Full Papers
Theory and Methods
- Best paper: “Gaze Behavior During a Long-Term, In-Home, Social Robot Intervention for Children with ASD“, Rebecca Ramnauth, Frederick Shic, Brian Scassellati.
- Honorable mention: “The Perceived Danger (PD) Scale: Development and Validation”, Jaclyn Molan, Laura Saad, Eileen Roesler, J. Malcolm McCurry, Nathaniel Gyory, J. Gregory Trafton.
Design
- Best paper: “Minding the Stop-Gap: Attending to the “Temporary,” Unplanned, and Added Labor of Human-Robot Collaboration in Context“, Hee Rin Lee, Sarah Fox, EunJeong Cheon, Samantha Shorey.
- Honorable mention: “Trauma-Informed Insights from Co-Design of Self-Disclosure Robots with Domestic Abuse Survivors“, Nyomi Carrine Morris, Tom Williams, Ben Jelen.
Technical
- Best paper: “ImageInThat: Manipulating Images to Convey User Instructions to Robots“, Karthik Mahadevan, Blaine Lewis, Jiannan Li, Bilge Mutlu, Anthony Tang, Tovi Grossman.
- Honorable mention: “LAMS: LLM-Driven Automatic Mode Switching for Assistive Teleoperation“, Yiran Tao, Jehan Yang, Dan Ding, Zackory Erickson.
- Honorable mention: “Contrastive Learning from Exploratory Actions: Leveraging Natural Interactions for Preference Elicitation“, Nathaniel Dennler, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja Matarić.
Systems
- Best paper: “Applying General Turn-taking Models to Conversational Human-Robot Interaction“, Gabriel Skantze, Bahar Irfan.
- Honorable mention: “Lessons Learned from Designing and Evaluating a Robot-assisted Feeding System for Out-of-lab Use“, Amal Nanavati, Ethan K. Gordon, TaYlor A. Kessler Faulkner, Yuxin Ray Song, Jonathan Ko, Tyler Schrenk.
- Honorable mention: “Soft and Compliant Contact-Rich Hair Manipulation and Care“, Uksang Yoo, Nathaniel Dennler, Eliot Xing, Maja Matarić, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Jeffrey Ichnowski.
User Studies
- Best paper: “Raising Stars: Influences of Robotic Peer Liking on Emergent Leadership“, Elior Carsenti, Adi Manor, Agam Oberlender, Avi Parush, Hadas Erel.
- Best paper: “More Than Automation: User Insights into the Functionality and Interface of Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arms“, Lesong Jia, Breelyn Kane Styler, Na Du.
- Honorable mention: “The Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention to Promote Correct Handwriting Posture for Children“, Chenyang Wang, Daniel Tozadore, Barbara Bruno, Pierre Dillenbourg.
- Honorable mention: “Exploring Interaction Concepts for the Manipulation of a Collaborative Robot: A Comparative Study“, Josefine Schreiter, Tonia Mielke, Marilena Georgiades, Maciej Pech, Christian Hansen, Florian Heinrich.
- Honorable mention: “Balancing User Control and Perceived Robot Social Agency through the Design of End-User Robot Programming Interfaces“, Alex Wuqi Zhang, Rafael Queiroz, Sarah Sebo.
- Honorable mention: ““See You Later, Alligator”: Impacts of Robot Small Talk on Task, Rapport, and Interaction Dynamics in Human-Robot Collaboration“, Kaitlynn Taylor Pineda, Ethan Brown, Chien-Ming Huang.
- Honorable mention: “Fitting Humor: Age-Based Personalization for Shaping Relatable Child-Robot Interactions“, Elena Malnatsky, Mike E.U. Ligthart.
- Honorable mention: ““A Robot’s Life is Over When People Give Up”: Socio-technical Infrastructure for Sustaining Consumer Robots“, Waki Kamino, Selma Šabanović, Malte F. Jung.
- Honorable mention: “Adaptive Affordance Design for Social Robots: Tailoring to Role-Specific Preferences“, Guanyu Huang, Roger K. Moore.
Short Contributions
- Best paper: “An Interaction Specification Language for Robot Application Development“, David Porfirio, Mark Roberts, Laura M. Hiatt.
- Honorable mention: “REFLEX Dataset: A Multimodal Dataset of Human Reactions to Robot Failures and Explanations“, Parag Khanna, Andreas Naoum, Elmira Yadollahi, Mårten Björkman, Christian Smith.
alt.HRI
- Best paper: “RoboCup Soccer Autonomy Uprising: How Crowds, Referees, and Humanoid Robots Are Redefining the Future of Human-Robot Interaction“, Filippo Sanfilippo, Timothy Wiley, Rebekah Rousi.
- Honorable mention: “Robots from Nowhere: A Case Study in Speculative Sociotechnical Design and Design Fiction for Human-Robot Interaction“, Katie Winkle.
Late Breaking Reports
- Best paper: “Redrawing Boundaries: Systemic Impacts of Rehabilitation Robots in Clinical Care Settings“, Amirhossein Asadi, Damith Herath, Grant Shaw, Glenda Caldwell, Elizabeth Williams.
- Honorable mention: “Security Robot Power and Acceptance: Exploring French and Raven’s Five Forms of Power“, Xin Ye, Lionel P. Robert.
- Honorable mention: “A Systematic Validation of the Robotic Social Attributes Scale (RoSAS)“, Pawinee Pithayarungsarit, Laura Saad, J. Gregory Trafton, Eileen Roesler.
- Honorable mention: “Interact at Own Risk! Developing a Prototype of a Robot Hazardous Capability Labeling System“, James M. Berzuk, James E. Young.
- Honorable mention: “Kneading-Motion-Based Tactile Feedback for Personalized Robotic Massage Using VR Avatars“, Naoya Harada, Michiteru Kitazaki, Ryosuke Tasaki.
Demonstrations
- Best paper: “What Would Jim Henson Do? Roleplaying Human-Robot Collaborations Through Puppeteering“, James L. Dwyer, Stine S. Johansen, Jared Donovan, Markus Rittenbruch, Rafael Gomez.
- Honorable mention: “Leveraging Social Robots to Promote Hand Hygiene: A Cross-Cultural and Socio-Economic Study of Children in Diverse School Settings“, Amol Deshmukh, Emily S. Cross, Mary Ellen Foster.
Videos
- “Envisioning Individualized Fashion Remanufacturing: Empowering Non-Experts through Visualization-Enhanced Human-Multi-Robot Interaction“, Emanuel Gollob, Amir Bastan, Johannes Braumann, Christiane Luible-Bär.
Student Design Competition
- Best paper: “Social Queue: Interactive Robots for Enhancing Public Waiting-in-Line Experience“, Yixiao Zhang, Jared Teiger, Sadie Martin.
- Honorable mention: “DozeBuddy: Drowsy Robotic Interaction for Drowsiness Contagion during Pre-Sleep Entertainment Time“, Qianxi Tan, Danqi Huang, Suiyi Lee, Lijuan Tam.
- Honorable mention: “Tooth Bot: A Robot for Enhancing Children’s Awareness of Cavity Prevention“, Jialu Ni, Yihui Cai, Cheng Xing, Zhuoheng Chen, Alicja Amrit Singh.
- People’s choice award: “Interactive Therapeutic Systems: A Gamified Approach to Physical Rehabilitation and Data Collection“, Chacharin Lertyosbordin, Maythus Tangprapa, Nuntipat Jiwasurat.
Full Papers Outstanding Reviewers
Anna M.H. Abrams, Bilge Mutlu, Gwangbin Kim, Sarah Sebo, Tuğçe Nur Pekçetin, Victor Nikhil Antony.