Online Industry Talks Session
How is the robotics industry furthering the field of human-robot interaction?
Let’s learn more from ARM, Cambridge Consultants, Google, Honda Research Lab, MDPI Journal, MIT Press, the ID Lab and EXGwear.
Date and Time:
Fri, April 3, 2020
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
UPDATE: Video of the talk session can be seen on the Sponsors page.
Booklet
Full conference booklet (pdf).
Original Conference schedule
| Day 1 (workshop day): Monday 23 March (list of workshops) |
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| 8:00 | Registration |
| 9:00 | Workshops (morning session) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | Workshops (morning continued) |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Workshops (afternoon session) |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Workshops (afternoon continued) |
| 17:30 | End of Workshop day |
| 19:00 | Welcome reception at the Corn Exchange |
| Day 2: Tuesday 24 March | ||
| 8:00 | Registration | |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Opening Plenary | |
| 9:30 | Keynote: Ayanna Howard Are We Trusting AI Too Much? Examining Human-Robot Interactions in the Real World |
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| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Session
1: Trust |
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| Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategies | Suzanne Tolmeijer, Astrid Weiss, Marc Hanheide, Felix Lindner, Thomas M. Powers, Clare Dixon, Myrthe L. Tielman | |
| Why Should We Gender? The Effect of Robot Gendering and Occupational Stereotypes on Human Trust and Perceived Competency | De’Aira Bryant, Jason Borenstein, Ayanna Howard | |
| Examining Profiles for Robotic Risk Assessment: Does a Robot’s Approach to Risk Affect User Trust? | Tom Bridgwater, Manuel Giuliani, Anouk van Maris, Greg Baker, Alan Winfield, Tony Pipe | |
| Effects of Anthropomorphism and Accountability on Trust in Human Robot Interaction | Manisha Natarajan, Matthew Gombolay | |
| When Humans Aren’t Optimal: Robots that Collaborate with Risk-Aware Humans | Minae Kwon, Erdem Biyik, Aditi Talati, Karan Bhasin, Dylan P. Losey, Dorsa Sadigh | |
| Behavioural Responses to Robot Conversational Failures | Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Andre Pereira, Boran Sahindal, Sanne van Waveren, Joakim Gustafson | |
| 12:20 | Lunch | |
| 13:20 | Session
2: Robots in the Real World & Longitudinal HRI |
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| Working with a Social Robot in School: A Long-Term Real-World Unsupervised Deployment | Daniel P. Davison, Frances M. Wijnen, Vicky Charisi, Jan van der Meij, Vanessa Evers, Dennis Reidsma | |
| The Persistence of First Impressions: The Effect of Repeated Interactions on the Perception of a Social Robot | Maike Paetzel, Giulia Perugia, Ginevra Castellano | |
| In Storage, Yet on Display: An Empirical Investigation of Robots’ Value as Social Signals | Matthew Beane | |
| Robots in the Danger Zone: Exploring Public Perception through Engagement | David A. Robb, Muneeb I. Ahmad, Carlo Tiseo, Simona Aracri, Alistair C. McConnell, Vincent Page, Christian Dondrup, Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, Hai-Nguyen Nguyen, Èric Pairet, Paola Ardón Ramírez, Tushar Semwal, Hazel M. Taylor, Lindsay J. Wilson, David Lane, Helen Hastie, Katrin Lohan | |
| 14:15 | Late Breaking Reports, Student Design Competition, Demonstrations, HRI Pioneers #1 | |
| 15:15 | Session
3: Reproducability and HRI |
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| A Three-Site Reproduction of the Joint Simon Effect with the NAO Robot | Megan Strait, Florian Lier, Jasmin Bernotat, Sven Wachsmuth, Friederike Eyssel, Robert Goldstone, Selma Šabanović | |
| CoWriting Kazakh: Learning a New Script with a Robot | Anara Sandygulova, Wafa Johal, Zhanel Zhexenova, Bolat Tleubayev, Aida Zhanatkyzy, Aizada Turarova, Zhansaule Telisheva, Anna CohenMiller, Thibault Asselborn, Pierre Dillenbourg | |
| JESSIE: Synthesizing Social Robot Behaviors for Personalized Neurorehabilitation and Beyond | Alyssa Kubota, Emma I. C. Peterson, Vaishali Rajendren, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Laurel D. Riek | |
| Effects of Different Interaction Contexts when Evaluating Gaze Models in HRI | André Pereira, Catharine Oertel, Leonor Fermoselle, Joe Mendelson, Joakim Gustafson | |
| On-Road and Online Studies to Investigate Beliefs and Behaviors of Netherlands, US and Mexico Pedestrians Encountering Hidden-Driver Vehicles | Jamy Li, Rebecca Currano, David Sirkin, David Goedicke, Hamish Tennent, Aaron Levine, Vanessa Evers, Wendy Ju | |
| 16:20 | Coffee break | |
| 16:50 | Session
4: Health and Wellness |
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| Social Robot for Rehabilitation: Expert Clinicians and Post-stroke Patients’ Evaluation following a Long-term Intervention | Ronit Feingold Polak, Shelly Levy Tzedek | |
| A Social Robot as Therapy Facilitator in Interventions to Deal with Dementia-related Behavioral Symptoms | Dagoberto Cruz-Sandoval, Arturo Morales-Tellez, Eduardo Benitez Sandoval, Jesus Favela | |
| Vestibular Feedback on a Virtual Reality Wheelchair Driving Simulator: A Pilot Study | Guillaume Vailland, Yoren Gaffary, Louise Devigne, Valérie Gouranton, Bruno Arnaldi, Marie Babel | |
| Is More Autonomy Always Better? Exploring Preferences of Users with Mobility Impairments in Robot-assisted Feeding | Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Ethan K. Gordon, Rosario Scalise, Anat Caspi, Maya Cakmak, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa | |
| Session
5: Prosocial and Antisocial Interaction |
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| An Escalating Model of Children’s Robot Abuse | Sachie Yamada, Takayuki Kanda, Kanako Tomita | |
| Defense Against the Dark Cars: Design Principles for Griefing of Autonomous Vehicles | Dylan Moore, Rebecca Currano, Michael Shanks, David Sirkin | |
| Prompting Prosocial Human Interventions in Response to Robot Mistreatment | Joe Connolly, Viola Mocz, Nicole Salomons, Joseph Valdez, Nathan Tsoi, Brian Scassellati, Marynel Vázquez | |
| 18:30 | End Day 1 | |
| Day 3: Wednesday 25 March | ||
| 8:00 | Registration | |
| 9:00 | Keynote: Stephanie Dinkins Community, Art and the Vernacular in Technological Ecosystems |
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| 10:00 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 | Session 1:
Robots and the
Performing Arts |
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| Comedians in Cafes Getting Data: Evaluating Timing and Adaptivity in Real-World Robot Comedy Performance | John Vilk, Naomi T. Fitter | |
| Designing Social Interactions with a Humorous Robot Photographer | Timothy Adamson, C. Burton Lyng-Olsen, Kendrick Umstattd, Marynel Vázquez | |
| Live Dance Performance Investigating the Feminine Cyborg Metaphor with a Motion-activated Wearable Robot | Kate Ladenheim, Reika McNish, Wali Rizvi, Amy LaViers | |
| Robot Role Design for Implementing Social Facilitation Theory in Musical Instruments Practicing | Heqiu Song, Zhiping Zhang, Emilia I. Barakova, Jaap Ham, Panos Markopoulos | |
| Session 2:
Morphology |
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| The Uncanny Valley Effect in Zoomorphic Robots: The U-Shaped Relation Between Animal-Likeness and Likeability | Diana Löffler, Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl | |
| Does Trait Loneliness Predict Rejection of Social Robots? The Role of Reduced Attributions of Unique Humanness (Exploring the Effect of Trait Loneliness on Anthropomorphism and Acceptance of Social Robot) | Sijia Li, Liying Xu, Feng Yu, Kaiping Peng | |
| What Should Robots Feel Like? Factors that Influence the Perception of Robot-Skin | Conor McGinn, Dylan Dooley | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | Session 3:
Groups and Teams |
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| Not Some Random Agent: Multi-person Interaction with a Personalizing Service Robot | Samantha Reig, Michal Luria, Janet Z. Wang, Danielle Oltman, Elizabeth Jeanne Carter, Aaron Steinfeld, Jodi Forlizzi, John Zimmerman | |
| Multi-Armed Bandits with Fairness Constraints for Distributing Resources to Human Teammates | Houston Claure, Yifang Chen, Jignesh Modi, Malte Jung, Stefanos Nikolaidis | |
| Strategies for the Inclusion of Human Members within Human-Robot Teams | Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Ling Liang Dong, Nicholas Chang, Brian Scassellati | |
| Planning with Partner Uncertainty Modeling for Efficient Information Revealing in Teamwork | Shih-Yun Lo, Elaine Schaertl Short, Andrea L. Thomaz | |
| Decision-Making for Bidirectional Communication in Sequential Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks | Vaibhav V. Unhelkar, Shen Li, Julie A. Shah | |
| Designing Social Cues for Collaborative Robots: The Role of Gaze and Breathing in Human-Robot Collaboration | Yunus Terzioglu, Bilge Mutlu, Erol Şahin | |
| 14:30 | Late Breaking Reports, Student Design Competition, Demonstrations, HRI Pioneers #2 | |
| 15:30 | Session 4:
Human Behavior
Analysis |
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| Autonomously Learning One-To-Many Social Interaction Logic from Human-Human Interaction Data | Amal Nanavati, Malcolm Doering, Dražen Brščić, Takayuki Kanda | |
| LESS is More: Rethinking Probabilistic Models of Human Behavior | Andreea Bobu, Dexter R. R. Scobee, Jaime F. Fisac, S. Shankar Sastry, Anca D. Dragan | |
| Plug-and-Play Gesture Control Using Muscle and Motion Sensors | Joseph DelPreto, Daniela Rus | |
| Do Humans Imitate Robots? An Investigation of Strategic Social Learning in Human-Robot Interaction | Debora Zanatto, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Jeremy Goslin, Serge Thill, Angelo Cangelosi | |
| 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 | Session 5:
Child-Robot
Interaction |
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| Varied Human-Like Gestures for Social Robots: Investigating the Effects on Children’s Engagement and Language Learning | Jan de Wit, Arold Brandse, Emiel Krahmer, Paul Vogt | |
| Using Self-Determination Theory in Social Robots to Increase Motivation in L2 Word Learning | Peggy van Minkelen, Carmen Gruson, Pleun van Hees, Mirle Willems, Jan de Wit, Rian Aarts, Jaap Denissen, Paul Vogt | |
| Creativity Encounters between Children and Robots | Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Matthew A. Cronin, Ana Paiva | |
| Impact of Interaction Context on the Student Affect-Learning Relationship in Child-Robot Interaction | Huili Chen, Hae Won Park, Xiajie Zhang, Cynthia Breazeal | |
| Patricc: A Platform for Triadic Interaction with Changeable Characters | Omer Gvirsman, Yaacov Koren, Tal Norman, Goren Gordon | |
| Design Patterns for an Interactive Storytelling Robot to Support Children’s Engagement and Agency | Mike E.U. Ligthart, Mark A. Neerincx, Koen V. Hindriks | |
| 18:20 | Videos |
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| Kinetic AR: Robotic Motion Planning and Programming using Augmented Reality Interfaces | Anna Fusté, Benjamin Reynolds, James Hobin, Valentin Heun, Andrea Braga | |
| YOLO – Your Own Living Object | Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Ana Paiva, Guy Hoffman | |
| Defense Against the Dark Cars: How People Grief Autonomous Vehicles | Dylan Moore, Rebecca Currano, Michael Shanks, David Sirkin | |
| Jon the Robot Goes Hollywood | John Vilk, Naomi T. Fitter | |
| Guiding Task through Route Description in the MuMMER Project | Phani-Teja Singamaneni, Amandine Mayima, Guillaume Sarthou, Yoan Sallami, Guilhem Buisan, Kathleen Belhassein, Jules Waldhart, Aurélie Clodic | |
| SONŌ | Mads Bering Christiansen, Jonas Jørgensen | |
| Learning Traffic Rules with a Social Robot in Pakistan | Muneeb Imtiaz Ahmad, Maira Abid, Muhammad Shahrukh, Yashfa Iftikhar, Tayyaba Zainab, Syeda Maria Hussain, Suleman Shahid | |
| Semi-Ethnographic Study on Human Responses to a Help-Seeker Robot | Abrar Fallatah, Bohkyung Chun, Sogol Balali, Heather Knight | |
| CoWriting Kazakh: Learning a New Script with a Robot – Video | Zhanel Zhexenova, Bolat Tleubayev, Aida Zhanatkyzy, Aizada Turarova, Zhansaule Telisheva, Thibault Asselborn, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, Anara Sandygulova | |
| 19:30 | Banquet | |
| Day 4: Thursday 26 March | |||||
| 8:00 | Registration | ||||
| 9:00 | Keynote: Lola Cañamero Embodied Affect for Real-World Human-Robot Interaction |
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| 10:00 | Coffee break | ||||
| Track 1: Corn Exchange | Track 2: Guildhall | ||||
| 10:30 | Session 1: Affect |
Session: Industry Talks |
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| “Are You Sad, Cozmo?” How Humans Make Sense of a Home Robot’s Emotion Displays | Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Mathias Broth, Leelo Keevallik | ARM, Cambridge Consultants, EXGwear, Furhat Robotics | |||
| Teachers’ Disappointment: Theoretical Perspective on the Inclusion of Ambivalent Emotions in Human-Robot Interactions in Education | Anna Dobrosovestnova, Glenda Hannibal | ||||
| MoveAE: Modifying Affective Robot Movements Using Classifying Variational Autoencoders | Michael Suguitan , Randy Gomez , Guy Hoffman | ||||
| Using the Geneva Emotion Wheel to Measure Perceived Affect in Human-Robot Interaction | Adam K. Coyne, Andrew Murtagh, Conor McGinn | ||||
| Session 2: Telepresence |
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| Closeness is Key over Long Distances: Effects of Interpersonal Closeness on Telepresence Experience | Naomi T. Fitter, Luke Rush, Elizabeth Cha, Thomas Groechel, Maja J. Matarić, Leila Takayama | ||||
| Supporting Perception of Weight through Motion-induced Sensory Conflicts in Robot Teleoperation | Pragathi Praveena, Daniel Rakita, Bilge Mutlu, Michael Gleicher | ||||
| Effects of Onset Latency and Robot Speed Delays on Mimicry-Control Teleoperation | Daniel Rakita, Bilge Mutlu, Michael Gleicher | ||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:00 | Session 3: Social Norms |
Session: Industry Talks |
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| Human Perceptions of a Curious Robot that Performs Off-Task Actions | Nick Walker, Kevin Weatherwax, Julian Allchin, Leila Takayama, Maya Cakmak | Halodi Robotics, Semio, Toyota Research Institute, RFN Technology Corporation | |||
| Would You Mind Me if I Pass by You? Socially-Appropriate Behaviour for an Omni-based Social Robot in Narrow Environment | Emmanuel Senft, Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda | ||||
| Interacting with a Social Robot Affects Visual Perception of Space | Carlo Mazzola, Alexander Mois Aroyo, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti | ||||
| Exploring the Role of Gender in Perceptions of Robotic Noncompliance | Ryan Blake Jackson, Tom Williams, Nicole Smith | ||||
| Intonation in Robot Speech: Does it work the same as with people? | Ella Velner, Paul P.G. Boersma, Maartje M.A. de Graaf | ||||
| Can a Robot Handle Customers with Unreasonable Complaints? | Daichi Morimoto, Jani Even, Takayuki Kanda | ||||
| 14:30 | Break | HRI Pioneers #3 | |||
| 15:00 | Session 4: Perceiving Robots |
Session: alt.HRI |
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| Death of a Robot: Social Media Reactions and Language Usage when a Robot Stops Operating | Elizabeth J. Carter, Samantha Reig, Xiang Zhi Tan, Gierad Laput, Stephanie Rosenthal, Aaron Steinfeld | Arts + Health: New Approaches to Arts and Robots in Health Care | Damith Herath, Jennifer McFarlane, Elizabeth Ann Jochum, Janie Busby, Patrick Tresset | ||
| What’s in a Name?: Effects of Category Labels on the Consumers’ Acceptance of Robotic Products | Jun San Kim, Sonya S. Kwak, Dahyun Kang, JongSuk Choi | Robonomics: The Study of Robot-Human Peer-to-Peer Financial Transactions and Agreements | Irvin Steve Cardenas, Jong-Hoon Kim | ||
| A Robot by Any Other Frame: Framing and Behaviour Influence Mind Perception in Virtual but not Real-World Environments | Sebastian Wallkötter, Rebecca Stower, Arvid Kappas, Ginevra Castellano | Dog Sit! Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) Follow a Robot’s Sit Commands | Meiying Qin, Yiyun Huang, Ellen Stumph, Laurie Santos, Brian Scassellati | ||
| Effects of a Social Robot’s Self-Explanations on How Humans Understand and Evaluate Its Behavior | Sonja Stange, Stefan Kopp | The Confucian Matador: Three Defenses Against the Mechanical Bull | Tom Williams, Qin Zhu, Ruchen Wen, Ewart J. de Visser | ||
| 16:00 | Coffee break | ||||
| 16:30 | Session 5: Learning and Inference |
Session: alt.HRI |
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| Interactive Tuning of Robot Program Parameters via Expected Divergence Maximization | Mattia Racca, Ville Kyrki, Maya Cakmak | Adapting to a Robot: Adapting Gardening and the Garden to fit a Robot Lawn Mower | Guri B. Verne | ||
| See What I See: Enabling User-Centric Robotic Assistance Using First-Person Demonstrations | Yeping Wang, Gopika Ajaykumar, Chien-Ming Huang | Four Years in Review: Statistical Practices of Likert Scales in Human-Robot Interaction Studies | Mariah L. Schrum, Michael Johnson, Muyleng Ghuy, Matthew C. Gombolay | ||
| Teaching a Robot Tasks of Arbitrary Complexity via Human Feedback | Guan Wang, Carl Trimbach, Jun Ki Lee, Mark K. Ho, Michael L. Littman | Avatar Work: Telework for Disabled People Unable to Go Outside by Using Avatar Robots “OriHime-D” and Its Verification | Kazuaki Takeuchi, Yoichi Yamazaki, Kentaro Yoshifuji | ||
| Joint Goal and Strategy Inference across Heterogeneous Demonstrators via Reward Network Distillation | Letian Chen, Rohan Paleja, Muyleng Ghuy, Matthew Gombolay | Would You Turn Off a Robot because It Confronts You with your Own Mortality? | Nicolas Spatola | ||
| 17:30 | Awards | ||||
| 18:00 | End Conference |
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The information for presenters can be found here.