Best Paper: Theory & Methods

Integrating Flow Theory and Adaptive Robot Roles: A Conceptual Model of Dynamic Robot Role Adaptation for the Enhanced Flow Experience in Long-term Multi-person Human-Robot Interactions
Huili Chen, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park

 

Honorable Mention: Theory & Methods

A Taxonomy of Robot Autonomy for Human-Robot Interaction
Stephanie Kim, Jacy Reese Anthis, Sarah Sebo

Best Paper: Design

Sprout: Designing Expressivity for Robots Using Fiber-Embedded Actuator
Amy Koike, Michael Wehner, Bilge Mutlu

Honorable Mention: Design

The Cyber-Physical Control Room: A Mixed Reality Interface for Mobile Robot Teleoperation and Human-Robot Teaming
Michael Edward Walker, Maitrey Gramopadhye, Bryce Ikeda,
Jack Burns, Daniel Szafir

Towards Collaborative Crash Cart Robots that Support Clinical Teamwork
Angelique Taylor, Tauhid Tanjim, Huajie Cao, Hee Rin Lee

Best Paper: Technical Advances

Generative Expressive Robot Behaviors using Large Language Models Karthik Mahadevan, Jonathan Chien, Noah Brown, Zhuo Xu, Carolina Parada, Fei Xia, Andy Zeng, Leila Takayama, and Dorsa Sadigh

Honorable Mention: Technical Advances

Workspace Optimization Techniques to Improve Prediction of Human Motion During Human-Robot Collaboration
Yi-Shiuan Tung, Matthew B. Luebbers, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes

Autonomous Assessment of Demonstration Sufficiency via Bayesian Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Tu Trinh, Haoyu Chen, Daniel S. Brown

Best Paper: Systems

Independence in the Home: A Wearable Interface for a Person with Quadriplegia to Teleoperate a Mobile Manipulator
Akhil Padmanabha, Janavi Gupta, Chen Chen, Jehan Yang, Vy Nguyen, Douglas J Weber, Carmel Majidi, Zackory Erickson

Honorable Mention: Systems

Feel the Bite: Robot-Assisted Inside-Mouth Bite Transfer using Robust Mouth Perception and Physical Interaction-Aware Control
Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Daniel Stabile, Ziang Liu, Abrar Anwar, Katherine Dimitropoulou, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

CARMEN: A Cognitively Assistive Robot for Personalized Neurorehabilitation at Home
Anya Bouzida, Alyssa Kubota, Dagoberto Cruz-Sandoval, Elizabeth W. Twamley, Laurel D. Riek

Best Paper: Studies

Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets
Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Stuart Reeves, Marina N. Cantarutti

Constructing a Social Life with Robots: Shifting Away From Design Patterns Towards Interaction Ritual Chains
Waki Kamino, Malte F. Jung, Selma Sabanovic

Honorable Mention: Studies

Modelling Experts’ Sampling Strategy to Balance Multiple Objectives During Scientific Explorations
Shipeng Liu, Cristina G. Wilson, Zachary I. Lee, Feifei Qian

The Effects of Observing Robotic Ostracism on Children’s Prosociality and Basic Needs
Filipa Correia, Isabel Neto, Soraia F. Paulo, Patricia Piedade, Hadas Erel, Ana Paiva, Hugo Nicolau

“I’m Not Touching You. It’s the Robot!”: Inclusion Through A Touch-based Robot among Mixed-Visual Ability Children
Isabel Neto, Yuhan Hu, Filipa Correia, Filipa Rocha, João Nogueira, Katharina Buckmayer, Guy Hoffman, Hugo Nicolau, Ana Paiva

Effect of Social Robot’s Role and Behavior on Parent-Toddler Interaction
Omer Gvirsman, Goren Gordon

Best Late Breaking Report

 

MOE-Hair: Toward Soft and Compliant Contact-rich Hair Manipulation and Care
Uksang Yoo, Nathaniel Dennler, Maja Mataric, Stefanos Nikoladis, Jean Oh, Jeffrey Ichnowski

 

Honorable Mention

Drone Fail Me Now: How Drone Failures Affect Trust and Risk-Taking Decisions
Noah Rahimzadagan, Matti Vahs, Iolanda Leite, Rebecca Stower

 

Beyond Dyadic Interactions: Assessing Trust Networks in Multi-Human-Robot Teams
Aakash Yadav, Ranjana Mehta

 

Improving Human-Robot Team Transparency with
Eye-tracking based Situation Awareness Assessment
Favour Aderinto, Josh Bhagat Smith, Mark-Robin Giolando, Prakash Baskaran, Julie A. Adams

 

PriMA-Care: Privacy-Preserving Multi-modal Dataset
for Human Activity Recognition in Care Robots
Adel Baselizadeh, Md Zia Uddin, Weria Khaksar, Diana Saplacan Lindblom, Jim Torresen

 

Introducing Social Robots to Assess Frailty in Older Adults
Aniol Civit, Antonio Andriella, Cristian Barrue, Maite Antonio Rebollo, Concepción Boqué,
Guillem Alenyà

Best Alt. HRI

 

Spatial Robotic Experiences as a Ground for Future HRI Speculations
Dave Murray-Rust, Maria Luce Lupetti, Alessandro Ianniello, Matt Gorbet, Aadjan van der Helm, Liliane Filthaut, Adrian Chiu, Philip Beesley

Honorable Mention

A Case for Diverse Social Robot Identity Performance in Education
Lux Miranda, Ginevra Castellano, Katie Winkle

Best Video

 

Robots for Humanity: In-Home Deployment of Stretch RE2
Vinitha Ranganeni, Vy Nguyen, Henry Evans, Jane Evans, Julian Mehu, Samuel Olatunji, Wendy Rogers, Aaron Edsinger, Charlie Kemp, Maya Cakmak

Honorable Mention

Robots in autonomous buses: Who hosts when no human is there?
Agnes Johanna Axelsson, Bhavana Vaddadi, Cristian Bogdan, Gabriel Skantze

Best Demo

 

An Adaptable, Safe, and Portable Robot-Assisted Feeding System
Ethan Kroll Gordon, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Amal Nanavati, Ziang Liu, Haya Bolotski, Raida Karim, Daniel Stabile, Atharva Kashyap, Bernie Hao Zhu, Xilai Dai, Tyler Schrenk, Jonathan Ko, Taylor Kessler Faulkner, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Siddhartha Srinivasa

Honorable Mention

Shutter: A Low-Cost and Flexible Social Robot Platform for In-the-wild Deployments
Sydney Thompson, Austin Narcomey, Sasha Lew, Marynel Vazquez

Best Design

Emotibot: An Interactive Tool for Multi-Sensory Affect Communication
Jade Thompson, Kyler Smith, Kenna Baugus Henkel, Zachary Henkel and Cindy Bethel

Best Design Process

Development of a Socially Cognizant Robotic Campus Guide
Benjamin Greenberg, Daniel Saul Nakhimovich, Richard Magnotti, Hriday Purohit, Sanskar Shah, Aniket Satish Kulkarni, Uriel Gonzalez and Noah Carver

Best Short Contribution

Using 3D Mice to Control Robot Manipulators
Varad Dhat, Nick Walker, Maya Cakmak

Honorable Mention

Benchmark Movement Data Set for Trust Assessment in Human Robot Collaboration
Matthias Rehm, Kasper Hald, Ioannis Pontikis