Social Robotics [electronic resource] : 6th International Conference, ICSR 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings / edited by Michael Beetz, Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams.

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.                                                                                                                              .