HRI 2026 – Proceedings

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Do Type and Importance of Agent’s Resource Matter? How Robots’ Helping Behavior Influences Human Trust to Them
Chenlin Hang, Masahiro Shiomi, Rui Prada, and Seiji Yamada
(Kanagawa University, Kanagawa, Japan; ATR, Kyoto, Japan; Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p1173-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785609

	Conditions of study 1: The video stimulus we use in study 1.
	Conditions of study 2: The video stimulus we use in study 2.

Long-Term Integration of a Robot in an Inclusive Daycare: An Ethnographic Study Focused on Children and Caregivers
Jan Ole Rixen, Kathrin Gerling, and Barbara Bruno
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p1199-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785578

(Em)Powering the End of Power: HRI for Safe Nuclear Decommissioning
Anne-Marie Oostveen, Jingyi E. Zhang, and Sarah Fletcher
(Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p1241-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788661

PEHRCIVE: Platform for Evaluating Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction in Virtual Environments
Eduardo Araújo, Paula Alexandra Silva, Sergi Bermúdez i Badia, Diogo Branco, and Artur Pilacinski
(University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal; NOVA LINCS, Funchal, Portugal; ARDITI, Funchal, Portugal; Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany)

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	Supporting File 1: Short demonstration video of the PEHRCIVE collaborative assembly task being performed in virtual reality, as well as the interface used to answer the Godspeed Questionnaire Series.
	Supporting File 2: This document serves as the supporting material for the paper "PEHRCIVE: Platform for Evaluating Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction in Virtual Environments". It provides the comprehensive statistical output omitted from the main text due to space constraints, specifically: Tables S1-S3: Complete descriptive and ...

What Is a Robot? Understanding Baseball’s “Robot Umpire” through the Lens of Fluid Technology
Waki Kamino, Andrea W. Wen-Yi, Guy Hoffman, Selma Šabanović, and Malte F. Jung
(Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; Indiana University at Bloomington, Bloomington, USA)

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Interface-Aware Trajectory Reconstruction of Limited Demonstrations for Robot Learning
Demiana R. Barsoum, Mahdieh Nejati Javaremi, Larisa Y.C. Loke, and Brenna D. Argall
(Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, USA; Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)

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	Video: Video showcasing a summary of the paper and demonstrations on real hardware.
	Appendix: Supplementary material (appendix).

Reframing Conversational Design in HRI: Deliberate Design with AI Scaffolds
Shiye Cao, Jiwon Moon, Yifan Xu, Anqi Liu, and Chien-Ming Huang
(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA; University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)

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Open-Ended Goal Inference through Actions and Language for Human-Robot Collaboration
Debasmita Ghose, Oz Gitelson, Marynel Vázquez, and Brian Scassellati
(Yale University, New Haven, USA)

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	Code Submission: Code
	Supplementary Material: Appendices with implementation details
	Teaser Video: Video of the real-world demo

WAFFLE: A Wearable Approach to Bite Timing Estimation in Robot-Assisted Feeding
Akhil Padmanabha, Jessie Yuan, Tanisha S. Mehta, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Eric Hu, Victoria de León, Anthony Wertz, Janavi Gupta, Ben Dodson, Yunting Yan, Carmel Majidi, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, and Zackory Erickson
(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA; Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)

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Appendix: Appendix for the Paper

A Nuanced Approached to Robotics and Aesthetics
Alexandre Colle and Mauro Dragone
(Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK; University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)

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The Dynamics of Human Fairness Judgments towards a Robot
Houston Claure, Austin Narcomey, Kate Candon, Inyoung Shin, and Marynel Vázquez
(Yale University, New Haven, USA)

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Video: Video for paper, "The Dynamics of Human Fairness Judgments Towards a Robot".

Why Do Service Robots Fail? A Systematic Literature Review from a Service Design Perspective
Sanqi Yang, Jaehyun Park, Sangseok You, and Younghoon Chang
(Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China)

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Uncanny Touch? Investigating the Influence of Lifelike Haptic Cues on User Perceptions of a Social Robot
Jacqueline Borgstedt, Shaun Macdonald, Jacob Bhattacharyya, Frank Pollick, and Stephen Brewster
(ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)

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Perceiving Animacy in Robots: A Neuroimaging Study
Or Yizhar, Amber Maimon, Zohar Tal, Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Hadas Erel, Doron Friedman, Oren Zuckerman, and Amir Amedi
(MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel; Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel; University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany)

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Appendix: Appendix with additional information on the methods

Who Leads the Story? Comparing Autonomous vs. Adult-Supported Child-Robot Interactions
Dotun Olutunbi, Riccardo Polvara, Tom Davies, Jenny Hamilton, Niko Kargas, and Francesco Del Duchetto
(University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK; United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates)

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	Questionnaire: This document contains the questionnaire administered post-session to the participants of the study.
	LLM prompt: This document contains the prompt provided to the EmoEx AI "Autism Ally" model for enabling natural storytelling interaction and integration with the Pepper robot system.

“Meet My Sidekick!”: Effects of Separate Identities and Control of a Single Robot in HRI
Drake Moore, Arushi Aggarwal, Emily Taylor, Sarah Zhang, Taskin Padir, and Xiang Zhi Tan
(Northeastern University, Boston, USA; Amazon Robotics, Westborough, USA)

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	Dialogue Appendix: Dialogue for each embodiment type for each of the three user tasks.
	Custom Questions: List of custom questions asked during the study.
	Video Attachment: A video attachment demonstrating various embodiment conditions during a failure scenario.

Elements of Robot Morphology: Supporting Designers in Robot Form Exploration
Amy Koike, Serena Ge Guo, Xinning He, Callie Y. Kim, Dakota Sullivan, and Bilge Mutlu
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA)

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When Robots Say No: The Empathic Ethical Disobedience Benchmark
Dmytro Kuzmenko and Nadiya Shvai
(National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine; Cyclope AI, Paris, France)

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The Empathic Ethical Disobedience (EED) Gym Benchmark (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18048653): A Gymnasium-compatible environment and training stack for studying calibrated, empathic refusal ("ethical disobedience") with explicit trust, affect, and safety dynamics. The repository bundles the installable package, ready-to-run trainers/evaluators, and vignette-analysis scripts that ground the environment ...

Crafting Companions: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Customization amongst Robot Owners
Amelie Voges, Mary Ellen Foster, and Emily S. Cross
(University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK; ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

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What You Reward Is What You Learn: Comparing Rewards for Online Speech Policy Optimization in Public HRI
Sichao Song, Yuki Okafuji, Kaito Ariu, and Amy Koike
(CyberAgent, Tokyo, Japan; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA)

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Appendix: This appendix provides: (1) descriptive statistics comparing Thompson Sampling and Uniform Sampling across all audio-policy arms and rewards (𝑅𝑢, 𝑅𝑐, 𝑅𝑡); (2) cumulative reward plots for both allocation schemes by reward; and (3) the full GLM results, including non-significant terms and diagnostics.

Bystander Privacy Implications of Robots in Everyday Spaces: A Scoping Review
Manuel Dietrich, Alan Sarkisian, and Thomas H. Weisswange
(Honda Research Institute, Offenbach, Germany; Honda Research Institute, Wako, Japan)

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Supplementary Material: This document provides an overview of the search terms used in the literature review, outlines the review processing workflow, and presents the reference list of the final selected papers.

Breathe with Me: Synchronizing Biosignals for User Embodiment in Robots
Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Amber Maimon, Shiyao Zhang, Dennis Küster, Robert Porzel, Tanja Schultz, and Rainer Malaka
(University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel)

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	Video: A video describing the implementation and experiment.
	Video captions: Captions for the accompanying video

Persona Non Graphica: Visual Representation Biases in Human-Robot Interaction Research
Katie Seaborn and Özge Nilay Yalçın
(Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Simon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26main-p2624-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785541

LEGS-POMDP: Language and Gesture-Guided Object Search in Partially Observable Environments
Ivy Xiao He, Stefanie Tellex, and Jason Xinyu Liu
(Brown University, Providence, USA)

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Robot Tutors or Peers? Evaluating Math Learning and Conformity with LLM-Powered Robots in Tanzanian Primary Schools
Edger P. Rutatola, Elina C. Ntahomvukye, Koen Stroeken, and Tony Belpaeme
(Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Mzumbe University, Morogoro, Tanzania)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p2757-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785594

Appendices: Appendices containing questions used for the pre-test, intervention, post-test, and interviews.

Should Robots Comply with Our Instructions or Intentions?
Tiffany Horter, Andrew Markham, Niki Trigoni, and Serena Booth
(University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Brown University, Providence, USA)

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Appendices for Should Robots Comply with Our Instructions or Intentions?: The appendices for "Should Robots Comply with Our Instructions or Intentions?"

Adding More Value Than Work: Practical Guidelines for Integrating Robots into Intercultural Competence Learning
Zhennan Yi, Sophia Sakakibara Capello, Randy Gomez, and Selma Šabanović
(Indiana University at Bloomington, Bloomington, USA; University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA; Honda Research Institute, Wako, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p2826-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785570

Social Robotics for Disabled Students: An Empirical Investigation of Embodiment, Roles, and Interaction
Alva Markelius, Fethiye Irmak Doğan, Julie Bailey, Guy Laban, Jenny L. Gibson, and Hatice Gunes
(University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p2878-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785593

Robot-Mediated Mutual Gaze: How a Mobile Robot with Actuated Mirrors Facilitates Encounters between Strangers
Serena Ge Guo, Jenny J. Yu, Wenqian Niu, Yifei Gao, Guy Hoffman, Gilly Leshed, and Keith Evan Green
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA; Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)

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Video: The video of MirrorBot project.

Pluriversal Approach to Co-designing Delivery Robots with People with Disabilities
Abena Boadi-Agyemang, Sanika Moharana, Cynthia L. Bennett, Elizabeth J. Carter, Patrick Carrington, and Aaron Steinfeld
(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA; Google, New York, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p2927-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785567

The Roles of Fairness and Effectiveness in Promoting Legitimacy and Cooperation with Security Robotic Authority
Xin Ye and Lionel P. Robert
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

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Supplementary Materials: This supplementary material includes all materials used in the study, including video clips, post-video vignettes, and questionnaires.

Generative Encounters with Robin: Design through Adaptation and Appropriation of a Social Robot in Four Eldercare Facilities
Nan Hu and Selma Šabanović
(Indiana University at Bloomington, Bloomington, USA)

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Reflexive Thematic Analysis - Code Samples: Codebook with representative quotes and theme definitions and iterations in each phase

Unlocking Emotions: The Impact of Robot Question-Asking and Reciprocal Sharing on Self-Disclosure during Emotion Learning
Joana Brito, Anouk Neerincx, Antonio Soares, Haohua Dong, Ana Teresa Antunes, Ana Paiva, Maartje M.A. de Graaf, and Joana Campos
(INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal; Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands; Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p3313-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785542

	Stories, Robot Script & Coding Scheme: Database of stories narrated by the robot, full robot script and coding scheme.
	Correlation analysis: Full results of our exploratory correlation analysis to examine relationships between self-disclosure and other measures using Spearman's rank-order correlation.

The Valley of Ontological Friction: Motivating, Framing, and Guiding HRI Research on Verisimilitude and Its Implications
Tom Williams and Alexandra Bejarano
(Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA; Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p3342-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788666

Customizing Robot Personality: How Personality Control and Form Factor Shape Perceptions of a Robot as a Social Agent
Alex Wuqi Zhang, Aaron Huang, Allison J. Li, and Sarah Sebo
(University of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Columbia University, New York, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p3360-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785543

	Video: One minute video of the interaction
	Customizing Personality Supplemental Material: A PDF document with supplemental material meant to accompany the full paper

A Human-in-the-Loop Confidence-Aware Failure Recovery Framework for Modular Robot Policies
Rohan Banerjee, Krishna Palempalli, Bohan Yang, Jiaying Fang, Alif Abdullah, Tom Silver, Sarah Dean, and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
(Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; Princeton University, Princeton, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p3538-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788668

Designing Robots for Families: In-Situ Prototyping for Contextual Reminders on Family Routines
Michael F. Xu, Enhui Zhao, Yawen Zhang, Joseph E. Michaelis, Sarah Sebo, and Bilge Mutlu
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA; University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA; University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p3539-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788654

Dull, Dirty, Dangerous: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of a Key Motivation for Robotics
Nozomi Nakajima, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Caitrin Lynch, and Kate Darling
(Robotics and AI Institute, Cambridge, USA; Olin College of Engineering, Needham, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p3575-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785574

Online Appendix for Dull, Dirty, Dangerous: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of a Key Motivation for Robotics: Online Appendix (tables and figures) for Dull, Dirty, Dangerous: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of a Key Motivation for Robotics

Task-Oriented Robot-Human Handovers on Legged Manipulators
Andreea Tulbure, Carmen Scheidemann, Elias Steiner, and Marco Hutter
(ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

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	prompt: Example prompt used in the modules of AFT-Handover
	video: Video accompanying the paper, showing task-oriented handovers on our legged manipulator.

Speaking with Screens: Design Space and Guidelines for Informational Robot Screens
Yujin Kim, Christine P Lee, and Bilge Mutlu
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26main-p3680-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785557

Who’s the Boss? Children Negotiate Robot Control across Role and Context
Isabella Pu, Kantwon Rogers, Linh Dieu Dinh, Sharifa Alghowinem, and Cynthia Breazeal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p3704-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785548

Worksheets used in featured activities: Zip file with worksheets used in featured activities in the paper: Robot Roles and Doodlebot Design

Reimagining Social Robots as Recommender Systems: Foundations, Framework, and Applications
Jin Huang, Fethiye Irmak Doğan, and Hatice Gunes
(University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p3751-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785610

Not the Intended User: Queer Perspectives on Identity, Risk, and Trust in Robot Companions
Kaylee Nam, Jackie Yee, Raitah A. Jinnat, Keys K. Rigual, Alexandria Thylane, and Raj Korpan
(Rice University, Houston, USA; City University of New York, New York, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p3833-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785581

Appendix: This appendix provides supporting materials that improve transparency and reuse: participant demographics and workshop procedures; supplementary survey plots; additional qualitative artifacts, including evidence-alignment tables; and the full set of design requirements, design tensions, and scenario illustrations. We ...

Explainable OOHRI: Communicating Robot Capabilities and Limitations as Augmented Reality Affordances
Lauren W. Wang, Mohamed Kari, and Parastoo Abtahi
(Princeton University, Princeton, USA)

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	Video: A one-minute demo video of X-OOHRI.
	Appendix: This is the appendix of X-OOHRI.

Context-Aware Generation and Modulation of Expressive Motion Behavior using Multimodal Foundation Models
Till Hielscher, Fabio Scaparro, and Kai O. Arras
(University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany)

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	Supplemental Material: Context-Aware Generation and Modulation of Expressive Motion Behavior using Multimodal Foundation Models: Supplemental material describing relevant aspects of the implementation.
	Supplental Material - Video: Context-Aware Generation and Modulation of Expressive Motion Behavior using Multimodal Foundation Models: A video showcasing the motion behavior referenced in the paper.

Kept Alive, Bricked, Revived: Community Articulation Work and Value Renegotiation beyond a Robot’s Commercial Failure
Waki Kamino, Bengisu Cagiltay, Bilge Mutlu, Malte F. Jung, and Selma Šabanović
(Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA; Indiana University at Bloomington, Bloomington, USA)

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Interview protocol: Supplemental material: interview questions of semi-structure interviews conducted in the study

When Fatigue Shapes Trust: Perceptual Shifts beyond Performance in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration
Aakash Yadav, Prabhakar Pagilla, and Ranjana Mehta
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA; Texas A&M University, College Station, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p4111-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785544

Can You Help Me? The Influence of Robot Requests for Help on Child-Robot Connection
Teresa Flanagan, Justin Chenjia Zhang, Lin Bian, and Sarah Sebo
(University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26main-p4221-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785631

	Supplemental Video: A 1-minute video demonstrating the conditions.
	Supplementary Materials: Supplementary materials to the paper. Includes, but more detail on the age and gender distribution of sample, picture examples of the conditions, LLM prompts, full set of questionnaire, full model results, additional analyses, and examples of children's drawings.

Explaining Why Things Go Where They Go: Interpretable Constructs of Human Organizational Preferences
Emmanuel Fashae, Michael Burke, Leimin Tian, Lingheng Meng, and Pamela Carreno-Medrano
(Monash University, Clayton, Australia; CSIRO Robotics, Melbourne, Australia; Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia; CSIRO, Clayton, Australia)

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Appendix: Paper appendix

Estimation of Mobile Robot Waiting Locations using Fluid Simulation without Prior Observation
Ryoya Sakaki, Yoshio Ishiguro, Kento Ohtani, Takanori Nishino, and Kazuya Takeda
(Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan; University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p4247-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785561

Robot-Assisted Medical Training for Safety-Critical Environments
Huajie Jay Cao, Michael Joseph Sack, Lili Mkrtchyan, Kevin Ching, Tariq Iqbal, Hee Rin Lee, and Angelique Taylor
(Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA; Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, USA; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA; Cornell University, New York, USA)

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Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction
Md Mofijul Islam, Alexi Gladstone, Sujan Sarker, Ganesh Nanduru, Md Fahim, Keyan Du, Aman Chadha, and Tariq Iqbal
(University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA; University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Apple, Cupertino, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p4516-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785601

Appendix: Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction: This appendix contains additional resources, additional experimental results, details of the data collection procedure, and baseline models.

Emergency Department Waiting Experience: The Impact of an Attentive Robot
Yuval Rubin Kopelman, Dikla Dahan Shriki, Roy Cohen Elias, Tomer Leivy, Julian Waksberg, Mira Leybel, Jalal Ashkar, Mahmod Hamdan, and Hadas Erel
(Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel; Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel)

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Fictional vs. Factual Robot Tutor Dialogue Can Shape Child Social-Emotional Learning
Lauren L. Wright, Kaitlyn Li, Hewitt Watkins, Kiljoong Kim, and Sarah Sebo
(University of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p4565-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785596

	Supplementary Material: Supplementary Material containing extended method details and results
	Video: Footage from study demonstrating the difference between fictional and factual robot dialogue conditions.

Beyond Information Amount: Rethinking Transparency through Active Reasoning Demand
Xuedong Zhang, Yilu Ye, Yong Ma, Zelun Tony Zhang, and Andreas Butz
(LMU Munich, Munich, Germany; University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; TU Munich, Munich, Germany; Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany)

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	Appendix: Supplementary materials, including the self-designed questionnaire, all rules used in the task validation study, the complete set of explanations from the main study, and the participant instructions of the main study.
	Supplementary Video: The video demonstrates the different explanation conditions.

Teaching the Teacher: Live Foundation Model and Augmented Reality Feedback for Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer
Nina Marie Moorman, Matthew Luebbers, Zhang Xi-Jia, Yee Ching (Marcus) Lau, Yixing Yao, Megan Langwasser, Zulfiqar Zaidi, Letian Chen, Sanne van Waveren, and Matthew Gombolay
(Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)

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Appendix: Appendix for paper titled "Teaching the Teacher: Live Foundation Model and Augmented Reality Feedback for Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer".

SCOPE: Real-Time Natural Language Camera Agent at the Edge: A Sim-to-Real Benchmark and Analysis of Open-Source Vision and Language Agents for PTZ Camera Tasks
Nikolaj Hindsbo, Sina Ehsani, and Pragyana Mishra
(Armada, Bellevue, USA)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26main-p4761-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785641

Robotic Bias and Its Dimensions
Tomislav Furlanis, Dražen Brščić, and Takayuki Kanda
(University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p4776-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785613

Bidirectional Human-Robot Communication for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Junxiang Wang, Cindy Wang, Rana Soltani Zarrin, and Zackory Erickson
(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA; Honda Research Institute, San Jose, USA)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26main-p4917-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785634

Appendix: Appendix

From Human Bias to Robot Choice: How Occupational Contexts and Racial Priming Shape Robot Selection
Jiangen He, Wanqi Zhang, and Jessica K. Barfield
(University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, USA; University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5069-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788658

APPENDIX: APPENDIX include questionnaires and additional images

RECS: LSTM-Based Cognitive Status Estimation for Human-Robot Interaction
Mark Higger, Zhuoyi Wang, Polina Rygina, Lara Ferreira Bezerra, Logan Daigler, Zane Aloia, Sheena Wu, Ishani Pandey, Amanda Chen, and Tom Williams
(Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA; University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5095-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785597

The RUSH Checklist: A Standardized Framework for Reporting User Studies in Human-Robot Interaction
Shruti Chandra, Katie Seaborn, Giulia Barbareschi, Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie, Shelly Bagchi, Sara Cooper, Zhao Han, and Daniel Tozadore
(University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada; Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Keio University, Yokohama, Japan; University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany; Oakland University, Rochester, USA; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA; Artificial Intelligence Institute - CSIC, Cerdanyola, Spain; University of South Florida, Tampa, USA; University College London, London, UK)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26main-p5197-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785572

MotionBuddy: Exploring Tactile-Based Motion Learning with a Tabletop Humanoid Robot for Blind People
Kengo Tanaka, Xiyue Wang, Hironobu Takagi, Yoichi Ochiai, and Chieko Asakawa
(University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan; IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan; IBM, Yorktown Heights, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5254-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788660

Supplemental video: This video presents an overview of our research on conveying bodily movement to blind learners using a humanoid robot.

Enhancing Gesture-Based Human-Robot Interaction: Investigating the Role of Force Automation
Tonia Mielke, Marilena Georgiades, Oliver S. Großer, Maciej Pech, Christian Hansen, and Florian Heinrich
(University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany; Forschungscampus STIMULATE, Magdeburg, Germany; University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany)

Publisher's Version Video Article: hri26main-p5302-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785568

Towards a Systematic Model of the Effects of Transparency Utterances on Calibrating Trust in Social Robots
Kerstin Fischer and Matouš Jelínek
(University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Denmark)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5368-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785626

Coordinating Speech with Touch Input and Visual Cues in Human–Robot Interaction: A Multimodal System Evaluated through Metamorphic Testing
Massimo Donini, Paolo Arcaini, Michael Oliverio, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Alessandro Mazzei, Deyun Lyu, and Cristina Gena
(University of Turin, Turin, Italy; National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5442-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785602

Mind the Seat: Passenger Compliance with a Social Robot Conductor’s Safety Announcements on Buses
Nihan Karatas, Linjing Jiang, Yuki Yoshihara, Tetsuya Hirota, Ryugo Fujita, and Takahiro Tanaka
(Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; Tokai Rika, Aichi, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5489-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785616

From Voice to Form: How Gender-Ambiguous Voices Shape Physical Robot Design
Martina De Cet, Negin Hashmati, Mohammad Obaid, and Ilaria Torre
(Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5519-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785559

Supplementary Material: Semi-structured interview script, coding schema for thematic analysis, audio used in the experiment, RoMix toolkit.

Exploring Labor Issues in Human–Robot Collaboration: Community-Based Research with Trade Unions in Manufacturing
Yuxuan Wang, Wenlong Zhang, and Hee Rin Lee
(Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA; Arizona State University, Mesa, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5565-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785624

Chirality-Aware Grammar-Guided Surgical Action Anticipation from Video
Md Rezowan Hossain Ferdous Shuvo, M. S. Mekala, and Eyad Elyan
(Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26main-p5571-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785551

The ‘Aww’ Factor: Robot Cuteness as a Catalyst for Emotional Responses and Caretaking Tendencies
Giulia Perugia, Sascha Ankersmit, Nadia Jansen, and Stefano Guidi
(Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands; University of Siena, Siena, Italy)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5748-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785591

	Aww-ROBO dataset: The dataset contains means and standard deviations of the cuteness, positive emotional responses, negative emotional responses, and caretaking tendencies ratings for each robot in the ABOT database.
	Table with the complete results of the multilevel regression: Table with all parameters of the multilevel regression model including the non-significant ones.

Learning Contextually-Adaptive Rewards via Calibrated Features
Alexandra Forsey-Smerek, Julie Shah, and Andreea Bobu
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5766-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788669

	Video: Video presentation on experimental interfaces.
	Appendix: Implementation and user study details.

Pop-Up Encounters with Spot: Shaping Public Perceptions of Robots through Hands-On Experience
Hae Won Park, Georgia D. Van de Zande, Xiajie Zhang, Dawn Wendell, and Jessica Hodgins
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; Olin College of Engineering, Needham, USA; Robotics and AI Institute, Cambridge, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5775-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785600

Appendix PDF: The appendix provides supplementary materials that support interpretation and replication of the study. It includes additional demographic visualizations, participant flow and venue layout diagrams, and practical reflections on the cost, logistics, and safety considerations of conducting large-scale, public-facing ...

Social Robots on the Loose: Supporting Children’s Independent Learning in the Wild
Ramin Kupaei, Piyush Daryanani, Anupriya Shaju, Muhammad Alfatih Olaniyan, Gerardo Chavez Castaneda, and Shruti Chandra
(University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5826-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785580

Anticipating Disengagement: Physiology-Informed Adaptation for Child–Robot Reading Companions
Zhao Zhao
(University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p5982-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785598

Can VR Robots Stand in for the Real Thing? Comparing a Physical Cobot and Its Virtual Twin for User Perceptions, Experimental Effects, and Study Costs
Martina Mara, Andreas Winklbauer, Sandra Maria Siedl, and Benedikt Leichtmann
(JKU Linz, Linz, Austria; LMU Munich, Munich, Germany)

Publisher's Version Video Info Article: hri26main-p6063-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785584

Supplement: Further statistical analyses and details

GeoSACS: Geometric Shared Autonomy via Canal Surfaces
Shalutha Rajapakshe, Atharva Dastenavar, Michael Hagenow, Jean-Marc Odobez, and Emmanuel Senft
(Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland; EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6149-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785579

GeoSACS: Geometric Shared Autonomy via Canal Surfaces: Video: GeoSACS High-Level Flow with User Study

Disability Justice in Human-Robot Interaction: Reflections on Paternalism, Autonomy, and Care for More Equitable Futures
Pratyusha Ghosh, Belen Liedo, and Laurel D. Riek
(University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA; Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6225-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785636

Designing Persuasive Social Robots for Health Behavior Change: A Systematic Review of Behavior Change Strategies and Evaluation Methods
Jiaxin Xu, Chao Zhang, Raymond H. Cuijpers, and Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn
(Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6247-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785565

Supplementary Materials: This appendix reports the full search strategy, a complete list of included papers, an overview of extracted data from the included papers, images of the social robots used in those papers, and a full list of papers excluded at the full-text screening stage.

Cognitive Trust in HRI: “Pay Attention to Me and I’ll Trust You Even If You Are Wrong”
Adi Manor, Dan Cohen, Ziv Keidar, Avi Parush, and Hadas Erel
(Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6427-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785615

Speaking of Safety: Drone-Based Voice Communication for Industry
Chandhawat Boonyard, Stine S. Johansen, Christophe Jouffrais, Anke M. Brock, and Timothy Merritt
(Fédération ENAC ISAE-SUPAERO ONERA - Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France; Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; CNRS IPAL, Singapore, Singapore)

Publisher's Version Video Article: hri26main-p6437-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785563

Lantern: A Minimalist Robotic Object Platform
Victor Nikhil Antony, Zhili Gong, Guanchen Li, Clara Jeon, and Chien-Ming Huang
(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA; Rice University, Houston, USA)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26main-p6555-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785644

Appendix: Appendix with supplementary materials for Lantern: A Minimalist Robotic Object Platform

Older Adult Perspectives on Home Monitoring Robots: User Preferences and Performance of Robot Observation Strategies
Nadira Mahamane and Sonia Chernova
(Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6600-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785612

Appendix: This the appendix of the paper providing more details into the questionnaire used during the user study, the activity descriptions as well as the prompt used to predict activity labels.

Clarifying Constraints in Interactive Robot Learning with Language Feedback
Hannah Kuehn, Leonardo Santos, and Iolanda Leite
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6657-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785583

	Hardware Demonstration Video: The video shows examples of the hardware demonstration in interaction with a human user.
	Supplementary Material: The supplementary material contains LLM prompts and examples of user's interaction with the system

Investigating the Impact of Robot Degree of Redundancy on Learning from Demonstration
Muhammad Bilal, D. Antony Chacon, Nir Lipovetzky, Denny Oetomo, and Wafa Johal
(University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6774-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785606

InteractLfD: The dataset includes, for both tasks and conditions, joint manipulation frequency, demonstration completion time, and NASA-TLX measures.

On Being Guided: How People Follow a Robot-Guided Tour
Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Stuart Reeves, Andriana Boudouraki, Dominic James Price, Joel E. Fischer, and Praminda Caleb-Solly
(University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6820-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785592

Expensive, Limited, and Still Here: The Paradox of Weak Robots in Family Homes
Zhao Zhao
(University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6821-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785599

Communicating Object Relations through Robot Gestures
Xiang Pan, Malcolm Doering, and Takayuki Kanda
(Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6905-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785554

Robot relational gestures: This video demonstrates the robot performing co-speech relational gestures used in the user study described in the paper.

InterPReT: Interactive Policy Restructuring and Training Enable Effective Imitation Learning from Laypersons
Feiyu Gavin Zhu, Jean Oh, and Reid Simmons
(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p6921-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785549

Appendix: Appendix containing user interface screenshots and the prompts used for LLM structure generation.

POIROT: Investigating Direct Tangible vs. Digitally Mediated Interaction and Attitude Moderation in Multi-party Murder Mystery Games
Wen Chen, Rongxi Chen, Shankai Chen, Huiyang Gong, Minghui Guo, Yingri Xu, Xintong Wu, and Xinyi Fu
(Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; Syracuse University, USA; National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Royal College of Art, London, UK)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p7113-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788663

	Demo Video: Demonstration of the POIROT system comparing tangible vs. digital clue delivery, followed by visualizations of the interaction effects on Narrative Immersion and Game Experience (as reported in the paper).
	Supplementary Material: Appendix: Contains additional game materials, digital interface screenshots, detailed scale validation results (factor analysis & scree plots), and full questionnaire items.

From Metrics to Meaning: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Field Experiment on Retail Robot Deployment
Sichao Song, Yuki Okafuji, Takuya Iwamoto, Jun Baba, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
(CyberAgent, Tokyo, Japan; University of Osaka, Toyonaka-shi, Japan; Cyberagent, Shibuya, Japan; Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p7195-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785588

“We Will Grow into the Age of Robots”: A Participatory Interview Study for Service Robots and Their Value for Care
Stina Klein, Shuyuan Shen, Elisabeth André, and Matthias Kraus
(University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p7288-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785633

Appendix: Appendices A-D that entail the following: (A) Interview Guideline, (B) Overview of Robots and Storyboards, (C) Details about the Interview Conduction and (D) Details about the Six Phases of the Reflexive Thematic Analysis

If It’s Safe, Don’t Ask: Decreasing Frustration through User Involvement for Risky Robot Behaviors
Jan Leusmann, Sarah Schömbs, Maximilian Diedrich, and Florian Müller
(LMU Munich, Munich, Germany; University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p7295-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785545

Appendix: Appendix with used questionnaires, items, and semi-structured interview guideline

RoboCritics: Enabling Reliable End-to-End LLM Robot Programming through Expert-Informed Critics
Callie Y. Kim, Nathan Thomas White, Evan He, Frederic Sala, and Bilge Mutlu
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p7349-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785550

RoboCritics Teaser Video: Short video presentation of RoboCritics

“What’s on your mind?”: Understanding the Development of Multidimensional Trust in Social Robots
Chih-Wei (Charlotte) Ning, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Myrthe L. Tielman, and Mark A. Neerincx
(Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p7366-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785556

Appendix: Task material for the study, including stimulation and survey questions.

Welcome to the Shop! Field Trial of a VLM-Powered Autonomous Shop Worker Robot
Sachi Edirisinghe, Satoru Satake, and Takayuki Kanda
(Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; ATR, Kyoto, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p7476-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785619

Video of the field trial: Video showing customers interacting with the VLM-powered shopworker robot during the field trial.

An Ethnography of Restaurant Robots in Japan: Promises, Perceptions, and Impacts
Martim Brandão, Anna Sharko, Zoe Evans, Wenxi Wu, Atmadeep Ghoshal, and Brian Tshuma
(King’s College London, London, UK; University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p7760-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785603

Supplementary Material: An image of the robot, theme count for online reviews, and sample fieldnote excerpts.

Robots for Those in Transition: Exploring Mental Wellness through Design Probes
Minghe Lu, Yu Xing, Carlye Anne Lauff, Hee Rin Lee, and Ji Youn Shin
(University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p7947-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788655

The Role of Agent’s Anthropomorphism in Shaping Phantom Costs
Benjamin Lebrun, Christoph Bartneck, and Andrew J. Vonasch
(University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8039-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788659

Supplementary Materials: Coding scheme for participants' explanations + Mediation analysis of phantom costs through mentalistic explanations.

Aligning Task Goals before Execution: Insights from Diverse User Groups into Human–Robot Communication in Domestic Settings
Lesong Jia, Yang Ye, Breelyn Kane Styler, and Na Du
(University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA; Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8152-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788662

Experiment Material: Questionnaire, Demo Videos and Questionnaire Completion Photos used in experiment

DiSCo: Diffusion Sequence Copilots for Shared Autonomy
Andy Wang, Xu Yan, Brandon McMahan, Michael Zhou, Yuyang Yuan, Johannes Y. Lee, Ali Shreif, Matthew Li, Zhenghao Peng, Bolei Zhou, Yuchen Cui, and Jonathan C. Kao
(University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8166-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785638

DiSCo Appendix Section: A PDF of the Appendix section of the main DiSCo paper.

Don’t Say That! Proactive Support for Appropriate Power Use with Avatar Robot
Rui Chen, Takashi Minato, Jani Even, and Takayuki Kanda
(Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Kyoto, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8175-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785646

	Video of user study: Experiment video: robots runs in two conditions and human responses
	Supplementary Appendix Table A.1: dataset of Table A.1

Risk-Taking Behavior in Human-Robot Teams: Collaboration vs. Competition
Katharina Wille, Eva Wiese, and Jairo Perez-Osorio
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany; George Mason University, Fairfax, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8191-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785562

The Robot Bookworm: Fostering Children’s Reading Motivation through Personalized Book Discussions
Elena Malnatsky, Sobhaan ul Husan, Kuhu Sinha, Sofie Veld, Rafaella van Nee, Daniël Wijnhorst, Shenghui Wang, Koen Hindriks, and Mike E.U. Ligthart
(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; University of Twente, Twente, Netherlands)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8345-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785618

Supplemental Materials: Questionnaires, Dialogue Scripts, and Reading Compass: This artifact contains supplemental materials supporting the paper, including the full child questionnaires (Dutch originals and English translations), robot–child book discussion dialogue scripts, and the Reading Compass intervention materials used in the study.

Is Robot Labor Labor? Delivery Robots and the Politics of Work in Public Space
EunJeong Cheon and Do Yeon Shin
(Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA; University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8415-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785566

Appendix: Supplementary Field Vignettes

Plant-Inspired Robot Design Metaphors for Ambient HRI
Victor Nikhil Antony, Adithya R N, Sarah Derrick, Zhili Gong, Peter M. Donley, and Chien-Ming Huang
(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA; Rice University, Houston, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8635-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785645

Appendix: Appendix including supplementary materials for Plant-Inspired Robot Design Metaphors for Ambient HRI.

Learning Human Preferences over a Human-Robot Collaboration Based on Explicit and Implicit Human Feedback
Kate Candon, Qiping Zhang, Alexander Lew, Houston Claure, Lena Qian, Alyssa Quarles, Chayan Sarkar, and Marynel Vázquez
(Yale University, New Haven, USA; TCS Research, New Delhi, India)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8760-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785630

	Video: Video showing pizza-making collaboration
	Supplementary Material: Supplementary Material

Social Robots as Active Safeguards for Children’s Welfare: Community Stakeholder Insights and Design Recommendations
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Leigh Levinson, Selma Šabanović, and Hatice Gunes
(University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Indiana University at Bloomington, Bloomington, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8782-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785611

Supplementary Material for Social Robots as Active Safeguards for Children’sWelfare: Community Stakeholder Insights and Design Recommendations: Interview Questions and "Intro to Robots" Slides used for our study

How Human Motion Prediction Quality Shapes Social Robot Navigation Performance in Constrained Spaces
Andrew Stratton, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Pranav Goyal, Rachid Alami, and Christoforos Mavrogiannis
(University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, USA; LAAS - CNRS - University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France; Inria, Nancy, France)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8825-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788664

Supplemental Video: A video showing top-down clips from the experiments in our paper. One clip is shown from the same experiment for all five models at both sites.

Sympathy as a Lens for Human–Robot Interaction: Analysing YouTube Responses to Robot Abuse
Vlatka Tolj, Caterina Neef, and Barbara Bruno
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8853-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785595

Supplementary Materials: Includes additional detailed results (agreement between sentiment annotators, LLM prompt for sentiment analysis, contingency table for Chi-square tests, n-gram analysis tables, top 5 most-liked comments table)

Learning by Doing: Teacher Professional Development Research in the Age of Social Robots
Alice Nardelli, Anna Allegra Bixio, Alice Stopponi, Maria Filomia, Alessia Bartolini, Marco Milella, Antonio Sgorbissa, and Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto
(University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p8927-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785621

“I trust you more than me on this”: Collaborating with a Social Robot during Open-Ended Problem Solving
Veronica Grosso, Kerou Zhou, Lakshmi Sanjana Challagundla, and Joseph E. Michaelis
(University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9050-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785571

Supplemental Document for Robot Behaviors: This supplemental document provides a detailed technical specification of the robot’s behavior architecture and the Wizard of Oz (WoZ) control protocol. It outlines the mapping between researcher inputs and autonomous robot behaviors, ensuring transparency in the interaction design and experimental reproducibility.

Emotional Entanglements and Emotional Sustainability in HRI
Hugo Simão, Long-Jing Hsu, Bengisu Cagiltay, Isabel Neto, Christopher D. Wallbridge, Laura Santos, Filipa Rocha, Leigh Levinson, Joao Silva Sequeira, Tiago Guerreiro, and Patricia Alves-Oliveira
(University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, USA; Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye; Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; Indiana University at Bloomington, Bloomington, USA; Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26main-p9068-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785587

Beyond Conventional Robotic Forms: A Scoping Review of Artefact-Inspired Robots
Majken Kirkegaard Rasmussen and Eléni Economidou
(Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9117-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785582

Appendix A: Appendix A: Visual overview illustrating the 58 robotic artefacts that form the basis of the paper's scoping review.

Towards Intelligible Human-Robot Interaction: An Active Inference Approach to Occluded Pedestrian Scenarios
Kai Chen, Yuyao Huang, and Guang Chen
(Tongji University, Shanghai, China)

Publisher's Version Published Artifact Artifacts Available Article: hri26main-p9133-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788670

Appendix for: Towards Intelligible Human-Robot Interaction: An Active Inference Approach to Occluded Pedestrian Scenarios: This appendix provides the theoretical foundations and experimental specifics underpinning the proposed Active Inference framework. Section A details the mathematical formulation, specifically the minimization of Variational Free Energy (VFE) for perception and Expected Free Energy (EFE) for planning under ...

CogniDrive: Source code for HRI 2026 paper "Towards Intelligible Human-Robot Interaction: An Active Inference Approach to Occluded Pedestrian Scenarios" (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18228637): This artifact contains the Python implementation of the Active Inference framework for occluded pedestrian scenarios presented in our HRI 2026 paper. It includes the simulation environment, the pedestrian behavior models, and the core planning algorithms. Instructions for reproduction are included in the README.

GuideNav: User-Informed Development of a Vision-Only Robotic Navigation Assistant for Blind Travelers
Hochul Hwang, Soowan Yang, Jahir Sadik Monon, Nicholas A. Giudice, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Joydeep Biswas, and Donghyun Kim
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, USA; DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea; University of Maine, Orono, USA; University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA)

Publisher's Version Video Info Article: hri26main-p9148-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785625

	Demo video: GuideNav paper demonstration video
	Supplementary material 1: GuideData Demographics: Participant demographics for GuideData

Practical Insights into Designing Context-Aware Robot Voice Parameters in the Wild
Amy Koike, Yuki Okafuji, and Sichao Song
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA; CyberAgent, Tokyo, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9334-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785546

Appendix: This document provides the full CLM results.

Don’t Park There! Learning Socially-Appropriate Robot Parking Spots in the Home
De’Aira Bryant, Apaar Sadhwani, Hanxiao Fu, William D. Smart, and Dylan F. Glas
(Amazon Lab126, Sunnyvale, USA; Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9335-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785648

Input Matters: How Telepresence Control Devices Affect Performance, Sense of Control, and User Experience
Pratyusha Ghosh, Sachiko Matsumoto, Vivek Gupte, Robert Bloom, Alex Chow, Nandini Desai, Donovan Le, Tania K. Morimoto, and Laurel D. Riek
(University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9383-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785573

Supplement: Supplementary material with the final models used in the paper.

Opportunities to Talk, Negotiate, and Laugh: Robot Behaviors That Shape Repeated Interactions in Groups of Older Adults
Sarah Gillet, Yujing Zhang, Donald McMillan, Nicole Salomons, and Iolanda Leite
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Imperial College London, London, UK)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9450-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785637

Supplemental Material: Supplemental Material containing translated questionnaires, LLM prompts and original language transcripts.

Real-Time Hand Pose Tracking using 6-Axis IMUs
Anik Sarker, Ziyi Kou, Ergys Ristani, Li Guan, and Taylor Niehues
(Meta Reality Labs Research, Redmond, USA)

Publisher's Version Video Article: hri26main-p9491-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785628

Appendix: Supplementary Material for Real-Time Hand Pose Tracking Using 6-Axis IMUs

Robot-Assisted Exploration Decisions during a Planetary Analog Field Science Campaign
Ian C. Rankin, Shipeng Liu, Freya Whittaker, Sean Buchmeier, Liam Bouffard, and Cristina G. Wilson
(Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9591-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785639

Supplementary Video: The HRI 2026 1 minute supplemental video that can be included with the submission.

Navigation beyond Wayfinding: Robots Collaborating with Visually Impaired Users for Environmental Interactions
Shaojun Cai, Nuwan Janaka, Ashwin Ram, Janidu Shehan, Yingjia Wan, Kotaro Hara, and David Hsu
(National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong; Saarland University - Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany; University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka; Institute of Psychology at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9603-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785576

	Appendix: Appendix
	Supplementary Video: Sample videos of users taking elevators and passing doors

Desirability of Proactive Robots: A User Study on Spoken Interaction Initiation
Anargh Viswanath and Hendrik Buschmeier
(Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9668-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785558

Immersive Social Teleoperation Interface with Semi-automatic Ingroup Navigation for Intuitive Communication
Akitomo Takeda, Stela Hanbyeol Seo, Satoru Satake, and Takayuki Kanda
(Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; ATR, Souraku-gun, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9759-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785614

	Supplementary Video: This video contains snippets of screen recordings of our immersive social teleoperation interface during the experiment sessions with the operators' video on a corner.
	Appendices: A. The Poster in the Experiment Space. B. Problems and Modifications from the Pilot Studies.

Designing Care-fully: Robots for Acute Cancer Care
Sandhya Jayaraman, Pratyusha Ghosh, Soyon Kim, Soham Satyadharma, Angelique Taylor, Christopher Coyne, and Laurel D. Riek
(University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA; Cornell University, New York, USA; University of California at San Diego, San Diego, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26main-p9835-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785632

Comparing Robots and Non-robot Phygital Artefacts in Children’s Storytelling via a Systematic Review
Rosella Gennari, Muhammad Bilal Khan, Alessandra Melonio, and Maria Angela Pellegrino
(Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy; Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy; Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26main-p9966-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3785590

Short Paper Contributions

BehaviorKit: A Multi-modal Real-Time Behavior Analysis Library for Robots
William Valentine, Selma Šabanović, David Crandall, and Weslie Khoo
(Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA; Indiana University, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26short-phrisc1010-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788799

A Custom Web Application to Control NAO using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
Trenton Schulz and Claudia-Andreea Badescu
(Norwegian Computing Center, Norway)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26short-phrisc1016-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788800

ZTL: Lightweight Communication Patterns for HRI
Patrick Holthaus, Trenton Schulz, Lewis Riches, Claudia-Andreea Badescu, and Farshid Amirabdollahian
(University of Hertfordshire, UK; Norwegian Computing Center, Norway)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26short-phrisc1032-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788801

Neutral by Default? Replicating User Vocal Responses to Negative Affective Cues in Conversational Agents
Yong Ma, Yuchong Zhang, Di Fu, Stephanie Zubicueta Portales, and Morten Fjeld
(University of Bergen, Norway; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; University of Surrey, UK; NTNU, Norway; Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26short-phrisc1036-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788802

Seeing Eye to Eye Again: In-the-Wild Replication Study with an Expressive Eye Display for the Stretch Mobile Manipulator
Antara Shah and Naomi T. Fitter
(Oregon State University, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26short-phrisc1046-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788803

	Post-interaction Survey: Survey used to collect post-interaction responses from participants following each trial.
	Teleoperator Guide: Document used by the operator to trigger and administer robot stimuli during participant trials.

Plausible Explanations Reduce Phantom Cost Perception in HRI
Benjamin Lebrun, Christoph Bartneck, and Andrew J. Vonasch
(University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26short-phrisc1050-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788804

Particle-Driven Robot Placement: A ROS 2 Plugin-Based Framework
Jesus Enrique Aleman Gallegos and Sven Wachsmuth
(Bielefeld University, Germany)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26short-phrisc1052-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788805

Quest2ROS2: A ROS 2 Framework for Bi-manual VR Teleoperation
Jialong Li, Zhenguo Wang, Tianci Wang, Maj Stenmark, and Volker Krueger
(Lund University, Sweden)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26short-phrisc1064-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788806

The Action-Engagement-Collaboration Triad: A Multimodal Analytical Framework for Human-Robot Collaboration
Arvind, Naval Kishore Mehta, Himanshu Kumar, Sumeet Saurav, and Sanjay Singh
(Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India; Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, India)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26short-phrisc1065-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788807

A Framework for Low-Latency, LLM-Driven Multimodal Interaction on the Pepper Robot
Erich Studerus, Vivienne Jia Zhong, and Stephan Vonschallen
(University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland; Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26short-phrisc1067-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788808

IVoice: An Open-Source Real-Time Closed-Loop Voice Monitoring and Feedback Testbed for Cognitively Assistive Robots in Therapy
Iman Noferesti and Rahul Singh
(University of Iowa, USA)

Publisher's Version Info Article: hri26short-phrisc1068-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788809

A Wizard for Kids: A Platform for Improvised Child–Robot Interactions
Davide Frova, Monica Landoni, Simone Arreghini, and Antonio Paolillo
(USI Lugano, Switzerland; USI-SUPSI, Switzerland; Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26short-phrisc1071-p (type: Short Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788810

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alt.HRI Papers

Clankers in the Cultural Imagination: Online Robophobia and Its Implications for Human-Robot Interaction
Julia Rosén, Phillip Bach-Luong Tran Jr., and Denise Y. Geiskkovitch
(McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p2099-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788820

Robot Vandalism: A Senseless Act?
Anna Dobrosovestnova, David J. Bailey, Ralf Vetter, and Masoumeh Mansouri
(Interdisciplinary Transformation University, Linz, Austria; University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p3015-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788813

Whose Robots? A Scientific Oligarchy in HRI Research?
Amol Deshmukh
(ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p3484-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788812

Dataset and Source code: # HRI Research Data and Analysis This repository contains the data and analysis code for the scientometric study of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research. ## Files - **`hri_data_analysis_script.ipynb`** - Jupyter notebook containing the complete analysis pipeline (recommended to run on Google Colab). Requires ...

Responsible Humanoids: A Contradiction in Terms?
Séverin Lemaignan, AJung Moon, Simon Coghlan, Emily C. Collins, Vanessa Evers, Nico Hochgeschwender, Sara Ljungblad, Michael Milford, Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen, Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera, Pericle Salvini, and Yi Yang
(PAL Robotics, Barcelona, Spain; CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; McGill University, Montreal, Canada; University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Univerisity of Manchester, Manchester, UK; University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands; CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore; University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; University of León, León, Spain; University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p4215-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788817

Improvisational Participatory Storming: A Toolkit of Improvisational Design Methods for Human-Robot Interaction
Katie Schneider Assaf, Sawyer Collins, Kevin Rich, James Walker, Nicholle Harris, and Tom Williams
(Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA; University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA; Licensed Social Worker, Denver, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p5228-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788822

We Cannot Outsource What We Value Most: Toward Deployable Research Products in HRI
Kayla Matheus and Brian Scassellati
(Yale University, New Haven, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p7730-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788816

Theory of Whose Mind? Exposing the Shortcomings of One of HRI’s Core Concepts
Cansu Elmadagli and Jennifer Renoux
(Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p7858-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788818

Robot Fashion: The Social Psychology of Robot Clothing
Irvin Steve Cardenas, Jong Hoon Kim, Linda Ohrn-McDaniel, Krissi R. Riewe Stevenson, J.R. Campbell, and Natalie Yeo
(Kent State University, Kent, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p7897-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788821

Supplementary Materials: Garment Passport Architecture and Discussion Guide: Supplementary materials for "Robot Fashion: The Social Psychology of Robot Clothing." Includes: (1) a garment-passport architecture sketch illustrating how physical tags, metadata services, and audit logs could support accountable wardrobe autonomy; (2) the practitioner conversation guide used to gather perspectives ...

Post-growth Perspectives in HRI
Sofia Thunberg, Mafalda Gamboa, Ilaria Torre, and Birgit Penzenstadler
(Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p7936-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788811

Let’s Talk about (Our and Robots’) Death: Mortality as a Core Principle in Human-Robot Interaction
Waki Kamino, Long-Jing Hsu, Selma Šabanović, and Malte F. Jung
(Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, USA; Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p9407-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788814

When Robots Should Break the Rules
Rebecca Ramnauth and Brian Scassellati
(Yale University, New Haven, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p9437-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788815

alt.HRI Pictorial

Robot as Self, Blurred Boundaries, and the Auxthetic Mind-Body: A Speculative Design through Poetry
Lux Miranda, Ginevra Castellano, and Katie Winkle
(Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)

Publisher's Version Article: hri26althri-p7202-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3757279.3788819

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