4-7, 2022 ========================================================================== Social Robots - Robotics and Toy Computing Minitrack Decision Analytics and Service Science Track URL: http://www.hicss.org/ The pervasive nature of digital technologies as witnessed in the industry, services, and everyday life has given rise to an emergent, data-focused economy stemming from many aspects of human individuals and the Internet of Things (IoT). These data’s richness and vastness are creating unprecedented research opportunities in many fields, including urban studies, geography, economics, finance, entertainment, social science, physics, biology and genetics, public health, and many other smart devices. As businesses build out emerging hardware and software infrastructure, it becomes increasingly important to anticipate technical and practical challenges and to identify best practices learned through experience in this research area. A social (companion) robot, such as SoftBank Robotics’ Pepper and ASUS’ Zenbo, consists of a physical humanoid robot component that connects through a network infrastructure to online services that enhance traditional robot functionality. Humanoid robots usually behave like natural social interaction partners for human users, with features such as speech, gestures, and eye-gaze, referring to the users’ data and social background. The usage behavior of users of anthropomorphic robots indicates that users are more open to robots. Some prior research shows that it is much easier for an embodied humanoid robot to trust users to release their personal information than a disembodied interactive kiosk. Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is a research area of understanding, designing, and evaluating robots for use by or with humans from the social-technical perspectives. Recently AI technologies have been applied to robotic and toy computing. Robotic computing is one branch of AI technologies, and their synergistic interactions enable by robots. Social robots now can easily capture a user’s physical activity state (e.g., walking, standing, running, etc.) and store personalized information (e.g., face, voice, location, activity pattern, etc.) through the camera, microphone, and sensors by AI technologies. Toy computing is a recently developing concept that transcends the traditional toy into a new computer research area using AI technologies. A toy in this context can be effectively considered a computing device or peripheral called Smart Toys. We invite research and industry papers related to these specific challenges and others driving innovation in robotics and toy computing for social robots. Based on the past five years of this mini-track in HICSS-50, HICSS-51, HICSS-52, HICSS-53, and HICSS- 54, the sixth year’s goal is to present both novel and industrial solutions to challenging technical issues as well as compelling use cases. This mini-track will share related practical experiences to benefit the reader and provide clear proof that robotic and toy computing technologies play an ever-increasing important and critical role in supporting social robots - a new cross-discipline research topic in social science, computer science, decision science, and information systems. With a general focus on social robots and their related robotics and toy computing, this mini-track covers related topics such as, not limited to: - Social Technical Issues - Human Behavior Study - Human-Robot Interaction - Business Models - Conceptual and Technical Architecture - Visualization Technologies - Modeling and Implementation - Security, Privacy, and Trust - Industry Standards and Solution Stacks - Provenance Tracking Frameworks and Tools - Case Studies (e.g., smart toys, healthcare, financial, aviation, etc.) Extended versions of accepted papers will be invited for submission by a Journal Special Issue. June 15, 2021 | 11:59 pm HST: Paper Submission Deadline Minitrack Co-Chairs: Patrick C. K. Hung Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Ontario Tech University, Canada E-mail: patrick.hung@uoit.ca Shih-Chia Huang Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan Sarajane Marques Peres School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil ######################### Related Event in HICSS-55 ######################### Social Robots and Smart Toys Symposia ======================================== Symposium, Workshop, and Tutorial (SWT) Theme: Software Development Approach Symposia Co-Chairs: Patrick C. K. Hung Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Ontario Tech University, Canada Marcelo Fantinato School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Farkhund Iqbal College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, UAE Jean-Henry Morin Institute of Information Service Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland