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************WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS**************

March 18, 2024

Co-located with the 29th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2024 (https://iui.acm.org/2024/) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18-21, 2024

******************Important Dates*******************

Authors notification: February 9, 2024

Camera-ready: March 1, 2024

Workshop date: March 18, 2024

*********************Overview**********************

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).

**********************Topics***********************

The main topics of the workshop are (but not limited to):

* 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;

********************Submissions********************

Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialize2024) by January 16, 2024. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Reviewers will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop’s topics.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop.

The papers accepted at IUI workshops 2024 will be published in common proceedings via CEUR-WS (please see https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3359/ for last year’s workshop proceedings).

- Regular papers need to be at least ten pages long (single column) to be published in CEUR-WS proceedings, and short papers need to have at least five pages (please see https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html for more details).

For further questions, please contact the workshop organizers at <[log in to unmask]>.

********************Organization********************

Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University

Cristina Gena, University of Torino

Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University

Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska