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Today’s robots require increasingly complex human-robot interaction
(HRI) capabilities to meet the demands of the environments and contexts
in which they operate. In particular, natural human-like communications
capabilities are becoming critical for robots operating in everyday
settings such as home, office, shopping, and museum environments.
Inter- and multidisciplinary research in HRI is essential for enabling
robots to transcend the role of mere tools and begin to collaborate
with humans to accomplish complex tasks. The Fourth Annual Conference
on Human-Robot Interaction is dedicated to the advancement of natural
human-robot interaction, which highlights the importance of the
technical and social issues underlying future long-term human-robot
interaction, in the context of companion and assistive robots for
long-term use in everyday life and work activities. HRI is a
single-track, highly selective annual international conference that
seeks to showcase the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
research in human-robot interaction with roots in social psychology,
cognitive science, HCI, human factors, artificial intelligence,
robotics, organizational behavior, anthropology and many more, and we
invite broad participation.
Full and Short Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit all manuscripts in PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
format. Eight camera-ready pages including figures are allowed for each
full paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings, archived in the ACM Digital Library, and assigned for
either oral or full poster presentation. Authors are also encouraged to
submit their late-breaking results for short papers (two pages) which
will not appear in the proceedings but which will be presented in a
special poster session.
Video Submission
We invite videos related to all aspects of HRI. Besides the
importance of the lessons learned and the novelty of the situation, the
entertainment value will be judged. The video itself must be
self-explanatory for the audience. The videos will be published in the
conference proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library.
Tutorials and Workshops
Proposals are sought from those wishing to organize a Tutorial or a
Workshop on a HRI-related theme. Tutorials and Workshops will be held
on March 10, one day before the main technical sessions.
Topics
- Robot companions
- Lifelike robots
- Assistive (health & personal care) robotics
- Remote robots
- Mixed initiative interaction
- Multi-modal interaction
- Long term interaction with robots
- Awareness and monitoring of humans
- Task allocation and coordination
- Autonomy and trust
- Robot-team learning
- User studies of HRI
- Experiments on HRI collaboration
- Ethnography and field studies
- HRI software architectures
- HRI foundations
- Metrics for teamwork
- HRI group dynamics
- Individual vs. group HRI
- Robot intermediaries
- Risks such as privacy or safety
- Ethical issues of HR
- Organizational/society impact
Formatting
Detailed formatting instructions will be posted shortly.
Submitting
Precise submission information will be available soon.
Important Dates
- 15 September 2008: Submission of full papers, and tutorial/workshop proposals
- 01 December 2008: Submission of videos
- 12 December 2008: Notification of acceptance
- 15 December 2008: Submission of late-breaking short papers
- 12 January, 2009: Final camera-ready papers due
General Co-Chairs
Matthias Scheutz (mscheutz@indiana.edu)
Indiana University
François Michaud (Francois.Michaud@USherbrooke.ca)
Université de Sherbrooke
Program Co-Chairs
Pamela Hinds (phinds@stanford.edu)
Stanford University
Brian Scassellati (scaz@cs.yale.edu)
Yale University Exhibitions Co-Chairs
Jenny Burke (jlburke4@cse.usf.edu)
University of South Florida
Holly Yanco (holly@cs.uml.edu)
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Video Session Co-Chairs
Aaron Steinfeld (steinfeld@cmu.edu)
Carnegie Mellon University
Christoph Bartneck (c.bartneck@tue.nl)
Eindhoven University of Technology Local Arrangements Chair
Adriana Tapus (tapus@robotics.usc.edu)
University of Southern California
Publications Chair
Vanessa Evers (evers@swi.psy.uva.nl)
University of Amsterdam Registration Chair
Takayuki Kanda (kanda@atr.jp)
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Finance Chair
Curtis Nielsen (curtisn@gmail.com)
Idaho National Lab Workshops and Tutorials Chair
Kerstin Severinson-Eklundh (kse@nada.kth.se)
The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Webmaster
Christoph Bartneck (c.bartneck@tue.nl)
Eindhoven University of Technology Publicity Co-Chairs
Aude Billard (aude.billard@epfl.ch)
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Christine Lisetti (lisetti@cis.fiu.edu)
Florida International University
Patrick Rau (rpl@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)
Tsinghua University
Sponsorship This conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and its special interest groups SIGCHI and SIGART. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is sponsoring this conference with its societies Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). The conference is also supported by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (SMC).
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