This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social
Robotics ICSR 2013 held in Bristol UK in October 2013. The 55 revised full papers and 13
abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions and are presented together
with one invited paper. The papers cover topics such as human-robot interaction child
development and care for the elderly as well as technical issues underlying social robotics:
visual attention and processing motor control and learning.
