PROGRAM
AWARDS
Please see below for more information about these awards and their recipients.
Best Full Paper Awards
Design
Children as Robot Designers
Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Ana Paiva, Guy Hoffman
User Studies
Robot Gaze Can Mediate Participation Imbalance in Groups with Different Skill Levels
Sarah Gillet, Ronald Cumbal, André Pereira, José Lopes, Olov Engwall, Iolanda Leite
Technical Advances
Explainable AI for Robot Failures: Generating Explanations that Improve User Assistance in Fault Recovery.
Devleena Das, Siddhartha Banerjee, Sonia Chernova
Theory and Methods
Challenges and Opportunities for Replication Science in HRI: A Case Study in Human-Robot Trust.
Daniel Ullman, Salomi Aladia, Bertram F. Malle
HRI Awards 2021
Demos
A Web-Based User Interface for HRI Studies on Multi-Robot Furniture Arrangement
Brett Stoddard, Abrar Fallatah, Heather Knight
Videos
Video to Assisted Human-Robot-Interaction for Industrial Assembly
Jan Schmitt, Philipp Kranz, Andreas Hillenbrand, Tobias Kaupp
Student Design Competition
Best Student Design Competition INTERACTION Award
Alice in Bookland: Robotic Furnishing Delivering Public Library Services Outside During the Pandemic
Jin Ryu, Jilly Jiaqi Cai, Elizabeth Vicarte
Best Student Design Competition CREATIVITY Award
Crunchy – a ‘pop’ular ‘corn’panion to making your movie experience ‘butter’ together
Waki Kamino, Zachary Kaufman, Arinah Karim, Swapna Joshi
Best Student Design Competition DESIGN Award
Human Pain Relief by Simultaneously Grasping and Being Grasped by an Inflatable Haptic Device
Youchan Yim
Best Student Design Competition IMPLEMENTATION Award
Cara: A Smart Plush Toy for Support During COVID-19
R. Agrawal, E. Kuo, A. S. Kholwadwala, M. Renteria, A. Colello
Social Events
https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/student-elevator-pitch-competition/
Graduate Student Elevator Pitch Winners:
1st Place – Rachael Burns
2nd Place – Taylor Kessler Faulkner
3rd Place – Sayantani Dutta
Undergraduate Student Elevator Pitch Winners:
1st Place – Mustafa Mohammed
2nd Place – Aman Dhadge
Most Creative Elevator Pitch:
Samantha Reig – Created a Sonnet for her presentation
BINGO Card Completion
Most Interactive Community Members
The following two attendees submitted their BINGO cards – completing their entire cards by participating in many different conference activities! GREAT JOB!
Ilaria Torre
Christine Chang
Late-breaking report
Developing a Data-Driven Categorical Taxonomy of Emotional Expressions in Real World Human Robot Interactions
Ghazal Saheb Jam, Jimin Rhim, Angelica Lim.