• 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
• 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