Enabling Knowledge

Enabling Knowledge Theme Information

To represent a broad set of perspectives in human-robot interaction research, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and theoretical, the 10th annual ACM/IEEE HRI Conference invites contributions on enabling knowledge for human-robot interaction. These contributions describe new understanding, studies and reflections on human interaction, needs, and environments that will inform the development of new robot technologies, systems, applications and contexts of interaction.

Full paper submissions that fall under this theme must describe contributions that characterize human interactions or behaviors that future robot systems may support, reveal human needs that future robot systems may meet, describe environments in which robot systems may function and discuss contextual characteristics and its relationship to robots of the future. These submissions must provide rich knowledge about humans and demonstrate the rigor with which such knowledge was constructed, such as details on coding procedure, reliability analysis, etc. Examples of contributions to enabling knowledge in past conferences and the Journal of HRI are included below.

Blind submissions are due on 3 October 2014. Accepted papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE xPlore. Full details of the submission types is provided on Author Page. Submission authors are also encouraged read the Open Letter to the HRI Community that describes the changes in the peer-review process for HRI 2015.

Enabling Knowledge Subcommittee

  • Chair: Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg & AIT
  • Vanessa Evers, University of Twente
  • Malte Jung, Cornell University
  • Astrid Weiss, Vienna University of Technology

Past Contributions on Enabling Methods