Industry White Papers

Following the success of the Industry White Paper sessions at Industry Day last year, we are excited to announce that Industry White Papers are now part of the main HRI 2027 program and will be included in the archival companion proceedings. With this year’s theme of Innovative HRI, this track is meant to serve as a natural home for work that shows how HRI ideas become deployable real-world systems.

This track offers a dedicated venue for industry practitioners, applied researchers, and cross-sector teams to share practical, real-world lessons from human-robot interaction: the kind of insight that doesn’t always fit a traditional research paper. We invite you to submit your work to the Industry White Paper Track of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2027.

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE.

Scope

We welcome submissions on practical, real-world experience deploying and operating HRI systems: the challenges, trade-offs, and lessons that emerge once systems leave the lab.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Case studies of successful or failed robotic system integrations in human-robot interaction contexts (e.g., service robots in hospitality, social robots in eldercare, manufacturing cobots, logistics robots, field robots interacting with humans).
• Deployments in realistic operational environments, with lessons learned across technical, human-factors, organisational, or business dimensions.
• Practical challenges around scalability, robustness, user acceptance, ethics, safety, maintenance, regulation, and sustainability.
• Innovation in interaction design, system architecture, or human-robot teaming, with a focus on applicability beyond the immediate case.
• Academia-industry collaborations: how they were structured, what worked, what didn’t.
• Insights on evaluation, metrics, real-world performance, and long-term adaptation of deployed systems.

We especially encourage submissions that surface patterns or recurring challenges relevant across domains.

Submission Guidelines

• Length: Up to 4 pages (double-column) including figures, excluding references. Templates are available at this link (US letter). You can use this link to start writing directly via Overleaf.
• Anonymisation: As an industry-oriented track, author names, affiliations, and logos are permitted. However, we strongly discourage the use of marketing-style language and product branding. Please ensure that industry white papers emphasise insight rather than advertisement.
• Format: PDF format, compatible with the ACM workflow.
• Supplementary Materials: Authors may optionally provide a link to supplementary material (e.g., data, videos, system photos) but this does not replace the main document or count beyond the 4-page limit.
• Evaluation Criteria: Relevance to HRI practice, clarity of lessons learned, novelty of insight, generalisability, rigour of reflection (not necessarily academic lab-style), and accessibility to both industry and academic audiences.
• Archival: New this year! Submissions will be included in the archival companion proceedings and made open access.

Submissions are strongly encouraged from both HRI Partners and from industry practitioners or applied researchers outside the Partner network, to enrich the exchange of practical insights across sectors.

At least one author must register to present the work.