Program at a Glance
Events on Monday March 16th will take place at the National Robotarium and Heriot-Watt University.
Events on Tuesday March 17th through Thursday March 19th at the Edinburgh International Conference Center
| Monday March 16 | Tuesday March 17 | Wednesday March 18 | Thursday March 19 | ||||||
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| 8:00 Registration | 8:00 Registration | 8:00 Registration | 8:00 Registration | ||||||
| 9:00 Workshops and Tutorials Industry Day HRI Pioneers | 8:30 Opening Ceremony | LBRs Short Contributions Industry Partners | 8:30 Session 5A: Trust & Safety 1 | Session 5B: Nonverbal Comm. 1 | LBRs Pioneers | 8:30 Session 9A: Care Robotics 1 | Session 9B: Robot Form & Aesthetic Design | LBRs Pioneers | |
| 9:00 Keynote Benjamin Rosman | 9:30 Short Break | 9:30 Short Break | |||||||
| 10:00 Sponsor Talks | 9:40 Keynote Yukie Nagai | 9:40 Session 10A: Care Robotics 2 | Session 10B: Foundational Concepts | ||||||
| 10:10 Coffee Break | |||||||||
| 11:00 Session 1A: Empowering Users | Session 1B: Situated HRI | 10:40 Sponsor Talks | 10:40 Coffee Break | ||||||
| 10:50 Coffee Break | |||||||||
| 11:50 Short Break | 11:40 Session 6A: Trust & Safety 2 | Session 6B: Nonverbal Comm. 2 | 11:40 Session 11A: Assisted Robotics | Session 11B: On Robot Deaths & Afterlives | |||||
| 12:00 Session 2A: Child-Robot Interaction 1 | Session 2B: Robot Perception 1 | ||||||||
| 12:40 Lunch Break | 12:40 Lunch Break | ||||||||
| 12:50 Lunch Break | |||||||||
| 14:00 Session 3A: Child-Robot Interaction 2 | Session 3B: Robot Perception 2 | LBRs Short Contributions Industry Partners | 13:50 Keynote Benjamin R. Cowan | LBRs Pioneers | 13:50 Keynote Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas | LBRs Pioneers | |||
| 14:50 Sponsor Talks | 14:50 Sponsor Talks | ||||||||
| 15:00 Coffee Break | 15:00 Coffee Break | 15:10 Coffee Break | |||||||
| 15:30 Session 4A: Transparency & Explainability | Session 4B: Bias & Rep. | ||||||||
| 15:50 Session 7A: Learning & Adaptation 1 | Session 7B: Ethics & Values 1 | 16:00 Session 12A: Mixed Autonomy | Session 12B: Robots in Society | ||||||
| 16:30 Public Engagement Session | 16:50 Short Break | 17:00 Short Break | |||||||
| 17:00 Session 8A: Learning & Adaptation 2 | Session 8B: Ethics & Values 2 | 17:10 Closing Ceremony | |||||||
| ~18:00 End | ~18:30 End | ~18:00 End | ~18:00 End | ||||||
| 19:00 Welcome Reception | 19:00 Banquet | 19:30 Farewell Ceilidh (Ticketed Event) | |||||||
Detailed Schedule
Full Papers
Tuesday, March 17
01A – Empowering Users
Tuesday, March 17 · 11:00
| Pluriversal Approach to Co-designing Delivery Robots with People with Disabilities |
| MotionBuddy: Exploring Tactile-Based Motion Learning with a Tabletop Humanoid Robot for Blind People |
| Designing Robots for Families: In-Situ Prototyping for Contextual Reminders on Family Routines |
| Exploring Labor Issues in Human-Robot Collaboration: Community-Based Research with Trade Unions in Manufacturing |
| Improvisational Participatory Storming: A Toolkit of Improvisational Design Methods for Human-Robot Interaction |
01B – Situated HRI
Tuesday, March 17 · 11:00
| POIROT: Investigating Direct Tangible vs. Digitally Mediated Interaction and Attitude Moderation in Multi-party Murder Mystery Games |
| Teaching the Teacher: Live Foundation Model and Augmented Reality Feedback for Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer |
| The RUSH Checklist: A Standardized Framework for Reporting User Studies in Human-Robot Interaction |
| PEHRCIVE: Platform for Evaluating Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction in Virtual Environments |
| Can VR Robots Stand in for the Real Thing? Comparing a Physical Cobot and Its Virtual Twin for User Perceptions, Experimental Effects, and Study Costs |
02A – Child-Robot Interaction 1
Tuesday, March 17 · 12:00
| Fictional vs. Factual Robot Tutor Dialogue Can Shape Child Social-Emotional Learning |
| Long-Term Integration of a Robot in an Inclusive Daycare: An Ethnographic Study Focused on Children and Caregivers |
| Social Robots on the Loose: Supporting Children's Independent Learning in the Wild |
| Learning by Doing: Teacher Professional Development Research in the Age of Social Robots |
| Social Robots as Active Safeguards for Children's Welfare: Community Stakeholder Insights and Design Recommendations |
02B – Robot Perception 1
Tuesday, March 17 · 12:00
| Input Matters: How Telepresence Control Devices Affect Performance, Sense of Control, and User Experience |
| RECS: LSTM-Based Cognitive Status Estimation for Human-Robot Interaction |
| LEGS-POMDP: Language and Gesture-Guided Object Search in Partially Observable Environments |
| GuideNav: User-Informed Development of a Vision-Only Robotic Navigation Assistant for Blind Travelers |
| Robot as Self, Blurred Boundaries, and the Auxthetic Mind-Body: A Speculative Design through Poetry |
03A – Child-Robot Interaction 2
Tuesday, March 17 · 14:00
| Who Leads the Story? Comparing Autonomous vs. Adult-Supported Child-Robot Interactions |
| Who's the Boss? Children Negotiate Robot Control Across Role and Context |
| Comparing Robots and Non-robot Phygital Artefacts in Children's Storytelling via a Systematic Review |
| The Robot Bookworm: Fostering Children's Reading Motivation through Personalized Book Discussions |
| Unlocking Emotions: The Impact of Robot Question-Asking and Reciprocal Sharing on Self-Disclosure during Emotion Learning |
| Can You Help Me? The Influence of Robot Requests for Help on Child-Robot Connection |
03B – Robot Perception 2
Tuesday, March 17 · 14:00
| Explainable OOHRI: Communicating Robot Capabilities and Limitations as Augmented Reality Affordances |
| Speaking with Screens: Design Space and Guidelines for Informational Robot Screens |
| Customizing Robot Personality: How Personality Control and Form Factor Shape Perceptions of a Robot as a Social Agent |
| Speaking of Safety: Drone-Based Voice Communication for Industry |
| How Human Motion Prediction Quality Shapes Social Robot Navigation Performance in Constrained Spaces |
| Desirability of Proactive Robots: A User Study on Spoken Interaction Initiation |
04A – Transparency & Explainability
Tuesday, March 17 · 15:30
| Explaining Why Things Go Where They Go: Interpretable Constructs of Human Organizational Preferences |
| Estimation of Mobile Robot Waiting Locations Using Fluid Simulation Without Prior Observation |
| Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction |
| RoboCritics: Enabling Reliable End-to-End LLM Robot Programming through Expert-Informed Critics |
| Aligning Task Goals before Execution: Insights from Diverse User Groups into Human-Robot Communication in Domestic Settings |
| Towards Intelligible Human-Robot Interaction: An Active Inference Approach to Occluded Pedestrian Scenarios |
04B – Bias & Representation
Tuesday, March 17 · 15:30
| Persona Non Graphica: Visual Representation Biases in Human-Robot Interaction Research |
| From Voice to Form: How Gender-Ambiguous Voices Shape Physical Robot Design |
| The Role of Agent's Anthropomorphism in Shaping Phantom Costs |
| Not the Intended User: Queer Perspectives on Identity, Risk, and Trust in Robot Companions |
| From Human Bias to Robot Choice: How Occupational Contexts and Racial Priming Shape Robot Selection |
| Clankers in the Cultural Imagination: Online Robophobia and its Implications for Human-Robot Interaction |
Wednesday, March 18
05A – Trust & Safety 1
Wednesday, March 18 · 8:30
| When Fatigue Shapes Trust: Perceptual Shifts beyond Performance in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration |
| Do Type and Importance of Agent's Resource Matter? How Robots' Helping Behavior Influences Human Trust to Them |
| Beyond Information Amount: Rethinking Transparency Through Active Reasoning Demand |
| Towards a Systematic Model of the Effects of Transparency Utterances on Calibrating Trust in Social Robots |
| "I trust you more than me on this": Collaborating with a Social Robot During Open-Ended Problem Solving |
| "What's on your mind?": Understanding The Development of Multidimensional Trust in Social Robots |
05B – Nonverbal Communication 1
Wednesday, March 18 · 8:30
| Sympathy as a Lens for Human-Robot Interaction: Analysing YouTube Responses to Robot Abuse |
| Coordinating Speech with Touch Input and Visual Cues in Human-Robot Interaction: A Multimodal System Evaluated through Metamorphic Testing |
| Emotional Entanglements and Emotional Sustainability in HRI |
| Context-Aware Generation and Modulation of Expressive Motion Behavior using Multimodal Foundation Models |
| Uncanny Touch?Investigating the Influence of lifelike Haptic Cues on User Perceptions of a Social Robot |
| Robot-Mediated Mutual Gaze: How a Mobile Robot with Actuated Mirrors Facilitates Encounters Between Strangers |
06A – Trust & Safety 2
Wednesday, March 18 · 11:40
| Risk-Taking Behavior in Human-Robot Teams: Collaboration vs. Competition |
| Mind the Seat: Passenger Compliance with a Social Robot Conductor's Safety Announcements on Buses |
| A Human-in-the-loop Confidence-Aware Failure Recovery Framework for Modular Robot Policies |
| (Em)Powering the End of Power: HRI for Safe Nuclear Decommissioning |
| If It's Safe, Don't Ask: Decreasing Frustration Through User Involvement for Risky Robot Behaviors |
| Cognitive Trust in HRI: "Pay Attention to Me and I'll Trust You Even If You Are Wrong" |
06B – Nonverbal Communication 2
Wednesday, March 18 · 11:40
| Practical Insights into Designing Context-Aware Robot Voice Parameters in the Wild |
| The 'Aww' Factor: Robot Cuteness as a Catalyst for Emotional Responses and Caretaking Tendencies |
| Perceiving Animacy in Robots: A Neuroimaging Study |
| Breathe with Me: Synchronizing Biosignals for User Embodiment in Robots |
| Bidirectional Human-Robot Communication for Physical Human-Robot Interaction |
| Communicating Object Relations through Robot Gestures |
07A – Learning & Adaptation 1
Wednesday, March 18 · 15:50
| Interface-Aware Trajectory Reconstruction of Limited Demonstrations for Robot Learning |
| Open-Ended Goal Inference through Actions and Language for Human-Robot Collaboration |
| Learning Contextually-Adaptive Rewards via Calibrated Features |
| Clarifying Constraints in Interactive Robot Learning with Language Feedback |
| InterPReT: Interactive Policy Restructuring and Training Enable Effective Imitation Learning from Laypersons |
| Don't Park There! Learning Socially-Appropriate Robot Parking Spots in the Home |
07B – Ethics & Values 1
Wednesday, March 18 · 15:50
| Adding More Value Than Work: Practical Guidelines for Integrating Robots into Intercultural Competence Learning |
| Robotic Bias and Its Dimensions |
| Robot Vandalism: A Senseless Act? |
| Responsible Humanoids: A Contradiction In Terms? |
| We Cannot Outsource What We Value Most: Toward Deployable Research Products in HRI |
| When Robots Should Break The Rules |
08A – Learning & Adaptation 2
Wednesday, March 18 · 17:00
| Real-Time Hand Pose Tracking Using 6-Axis IMUs |
| Learning Human Preferences Over a Human-Robot Collaboration Based on Explicit and Implicit Human Feedback |
| Anticipating Disengagement: Physiology-Informed Adaptation for Child-Robot Reading Companions |
| Chirality-Aware Grammar-Guided Surgical Action Anticipation from Video |
| Investigating the Impact of Robot Degree of Redundancy on Learning from Demonstration |
| What You Reward Is What You Learn: Comparing Rewards for Online Speech Policy Optimization in Public HRI |
08B – Ethics & Values 2
Wednesday, March 18 · 17:00
| When Robots Say No: The Empathic Ethical Disobedience Benchmark |
| Disability Justice in Human-Robot Interaction: Reflections on Paternalism, Autonomy, and Care for More Equitable Futures |
| Is Robot Labor Labor? Delivery Robots and the Politics of Work in Public Space |
| Whose Robots? A Scientific Oligarchy in HRI Research? |
| The Dynamics of Human Fairness Judgments Towards a Robot |
| The Roles of Fairness and Effectiveness in Promoting Legitimacy and Cooperation with Security Robotic Authority |
Thursday, March 19
09A – Care Robotics 1
Thursday, March 19 · 8:30
| Older Adult Perspectives on Home Monitoring Robots: User Preferences and Performance of Robot Observation Strategies |
| Generative Encounters with Robin: Design Through Adaptation and Appropriation of a Social Robot in Four Eldercare Facilities |
| Emergency Department Waiting Experience: The Impact of an Attentive Robot |
| Robots for Those in Transition: Exploring Mental Wellness Through Design Probes |
| Designing Care-fully: Robots for Acute Cancer Care |
| Opportunities to Talk, Negotiate and Laugh: Robot Behaviors that Shape Repeated Interactions in Groups of Older Adults |
09B – Robot Form & Aesthetic Design
Thursday, March 19 · 8:30
| A Nuanced Approached to Robotics and Aesthetics |
| Elements of Robot Morphology: Supporting Designers in Robot Form Exploration |
| Lantern: A Minimalist Robotic Object Platform |
| Plant-Inspired Robot Design Metaphors for Ambient HRI |
| Beyond Conventional Robotic Forms: A Scoping Review of Artefact-Inspired Robots |
| Robot Fashion: The Social Psychology of Robot Clothing |
10A – Care Robotics 2
Thursday, March 19 · 9:40
| "We Will Grow into the Age of Robots": A Participatory Interview Study for Service Robots and Their Value for Care |
| Robot-Assisted Medical Training for Safety-Critical Environments |
| Designing Persuasive Social Robots for Health Behavior Change: A Systematic Review of Behavior Change Strategies and Evaluation Methods |
| Navigation Beyond Wayfinding: Robots Collaborating with Visually Impaired Users for Environmental Interactions |
| WAFFLE: A Wearable Approach to Bite Timing Estimation in Robot-Assisted Feeding |
| Social Robotics for Disabled Students: An Empirical Investigation of Embodiment, Roles and Interaction |
10B – Foundational Concepts
Thursday, March 19 · 9:40
| Reimagining Social Robots as Recommender Systems: Foundations, Framework, and Applications |
| Theory of Whose Mind? Exposing the Shortcomings of One of HRI's Core Concepts |
| What is a Robot? Understanding Baseball's "Robot Umpire" Through the Lens of Fluid Technology |
| Reframing Conversational Design in HRI: Deliberate Design with AI Scaffolds |
| The Valley of Ontological Friction: Motivating, Framing, and Guiding HRI Research on Verisimilitude and its Implications |
| Dull, Dirty, Dangerous: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of a Key Motivation in Robotics |
11A – Assisted Robotics
Thursday, March 19 · 11:40
| Robot Tutors or Peers? Evaluating Learning and Conformity with LLM-powered Robots in Tanzanian Primary Schools |
| On Being Guided: Examining How People Follow a Robot-Guided Tour |
| Task-Oriented Robot-Human Handovers on Legged Manipulators |
| Immersive Social Teleoperation Interface With Automatic Ingroup Navigation for Intuitive Communication |
| Enhancing Gesture-Based Human-Robot Interaction: Investigating the Role of Force Automation |
| SCOPE: Real-Time Natural-Language Camera Control at the Edge |
11B – On Robot Deaths & Afterlives
Thursday, March 19 · 11:40
| Post-Growth Perspectives in HRI |
| Let's Talk About (Our and Robots') Death: Mortality as a Core Principle in Human-Robot Interaction |
| Why Do Service Robots Fail? A Systematic Literature Review from a Service Design Perspective |
| Expensive, Limited, and Still Here: The Paradox of Weak Robots in Family Homes |
| Kept Alive, Bricked, Revived: Community Articulation Work and Value Renegotiation Beyond A Robot's Commercial Failure |
12A – Mixed Autonomy
Thursday, March 19 · 16:00
| "Meet My Sidekick!" Effects of Separate Identities and Control of a Single Robot in HRI |
| GeoSACS: Geometric Shared Autonomy via Canal Surfaces |
| Should Robots Comply with Our Instructions or Intentions? |
| DiSCo: Diffusion Sequence Copilots for Shared Autonomy |
| Don't Say That! Proactive Support for Appropriate Power Use with Avatar Robot |
| Robot-Assisted Exploration Decisions during a Planetary Analog Field Science Campaign |
12B – Robots in Society
Thursday, March 19 · 16:00
| Bystander Privacy Implications of Robots in Everyday Spaces: A Scoping Review |
| Crafting Companions: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Customization Amongst Robot Owners |
| Pop-Up Encounters with Spot: Shaping Public Perceptions of Robots Through Hands-On Experience |
| From Metrics to Meaning: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Field Experiment on Retail Robot Deployment |
| Welcome to the Shop! Field Trial of a VLM-powered Autonomous Shop Worker Robot |
| An Ethnography of Restaurant Robots in Japan: Promises, Perceptions and Impacts |
Late-Breaking Reports
Tuesday, March 17
| Task-Based Analysis of Augmented Reality in Collaborative Robotic Programming for Manufacturing Assembly |
| I Am the Robot: A VR Based Wizard of Oz System for the Humanoid Robot Pepper |
| "I want Sota to be smarter!": Investigating Children's Play with Deployed Robots and Robot Dolls |
| Robotic Feedback for Enhancing Problem-Solving Experiences |
| Sharing Public Space with Robots: Following a Fleet of Delivery Robots on City Sidewalks |
| Designing for Public HRI: Reflections on an Iterative Robot Sound and Motion Design Process |
| Co-designing a Social Robot for Newcomer Children's Cultural and Language Learning |
| Understanding Humans' Mental Image of Robots by Means of "Paul A. Weiss' Thought Experiment": Part II – The Case of More Concrete Robots |
| Industry Perspectives on HRI: A Field Snapshot of Inspection Robotics |
| DiffusionVlog:Text-to-AerialCinematography |
| CareEval: Evaluating Large Language Models for Decision-Making in Physical Robot Caregiving |
| Human-Robot-Management for the Common Heritage of Mankind: From Outer Space to Inner Mind |
| Developing an Integrated Behavioral Framework for Social Robots Promoting Children's Soft Skills |
| When and How to Gesture: A Vision-Language System for Gesturing Consent and Instruction in Medical Interpreter Robots |
| Assistive Robots and Reasonable Work Assignment Reduce Perceived Stigma Against Persons with Disabilities |
| How Neurotypical & Autistic Children Interact Nonverbally with Anthropomorphic Agents in Open-Ended Tasks |
| Towards the Development of a Robot for Well-being: Applying the Motivation, Engagement, and Thriving in User Experience (METUX) Model |
| Where are they? The absence of social robots in real-world environments |
| Towards the Impact of Negative Attitudes Towards Robots on the Correlation of Anthropomorphism and Cognitive Load |
| Social Robots Supporting Children with ADHD in the Home Environment: an Exploratory Case Study |
| Industry Perspectives on Design Feedback in Mobile Robot Development |
| How Can Signs on Public Robots Prevent Robot Bullying? An Explorative Study about the Effects of Three Robot Communication Strategies on Subjective Perception, Visual Attention, and Bullying Tendencies of Passers-by in Public Spaces |
| Psychologically Grounded Robot with Prosocial Behavior for HRI in Life-Threatening Scenarios |
| Toward Empathetic Robotic Dogs for Joint Attention Support in Autism Intervention |
| Making Space for Research: A Methodology for Studying Proxemics and Bonding in Real-World Group-Agent Interactions |
| Cultivating Connection: A Feasibility Study of Robot-Mediated Plant Care and Emotional Support for Older Adults |
| Empirical Evaluation of Driving Behavior Improvements through Continuous Use of a Driver Agent |
| Advancing Child Wellbeing Assessment with AI and Robotics across At-Risk Populations |
| More Than a Warning: Dynamic Consent Builds Trust While Static Disclosure Can Harm It in Public Service Robots |
| Beyond the Novelty Effect: Mathematical Frameworks for Sustainable Robot-Assisted Habit Formation |
| Drawing strategies during human-robot symbolic communication |
| LLM-Driven Socially Assistive Robots: Comparing Simulated and Physical Embodiments in Healthcare Interaction |
| Safe to Cross? Towards Multimodal Explanations for V2X-Equipped Social Robots |
| Micro-Practices for Facilitating Participation in Informal Group Activities via Telepresence Robot in Higher Education |
| Anthropomorphism and the Desire for Social Connection: The Role of Sociality Motivation Factors in Predicting Perceptions of a Social Robot |
| Do as I Say, Not as I Do: People Still Fall for Deception Even After Being Fooled and Protecting Others |
| A Systematic Review on Humans Interfering with Robots and Impeding Their Tasks – Preliminary Findings |
| Human Perceptions of Warmth and Competence in Swarm Robot Behavior |
| Towards a Child-Appropriate LLM for Child-Robot Conversation |
| Public Perception of Humanoid AI Robots on YouTube: A Large-Scale Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis |
| Ghost in the Machine: Exploring Designed Fear in HRI |
| TutorBotz: A GenAI Tool For Teachers To Program Social Robots As Teacher Assistants |
| Neurosymbolic Explanation Selection in Robotics: Combining the Strengths of Planning and Foundation Models for XAI |
| Children's Perspectives on Robot Futures: A Speculative Participatory Approach to Child Wellbeing |
| Planning, Execution, to After-Action Review (PETAAR): A Toolset for Human-Robot Teaming |
| Can Vision Language Models Zero-Shot Thermal Images for Private and Robust Human Robot Interaction? |
| The Effect of Avatars with an Autonomous Dialogue System on Human Relationships |
| Envisioning an Attention-Supportive Desktop Robot: A Participatory Design Study |
| Active Maritime Copilot for Ambiguity and Risk-Driven Decisions |
| Perception-Awareness-Decision: Socially‑Aware Robot Navigation and Interaction |
| From Failing to Exceeding User Expectations: A Large-Scale Study Exploring the Role of Expectation Gap Magnitude and Direction in Robot Adoption Intention |
| A Neck Pillow Companion Robot That Alleviates User Loneliness Through Dialogue and Thermal Feedback |
| The Personal Robot Mediator: Scenario Development for the Assisted Living Context |
| Towards a Cognitive Model for Inferring Dynamic Fairness Perception to Support Fairer Human-Robot Collaboration |
| Human-to-Robot Imitation with Symbolic Planning in a Unified Latent Space |
| Intent-Aware LSTM-Based Adaptive Guidance for Human-Robot Collaboration |
| Human-Interactive Mixed Reality System for Entity Recognition |
| Human-Aware Robot Behaviour in Self-Driving Labs |
| Towards a Conceptual Framework for Evaluating the Ethics of Compassionate Robots in Elementary Education |
| Supporting "Stop and Watch" in Elderly Care with Socially Assistive Robots: Insights from a Participatory Design Workshop |
| Static Is Not Enough: A Comparative Study of VR and SpaceMouse in Static and Dynamic Teleoperation Tasks |
| Hello, it's me, I was Wondering if You'd Like to Speak: Creating an Embodied Conversational Agent for Neurodivergent Students' Social Skills Training |
| Emotion Buddy: Early Childhood Domestic Robot to Facilitate Emotion Regulation Learning |
| Do Robots Need Body Language? Comparing Communication Modalities for Legible Motion Intent in Human-Shared Spaces |
| Informing Robot Wellbeing Coach Design Through Longitudinal Analysis of Human-AI Dialogue |
| Realist, Anti-realist, or Agnostic? Exploring Folk-Ontological Stances Toward Robot Minds |
| When Less Isn't Less: Reducing DoF Does Not Weaken Robots' Social Expressivity |
| Social Perception and the Asymmetry in Human-Robot Affective and Cognitive Trust |
| Trust in the wild: How advisors mediate human-robot relations on dairy farms |
| How Do Humans Attempt to Initiate Interaction with a Robot? An Exploratory Study on Multimodal Engagement |
| The Importance of Exposure to Robotics and its Future for Nursing Education |
| Operationalizing Meaningful Human Control for Human-Robot Interface Design |
| The Awareness Attribution Scale: An Italian Validation Study |
| Making Robot Ecologies Visible: Toward A Taxonomy for Gibsonian Human-Robot Interface Design |
| Robots Confronting Sexism in Human-Robot Groups |
| Engagement annotation in human-robot dialogue across audio and visual modalities |
| Robotic Sycophancy: A Scoping Review |
Wednesday, March 18
| Conversational AI Without the Cloud: A Lightweight, Local Dialogue Pipeline for Non-Commercial Social Robots |
| Real-Time Speech Adaptation to Human and Robot Audiences |
| From Function to Activation: Designing Robotic Eyes to Support People With Dementia |
| Developing and Evaluating Ecologically Valid Study Tasks to Investigate Human-Robot Teaming |
| Effects of Priming Users with Demonstrations of Reliability |
| Deployment-Oriented Benchmarking of Open-Source Large Language Models for Social Robots |
| Design of a Robot-Assisted Chemical Dialysis System |
| Dynamic Pedestrian Flow Guidance through Multi-robot Interaction along Human Crowd Boundaries |
| Fluid-Xpress: Emotion-Aware Dual-Loop Framework for Empathic Facial Reaction in HRI |
| "Can I Draw Here?" Embodied Proactive Suggestions in a Robotic Arm Painter |
| Robot on the Street: A Case Study on Chinese Social Media |
| Learning to Synchronize: User- Robotic Exoskeleton Adaptation Across Repeated Gait Training Sessions |
| Evaluating Dynamic Surface Compensation for Robots with Projected AR |
| Explainability Needs in Human-Robot Collaboration: A Qualitative Interaction Study on the When, What, and How of Cobot Explanations |
| Expressive Furhat: Generating Real-Time Facial Expressions for Human-Robot Dialogue with LLMs |
| RBTLR: A Framework for Safe Social Robot Navigation in Novel Human-centric Environments |
| RoSIP: A Scale for Measuring Appearance-Based Social Interaction Potential in Robots |
| Show Your Work: Mechanistic Transparency in LLM-Powered Human-Robot Interaction |
| Multi-Robot Stimulation for Personalized Robotic Massage with Virtual Therapists |
| Effectiveness of a Humorous Robot in Reducing Anxiety in Clinical Procedures |
| Thinking About What It Means to Be Human: A Qualitative Study of Self-Reflection Triggered by a Humanoid Robot |
| MIRAbot: A Robotic Rearview-Mirror Assistant for Conditional Automated Driving |
| A User Study on the Suitability of Teleoperation Interfaces for Primitive Manipulation Tasks |
| Fast or Accurate? How Intention-Recognition Models Shape Human Perception of a Mobile Robot |
| Having a Life of Its Own: The Influence of Robot Activity on Engagement and Distraction |
| Investigating the Efficacy of Mode-Switching with Deep Learning Action Maps for Teleoperation |
| Proxemics of Space-Sharing Robots: Pedestrian Perceptions of Rear Approaches |
| IODA-TC: Imaginary Out-of-Distribution Actions with Trajectory-Continuation Mapping |
| NEFFY 2.0 – A Breathing Companion Robot: User-Centered Design and Findings from a Study with Ukrainian Refugees |
| Recognizing Robot Readiness: First Encounter Dynamics in Public Saudi Cultural Events |
| Flexible LLM-based Voice Assistance for Mobile Robots |
| Designing Social Robots with Ethical, User-Adaptive Explainability in the Era of Foundation Models |
| How Task Domain and Sociability Shape Gender Ascription and Design Preferences in Robots |
| Of dogs and robots: more than human interactions at play? |
| Designing a robot's proactivity: adjusting the robot's communication modality to the participant's cognitive load |
| Evaluating Tactile Perception of Robot-Controlled HIFU Embossing |
| Socially aware robot for reward, effort, and risk distribution |
| Rethinking the Role of Collaborative Robots in Rehabilitation |
| Projection-Augmented Vendor Robot: Enhancing Trust and Transparency in Human-Robot Interaction |
| When to Explain: Field Study Insights on Robot Failure Explanations for Older Adults |
| Group-robot interaction in the wild: An exploratory field study in semi-public spaces |
| A Novel Hybrid Explainable AI Framework for Multimodal Pain-Aware Human Robot Interaction |
| Social Robot Teaching as a Pathway to Children's AI Literacy |
| Evaluating LLM Driving Explanations Through an Ego-Centric Scenario Taxonomy |
| It Takes a Village to Raise a Robot: Evolving Autonomous Lawnmower Behaviors Through Human Selection |
| Building a Task Repository for Human-Robot Interaction Studies: A Systematic Review Approach |
| Examining the Effectiveness of Obfuscatory Planning Strategies Through Human Observation |
| From Affinity to Adoption: Exploring Affinity with Technology, Social Presence, and Intended Future Robot Use |
| When Robots Ask for Help: How Assistance Requests and Task Complexity Shape Human Robot Collaboration and Trust |
| Inclusive Multi-Input Depth Interaction: Human Movement as a Medium for Robot Control |
| "I Loved How Pepper Talked About My Hoodie": A Situated, MI-Grounded Multimodal Architecture for Engaging Conversation |
| A Pilot Study of Robot Storytelling for Civic Data Literacy |
| Stable or Stuck? Understanding MLLM Engagement Prediction in Uncontrolled and Controlled HRI |
| Episodic Social Memory via Per-Episode LoRA Adapters for Social Robots |
| Entitativity of Social Groups Including Robots |
| Solution-Focused Embodied Conversational Agent for Older Adults: An Experimental Study on the Impact of Agent Impression |
| Before Robots Learn, Students Must: Trade-offs in Educating Future Roboticists |
| The Privacy-Preserving Capabilities of a Service Robot in a Scenario-based Healthcare Setting |
| Robots vs. Virtual Reality in Solution-Focused Counseling for Older Adults: Effects on Emotional Expression and Lexical Structure |
| Exploring the Potential of Dialogue-Based Robots to Motivate Social Connection in Older Adults |
| Towards a usage-based pedagogy for second language learning with robots |
| Facilitating Co-Regulation: An LLM-Powered Multimodal Social Robot for Parent-Child Dyads |
| Seeing Only When Needed: A Multimodal Architecture for Context-Aware Social Dialogue |
| Simulating Preference-Aware Robot Explanations: A Probabilistic Perspective on When and How to Explain |
| Empathy and Guilt as Mechanisms for Help-Seeking in Human-Humanoid Interaction |
| A Real2Sim2Real Transformer Policy System for Bimanual R2R2H Tasks |
| An Interaction Motion Generation Model Based on A Diffusion Model and Graph Attention for Back-Channel Behavior Synthesis |
| Lonely Students, Different Needs: How Emotional and Social Loneliness Shape Expectations for Social Robots |
| A Systematic Validation And Review Of Modification Of The Negative Attitudes toward Robots Scale (NARS) |
| Accessibility Needs of Blind and Visually Impaired People in Public Space HRI |
| A Comparative Assessment of the Social Robots Blossom and Miroka Using ASAQ and ASOR |
| "Following Their Realities": Caregivers' Perspectives on Social Robotic Deception in Dementia Care in a Confucian Country |
| Translating Care Needs into Robotic Assistance: How Caregivers are Onboarded in the Deployment of Commercial Robots in Home Settings |
| The Dancing Swarm: Using Laban Effort Parameters for Generating Expressive Swarm Behaviour |
| PAWSE: A Laptop-Peripheral Robot Supporting Micro-Breaks Through Fidgeting-Based Tangible Interaction |
| The Imitation of Intimacy: Comparing Satisfaction in Intimate Human and AI Companion Relationships |
Thursday, March 19
| First Impressions Matter: Primacy Bias in deep Reinforcement Learning during Human-Robot Co-learning |
| Prosthetic Hand Manipulation System Based on EMG and Eye Tracking Powered by the Neuromorphic Processor AltAi |
| Bridging Psychological Safety and Skill Guidance: An Adaptive Robotic Interview Coach |
| "What's The Robot Doing Now?" – Towards Accessible Social Robotic Demos for People with Sight Loss |
| Investigating Human Trust and Confidence in Robot-Assisted Recycling Tasks |
| Investigating User Perceptions of Robot Foundation Model Performance and Evaluations |
| Charting the Growth of Social-Physical HRI (spHRI): A Systematic Review Pipeline Augmented by Small Language Models |
| Holistic LLM-based Expressive Behavior Generation for Robots |
| A Puppeteering Interface for Teleoperating High Degree-of-Freedom Social Robots |
| Telepresence Robots in Industrial Environments |
| Evolution 6.0: Evolving Robotic Capabilities Through Generative Design |
| An Introduction to the MASCAR (Multi-Agent Synchronized Collaborative Assembly Replication) Testbed |
| Investigating Cross-Agent Trust Transfer: Effects of Informational and Operational Errors in Human-Robot Collaboration |
| From Terrain to Wind Noise: Contextual Factors Shaping Outdoor Robot Guide Design for Visually Impaired People |
| Who's the Boss? Attributions of Control Influence Blame Toward Robot Decision-Makers |
| Rethinking Legibility in Social Robot Navigation: Impact of Intent Representation and Human Attention |
| Disambiguating Anthropomorphism and Anthropomimesis in Human-Robot Interaction |
| Real-Time Vision for Socially Aware Robots: Gesture, Pointing, and Visual Engagement Estimation |
| Knowing When to Help: A Framework for Error Detection in Meal Preparation Tasks for Older Adults |
| "Please don't hate me" – Robot Anxiety Elicits Empathy and Compassion |
| Winnie-the-Pooh-Powered: How LLMs and Well-Known Characters Can Create Adaptive Personalities for Aquatic Social Robot Interactions |
| GuideTouch: An Obstacle Avoidance Device for Visually Impaired |
| Designing a Psychotherapy Support Robot for Young Children Diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder |
| Did You Notice Me? Effects of Distance and F-formation on Mobile Robot Perception in Group Conversation |
| Enhanced Social Navigation Simulation for Community-Driven Participatory Evaluation of Sidewalk Robots |
| MenstaRay: A Knitted Soft Wearable Robotic Interface for Somatosensory Communication of Menstrual Experience |
| "It Almost Wanted to Hurt Someone": The Impact of Intentional Creepiness on User Perceptions |
| Empowering Education: Student Perceptions and Attitudes to the Role of Social Robots in Learning Contexts |
| HumanoidVLM: Vision-Language-Guided Impedance and Grasp Parameter Retrieval for Humanoid Manipulation |
| Beyond Justification: Command Rejections that Include Constructive Elaborations May Improve Evaluations of Trustworthiness |
| Understanding Social Appropriateness Perceptions in Secondary Users of Domestic Robots |
| Bad Idea or Good Prediction? Comparing VLM and Human Anticipatory Judgment |
| The Nudging Machine: Exploring Expressive Touch-Based Movement for Abstract Robots |
| Human-Robot Teaming in Nursing Simulations: Team Member Communication and Performance Effects |
| Evaluating Q-Learning-Based Robot Nudging for Healthier Computer Use Practices |
| From Speech to Delivery: Human-Centered Multimodal Interaction for Indoor Service Robotics |
| A Human-Centred Tri-Region Shared Autonomy Framework for Adaptive and Safe Human-Robot Interaction |
| Toward Collaborative Navigation: A Voice-Based Interface for Quadruped Guide Robots |
| Design recommendations for robot-supported group interaction among older adults |
| SafeHumanoid: VLM-RAG-driven Control of Upper Body Joint-Impedance for Humanoid Robot |
| Preliminary Evaluation of Multimodal Expressions by a Reception Robot in Three Situations |
| Robot-Mediated Administration of Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices in Autistic Individuals |
| Beyond Static Instruction: A Multi-Agent AI Framework for Adaptive Augmented Reality Robot Training |
| LLM-Glasses: GenAI-Driven Glasses with Haptic Feedback for Navigation of Visually Impaired People |
| Sustainable Human-Robot Interaction with Soft and Energy-Aware Robotic Systems |
| Learning from Human-Dog Collaboration: Towards the Design of Search and Rescue Robots |
| Kinematic-Cognitive Trade-offs in Human-Robot Coordinated Walk: Distance Stability vs. Speed Dis-similarity with Cognitive Load |
| Social Robots as Warm-Up Companions: Comparing Teaching and Storytelling Interactions to Support Children's Self-Efficacy |
| How Robots Understand 'Here' And 'There'- A Perceptual Model for Spatial Deixis |
| HumanDiffusion: Intent-Aware Diffusion Based Trajectory Planner for Search and Rescue |
| SEMIAC: A Two-Site Human-Robot Collaboration Dataset for Exploring Socially-enriched Models for Implicit Action Coordination |
| Finite State Machine Approach for Real-Time Gait Phase Detection in Exoskeletons |
| Anticipating Safety and Security Risks of Embodied AI: A Multidimensional Risk Framework for Foundation Models in HRI |
| Robots in the Room: A Qualitative Exploration of Democratic Agency and AI-augmented Deliberations |
| When Imagination Meets Reality: Embodiment Order Effects in Human-Robot Interaction |
| Validating Video Stimuli for Perceived Robot Autonomy: A Pre-test for Experimental HRI |
| Gooboo: A Multimodal, Context-Aware Dialogue Platform for Personalized Embodied Character Interaction |
| Are We Seeing Eye-to-Eye?: Gaze Allocation to a Humanoid Robot During Conversation |
| Co-Blauw: An Experimental Human-Robot Co-Creation Method for Ceramic Tile Painting |
| When Robot Overrides Us: The Impact of Autonomous Decisions on User Trust |
| TapHRI: TCN-driven Touch Control of Collaborative Robots Using Embedded Robot Sensing Only |
| Conversational Force Adaptation for Robotic Massage Using Recipient Speech |
| The Supportiveness-Safety Tradeoff in LLM Well-Being Agents |
| Building Inclusive HRI: Early Insights on Ethical AI for Neurodiverse Children |
| Coordinate User Visual Attention with Audio Narratives for Enhanced Engagement |
| Glove2UAV: Wearable IMU-Based Glove for Intuitive Control of UAV Operation |
| Confusion detection from facial expressions in elderly-robot interactions |
| Giving Robots a Hard Time: A Field Experiment on the Role of Robot Social Behavior and Social Norms for Robot Bullying |
| Public Perspectives on Robot Intervention: Insights from a Low-Supervision Decision Exhibit |
| Making Memories Together: Toward Transparent and Co-Constructed Robot Memory in Child-Robot Interaction |
| HoverAI: An Embodied Aerial Agent for Natural Human-Drone Interaction |
| VLADroMa: VLA based Aerial Manipulation |
Short Papers
Short Contributions
| BehaviorKit: A Multi-modal Real-time Behavior Analysis Library for Robots |
| Remote Control for NAO using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
| (blinded): Lightweight communication patterns for HRI |
| Neutral by Default? Replicating User Vocal Responses to Negative Affective Cues in Conversational Agents |
| Seeing Eye to Eye Again: In-the-Wild Replication Study with an Expressive Eye Display for the Stretch Mobile Manipulator |
| Plausible Explanations Reduce Phantom Cost Perception in HRI |
| Particle-Driven Robot Placement: A ROS 2 Plugin-Based Framework |
| Quest2ROS2: A ROS 2 Framework for Bi-manual VR Teleoperation |
| The Action-Engagement-Collaboration Triad: A Multimodal Analytical Framework for Human-Robot Collaboration |
| A Framework for Low-Latency, LLM-driven Multimodal Interaction in Social Robotics |
| IVoice: An Open-Source Real-Time Closed-Loop Voice Monitoring and Feedback Testbed for Cognitively Assistive Robots in Therapy |
| A wizard for kids: a platform for improvised child-robot interactions |
Student Design Competition
Session 01 (Tuesday Full Day, Wednesday Morning)
| Seesoil: Mitigating Negative Emotions Through a Desktop Robotfor Oil Splash Incidents |
| Circuit Breaker: A Tangible Intervention for Mitigating Digital Violence |
| HighLight: The Pick-Me Robot for Easing Social Awkwardness in Shared Spaces |
| RoboTales: ROBOTic Anthropomorphic LEarning Systems |
| Tuotle: a Posture Correction Robot Based on Cognitive Dissonance Theory |
| Beckoning Bowl: Using Social Robots to Counteract Loneliness in One-Person Households |
| Democratising Wellness: Bridging the Gap Between Video and Human Coaching with Low-Cost Social Robotics |
| Nose Knows: A Human-Centered Robotic Air Quality Monitor |
| Bickering Benches: Exploring Playful Interaction in Post-Anthropocentric HRI |
| Doremi: Designing a Piano Bot |
| MuffBunny: Mimetic Ear-Based Interaction Design for Social Emotion Recognition and Implicit Expression |
| Talking Like Us: A Multimodal Design for Human-Like Conversation Flow in Robots |
| Data Chase: A Robot-Supported Collaborative Museum Experience |
Session 02 (Wednesday Afternoon, Thursday Full Day)
| MERRY: A Community-Based Robot For Enhancing Social Connection Of Older Adults |
| Expressive Robotics in Retail: Conveying Fragrance Emotion Through Multimodal Interaction |
| NeckMate: A Wearable Robot that Links Speech and Temperature |
| Elevator Pitch: Ludic Design in Social Architectural Robots Fostering Togetherness |
| Brick by Brick: Using Collaborative Robotics to Combat Social Isolation in Public Spaces |
| Laughing Together: A Desktop Social Robot as an Icebreaker for First-Meeting |
| Designing Intuitive Human Drone Interfaces for Post Disaster Response |
| Robot Housekeeper Cart: Empowering Housekeeping Work Through Etiquette-Based Interactions in Hotels |
| Elandro: An Automated Laundry Cart for Hospitality Workflows |
| THIRD EXPRESSION: A Wearable Robot for Amplifying Non-Verbal Social Signals in Interpersonal Communication |
| Songbird: An Embodied Companion Earphone Robot that Sings Along to Protect Your Hearing |
| G.A.U.D.I. – Generative Additive User-Robot Design Interface |
| Peri: Retrofitting Public Infrastructure into Adaptive Social Interfaces for Sustainable Habits |