Important Deadlines May 31, 2004: Electronic submission of full papers. July 10, 2004: Notification of acceptance. August 1, 2004: Electronic submission of final camera-ready papers. If you are the author of RO-MAN 2004, please see instructions at the paper submission section. August 5, 2004: Deadline of early conference registration. Please complete the registratiron form and fax it to RO-MAN2004 registration office before august 5. Registration Form Registration Form (for Japanese) September 10, 2004: Deadline of conference registration and hotel reservation. Please complete the hotel reservation form and fax it to KURASHIKI IVY SQUARE. Hotel Reservation Form On-site registration is available, however, you can't use credit card. So, in this case, please pay in cash (JPY). Program PDF: IEEE RO-MAN 2004 Program September 20: 13:30- JST CREST Symposium / RO-MAN Plenary Talks E-COSMIC: Embodied Communication System for Mind Connection Prof. Tomio Watanabe Department of Systems Engineering, Okayama Prefectural University CREST of JST, Japan Artificial Emotion of Face Robot through Learning in Communicative Interactions with Human Prof. Fumio Hara Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Japan Robots We Like to Live With?! - A Developmental Perspective on a Personalized, Life-Long Robot Companion Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK Robotic Body-Mind Integration: Next Grand Challenge in Robotics Prof. Kazuhiko Kawamura Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Director, Center for Intelligent Systems, Vanderbilt University, USA 18:00- Welcome party. September 21: 9:00-18:00 Regular and organized sessions. 18:30- Banquet. September 22: 9:00-17:00 Regular and organized sessions. 17:10- Farewell. Web Cast All RO-MAN 2004 sessions will be web　casted over the Internet. Those who cannot travel to the conference venue in Japan are invited to visit RO-MAN 2004 conference rooms virtually at: http://www.huric.org/ro-man2004/ Multiple servers are located in Japan, U.S. and France. The system will be configured by the time of opening session to direct you to the nearest server among them. You can make comments and/or questions through the web page. Enjoy the distance real time interaction! The system has been developed by Hosei University Research Institute, California (HURIC) and Hosei University IT Research Center (HITEC).