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21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2026), March 16–19, 2026,
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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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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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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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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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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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)
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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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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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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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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)
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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)
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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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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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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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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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