Test of Time Awards
- Common metrics for human-robot interaction
- Aaron Steinfeld, Terrence Fong, David Kaber, Michael Lewis, Jean Scholtz, Alan Schultz, Michael Goodrich
- Legibility and predictability of robot motion
- Anca Dragan, Kenton Lee, Siddhartha Srinivasa
Full Papers
User Studies Track
Best Papers
- Expensive, Limited, and Still Here: The Paradox of Weak Robots in Family Homes
- Zhao Zhao
- Fictional vs. Factual Robot Tutor Dialogue Can Shape Child Social-Emotional Learning
- Lauren L. Wright, Kaitlyn Li, Hewitt Watkins, Kiljoong Kim, Sarah Sebo
- Long-Term Integration of a Robot in an Inclusive Daycare: An Ethnographic Study Focused on Children and Caregivers
- Jan Ole Rixen, Kathrin Gerling, Barbara Bruno
Honourable Mentions
- Anticipating Disengagement: Physiology-Informed Adaptation for Child–Robot Reading Companions
- Zhao Zhao
- Cognitive Trust in HRI: “Pay Attention to Me and I’ll Trust You Even If You Are Wrong”
- Adi Manor, Dan Cohen, Ziv Keidar, Avi Parush, and Hadas Erel
- Fictional vs. Factual Robot Tutor Dialogue Can Shape Child Social-Emotional Learning
- Lauren L. Wright, Kaitlyn Li, Hewitt Watkins, Kiljoong Kim, Sarah Sebo
- From Metrics to Meaning: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Field Experiment on Retail Robot Deployment
- Sichao Song, Yuki Okafuji, Takuya Iwamoto, Jun Baba, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
- Generative Encounters with Robin: Design through Adaptation and Appropriation of a Social Robot in Four Eldercare Facilities
- Nan Hu and Selma Šabanović
- If It’s Safe, Don’t Ask: Decreasing Frustration through User Involvement for Risky Robot Behaviors
- Jan Leusmann, Sarah Schömbs, Maximilian Diedrich, and Florian Müller
- What Is a Robot? Understanding Baseball’s “Robot Umpire” through the Lens of Fluid Technology
- Waki Kamino, Andrea W. Wen-Yi, Guy Hoffman, Selma Šabanović, and Malte F. Jung
Design Track
Best Paper
- Robot-Mediated Mutual Gaze: How a Mobile Robot with Actuated Mirrors Facilitates Encounters between Strangers
- Serena Ge Guo, Jenny J. Yu, Wenqian Niu, Yifei Gao, Guy Hoffman, Gilly Leshed, and Keith Evan Green
Honourable Mentions
- Designing Care-fully: Robots for Acute Cancer Care
- Sandhya Jayaraman, Pratyusha Ghosh, Soyon Kim, Soham Satyadharma, Angelique Taylor, Christopher Coyne, and Laurel D. Riek
- Plant-Inspired Robot Design Metaphors for Ambient HRI
- Victor Nikhil Antony, Adithya R N, Sarah Derrick, Zhili Gong, Peter M. Donley, and Chien-Ming Huang
- Pluriversal Approach to Co-designing Delivery Robots with People with Disabilities
- Abena Boadi-Agyemang, Sanika Moharana, Cynthia L. Bennett, Elizabeth J. Carter, Patrick Carrington, and Aaron Steinfeld
Systems Track
Best Paper
- WAFFLE: A Wearable Approach to Bite Timing Estimation in Robot-Assisted Feeding
- Akhil Padmanabha, Jessie Yuan, Tanisha S. Mehta, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Eric Hu, Victoria de León, Anthony Wertz, Janavi Gupta, Ben Dodson, Yunting Yan, Carmel Majidi, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, and Zackory Erickson
Honourable Mentions
- Bidirectional Human-Robot Communication for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
- Junxiang Wang, Cindy Wang, Rana Soltani Zarrin, and Zackory Erickson
- GuideNav: User-Informed Development of a Vision-Only Robotic Navigation Assistant for Blind Travelers
- Hochul Hwang, Soowan Yang, Jahir Sadik Monon, Nicholas A. Giudice, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Joydeep Biswas, and Donghyun Kim
Technical Track
Best Paper
- Context-Aware Generation and Modulation of Expressive Motion Behavior using Multimodal Foundation Models
- Till Hielscher, Fabio Scaparro, and Kai O. Arras
Honourable Mention
- RoboCritics: Enabling Reliable End-to-End LLM Robot Programming through Expert-Informed Critics
- Callie Y. Kim, Nathan Thomas White, Evan He, Frederic Sala, and Bilge Mutlu
Theory Track
Best Paper
- 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
- Martina Mara, Andreas Winklbauer, Sandra Maria Siedl, and Benedikt Leichtmann
Honourable Mention
- The RUSH Checklist: A Standardized Framework for Reporting User Studies in Human-Robot Interaction
- Shruti Chandra, Katie Seaborn, Giulia Barbareschi, Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie, Shelly Bagchi, Sara Cooper, Zhao Han, and Daniel Tozadore
Late-Breaking Reports
Best Late Breaking Report
- Beyond Justification: Command Rejections That Include Constructive Elaborations May Improve Evaluations of Trustworthiness
- Gordon Briggs and Christina Wasylyshyn
Best Late Breaking Report Runners-up
- Robots in the Room: A Qualitative Exploration of Democratic Agency and AI-Augmented Deliberations
- Damith Herath, Hans Asenbaum, Janie Busby Grant, Maleen Jayasuriya, Emanuela Savini, and Harshith Ghanta
- Dynamic Pedestrian Flow Guidance through Multi-robot Interaction along Human Crowd Boundaries
- Ryusei Shigemoto, Hiroki Kimura, and Ryosuke Tasaki
Honourable Mentions
- Can Vision Language Models Zero-Shot Thermal Images for Private and Robust Human Robot Interaction?
- Han Hu, He Chen
- A Systematic Validation and Review of the Negative Attitudes toward Robots Scale (NARS)
- Pawinee Pithayarungsarit, Neha Kannan, Paige Williamson, Paul Vallejo, Laura Saad, Greg Trafton, and Eileen Roesler
- Making Robot Ecologies Visible: Toward a Taxonomy for Gibsonian Human-Robot Interface Design
- Riccardo Spagnuolo, William Hagman, Erik Lagerstedt, Matthew Rueben, and Sam Thellman
- RoSIP: A Scale for Measuring Appearance-Based Social Interaction Potential in Robots
- Xucong Hu, Qinyi Hu, Tianya Yu, Mowei Shen, and Jifan Zhou
- Examining the Effectiveness of Obfuscatory Planning Strategies through Human Observation
- Dakota Sullivan, David Porfirio, Bilge Mutlu, and Laura M. Hiatt
- Real-Time Speech Adaptation to Human and Robot Audiences
- Hande Sodacı and Aylin C. Küntay
- The Nudging Machine: Exploring Expressive Touch-Based Movement for Abstract Robots
- Nataliia Kaminskaia, Rob Saunders, Kim Baraka, and Somaya Ben Allouch
Short Contributions
Best Short Contribution
- Quest2ROS2: A ROS 2 Framework for Bi-manual VR Teleoperation
- Jialong Li, Zhenguo Wang, Tianci Wang, Maj Stenmark and Volker Krueger
Honourable Mention
- Seeing Eye to Eye Again: In-the-Wild Replication Study with an Expressive Eye Display for the Stretch Mobile Manipulator
- Antara Shah and Naomi T. Fitter
Student Design Competition
Exceptional Student Design
- Bickering Benches: Exploring Playful Interaction in Post-Anthropocentric HRI
- Ann-Sophie L. Schenk, Martin Schymiczek Larangeira de Almeida, Ilknur Sitil and Xiying Li
Exceptional Student Design Runners-up
- Beckoning Bowl: Using Social Robots to Counteract Loneliness in One-Person Households
- Mie Grøftehave Nielsen, Andreas Juul Jespersen and Louise Brønderup Frederiksen
- Circuit Breaker: A Tangible Intervention for Mitigating Digital Violence
- Hanyu Zhang, Xinyue Xdu, Xinran She, Jie Deng and Yuanrong Tang
Honourable Mentions
- Data Chase: A Robot-Supported Collaborative Museum Experience
- Claire Lewis, Melody Goldanloo, Matthew Murray, Zachary Kaufman and Tom Williams
- Nose Knows: A Human-Centered Robotic Air Quality Monitor
- JP Tiger, Paige Williamson, Neha Kannan, Jacob Henley, Eileen Roesler and David Porfirio
Interactivity
Best Demo
- A Replicable, Autonomous System for In-the-Wild Mental Health Applications with the Ommie Robot
- Kayla Matheus, Debasmita Ghose, Jirachaya (Fern) Limprayoon, Michal A. Lewkowicz and Brian Scassellati
Best Video
- Remembering the Future with IRIS: Robotics Purpose Aiding Those Living with Dementia and Offering Empowerment
- Jack Bassett, Long-Jing Hsu, Stephen Taylor, Janice Bays, Weslie Khoo, Katherine M. Tsui, David J. Crandall and Selma Šabanović
Sustainability Recognitions
Theme Recognition
- Kept Alive, Bricked, Revived: Community Articulation Work and Value Renegotiation Beyond A Robot’s Commercial Failure
- Waki Kamino, Bengisu Cagiltay, Bilge Mutlu, Malte F. Jung, Selma Šabanović
Method Recognition
- Towards Intelligible Human-Robot Interaction: An Active Inference Approach to Occluded Pedestrian Scenarios
- Kai Chen, Yuyao Huang, Guang Chen
Demonstration Recognition
- Demonstrating Lantern and Its Variants: A Set of Minimal Robots
- Victor Nikhil Antony, Kai-Chieh Liang and Chien-Ming Huang