***As we have received several requests for extension, the RiE 2016 Organizing Committee has decided to extend the Paper Submission Deadline to 12^th March 2016.***

The main aim of the 7th International Conference on Robotics in Education – RiE 2016 is presentation and discussion of the latest results and methods in the fields of research and development in Educational Robotics. The conference will be held Thursday through Friday, April 14-15, 2016, in Vienna, Austria.

All accepted papers will be published by Springer as a special volume in the prestigious Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. The volumes of this series are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services including ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.

The Important Dates are:
Paper submission: 12.03.2016 
Authors notification: 22.03.2016
End of early registration: 29.03.2016
Final paper version: 10.04.2016
End of registration: 11.04.2016

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

• Robotics in school
• Robotics curricula
• International trends in educational robotics
• Project-based learning and robotics
• Didactic approaches in educational robotics
• Exemplary robotics projects in classes
• Web-based robotics and simulation
• Assessment and evaluation of robotics–enhanced class activities
• Integration of robotics in school science/informatics/technology curricula
• Integration of robotics in other subjects and school curricula
• Evaluation criteria and tools for measuring the impact of robotics on students’ learning
• Constructivism/constructionism and robotics
• Teacher training in educational robotics
• Methodologies for teaching robotics
• Robotics competitions/contests and their educational impact
• Robotics through edutainment, museums, personal robots and their educational value
• Web-based robotics, simulation, remote educational robotics
• Humanoid robots in education
• Dextrous autonomous robots and humanoids
• Cognition, natural and automated – cognitics

The RiE 2016 will be accompanied by the European Conference on Educational Robotics, a well established international scientific conference for high school students.

More details on the RiE 2016 and other accompanying events can be found on the website: www.rie2016.info.

We are looking forward to receiving your papers and to meeting you in Vienna in April 2016!

Sincerely yours,
 
Wilfried Lepuschitz, Richard Balogh, David Obdržálek
Conference Co-Chairs, RiE 2016

Gottfried Koppensteiner, Munir Merdan
Local Conference Organization