Enabling Designs Theme Information
To represent a broad set of perspectives in human-robot interaction research, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and theoretical, the 10th annual ACM/IEEE HRI Conference invites contributions on enabling designs for human-robot interaction. These contributions describe new robot designs, including new robot morphology, behaviors, or services.
Full paper submissions in this category must provide a detailed account of the process followed as well as resources and materials involved in the design of the robot, steps that the design team has taken to ensure good design choices, such as formative evaluations, design iterations, and heuristics carried out, and a clear demonstration of the promise of the new design in enabling human-robot interaction. Examples of contributions to enabling designs in past conferences and the Journal of HRI are included below.
Blind submissions are due on 3 October 2014. Accepted papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE xPlore. Full details of the submission types is provided on Authors Page. Submission authors are also encouraged read the Open Letter to the HRI Community that describes the changes in the peer-review process for HRI 2015.
Enabling Designs Subcommittee
- Chair: Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University
- Wendy Ju, Stanford University
- Sonya Kwak, Ewha Womans University
- Mark Neerincx, TNO & Delft University of Technology
Past Contributions on Enabling Designs
- Lee et al. The snackbot: documenting the design of a robot for long-term human-robot interaction. HRI 2009.
- Yohanan & MacLean. Design and Assessment of the Haptic Creature’s Affect Display. HRI 2011.
- Sabanovic et al. Designing Robots in the Wild: In situ Prototype Evaluation for a Break Management Robot. Journal of HRI, 2014.