Submissions

Theme: Human-Robot Collaboration

Topics of Interest Include (but are not restricted to):

•  Research, design and development, and use of robots that interact collaboratively
•  Robots that support human collaboration
•  Innovative robot designs for HRI research
•  User‐centered design of social robots
•  Novel interfaces and interaction modalities 
•  Long‐term experience and longitudinal HRI studies
•  Evaluation methods and new methodologies for HRI research
•  Androids
•  Degrees of autonomy and teleoperation
•  Human factors and ergonomics in HRI research
• Virtual and augmented tele‐presence environments 
• Social, ethical and aesthetic issues in human‐robot interaction research
• Robots in education, therapy and rehabilitation 
• Medical and surgical applications of robots 
• Robot companions and social robots in home environments
• Assistive robotics for supporting the elderly or people with special needs
• Applications of social robots in entertainment, service robotics, space travel and
• others
• Anthropomorphic robots and virtual humans
• Interaction with believable characters
• Non‐verbal cues and expressiveness in interactions: gesture, posture, social spaces
• and facial expressions 
• Interaction kinesics
• Monitoring of behavior and internal states of human subjects
• Robotic etiquette
• Social intelligence for robots 
• Social presence for robots and virtual humans
• Creating relationships with robots and humanoids 
• Personalities for robotic or virtual characters
• Embodiment, empathy and intersubjectivity in interaction with robotic and virtual
• characters 
• Intelligence, motivations and emotions in robots 
• Curiosity, intentionality and initiative in interaction 
• Linguistic communication and dialogue with robots and intelligent interfaces 
• Multimodal interaction and conversational skills 
• Cognitive and sensori‐motor development in robots 
• Cognitive skills and mental models for social robots
• Social learning and skill acquisition via teaching and imitation
• Programming by demonstration
• Cooperation and collaboration in human‐robot teams
• Human‐robot interaction and collaboration in manufacturing environments
• Motion planning and navigation in the vicinity of humans
• Machine learning and adaptation in human‐robot interaction
• Multi‐modal situation awareness and spatial cognition
• Computational architectures for human‐robot interaction 
• Detecting and understanding human activity
• Narrative and story‐telling in interaction