HRI 2022
as the organisers put it
March 7 - 10, 2020 | ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is the premium venue for publishing and presenting top-quality HRI research.
| title | author | length |
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| A Social Robot for Improving Interruptions Tolerance and Employability in Adults with ASD | Rebecca Ramnauth, Emmanuel Adeniran, Timothy Adamson, Rohit Giridharan, Caroline Reiner, Brian Scassellati | 10m |
A fully autonomous in-home robot system, ISTAR, interrupts users during a chosen two-hour window each day for seven days to train interruption handling; 12… | ||
| Robot Co-design Can Help Us Engage Child Stakeholders in Ethical Reflection | Terran Mott, Alexandra Bejarano, Tom Williams | 09m |
Shows that two co-design workshops with 2nd–5th graders run as ~3-hour sessions produce concrete ethical reasoning: children sketch and build prototypes, use… | ||
| “Let’s read a book together”: a long-term study on the engagement of pre-school children with ... | Zhao Zhao, Rhonda McEwen | 10m |
A six-month field deployment with 20 first-time Luka families collects 183 parent interviews and device logs with 43 event types to track child usage. Active… | ||
| Mixed-Method Long-Term Robot Usage: Older Adults' Lived Experience of Social Robots | Anastasia K.Ostrowski, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park | 10m |
Study deploys Jibo in 28 older adults’ homes ages 70–94 for 1–12 months and combines robot usage logs with debrief interviews to show concrete patterns… | ||
| Individual Differences of Children with Autism in Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy | Anara Sandygulova, Aida Amirova, Nazerke Rakhymbayeva, Zhansaule Telisheva, Aida Zhanatkyzy | 10m |
A 34-child, multi-session study uses a NAO robot for 15-minute interactions and 46 hours of video coding with 82% interrater agreement across 11 behavioral… | ||
| Cognitively Assistive Robots at Home: HRI Design Patterns for Translational Science | Alyssa Kubota, Dagoberto Cruz-Sandoval, Soyon Kim, Elizabeth Twamley, Laurel D. Riek | 10m |
Multi-year work builds robot prototypes that autonomously deliver Motivationally Enhanced CCT at home and uses video demos, storyboards, and interviews to… | ||
| “And then what happens?” Promoting Children’s Verbal Creativity Using a Robot | Maha Elgarf, Natalia Calvo-Barajas, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Giulia Perugia, Ginevra Castellano, Christopher Peters, Ana Paiva | 10m |
A social robot Emys runs a pre/post interactive storytelling task with 69 children (ages 7–9), randomly assigned to 32 promotion or 29 prevention priming… | ||
| Memory-Based Personalization for Fostering a Long-Term Child-Robot Relationship | Mike E.U. Ligthart, Mark Neerincx, Koen Hindriks | 10m |
A memory-based personalization system stores children’s answers and uses an artificial cognitive agent to query them, selecting from templated mini-dialogues… | ||
| Inclusive’R’Stories: An Inclusive Storytelling Activity with an Emotional Robot | Cristiana Antunes, Isabel Neto, Filipa Correia, Ana Paiva, Hugo Nicolau | 10m |
A multisensory system uses an Ozobot Evo in four colored textured rooms triggered by Bluetooth button controls to let mixed-visual-ability pairs co-create… | ||
| Refilling Water Bottles in Elderly Care Homes With the Help of a Safe Service Robot | Cagatay Odabasi, Florenz Graf, Jochen Lindermayr, Mayank Patel, Simon D Baumgarten, Birgit Graf | 08m |
A mobile service robot based on Care-O-bot 4 with added tiltable RGB-D sensors and F&P Robotics arms fetches, carries and returns bottles using 3D SLAM… | ||
| The Shape of Our Bias: Perceived Age and Gender in the Humanoid Robots of the ABOT Database | Giulia Perugia, Stefano Guidi, Margherita Bicchi, Oronzo Parlangeli | 10m |
153 participants rate 251 ABOT images using an age scale (1–100) and 7‑point femininity/masculinity/gender‑neutral items, producing averaged judgments. Most… | ||
| Norm-Breaking Responses to Sexist Abuse: A Cross-Cultural Human Robot Interaction Study | Katie Winkle, Ryan Blake Jackson, Gaspar Isaac Melsión, Drazen Brscic, Iolanda Leite, Tom Williams | 08m |
A 3x3 between-subjects video experiment with 225 participants across the US, Sweden and Japan tests three robot retorts (argument-based, aggression-based, and… | ||
| Exploring Machine-like Behaviors for a Socially Acceptable Robot Navigation in Elevators | Danilo Gallo, Shreepriya Gonzalez-Jimenez, Antonietta Maria Grasso, Cecile Boulard, Tommaso Colombino | 10m |
Ethnographic observation of elevator lobbies records 16 hours, 543 events to map queuing, posture and priority; a 1-hour bodystorming with four participants… | ||
| Why do We Follow Robots? An Experimental Investigation of Conformity with Robot, Human, and ... | Lisa Masjutin, Günter W. Maier | 09m |
Within-subject online experiment (n=103, usable 92) asks participants to choose between job candidates across 22 randomized trials with human, robot, and… | ||
| MIND MELD: Personalized Meta-Learning for Robot-Centric Imitation Learning | Mariah Schrum, Erin Hedlund, Nina Moorman, Matthew Gombolay | 10m |
MIND MELD meta-learns a personalized embedding via mutual information and a Bi-LSTM to map suboptimal human corrective labels to estimated optimal labels… | ||
| Conditional Imitation Learning for Multi-Agent Games | Andy Shih, Stefano Ermon, Dorsa Sadigh | 10m |
Proposes a conditional imitation framework that learns a latent low-rank subspace over ego and partner strategies and uses tensor decomposition to infer a new… | ||
| “We Make a Great Team!”: Adults with Low Prior Domain Knowledge Learn more from a Peer Robot ... | Nicole Salomons, Brian Scassellati | 10m |
Adults with low prior circuit knowledge learn significantly more from a peer robot than a tutor robot while building electronic circuits. Study uses a UR5e… | ||
| CoFrame: A System for Training Novice Cobot Programmers | Andrew Schoen, Curt Henrichs, Amanda Siebert-Evenstone, D.W. Shaffer, Bilge Mutlu | 10m |
CoFrame is a visual training and programming interface that encodes an expert model into four actionable lenses: Safety Concerns, Program Quality, Robot… | ||
| Advancing the Design of Visual Debugging Tools for Roboticists | Bryce Ikeda, Daniel Szafir | 10m |
Compares a custom AR debugging tool to RViz and a 2D GUI with 24 roboticists (8 per condition) on a 30‑minute detection task and a 1‑hour navigation task, and… | ||
| CONFIDANT: A Privacy Controller for Social Robots | Brian Tang, Dakota Sullivan, Bengisu Cagiltay, Varun Chandrasekaran, Kassem Fawaz, Bilge Mutlu | 10m |
A privacy controller called CONFIDANT classifies conversation context and blocks sensitive robot disclosures using speechbrain for speaker ID, Google… | ||
| Better than Us: The Role of Implicit Self-Theories in Determining Perceived Threat Responses in HRI | D. D. Allan, Andrew J. Vonasch, Christoph Bartneck | 10m |
Experiment uses a 2x3 between-subjects design that experimentally primes implicit self-theory, shows a video of a supposedly autonomous robot beating human… | ||
| It Will Not Take Long! Longitudinal Effects of Robot Conflict Resolution Strategies on ... | Franziska Babel, Philipp Hock, Johannes Kraus, Martin Baumann | 10m |
An online interactive study with N = 103 uses a 3x2x6 mixed design (three robot strategies, thanking yes/no, six trials across two sessions) to test… | ||
| Mind the Machines: Applying Implicit Measures of Mind Perception to Social Robotics | Zhenni Li, Leonie Terfurth, Eva Wiese, Joshua Pepe Woller | 10m |
The study creates the MP-IAT — a two-part implicit association test using images of humans and robots plus words for agency and experience — and collects data… | ||
| Robot, Pass Me the Tool: Handle Visibility Facilitates Task-oriented Handovers | Valerio Ortenzi, Maija Filipovica, Diar Abdlkarim, Tommaso Pardi, Chie Takahashi, Alan Wing, Massimiliano Di Luca, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker | 10m |
A VR experiment tests whether making a tool’s handle visible speeds and improves handovers: using a physics-based simulator PrendoSim to precompute ~1,000… | ||
| Learning Gaze Behaviors for Balancing Participation in Group Human-Robot Interactions | Sarah Gillet, Maria Teresa Parreira, Marynel Vázquez, Iolanda Leite | 10m |
Learns gaze policies from prior Furhat group interaction logs using imitation learning, batch offline reinforcement learning, and a four-action gaze set: look… | ||
| Task-Consistent Signaling Motions for Improved Understanding in Human-Robot Interaction and ... | Benjamin Camblor, Nassim Benhabib, David Daney, Vincent Padois, Jean-Marc Salotti | 09m |
Paper tests task-consistent robot motions on two Franka Emika Panda cobots with a double within-subject study (N=16, 90 trials per participant, 21 passes near… | ||
| Exploiting Augmented Reality for Extrinsic Robot Calibration and Eye-based Human-Robot Collaboration | Daniel Weber, Enkelejda Kasneci, Andreas Zell | 10m |
A system uses QR-tagged virtual counterparts to compute extrinsic transforms between a HoloLens 2 with built-in eye tracker and a robot plus camera, enabling… | ||
| A Taxonomy of Functional Augmented Reality for Human-Robot Interaction | Ornnalin Phaijit, Wafa Johal, Mohammad Obaid, Claude Sammut | 10m |
Proposes a three‑dimension taxonomy that classifies AR in HRI by perception augmentation, functional role, and augmentation artifact type, maps 20 most‑cited… | ||
| You're delaying my task?! Impact of Task Order and Motive on Perceptions of a Robot | Elizabeth Jeanne Carter, Laura M. Hiatt, Stephanie Rosenthal | 08m |
A video experiment using a Kuri robot and 390 Prolific participants compares a pickup/delivery and an investigative task across 12 experimental conditions plus… | ||
| Who’s Laughing NAO? Examining Perceptions of Failure in a Humorous Robot Partner | Haley N Green, Md Mofijul Islam, Shahira Ali, Tariq Iqbal | 10m |
Study pilots 50 jokes then runs a main experiment with a 32-person dyadic lab sample and 256 bystanders on MTurk (total n=288) using a SoftBank NAO controlled… | ||
| Perceptions of Cognitive and Affective Empathetic Statements by Socially Assistive Robots | Christopher Birmingham, Ashley Perez, Maja J. Matarić | 10m |
Videos show a robot responding to human COVID-19 disclosures (within-subjects, n=111, recruited via MTurk within-subjects) and compare scripted affective vs… | ||
| Having The Right Attitude: How Attitude Impacts Trust Repair in Human-Robot Interaction | Connor T. Esterwood, Lionel Peter Robert | 10m |
Online experiment manipulates four repair messages (apology, denial, explanation, promise), plus no-error and no-repair controls, with errors at three… | ||
| HRI Carryover Effect: Can Interactions With Robots Influence Subsequent Human-Human Interactions? | Hadas Erel, Elior Carsenti, Oren Zuckerman | 09m |
Fifty-two participants play a ball‑toss game with two non‑humanoid robots using the Robotic Ostracism Paradigm where toss ratios are preprogrammed (10%… | ||
| Teacher, Teammate, Subordinate, Friend: Generating Norm Violation Responses Grounded in ... | Ruchen Wen, Zhao Han, Tom Williams | 10m |
Presents the first computational approach that centers Confucian role ethics in robot moral reasoning, implements a four-part role-based norm schema, encodes… | ||
| You Had Me at Hello: The Impact of Robot Group Presentation Strategies on Mental Model Formation | Alexandra Bejarano, Samantha Reig, Priyanka Senapati, Tom Williams | 10m |
166 crowd-sourced participants view 42 animated robot-introduction storyboards and produce qualitative and quantitative responses; analysis uses… | ||
| Robot Touch to Send Sympathy: Divergent Perspectives of Senders and Recipients | Rachel H.Y. Au, Katrina Marie Ling, Marlena R. Fraune, Katherine M. Tsui | 10m |
Two online studies use a MyCobot arm covered with a soft fuzzy sock to show imagined robot-mediated sympathy across the US and Japan with 341 senders and 340… | ||
| A Novel Architectural Method for Producing Dynamic Gaze Behavior in Human-Robot Interactions | Gordon Briggs, Meia Chita-Tegmark, Evan Krause, Matthias Scheutz | 10m |
Integration of DIARC and ARCADIA produces a working pipeline that uses 3D vision from a PR2/Fetch, DIARC one-shot object learning, and ARCADIA's attention… | ||
| More Than Words: A Framework for Describing Human-Robot Dialog Designs | James M Berzuk, James E. Young | 10m |
A systematic survey of 75 systems surveyed yields a descriptive framework with concrete dimensions: design (discourse genres, interlocutor composition… | ||
| Predicting Positions of People in Human-Robot Conversational Groups | Hooman Hedayati, Daniel Szafir | 10m |
System builds heat maps of where people stand relative to an anchor participant by aligning formations with transformation matrices, trains a classifier on… | ||
| REGROUP: A Robot-Centric Group Detection and Tracking System | Angelique Taylor, Laurel D. Riek | 10m |
REGROUP is an ego-centric group detection and tracking system that runs real-time on a single RGB sensor mounted on a mobile robot (ZED stereo on a Double… | ||
| Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Localization-Free System for In-The-Wild Mobile Robot Deployments | Amal Nanavati, Nick Walker, Lee Taber, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Leila Takayama, Maya Cakmak, Siddhartha Srinivasa | 09m |
A localization-free system uses Informed Direction Selection to let a Kuri traverse 1,200 ft of hallways on a 28,000 ft^2 floor for four days, running 32 hours… | ||
| Understanding Control Frames in Multi-Camera Robot Telemanipulation | Pragathi Praveena, Luis Luis Molina, Yeping Wang, Emmanuel Senft, Bilge Mutlu, Michael Gleicher | 10m |
Study builds a telemanipulation interface with three camera feeds, a six degree of freedom input device, and an eye-tracker that can auto-switch control… | ||
| Detecting 3D Hand Pointing Direction from RGB-D Data in Wide-Ranging HRI Scenarios | Mirhan ürkmez, H. Isil Bozma | 10m |
A mobile-robot pipeline that uses Kinect RGB-D, trains a YOLOv4 hand+human detector on a bespoke COCO-derived dataset, filters pointing hands with a CNN that… | ||
| Automatic Frustration Detection Using Thermal Imaging | Youssef Mohamed, Giulia Ballardini, Maria Teresa Parreira, Séverin Lemaignan, Iolanda Leite | 09m |
Paper presents an implemented ROS pipeline that collects synchronized RGB, thermal and EDA data from 18 participants, extracts landmarks with OpenFace, logs… | ||
| Asking Follow-Up Clarifications to Resolve Ambiguities in Human-Robot Conversation | Fethiye Irmak Doğan, Ilaria Torre, Iolanda Leite | 10m |
An interactive system asks targeted yes/no clarifications to disambiguate object references using Grad-CAM activation heatmaps to find candidate regions… | ||
| Configuring Humans: What Roles Humans Play in HRI Research | Hee Rin Lee, EunJeong Cheon, Chaeyun Lim, Kerstin Fischer | 10m |
A content analysis of ACM HRI papers from 2006–2021 classifies human roles into three types: generalizable subjects, contextualized users, social actors and… | ||
| Correct Me If I’m Wrong: Using Non-Experts to Repair Reinforcement Learning Policies | Sanne van Waveren, Christian Pek, Jana Tumova, Iolanda Leite | 10m |
Reinforcement learning policies get patched by synthesizing runtime shields from short queries to non-experts and retraining with those constraints… | ||
| Face on a Globe: A Spherical Robot that Appears Lifelike Through Smooth Deformations and ... | Daisuke Iizawa, Shunji Yamanaka | 09m |
A spherical robot mechanically cuts the shell into concentric rings that slide on rails so a single actuator triggers a chain rotation to reveal a flat… | ||
| Unwinding Rotations Improves User Comfort with Immersive Telepresence Robots | Markku Suomalainen, Basak Sakcak, Adhi Widagdo, Juho Kalliokoski, Katherine J. Mimnaugh, Alexis P Chambers, Timo Ojala, Steven LaValle | 09m |
Claim: unwinding rotations of the 360-degree camera keeps the remote HMD viewpoint stable while the robot turns and reduces VR sickness. Implemented in Blender… | ||
| Costume vs. Wizard of Oz vs. Telepresence: How Social Presence Forms of Tele-operated Robots ... | Sichao Song, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro | 08m |
A supermarket experiment places a tele-operated robot handing out recipe flyers and varies operator cues: Wizard of Oz (no face photo, voice conversion on)… | ||
| You Got the Job! Understanding Hiring Decisions for Robots as Organizational Members | Lea Heitlinger, Ruth Stock-Homburg, Franziska Doris Wolf | 09m |
You Got the Job! Understanding Hiring Decisions for Robots as Organizational Members
Lea Heitlinger, Ruth Stock-Homburg, Franziska Doris Wolf
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| Learning Socially Appropriate Robo-waiter Behaviours through Real-time User Feedback | Emily McQuillin, Nikhil Churamani, Hatice Gunes | 11m |
A custom crowdsourced dataset (8–11 annotators per position) maps appropriateness on a 9x9 grid, used to pretrain RL agents; DQN outperforms A3C and DQN+HER… | ||
| Sharing the Spotlight: Co-presenting with a Humanoid Robot | Yunus Terzioglu, Everlyne Kimani, Prasanth Murali, Timothy Bickmore | 10m |
A within-subjects study uses a wizard-of-oz mobile humanoid that takes turns presenting slides and gives speakers a forced pause; 23 participants complete 44… | ||
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