Submissions

The 15th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE) is aimed at the presentation and discussion of the latest results and methods in the fields of research and development in Educational Robotics.

Topics:

Papers related, but not limited, to the following topics of interest are welcome:

Robotics in school and its curricula
International trends in educational robotics
Project-based learning and robotics
Didactic approaches in educational robotics
Exemplary robotics projects in classes
Web-based and remote robotics and simulation
Assessment and evaluation of robotics – enhanced class activities
Integration of robotics in school curricula
Evaluation criteria and tools for measuring the impact
Constructivism/constructionism and robotics
Methodologies for teaching robotics
Robotics contests and their educational impact
Robotics through edutainment, museums, personal robots and their educational value
Humanoid robots in education
Dextrous autonomous robots and humanoids
Cognition, natural and automated – cognitics
Robotics in engineering and vocational education
Robotics educational activities in pre-schools and out of school programs
Educational Robotics in developing countries
AI and HRI in Educational Robotics
New developments in Educational Robotics

Contributions:

Following types of contributions are accepted:

Regular papers (up to 12 pages)

The original research or review paper with new and previously unpublished results. The manuscript should not exceed 12 pages.

Short papers and Posters (up to 6 pages)

We welcome submissions of short papers reporting good practices or successful experiences from educational robotics projects in the form of "short paper plus poster". The short papers (6 pages + poster, if available) will be included in the proceedings;

Messages

We recognize the need for short messages about ongoing projects to help searching for partners, or the intermediate project reports which are necessary for your projects. Also, you may have some interesting findings you want to discuss with others. Although these papers are usually not qualified for publication in the proceedings, we decided to enable them to be presented either in oral or just a poster form.
This type of paper will be available just in electronic form within pre-proceedings and will be not published in the final printed version of proceedings.

Showcase (New to RiE)

Low floor, wide walls, high ceiling! Participate without any kind of review process and written contribution. Take a table, use a booth or just the floor and present your ideas, work or projects in our newly market of ideas. his type of paper will be available just in electronic form within pre-proceedings and will not be published in the final printed version of proceedings.

Information for Authors

Submissions thus must be original and should not have been published previously. The official language of the conference is English.

All accepted papers will be published by Springer as a special volume in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series. The volumes of this series are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services including SI Proceedings.

Submission Process

Submissions should follow the below offered templates and have to be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair system!

Review Process and Classification

At least two reviewers will evaluate the submitted contributions. Authors will be informed by e-mail about the acceptance results. Based on the reviewers' opinion, submissions could be recommended for another kind of accepted submission. If the paper is accepted, then corresponding authors have to log into their account to upload the camera-ready version of their paper and copyright form.

Proceedings

Proceedings will be made after the event, and reference will be given on the conference website (rie.science) and elsewhere. Meanwhile, the following reference can be quoted: 15th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE 2024), Koblenz, Germany, April 2024.

Because all submissions have to be written in accordance with the Springer paper requirements we recommend to use pre-made templates from the Springer Verlag for papers and short papers:

A template for Microsoft Word can be found here: Word template.
There is also a link for Overleaf platform template.
For more detailed instructions and more templates please also visit the Springer guideline on how to prepare your proceedings paper.

As a condition of publication all papers must be written in clear and grammatically correct English and should include: Title of the paper, abstract, keywords, author's name(s), affiliation, e-mail, preference for an oral presentation (regular, short paper and messages) or for a non-oral presentation as there are messages, posters (without a written contribution) or showcases. There is no specific template for presentations, posters and messages

Presence

Upon paper acceptance, regular and short papers will be published in the conference proceedings only if at least one of the authors is officially registered via conftool and attends the conference to present the paper. Authors are reminded that any paper accepted for presentation, which is not presented by one of the authors at the conference, will be excluded from the proceedings.

Presentations

Regular paper presentations take 15-20 minutes plus 5 minutes Q&A.
Short paper presentations take 7 minutes plus 3 minutes Q&A, while posters will be presented in addition at the conference during a poster session.
Messages take maximum 7 minutes plus 3 minutes Q&A. There is no specific template for the presentation.
Showcases do not need any template.