Note: Workshops and Tutorials will be held at Heriot-Watt University, separately from the main conference activities, which will be held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Heriot-Watt University campus is served by various bus lines: 25, 34, 35, 45.
The journey to the campus takes ~35 minutes from Haymarket and ~50 minutes from Princes Street. We recommend you take bus 34 or 35 which has a stop in front of the National Robotarium building where registration will take place.
Registration will open at 8:30am and close at 2:45pm at the National Robotarium, reopening at 3pm at the EICC for those who do not attend workshops but need to register and get their badge in time for the welcome reception at 7:30pm at Dynamic Earth. Registration will close at 5pm at the EICC, please make sure to get your badge before than if you are coming to the welcome reception.
Workshops will be organised in two sessions, a morning session and an afternoon session, with a common lunch break scheduled from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM. The morning session will run from 9:30 AM until approximately 1:00 PM, while the afternoon session will take place from 2:30 PM until approximately 6:00 PM (note that you will need approximately 60 minute to reach the welcome reception location from the campus).
A light breakfast refreshment will be available at the National Robotarium from 8:30am.
Workshop organisers may choose to slightly extend the end of the morning session or bring forward the start of the afternoon session, considering also lunch break. Lunch will be served either at the National Robotorium or dedicated spaces closer to the allocated workshop rooms. Participants will attend the lunch break near their allocated workshop room.
Participants will attend the lunch break near their allocated workshop room, please check the the following table for both your workshop and lunch spot location. Please help us maintain order and room capacity by adhering to your lunch area.
Note: if you are attending a morning and an afternoon workshop, your designated lunch area is the one assigned to your morning workshop.
You can find your workshop room and lunch spot in the interactive map of the campus:
Schedule - March 16, 2026
| Workshop Name | Website | Program | Room | Lunch Spot |
| Workshop on Designing Transparent and Understandable Robots (D-TUR) | https://dtur-hri.github.io/workshop2026/ | Morning | EBS Scott Suite | JN.Crush |
| Methodological Innovation in Designing Sensations and Sentiments from Robot Touch | https://sites.google.com/view/touchwellhri2026workshop/home | Morning | EM127 | EM.Crush |
| Unpacking Lived Experiences of Wizards of Oz | https://sites.google.com/view/wozhri/ | Morning | JN101 | JN.Crush |
| 3rd Workshop on Designerly HRI: Articulating the Value of Design Research for HRI | designerlyHRI.org | Morning | EMG83 | Robotarium Atrium |
| Robots for Care: Exploring Downstream Socio-Ethical Effects and Upstream Interventions | https://healthrobotsworkshop.github.io/HRI-workshop2026/ | Morning | EM233 | EM.Crush |
| Robots for Communities | https://sites.google.com/view/robots-for-communities/home | Morning | JW1 Wardlaw | JN.Crush |
| Errors, Mistakes and Failures in Humans and Robots | https://sites.google.com/view/emfhri26/home | Morning | EC204 | JN.Crush |
| InterAI: Interactive AI for Human-centered Robotics | https://sites.google.com/view/interaiworkshophri2026/home | Morning | EM244 | EM.Crush |
| Expressive robot faces with Vizij: a workshop / tutorial hybrid | https://vizij.ai/events/hri-2026-tutorial | Full day | CMT01 | EM.Crush |
| Roboticist’s Guide to Working with Children: A Playful by Design Workshop | https://sites.google.com/iu.edu/hri26-roboticist-guide-child/call-for-participation | Full day | JN102 | JN.Crush |
| Responsible Outcomes and Operational Tools for Sustainability in HRI (ROOTS-HRI) | https://sites.google.com/view/roots-hri-2026/ | Full day | EM170 | EM.Crush |
| Workshop YOUR Study Design 2026! | https://sites.google.com/view/wysd-2026-at-hri | Full day | NR Multiflex 1 | Robotarium Atrium |
| Failing Forward: Design and Deployment Lessons from Real-World Human-Robot Interaction | https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/failfowardhri2026 | Afternoon | EBS Scott Suite | JN.Crush |
| BPM-HRI: Best Practices and Methods in HRI Research | https://www.uk-hri.org/events/bpm-hri-2026 | Afternoon | EM306 | EM.Crush |
| Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI): Evolving Assistance for Everyday Life | https://leap-hri.github.io/ | Afternoon | LT2 | JN.Crush |
| Cruel Optimism, Lucid Despair, and Precarious Hope in HRI | https://sites.google.com/view/hriworkshop2026/home | Afternoon | EMG83 | Robotatium Atrium |
| Multi-Agentic Systems in HRI (MAgicS-HRI): Bridging Design and Real-World Challenges for End Users | https://sites.google.com/view/magics-hri/home?authuser=0 | Afternoon | EM244 | EM.Crush |
| Equitable Robotics for Wellbeing (Eq-RW) | https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/eq-rw/ | Afternoon | WA208 | JN.Crush |
| A tutorial for finding and evaluating HRI scales | https://hri.lab.gmu.edu/workshops/hri-2026-workshop/ | Afternoon | JW1 Wardlaw | JN.Crush |
| Third International Workshop on Worker-Robot Relations: Futuring Worker Empowerment through Worldbuilding around Human-Robot Interactions | https://sites.google.com/view/wwrworkshop3/home | Afternoon | JN101 | JN.Crush |
| Empowering Human-Robot Communication Through Non-Linguistic Pathways | https://dml.uni-bremen.de/huroco/HRI2026/ | Afternoon | EM233 | EM.Crush |
| Exploring the Safety, Trust, Psychosocial, Legal and Economic Impact of Cyber Attacks on Social Robots: “What Should People Know and How Can We Mitigate Risks?” | https://securerobotics.net/ | Afternoon | EMG44 | EM.Crush |