4th International congress on Love and Sex with Robots (LSR2019)

Call for papers

Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, the past few years have witnessed a strong upsurge of interest in the more personal aspects of human relationships with these artificial partners. This upsurge has not only been apparent amongst the general public, as evidenced by an increase in coverage in the print media, TV documentaries and feature films, but also within the academic community.

The International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots provides an excellent opportunity for academics, artists, and industry professionals to present and discuss their innovative work and ideas in an academic symposium.

The 4th congress will be held at the l'Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium in the 1st and 2nd of July 2019.

We welcome submission for full papers and abstracts for individual presentations, panels, and workshops on topics but not limited to:

• Robot Emotions
• Humanoid Robots
• Clone Robots
• Entertainment Robots
• Robot Personalities
• Teledildonics
• Intelligent Electronic Sex Hardware
• Gender Approaches
• Affective Approaches
• Psychological Approaches
• Sociological Approaches
• Roboethics
• Philosophical Approaches

Submission of full papers:

Full papers should be 7+ pages (excluding references). Paper length must match the size of the contribution.

Full papers will be subjected to a double-blind peer review by a panel of domain experts. Each paper will be reviewed by a minimum of 3 qualified, independent reviewers. Full papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference with the proviso that at least one author attends the symposium in order to present the paper and participate in general congress activities. 

All submissions must use the Springer LNCS Proceedings format. Latex and Microsoft Word templates are available for download at this link:
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Submissions must be made via the CMT online submission system at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/LSR2019. Submissions sent by email or any other methods will not be considered. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Any supplementary materials can be submitted in either PDF format or in a ZIP file.

Submission of abstracts:

Abstracts for individual presentations should not exceed 500 words and they should include up to three keywords.

Abstracts for panel proposals and workshops should include 3 abstracts for individual presentation (see above) and a general description which should not exceed 200 words.

Abstracts will be subjected to a double-blind peer review by a panel of domain experts. Each abstract will be reviewed by a minimum of 3 qualified, independent reviewers.

Submissions must be made via the CMT online submission system at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/LSR2019. Submissions sent by email or any other methods will not be considered. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Any supplementary materials can be submitted in either PDF format or in a ZIP file.

Anonymity

In order to facilitate the double-blind reviewing process, all submissions are required to be anonymous. Authors should take the following steps when preparing your submission:

1. Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
2. Remove acknowledgment of identifying names and funding sources.
3. Cite your past work (if any) in the third person just as you would for any other citations.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 1st of May 2019, 23:59 (GMT)

Notification: 30st of May 2019

Final Version for the full papers: 30th of June 2019, 23:59 (GMT)

Past Proceedings

LSR 2017: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-76369-9

LSR 2015 – 2016: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319577371

LSR 2014: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2693787