Enabling Technologies

Enabling Technologies 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 technologies for human-robot interaction. These contributions describe new robot systems, algorithms, and computational methods that enable robots to better understand, interact with, and collaborate with their users.

Full paper submissions under this theme must present the proposed technology or method in a form that allows replication, such as formal descriptions, pseudocode, or open-sourced code; demonstrate the applicability of the technology for enabling human-robot interaction; and evaluate the soundness of the proposed technology using methods that are best suited to assess technical soundness (e.g., performance benchmarking, case study results, quantitative comparisons against state-of-the-art). Examples of contributions to enabling technologies 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 Authors 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 Technologies Subcommittee 

  • Chair: Nicholas Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Brenna Argall, Northwestern University
  • Kai Oliver Arras, University of Freiburg
  • Maya Cakmak, University of Washington
  • Sonia Chernova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Ana Paiva, Technical University of Lisbon
  • Julie Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Siddhartha Srinivasa, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Stefanie Tellex, Brown University

Past Contributions on Enabling Technologies