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
- Developmental robotics
- 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
- Non-verbal 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
- Natural interaction with social robots (euRobotics Topic Group submissions):
- Levels of social abilities
- Benchmarking of social abilities
- Multimodal interaction and communication
- Visionary proposals for future applications/ research
- Robot safety and trust
- Robots as remote-controlled tools
- Robots in search and rescue
- Social and ethical aspects of HRI
