The workshop will feature invited talks, a panel discussion, and poster presentations of accepted paper contributions.

  • Invited talks: throughout the day, invited speakers will share their latest findings in 30-minute talks with 10-minute Q&A sessions.
  • Panel discussion: a panel discussion centered around the topics of interest of the workshop, and moderated by the organizers, will take place at the end of the workshop.
  • Poster presentations for accepted papers: selected paper contributions will be invited for poster presentations at the workshop.

9:00 – 9:10Welcome
9:10 – 9:50 Silvia Rossi – Human and Context Awareness: Towards Socially Enhanced Autonomous Capabilities
9:50 – 10:30Praminda Caleb-Solly – Trialling Telepresence Robots in Extra Care and Cultural Settings – Social, Logistic and Technical Challenges and Opportunities
10:30 -11:50 Poster session and coffee break
11:50 – 12:30 Gabriel Skantze – Building common ground in human-robot interaction
12:30 – 13:30Lunch break
13:30 – 14:10Adriana Tapus – Socially Acceptable Robots with Humor and Personalizable Behaviors
14:10 – 14:50Raquel Ros – Applications of social robots in the real-world: a battle between users’ expectations and technology developers
14:50 – 15:30Andreas Kolling – Human-Robot Interaction with Large-Scale Autonomous Systems in Industry
15:30 – 16:30 Poster session and coffee break
16:30 – 17:10Claude Toussaint – How to make robots social and engaging. Perspective of an interaction designer and entrepreneur
17:10 – 17:30 Discussion and concluding remarks

The following contributions were accepted for presentation in the poster session of the workshop.

1. “Study on the Impact of Humanoid Appearance Cues on Motor Interference during Synchronous Human and Robot Arm Movement“, by Mertcan Kaya and Kolja Kuhnlenz
2. “Get off on the Right Foot with Whom?: How Users’ Profiles Affect Their Perception and Experience with a Social Robot“, by Guanyu Huang and Roger K. Moore (link)
3. “SANG: Socially-Aware Navigation Between Groups“, by Viktor Schmuck, Sowrab Chowdhury, and Oya Celiktutan
4. “Social Impressions of the NAO Robot and Applications in Robotic Intervention of Autism Spectrum Disorder“, by Ruchik Mishra and Karla Conn Welch (link)
5. “Social Sustainability in Industry 5.0: The Need for Personalized Fatigue Detection“, by Christopher Zanoli, Valeria Villani, and Marco Picone (link)
6. “Human-robot interaction evaluation: using NAO as an interactive interface for auditory psychophysical testing“, by Luke Meyer, Gloria Araiza-Illan, Laura Rachman, and
Deniz Başkent” (link)
7. “How does collaborating with a robot affect you?“, by Andrea Bussolan, Stefano Baraldo, Anna Valente, and Luca Maria Gambardella (link)
8. “Toward Human-Like Social Robot Navigation: A Large-Scale, Multi-Modal, Social Human Navigation Dataset“, by Duc M. Nguyen, Mohammad Nazeri, Amirreza Payandeh, Aniket Datar, and Xuesu Xiao (link)
9. “Measuring Engagement in Conversational Human-Robot Interaction: A multi-modal Approach“, by Nathalia Cespedes, Anne Hsu, Janelle M. Jones, and Ildar Farkhatdinov (link)
10. “Broadening perspectives to study social touch: Could a tactile sensing robot understand a person affectively while performing a functional role?“, by Raffaele Buono, Minna Nygren, Liang He, Perla Maiolino, and Nadia Berthouze
11 . “Toward the Detection of the Human Intention to Interact with a Service Robot“, by Gabriele Abbate, Alessandro Giusti, Viktor Schmuck, Oya Celiktutan and Antonio Paolillo (link)
12. “The SERMAS project: Socially-acceptable Extended Reality Models And Systems“, by Oya Celiktutan, Alessandro Giusti, Lorenzo Sabattini and Valeria Villani