"The Forgotten in HRI: Incidental Encounters with Robots in Public Spaces" is the 5th workshop we would like to introduce. This workshop targets researchers who are bringing robotics into the real world. Submissions are still open, read more: tiny.cc/nc1xiz

The 6th spotlight we put on "Exploring Creative Contents in Social Robotics". This workshops seeks to discuss how to address challenges to the broader consumer-oriented development of social robots in relation to creative content creation. Seehttps://tinyurl.com/u5yc8j3

The "Behavioral Patterns and Interaction Modelling for Personalized HRI" is our 7th workshop, that covers topics ranging from interaction strategies for social HRI to user modeling. Position papers can be submitted before the 31st of January: personalhri.wordpress.com/submission/

"Natural Language Generation for HRI" is the 8th highlighted workshop. This workshop aims to bring researchers from NLG and HRI together. More info here: hbuschme.github.io/nlg-hri-worksh…

"Mental Models of Robots" is the 9th workshop we showcase. This workshop aims to bring researchers together interested in helping users understand robotic systems. Read more mmhri.github.io

"Affect and Embodiment in HRI" is the 10th workshop we would like to highlight. This workshop accepts submissions for full papers and ignite talks, with the deadline being the 21st of February, 2020. Read more sites.google.com/view/affect-an…

"Autonomous Dialogue Technologies in Symbiotic HRI" is the 11th workshop we would like to highlight. This workshop aims to introduce research activities in Symbiotic HRI, and to discuss applications and necessary technologies of humanoids and droids. sites.google.com/irl.sys.es.osa…

The last workshop we will highlight is the workshop on "Mindreading in HRI". This workshop aims to bring researchers together working on topics ranging from Cognitive Neuroscience to Robotics. Deadline for the submission of position papers is 14/02/2020. sites.google.com/view/mindreadi…

Early registration for HRI_2020 ends on the 31st of January... Just three more days to finish your registration!

We have updated our travel advice for HRI_2020 in relation to the outbreak of COVID-2019, especially for people traveling from Category 1 areas. More information on humanrobotinteraction.org/2020/

Due to COVID-2019 outbreak we will allow pre-recorded videos for presentation. We are also exploring the option of live-streaming the conference. More information can be found online at humanrobotinteraction.org/2020/

Due to the rapid developments regarding #COVID19 we have decided to cancel the physical conference. More information on the virtual event can be found soon on the HRI_2020 website: humanrobotinteraction.org/2020

The HRI_2020 conference will soon host a virtual conference with pre-recorded presentations. Presenters are working hard on converting their papers in a video talk. #covid19

The deadline for video presentations has been extended until the 27th of March. More information can be found here: humanrobotinteraction.org/2020/informati…

Today was supposed to be the first day of HRI ☹️ We are currently finalizing the virtual program, and will launch it on April 1 👍

We cannot launch the virtual HRI2020 conference on April 1st. Both the organizing committee and the ACM are working overtime to launch the online conference is Monday April 6th. Over 200 presentations and a first keynote coming your way soon!

Missing the human elements of the HRI conference? Here’s an opportunity! Join the biweekly Bots&Beer networking event at 7pm PST Wednesday April 1st. eventbrite.com/e/botsbeer-onl… or zoom.us/meeting/regist…

The Companion Proceedings of HRI2020 are available online, all Late Breaking Reports, alt.HRI and Demonstration papers for your delectation. See: dl.acm.org/doi/proceeding…

Our HRI_2020 industry event in full swing. Karl Fezer from Arm is talking about cloud independent interactive agents. Join us via humanrobotinteraction.org/2020/schedule/

We are running an online study on intentionality towards robots. Data collection is fully anonymous. @ROMAN2020ieee HRI_2020 IROS 2019 Help us to reach experts in robotics! Please like and RT Link to the study👇run.pavlovia.org/S4HRI/iat_s4hr…