Here’s the final list of the workshops and tutorial that will take place at HRI 2025.
Schedule
Tutorials
Full day
Starting your Multimodal HRI Study Journey
Website: sites.google.com/monash.edu/multimodal-hri-study-tutorial
Organizers: Kavindie Katuwandeniya, Hashini Senaratne, Yanran Jiang, Brandon Matthews, Leimin Tian, Dana Kulic
This tutorial aims to equip researchers with the knowledge and skills to leverage multimodal data in human-robot interaction (HRI) studies. It covers the HRI study cycle, from sensor selection to data analysis, introducing commonly used sensors, pre-processing data, feature extraction techniques, fusion techniques and analysis techniques: both frequentist and Bayesian.
Human-Robot Experience (HRX) Theatre—An Interdisciplinary Methodology For Reimagining Human-Robot Relationships Through Movement
Website: hrx-hri25.machinemovementlab.net
Organizers: Petra Gemeinboeck, Rob Saunders, Audrey Rochette, Steph Hutchison, Kristina Mah
The Human-Robot Experience (HRX) Theatre tutorial introduces a participatory methodology for reimagining our relationships with robots through movement-based, experience-centered exploration. Participants will explore how we bodily resonate and make meaning with non-anthropomorphic machines using our Relational Body Mapping (RBM) method, employing robot costumes to facilitate embodied perspective-taking
Half day
Socio-Technical Qualitative Research in Human Robot Interaction
Website: rashina.com/hritutorial
Organizer: Rashina Hoda
This tutorial will introduce sociotechnical grounded theory (STGT), a modern version of the social science grounded theory methods, customised to study sociotechnical domains such as HRI, where human and interaction aspects are closely intertwined with the technical aspects.
Hands-on: from Zero to an Interactive Social Robot using ROS4HRI and LLMs
Website: ros4hri.github.io/ros4hri-tutorials/interactive-social-robots
Organizers: Séverin Lemaignan, Lorenzo Ferrini, Ferran Gebelli, Raquel Ros, Luka Juričíč, Sara Cooper
This tutorial aims at providing an up-to-date picture of the state-of-art regarding using the Robot Operating System (ROS) to build robots with socio-cognitive capabilities.
A tutorial for finding and evaluating HRI scales
Website: hri.lab.gmu.edu/hri-2025-workshop
Organizers: Laura Saad, Eileen Roesler, Elizabeth K. Phillips, J. Gregory Trafton
We provide a half-day tutorial (4 hours) that aims to empower researchers with the tools to find appropriate scales for their research and assess the quality of tthose scales confidently and efficiently.
Workshops
Full day
Human-Robot Interaction in Extreme and Challenging Environments
Website: sites.google.com/monash.edu/exactinghri
Organizers: Leimin Tian, Pamela Carreno-Medrano, Manuel Giuliani, Nick Hawes, Raunak Bhattacharyya, Dana Kulić
The first workshop on human-robot interaction in extreme and challenging environments (exacting HRI) focuses on the forefront of HRI research in applications where robots are working with diverse users in uncertain, unknown, or risky environments to deliver reliable outcomes in repeated sessions.
Privacy-Sensitive Robotics: Perceptions, Measures, and Metrics
Website: TBA
Organizers: Bill Smart
This workshop is the the third in a series at HRI, and will bring together researchers from a wide variety of intellectual communities to look at these questions, identify promising research directions, and set an agenda for how to start making progress. We are particularly interested in expanding the core of researchers interested in privacy-related issues in HRI, and in those “privacy-curious” researchers who want to find out more about he intersection of privacy and their own research.
Enhancing Independence with Physical Caregiving Robots
Website: caregivingrobots.github.io
Organizers: Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Akhil Padmanabha, Amal Nanavati, Maya Cakmak, Zackory Erickson, Tapo Bhattacharjee
This workshop focuses on bringing together researchers, end-users, caregivers, and healthcare professionals to discuss existing research on physical caregiving robots, identify gaps, foster collaborations, and chart future research directions.
Second International Workshop on Worker-Robot Relations – Transdisciplinary Conversations with Workers about Sustainable Futures of Work
Website: sites.google.com/view/2nd-wrr-workshop/home
Organizers: Micah Prendergast, Deborah Forster, Maria Luce Lupetti, Alessandro Ianniello, Eva Verhoef, Cristina Zaga, Dave Murray-Rust, Frank Vetere, Marco Rozendaal, David Abbink
This full-day workshop is dedicated to mapping and building a community towards shaping sustainable futures of robot-assisted work, with and for workers.
Sustainability-4-HRI, HRI-4-Sustainability
Website: sites.google.com/view/hri-4-sustainability
Organizers: Ilaria Torre, Sarah Schömbs, Katie Winkle, Sara Ljungblad, Erik Lagerstedt, Maria Teresa Parreira, Hannah Pelikan
This workshop will explore the relationship between HRI and sustainable development and stimulate discussion on how we can make our own research practices more sustainable.
Half day
HRI 2025 Funding Community Session
When: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (9:00 am – 12:00 pm)
Where: Courtyard 2
Website: humanrobotinteraction.org/2025/funding-community-session
Organizers: Cindy Bethel
The Funding Community Session will focus on Human-Robot Interaction and how it fits into different funding programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) International Group. There will be presentations about funding programs and opportunities to interact with Program Directors Cindy Bethel from NSF and Dr. Geoff Andersen from AFOSR.
3rd Workshop on Explainability in Human-Robot Collaboration: Real-World Concerns
Website: sites.google.com/view/x-hri
Organizers: Elmira Yadollahi, Fethiye Irmak Doğan, Marta Romeo, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Peizhu “Pam” Qian, Yan Zhang
The 3rd Workshop on Explainability in Human-Robot Collaboration aims to address the real-world concerns associated with developing explainable and transparent robots through a focused, multi-faceted panel discussion and a series of paper presentations.
Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI): Overcoming Inequalities with Adaptation
Website: leap-hri.github.io
Organizers: Bahar Irfan, Nikhil Churamani, Michelle Zhao, Ali Ayub, Silvia Rossi
With this year’s theme of “Overcoming Inequalities with Adaptation”, in line with the overall theme of the conference “Robots for a Sustainable World”, the fifth edition of the “Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI)” Workshop aims to bring together insights across diverse disciplines, exploring how continually evolving robots can effectively operate in diverse environments, promoting reater equity, inclusivity, and empowerment for individuals and communities.
The Road to Reliable Robots: Interpretable, Accessible, and Reproducible HRI Research
Website: reliable-hri.github.io
Organizers: Megan Zimmerman, Ann Virts, Shelly Bagchi, Snehesh Shrestha, Dr. Patrick Holthaus, Dr. Emmanuel Senft, Dr. Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Dr. Jeremy A. Marvel
This workshop will address issues regarding 1) data collection and reporting for replicability and system validation, 2) test design and execution for performance verification, and 3) cross-modality artifact design for real-world application-adjacent technology transfer.
4th Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in HRI Workshop
Website: sites.google.com/view/dei-hri/home
Organizers: Sindhu Ravindranath, Ana Tanevska, Shruti Chandra, Raj Korpan, Amy Eguchi
Building upon its last few iterations, this year’s workshop will actively involve participants in tackling human biases which can be transferred to the robots, aiming to mitigate inequity, recognize and minimize prejudice, and promote inclusion within the field of HRI.
Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction Workshop (VAM-HRI)
Website: vam-hri.github.io
Organizers: Selen Turkay, Maciej Wozniak, Gregory LeMasurier, Glenda Caldwell, Jasper Vermeulen, Alan Burden
The 8th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI) seeks to bring together researchers from human-robot interaction (HRI) and human-robot collaboration (HRC), robotics, and mixed reality (MR) to address the challenges related to MR interactions between humans, robots, and agents.
Cultural Robotics: Diversified Sustainable Practices
Website: culturebots.org
Organizers: Dr. Belinda J. Dunstan, Dr. Jeffrey TKV Koh, Dr. Hooman Samani, Dr. Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira
The workshop will feature expert presentations, interactive discussions, and hands-on activities that reflect emerging practices in sustainable and culturally informed robotics.
Workshop YOUR Study Design 2025! Participatory Critique and Refinement of Participants’ Studies
Website: sites.google.com/view/wysd-2025
Organizers: Mayumi Mohan, Joana Brito, Anouk Neerincx, Demiana Barsoum, Isabel Neto
Building on the success of the previous years, the fourth edition of the “Workshop Your Study Design” addresses this challenge by pairing early-stage researchers with experienced mentors to refine their study designs and offering mentor-led talks on key HRI topics.
Dungeons, Neurons, and Dialogues 2 edition: Social Interaction Dynamics in Contextual Games (DnD-SIDC)
Website: dnd-sidc.github.io
Organizers: Pablo Barros, Nikhil Churamani, Laura Triglia, Matthias Kerzel
This engaging event will delve into the exciting intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI) and contextual games, exploring how embodied agents can enhance social dynamics within rich, narrative-driven environments.