Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is a quickly growing and very interdisciplinary research field. Its application areas will have an impact not only economically, but also on the way we live and the kinds of relationships we may develop with machines. Due to its interdisciplinary nature different views and approaches towards HRI need to be nurtured. In order to help the field to develop, this symposium will encourage submissions in a variety of categories, thus giving this event a unique character. The symposium will consist of paper presentations, panels and, importantly, much time for open discussions which will distinguish this event from regular conferences and workshops in the field of HRI.

AISB-LOGO
The first symposium on “New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction” was held as part of AISB 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland; the second symposium was run in conjunction with AISB 2010 in Leicester, England. These two previously organised symposia were characterised by excellent presentations as well as extensive and constructive discussions of the research among the participants. Inspired by the great success of the preceding events and the rapidly evolving field of HRI, the continuation of the symposium series aims to provide a platform to present and discuss collaboratively recent findings and challenges in HRI.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Robot Companions:
    • Robots as helpers in the home
    • Robots as personal assistants and trainers
    • Robots in collaborative scenarios
    • Robots as autonomous companions
    • Robots in schools and in other educational environments
    • Creating relationships with robots
  • Robots in personal care and healthcare:
    • Assistive technology
    • Robot-assisted therapy
    • Robots for rehabilitation
  • Human-centered robot design:
    • Human-aware robot perception
    • User needs and requirements for HRI
    • User experience in HRI
    • Sustaining the engagement of users
    • Robot and human personality
    • Personalising robots
  • Learning in HRI:
    • Robots that learn socially and adapt to people
    • Human-robot teaching
  • Sensors and interfaces for HRI:
    • Embodied interfaces for smart homes
    • Customisable HRI interfaces
    • Multimodal sensor fusion
  • Expressiveness in robots:
    • Dialogue and multimodal human-robot interaction
    • Nonverbal expressiveness
    • Social signal processing
  • Robot architectures for socially intelligent robots:
    • Cognitive architectures
    • Behaviour planning and execution
  • Empirical studies:
    • Ethnography and field studies in naturalistic environments
    • Long-term or repeated interaction with robots
    • New methods and methodologies to carry out and analyse human-robot interaction
    • Cross-cultural studies
  • Robot safety and trust
  • Robots as remote-controlled tools
  • Robots in search and rescue
  • Social and ethical aspects of HRI
  • Developmental robotics