This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social
Robotics ICSR 2014 held in Sydney NSW Australia in October 2014. The 41 revised full
papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions.
Amongst others topics covered are such as 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.
