Thank you!

ACM/IEEE HRI2022 was successfully done with a record-breaking number of participants. Thank you very much for your participation and looking foward to see you at HRI2023 in Stockholm, Sweden!

ACM/IEEE HRI2022 Organizing Committee

Welcome

We are excited to welcome you to the 17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022)! This is the third time the HRI research community cannot meet in person because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The HRI Conference is the premium venue for publishing and presenting top-quality HRI research and the virtual format might even allow us to attract and include more people who would not have the opportunity to travel around the world.

The HRI2022 conference runs on a virtual conference platform, Hopin. If you have made registration and got an invitation email to Hopin. Please sign in from here. If you have not made registration yet, please go to the registration page first.

The HRI conference is a single-track conference, so Keynote, Full paper, Short contribution, Alt.HRI, Video, Student Design Competition, and Industrial session will be presented at the Main Stage on Hopin. Late-Breaking Reports (LBR), Pioneers’ poster presentations, and Alt.HRI interactive sessions are interactive presentations that will be happening in a Booth at the Expo. Social activities will be happening at various venues.

You can find the main conference program and schedule from here. The conference proceedings are available on ACM Digital Library.

Please come to the Help & Accessibility Desk if you need any assistance (Help & Accessibility Desk is open during the main conference from March 8).

More details about our conference program and Hopin, a virtual conference platform, are available on:

• HRI2022 Attendance Guide
• HRI2022 Presenters Guide

Please take a look at it and learn how to attend the conference.

Enjoy!

ACM/IEEE HRI2022 Organizing Committee

Conference format: full online

The HRI2022 organizing committee (OC) discussed the conference format and did polling for a decision on HRI2022’s format. As a result, we have decided that HRI2022 will be fully online, with no local conference happening in Sapporo, Japan.

Major reasons for the decision:

• Japanese domestic conferences and symposiums in March are going to be online.
• Immigration restrictions in Japan are extremely strict. Foreign nationals are denied entry to Japan right now. This situation will be getting better. However, some restrictions will remain (such as a 3-7 days quarantine period).
• These restrictions make it hard to book travel or plan in advance.

It is sad for all of us, but the OC now aims to put all their energy into making the HRI2022 conference a great virtual experience for everyone. We still have sufficient time for preparing the virtual conference and related social events for next March. We discussed many ideas of having local “meet-ups” for having a distributed HRI conference experience, and also already discussed concerns and legal limitations for local events. Please let us know any ideas from your side as well, including how we can create a memorable HRI2022 experience, even though we again cannot meet in person.

Best wishes,
HRI2022 General co-chairs
Daisuke Sakamoto and Astrid Weiss

About

ACM/IEEE HRI 2022

HRI 2022 is the 17th annual conference for basic and applied human-robot interaction research. Researchers from across the world present their best work to HRI to exchange ideas about the theory, technology, data, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in human-robot interaction.

The HRI conference is a highly selective annual international conference that aims to showcase the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in human-robot interaction with roots in and broad participation from communities that include but are not limited to robotics, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, human factors, design, and social and behavioral sciences.

Each year, the HRI Conference highlights a particular area through a theme. The theme of HRI 2022 is “Breaking Boundaries.”

HRI2022 Team

Organizers

Supportes and Sponsors