Important dates
- LBR Submission Deadline: 8 December 2025, 11:59 pm AoE
- LBR Review Deadline: 5 January 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: 12 January 2026
- Camera Ready Deadline: 19 January 2026, 11:59 pm AoE
❗ Please note that HRI2026 will be in person only. As such, at least one author is expected to attend in person for each poster. Additionally, at least one author of each LBR submission must agree to review three other LBRs❗
The Late-Breaking Reports (LBR) venue at HRI 2026 provides authors with the opportunity to present early-stage results and new ideas on exciting cutting-edge and experimental research. LBRs are an excellent opportunity for researchers new to the field to participate in the conference.
The 21st annual HRI conference theme is HRI Empowering Society. Our field has the potential to bring about positive change in many areas of our societies such as healthcare, transport, remote working, agriculture and industry; for that, we need to properly engage with the end users who will potentially utilise robots in their jobs and daily lives. Thus, we strongly welcome submissions that address this year’s theme.
All LBR submissions will undergo double-blind peer review and accepted LBRs will be published in the proceedings of the conference. These proceedings will appear in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore.
LBRs will be presented as posters during the main conference. The conference will be in person only, and at least one author will be expected to attend in person and register for the conference.
LBRs should be 2-4 pages long (excluding references). By submitting LBR@HRI’26, authors agree to review up to 3 LBR contributions. The review process will occur shortly before the end of the year holidays, so authors/reviewers will have to be prepared to respond during this holiday season (submit conflicts of interest shortly after the deadline and submit their review within 10 days).
Submission Instructions
- Required: 2 to 4-page article, excluding references.
- Recommended: max 2 minutes video figure.
Authors must submit their Late-Breaking Reports as a 2 to 4-page article, excluding references (i.e., references do not count towards submission length). Papers should conform to the general ACM SIG format (“sigconf”, double column format). Templates are available at this link (US letter). In addition, ACM has partnered with Overleaf, where you can start writing using this link directly (note that this Overleaf document uses the new ACM workflow by default, which is not what HRI is using; to fix this, make sure the document uses the “sigconf” document class, rather than the “manuscript,screen,review” document class that is enabled in the Overleaf document by default).
Publications should be fully anonymised at the time of submission. For additional information, authors may refer to the main conference anonymisation guidelines.
Due to a tight publication deadline with the publisher, all submitted Late-Breaking Reports should be “camera-ready” at the time of submission (i.e., proofread, spell-checked, etc.). Non-conforming submissions are candidates for instant rejection.
Authors are recommended to submit an accompanying video figure (maximum 2 minutes) to help reviewers understand the work. As a published IEEE author, you and your co-authors are subject to all IEEE Submission Policies including IEEE’s policy on Research on Human and Animal Subjects and IEEE’s Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text.
Peer Review Process
Late-Breaking Reports will be reviewed using a mutual blind peer review process. To ensure that all authors receive feedback on their work and to help invigorate the HRI community, at least one author of each LBR submission must agree to review three other LBRs. Reviews will consist of a brief questionnaire regarding the quality and relevance of the work submitted. The review process will occur between the submission deadline and end of year holiday , so authors/reviewers will have to be reactive during this time (submit conflicts of interest shortly after the deadline, and submit their review within 10 days).
Submission Accessibility
PDFs can have major accessibility problems, especially for screen reader users. To support those among us who need accessible PDFs, HRI is working to improve the accessibility of our PDF proceedings and review process. We are asking all authors to make an effort to make their LBR submissions more accessible at every point in the submission process, similar to how full papers are now being made accessible as well.
As you prepare your document, please follow these steps from the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission to create an accessible paper, and then refer to the guide for information on how to prepare the final accessible PDF:
- Mark up content such as headings and lists appropriately, using the correct Word template style or LaTeX markup.
- Don’t rely only on colour. Charts that rely only on colour to differentiate elements may not be usable for those with colour vision differences, or for those who print papers in black and white. In figures, legends and the text that refers to the figures, use different shapes and patterns to provide another way to visually distinguish elements.
- Provide a text description for all figures. Figure descriptions are different from figure captions. Descriptions are an alternative to seeing the figure and should provide important information that is not already in the paper or the caption. Do not simply repeat the caption. For guidance on writing good figure descriptions, see the SIGACCESS Guide to Describing Figures.
- Create every table as a real table, not an image, and indicate which cells are headers.
- Create every equation as a marked-up equation, not an image of an equation.
- Set the metadata of your document.
If you are a LaTeX user, please be aware that you may run into challenges with generating an accessible PDF; we ask that you do your best but understand that it may not be possible to generate a fully accessible PDF from LaTeX. You can do a rudimentary check of your PDF’s accessibility using Adobe Reader’s Read Out Loud tool and Apple’s built-in reading tool but be aware that these are not full-featured screen readers and will not check all key accessibility features. If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the conference accessibility chairs at accessibility2026@humanrobotinteraction.org.
Contacts
LBR Chairs: Masahiro Shiomi (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International), Patrick Holthaus (Hertfordshire University), Friederike Eyssel (Bielefeld University), Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)