Important Dates

  • Submission of proposals: October 7, 2024, 23:59 pm AoE
  • Notification of acceptance: November 21, 2024
  • Workshop website URL due: December 16, 2024
  • Camera ready workshop description (for proceedings) due: January 12, 2025, 11:59 pm AoE
  • Tutorial and workshop day at the conference: March 3, 2025

We invite you to organize a workshop or tutorial for the 20th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025). HRI is a highly selective conference which aims to showcase the very best HRI research. It has interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary roots in robotics, social psychology, cognitive science, HCI, human factors, artificial intelligence, engineering, and many other disciplines.

Each year, the HRI conference highlights a particular theme. For HRI 2025, the theme is “Robots for a Sustainable World”. We encourage tutorial and workshop proposals to build upon this theme, whether by topic, structure, or ways to engage participants.

Organisers may propose for their HRI 2025 tutorial or workshop to be offered fully in-person, or in a hybrid (in-person/remote) fashion.  Organisers must commit that at least one organiser will hence attend in person to facilitate the in-person activities.  Please note that no conference support will be available for hybrid workshops, organisers wishing to offer a hybrid workshop will be responsible for their own hybrid logistics.

Tutorials and workshops will be held in the 1-2 days before the main conference program sessions. Submission instructions for organizers follow below.

Workshops

Workshops are an opportunity for participants to meet other members of the HRI community, to discuss problems and to present their ideas around a common topic. The workshops can be half-day or full-day, and can cover any topic relevant to HRI research, design, methodologies, or education. Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome.

The responsibilities of workshop organizers include:

  • Setting up a website for the workshop that will be linked to the HRI 2025 website.
  • Publicizing the workshop and soliciting position papers from potential participants.
  • Selecting workshop participants based on the quality of their position papers, which outline the submitters’ views on the workshop topic and the reasons for submitters’ interest.
  • Running the in-person workshop at the conference.
  • Optionally, supporting remote participant attendance for a hybrid format (noting that no conference support will be available for this).
  • Optionally, compiling workshop proceedings and/or finding opportunities for formal publication of extended versions of position papers after the workshop.
  • Optionally, soliciting and coordinating the appearance of invited speakers at the workshop. ​​Organizers who plan on inviting speakers to their tutorial or workshop are encouraged to invite a diverse set of speakers.


Please submit the following information (up to 3 pages including references):

  • Title of workshop.
  • Organizer(s), including contact information and short CVs.
  • Overview of the workshop including schedule, format, and types of activities (e.g., whole-group discussions, break-out sessions, position paper presentations, etc.).
  • Target audience or prerequisites.
  • If feasible, the number of expected participants (e.g. if this is a recurring workshop, or builds on a previous event) and/or any limits in terms of maximum number of participants (e.g. for group activities).
  • Approach for recruiting participants.
  • Plan for documenting the workshop.
  • A 150 – 250 word abstract suitable for advertising the workshop in HRI 2025.

Tutorials

Tutorials are an opportunity for dissemination of community knowledge, where participants can get “up to speed” on important topics for the field. Example topics could be state-of-the-art overviews of particular HRI areas, hands-on programming activities with particular robot/software APIs, or design/research and data analysis methods. Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome.

The responsibilities of tutorial organizers include:

  • Setting up a website for the tutorial that will be linked to the HRI 2025 website.
  • Publicising the tutorial.
  • Running the in-person tutorial at the conference.
  • Optionally, supporting remote participant attendance for a hybrid format (noting that no conference support will be available for this).
  • Optionally, compiling tutorial proceedings after the workshop.


Please submit the following information (up to 3 pages including references):

  • Title of tutorial.
  • Motivation or background.
  • Overview of tutorial including topics covered and schedule.
  • Target audience or prerequisite.
  • Any limits in terms of maximum number of participants (e.g. for group activities).
  • Tutorial speaker(s), including biosketches/short CVs.
  • Links and references relevant to the tutorial.
  • A 150–250 word abstract suitable for advertising the tutorial at HRI 2025.

Submission Details

Workshop and tutorial proposals should be no longer than 3 pages.

Proposals must be submitted in PDF format and conform to IEEE Proceedings specifications. Templates are available at this link (US letter). In addition, the IEEE has partnered with Overleaf, where you can start writing using this link directly.

Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted via the PCS submission system (pending, will open early September). All submissions will undergo a review process by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs plus other experts.

Contacts

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs: Katie Winkle (Uppsala University), Dana Kulic (Monash University).

Email: workshop2025@humanrobotinteraction.org.