HRI 2017 Awards and Thank you

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HRI 2017 has seen the largest participation of any HRI conference to date and an exciting programme has been enjoyed by all. The organisation and steering committees want to thank the community for their continued engagement with HRI and the great time that was had in Vienna. And now, without further ado, this year’s AWARDS:

1 BEST VIDEO AWARD

As, due to technical problems during the award ceremony, this video has not been shown to all participants yet, the list of awards shall feature it first.

Robot’s Delight – A Lyrical Exposition on Learning by Imitation from Human-human Interaction (Page 408)

Dylan F. Glas (ATR)
Malcolm Doering (ATR)
Phoebe Liu (ATR)
Takayuki Kanda (ATR)
Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University)

2 Best regular Paper Awards

2.1. BEST PAPER AWARD DESIGN

Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education (Page 119)

Ayberk Özgür (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Séverin Lemaignan (EPFL & Plymouth University)
Wafa Johal (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Maria Beltran (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Manon Briod (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Léa Pereyre (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Francesco Mondada (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Pierre Dillenbourg (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

2.2. BEST PAPER AWARD HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION USER STUDIES

Two papers were awarded this year in this category.

Why Do They Refuse to Use My Robot?: Reasons for Non-Use Derived from a Long-Term Home Study (Page 224)

Maartje de Graaf (Brown University)
Somaya Ben Allouch (Saxion University of Applied Sciences)
Jan van Dijk (University of Twente)

Growing Growth Mindset with a Social Robot Peer (Page 137)

Hae Won Park (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Rinat Rosenberg-Kima (Tel Aviv University)
Maor Rosenberg (Tel Aviv University)
Goren Gordon (Tel Aviv University)
Cynthia Breazeal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2.3. BEST PAPER AWARD TECHNICAL ADVANCES IN HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION

Creating Prosodic Synchrony for a Robot Co-player in a Speech-controlled Game for Children (Page 91)

Najmeh Sadoughi (University of Texas at Dallas & Disney Research Pittsburgh)
André Pereira (Disney Research Pittsburgh)
Rishub Jain (Disney Research Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University)
Iolanda Leite (Disney Research Pittsburgh)
Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research Pittsburgh)

2.4. BEST PAPER AWARD THEORY AND METHODS IN HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION

The Robotic Social Attributes Scale (RoSAS): Development and Validation (Page 254)

Colleen M. Carpinella (Disney Research)
Alisa B. Wyman (Disney Research)
Michael A. Perez (Disney Research)
Steven J. Stroessner (Disney Research)

3 Student Design Competition

3.1. 1ST PRIZE STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION

Raven: A Street Robot to Address Homelessness (Page 397)

Haodan Tan (Indiana University)
Fuchang Yang (Indiana University)
Nava Teja Tummalapalli (Indiana University)
Chetan Bhatia (Indiana University)
Kaustubh Barde (Indiana University)

3.2. 2ND PRIZE STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION

The Interactive Drawing Book (Page 395)

Ji Young Min (Ewha Womans University)
Gyeong Sun Kim (Ewha Womans University)

3.3. DELEGATES’ CHOICE STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION

Snoozle – A Robotic Pillow that Helps You Go to Sleep: HRI 2017 Student Design Competition (Page 399)

Jered Vroon (University of Twente)
Cristina Zaga (University of Twente)
Daniel Davison (University of Twente)
Jan Kolkmeier (University of Twente)
Jeroen Linssen (University of Twente)

4 Service Awards

4.1. STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

PRESENTED TO MARKUS BAJONES FOR EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE CONTRIBUTION TO HRI 2017

4.2. COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

PRESENTED TO ASTRID WEISS FOR EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE CONTRIBUTION TO HRI 2017

5 BEST DEMONSTRATION AWARD

MiRo: An Animal-like Companion Robot with a Biomimetic Brain-based Control System (Page 50)

Tony J. Prescott (University of Sheffield)
Ben Mitchinson (Consequential Robotics)
Sebastian Conran (Consequential Robotics)

6 BEST LATE BREAKING REPORT AWARD

Playing the Mirror Game with a Robot: Who Takes the Lead, and What Movements are Most Liked? (Page 159)

Shir Kashi (Ben Gurion University)
Amit Loutati (Ben Gurion University)
Shelly Levy-Tzedek (Ben Gurion University)