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 White Papers | 8:30 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 5A: Trust & Safety 1 | (Fintry) Session 5B: Nonverbal Comm. 1 | LBRs Pioneers | 8:30 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 9A: Care Robotics 1 | (Fintry) Session 9B: Robot Form & Aesthetic Design | LBRs Pioneers | |
| 9:00 Keynote Benjamin Rosman | 9:30 Short Break | 9:30 Short Break | |||||||
| 10:00 Partner Presentation: Ross Mead, Semio | 9:40 Keynote Yukie Nagai | 9:40 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 10A: Care Robotics 2 | (Fintry) Session 10B: Foundational Concepts | ||||||
| 10:10 Coffee Break + Poster/Demo Presentations | |||||||||
| 11:00 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 1A: Empowering Users | (Fintry) Session 1B: Situated HRI | 10:40 Partner Presentation: Gabriel Skantze, Furhat Robotics | 10:40 Coffee Break + Poster/Demo Presentations | ||||||
| 10:50 Coffee Break + Poster/Demo Presentations | |||||||||
| 11:50 Short Break | 11:40 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 6A: Trust & Safety 2 | (Fintry) Session 6B: Nonverbal Comm. 2 | 11:40 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 11A: Assisted Robotics | (Fintry) Session 11B: On Robot Deaths & Afterlives | |||||
| 12:00 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 2A: Child-Robot Interaction 1 | (Fintry) Session 2B: Robot Perception 1 | ||||||||
| 12:40 Lunch Break | 12:40 Lunch Break | ||||||||
| 12:50 Lunch Break | |||||||||
| 14:00 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 3A: Child-Robot Interaction 2 | (Fintry) Session 3B: Robot Perception 2 | LBRs Short Contributions Industry White Papers | 13:50 Keynote Benjamin R. Cowan | LBRs Pioneers | 13:50 Keynote Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas | LBRs Pioneers | |||
| 14:50 Partner Presentation: Ross Mead, Quori | 14:50 Partner Presentation: Natalie Yeo & Irvin Cardenas, PlaiPin Inc. | ||||||||
| 15:00 Coffee Break + Poster/Demo Presentations | 15:00 Coffee Break + Poster/Demo Presentations | 15:10 Coffee Break + Poster/Demo Presentations | |||||||
| 15:30 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 4A: Transparency & Explainability | (Fintry) Session 4B: Bias & Rep. | ||||||||
| 15:50 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 7A: Learning & Adaptation 1 | (Fintry) Session 7B: Ethics & Values 1 | 16:00 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 12A: Mixed Autonomy | (Fintry) Session 12B: Robots in Society | ||||||
| 16:30 Public Engagement Session | 16:50 Short Break | 17:00 Short Break | |||||||
| 17:00 (Pentland/Sidlaw) Session 8A: Learning & Adaptation 2 | (Fintry) Session 8B: Ethics & Values 2 | 17:10 Closing Ceremony | |||||||
| 17:20 Town Hall | |||||||||
| ~18:00 End | ~18:00 End | ~18:00 End | ~18:00 End | ||||||
| 19:30 Welcome Reception | 19:00 Awards Dinner | 19:30 Farewell Ceilidh (Ticketed Event) | |||||||
Detailed Schedule
Full paper presentations will occur in the Pentland/Sidlaw (‘A’ sessions) and Fintry (‘B’ sessions) Auditoriums on Level 3 of the Edinburgh International Conference Center. Each full paper presentation consists of an 8-minute slide presentation followed by a 2-minute Q&A session. Slides are recommended to be prepared in a widescreen (16:9) format. The official full paper proceedings can be found here.
The interactive demos, student competition demos, and posters for the Late Breaking Reports, Short Contributions, and Pioneers will be available for viewing in Strathblane Hall. You may view the poster assignments here. The official companion proceedings can be found here.
Full Papers
Award nominee ALT Alt-HRI paper 🍃 Sustainability recognition
Tuesday, March 17
01A – Empowering Users
Tuesday, March 17 · 11:00 Chair: Selma Šabanović
| 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 ALT |
01B – Situated HRI
Tuesday, March 17 · 11:00 Chair: Dražen Brščić
| 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 Chair: Tony Belpaeme
| 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 Chair: Christoforos Mavrogiannis
| 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 ALT |
03A – Child-Robot Interaction 2
Tuesday, March 17 · 14:00 Chair: Micol Spitale
| 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 Chair: David J. Porfiro
| 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 Chair: Elmira Yadollahi
| 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 Chair: Giulia Perugia
| 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 ALT |
Wednesday, March 18
05A – Trust & Safety 1
Wednesday, March 18 · 8:30 Chair: Paul Robinette
| 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 Chair: Hannah Pelikan
| 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 Chair: Kim Baraka
| 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 Chair: Naomi Fitter
| 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 Chair: Bahar Irfan
| 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 Chair: Malte Jung
| Adding More Value Than Work: Practical Guidelines for Integrating Robots into Intercultural Competence Learning |
| Robotic Bias and Its Dimensions |
| Robot Vandalism: A Senseless Act? ALT |
| Responsible Humanoids: A Contradiction In Terms? ALT |
| We Cannot Outsource What We Value Most: Toward Deployable Research Products in HRI ALT |
| When Robots Should Break The Rules ALT |
08A – Learning & Adaptation 2
Wednesday, March 18 · 17:00 Chair: Séverin Lemaignan
| 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 Chair: Samantha Reig
| 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? ALT |
| 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 Chair: Hee Rin Lee
| 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 Chair: Patrícia Alves-Olivera
| 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 ALT |
10A – Care Robotics 2
Thursday, March 19 · 9:40 Chair: Laurel Riek
| "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 Chair: Cindy Bethel
| Reimagining Social Robots as Recommender Systems: Foundations, Framework, and Applications |
| Theory of Whose Mind? Exposing the Shortcomings of One of HRI's Core Concepts ALT |
| 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 Chair: Henny Admoni
| 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 Chair: Tom Williams
| Post-Growth Perspectives in HRI ALT |
| Let's Talk About (Our and Robots') Death: Mortality as a Core Principle in Human-Robot Interaction ALT |
| 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 Chair: Sarah Sebo
| "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 Chair: Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten
| 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
Award nominee
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 and Maintenance Robotics |
| DiffusionCinema: Text-to-Aerial Cinematography |
| 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 |
| Vision-Language System using Open-Source LLMs for Consent and Instruction Gestures in Medical Interpreter Robots |
| Assistive Robots and Reasonable Work Assignment Reduce Perceived Stigma toward Persons with Disabilities |
| How Neurotypical and 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 |
| Bad Idea or Good Prediction? Comparing VLM and Human Anticipatory Judgment |
| An Introduction to the MASCAR (Multi-Agent Synchronized Collaborative Assembly Replication) Testbed |
| 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 Providing Demonstrations of Robot 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 Immersive 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 |
| When Robots Wander: 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 |
| Task Domain and Sociability Influence Anthropomorphic Design Preference and Gender Attribution 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 |
| VendoBot: A Projection-Augmented Delivery Robot for Improving Intent Transparency and Motion Legibility in Service Robots |
| 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 |
| Understanding Social Appropriateness Perceptions in Secondary Users of Domestic Robots |
| It Takes a Village to Raise a Robot: Evolving Autonomous Lawnmower Behaviors through Human Selection |
| Building a Task Repository for Human-Robot Interaction Studies: An Exploratory 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 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: Early Findings on Usability and Functionality Requirements |
| Evolution 6.0: Robot Evolution through Generative Design |
| 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 Control for Contact-Rich Humanoid Manipulation |
| Beyond Justification: Command Rejections That Include Constructive Elaborations May Improve Evaluations of Trustworthiness |
| Evaluating LLM Driving Explanations through an Ego-Centric Scenario Taxonomy |
| 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 Impedance Control of 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 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: A Vision-Based Diffusion Trajectory Planner with Human-Conditioned Goals for Search and Rescue UAV |
| 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 |
| Goobo: 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 Only Embedded Robot Sensing |
| 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 |
| CLIO: Coordinate User Visual Attention with Audio Narratives for Enhanced Engagement |
| Glove2UAV: A Wearable IMU-Based Glove for Intuitive Control of UAV |
| Confusion Detection from Facial Expressions in Elderly-Robot Interactions: Why Is It Difficult? |
| Giving Robots a Hard Time: A Field Experiment on the Role of Robot Politeness 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 |
| DroneVLA: VLA-Based Aerial Manipulation |
Short Contributions
Award nominee
Short Contributions (Tuesday, March 17)
| BehaviorKit: A Multi-modal Real-Time Behavior Analysis Library for Robots |
| A Custom Web Application to Control NAO using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
| ZTL: 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 on the Pepper Robot |
| 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
Award nominee
Session 01 (Tuesday Full Day, Wednesday Morning)
| Seesoil: Mitigating Negative Emotions through a Desktop Robot for 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 |
| Coached Yoga: Bridging the Gap between Video and Human Instructors 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 |
| Designing Intuitive Human-Drone Interfaces for Post‑disaster Response |
| 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 |
| Talking Like Us: A Multimodal Design for Human-Like Conversation Flow in Robots |
| 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: Framework for Gesture-Based Interaction between Humans and Robot Systems |
| Peri: Retrofitting Public Infrastructure into Adaptive Social Interfaces for Sustainable Habits |
Demos
🍃 Sustainability recognition