Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments.- Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities.- Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life.- Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots.- Personal robots for the home.- Social acceptance and impact in the society.- Robot ethics in human society and legal implications.- Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding.- Control architectures for social robotics.- Socially appealing design methodologies.- Safety in robots working in human spaces.- Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots.- Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming.- Knowledge representation and reasoning frameworks for robot social intelligence.- Cognitive architectures that support social intelligence for robots.- Robots in the workplace.- Human-robot interaction.- creative and entertaining robots.