| 2026 | "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, Joseph E. Michaelis |
| 2026 | "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, Xiang Zhi Tan |
| 2026 | "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, Matthias Kraus |
| 2026 | "What's on your mind?": Understanding the Development of Multidimensional Trust in Social Robots. Chih-Wei (Charlotte) Ning, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Myrthe L. Tielman, Mark A. Neerincx |
| 2026 | (Em)Powering the End of Power: HRI for Safe Nuclear Decommissioning. Anne-Marie Oostveen, Jingyi E. Zhang, Sarah Fletcher |
| 2026 | A Custom Web Application to Control NAO using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. Trenton Schulz, Claudia-Andreea Badescu |
| 2026 | A Framework for Low-Latency, LLM-Driven Multimodal Interaction on the Pepper Robot. Erich Studerus, Vivienne Jia Zhong, Stephan Vonschallen |
| 2026 | 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, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee |
| 2026 | A Nuanced Approached to Robotics and Aesthetics. Alexandre Colle, Mauro Dragone |
| 2026 | A Wizard for Kids: A Platform for Improvised Child-Robot Interactions. Davide Frova, Monica Landoni, Simone Arreghini, Antonio Paolillo |
| 2026 | Adding More Value Than Work: Practical Guidelines for Integrating Robots into Intercultural Competence Learning. Zhennan Yi, Sophia Sakakibara Capello, Randy Gomez, Selma Sabanovic |
| 2026 | Aligning Task Goals before Execution: Insights from Diverse User Groups into Human-Robot Communication in Domestic Settings. Lesong Jia, Yang Ye, Breelyn Kane Styler, Na Du |
| 2026 | An Ethnography of Restaurant Robots in Japan: Promises, Perceptions, and Impacts. Martim Brandão, Anna Sharko, Zoe Evans, Wenxi Wu, Atmadeep Ghoshal, Brian Tshuma |
| 2026 | Anticipating Disengagement: Physiology-Informed Adaptation for Child-Robot Reading Companions. Zhao Zhao |
| 2026 | BehaviorKit: A Multi-modal Real-Time Behavior Analysis Library for Robots. William Valentine, Selma Sabanovic, David Crandall, Weslie Khoo |
| 2026 | Beyond Conventional Robotic Forms: A Scoping Review of Artefact-Inspired Robots. Majken Kirkegaard Rasmussen, Eléni Economidou |
| 2026 | Beyond Information Amount: Rethinking Transparency through Active Reasoning Demand. Xuedong Zhang, Yilu Ye, Yong Ma, Zelun Tony Zhang, Andreas Butz |
| 2026 | Bidirectional Human-Robot Communication for Physical Human-Robot Interaction. Junxiang Wang, Cindy Wang, Rana Soltani-Zarrin, Zackory Erickson |
| 2026 | Breathe with Me: Synchronizing Biosignals for User Embodiment in Robots. Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Amber Maimon, Shiyao Zhang, Dennis Küster, Robert Porzel, Tanja Schultz, Rainer Malaka |
| 2026 | Bystander Privacy Implications of Robots in Everyday Spaces: A Scoping Review. Manuel Dietrich, Alan Sarkisian, Thomas H. Weisswange |
| 2026 | 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, Benedikt Leichtmann |
| 2026 | Can You Help Me? The Influence of Robot Requests for Help on Child-Robot Connection. Teresa Flanagan, Justin Chenjia Zhang, Lin Bian, Sarah Sebo |
| 2026 | Chirality-Aware Grammar-Guided Surgical Action Anticipation from Video. Md Rezowan Hossain Ferdous Shuvo, M. S. Mekala, Eyad Elyan |
| 2026 | Clankers in the Cultural Imagination: Online Robophobia and Its Implications for Human-Robot Interaction. Julia Rosén, Phillip Bach-Luong Tran, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch |
| 2026 | Clarifying Constraints in Interactive Robot Learning with Language Feedback. Hannah Kuehn, Leonardo Santos, Iolanda Leite |
| 2026 | 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, Hadas Erel |
| 2026 | Communicating Object Relations through Robot Gestures. Xiang Pan, Malcolm Doering, Takayuki Kanda |
| 2026 | Comparing Robots and Non-robot Phygital Artefacts in Children's Storytelling via a Systematic Review. Rosella Gennari, Muhammad Bilal Khan, Alessandra Melonio, Maria Angela Pellegrino |
| 2026 | Context-Aware Generation and Modulation of Expressive Motion Behavior using Multimodal Foundation Models. Till Hielscher, Fabio Scaparro, Kai O. Arras |
| 2026 | 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, Cristina Gena |
| 2026 | Crafting Companions: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Customization amongst Robot Owners. Amelie Voges, Mary Ellen Foster, Emily S. Cross |
| 2026 | 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, Sarah Sebo |
| 2026 | Designing Care-fully: Robots for Acute Cancer Care. Sandhya Jayaraman, Pratyusha Ghosh, Soyon Kim, Soham Satyadharma, Angelique Taylor, Christopher Coyne, Laurel D. Riek |
| 2026 | 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, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn |
| 2026 | 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, Bilge Mutlu |
| 2026 | Desirability of Proactive Robots: A User Study on Spoken Interaction Initiation. Anargh Viswanath, Hendrik Buschmeier |
| 2026 | 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, Jonathan C. Kao |
| 2026 | Disability Justice in Human-Robot Interaction: Reflections on Paternalism, Autonomy, and Care for More Equitable Futures. Pratyusha Ghosh, Belén Liedo, Laurel D. Riek |
| 2026 | Do Type and Importance of Agent's Resource Matter? How Robots' Helping Behavior Influences Human Trust to Them. Chenlin Hang, Masahiro Shiomi, Rui Prada, Seiji Yamada |
| 2026 | Don't Park There! Learning Socially-Appropriate Robot Parking Spots in the Home. De'Aira Bryant, Apaar Sadhwani, Hanxiao Fu, William D. Smart, Dylan F. Glas |
| 2026 | Don't Say That! Proactive Support for Appropriate Power Use with Avatar Robot. Rui Chen, Takashi Minato, Jani Even, Takayuki Kanda |
| 2026 | Dull, Dirty, Dangerous: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of a Key Motivation for Robotics. Nozomi Nakajima, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Caitrin Lynch, Kate Darling |
| 2026 | Elements of Robot Morphology: Supporting Designers in Robot Form Exploration. Amy Koike, Serena Ge Guo, Xinning He, Callie Y. Kim, Dakota Sullivan, Bilge Mutlu |
| 2026 | Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction. Md Mofijul Islam, Alexi Gladstone, Sujan Sarker, Ganesh Nanduru, Md Fahim, Keyan Du, Aman Chadha, Tariq Iqbal |
| 2026 | 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, Hadas Erel |
| 2026 | 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, João Silva Sequeira, Tiago Guerreiro, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira |
| 2026 | Enhancing Gesture-Based Human-Robot Interaction: Investigating the Role of Force Automation. Tonia Mielke, Marilena Georgiades, Oliver S. Großer, Maciej Pech, Christian Hansen, Florian Heinrich |
| 2026 | Estimation of Mobile Robot Waiting Locations using Fluid Simulation without Prior Observation. Ryoya Sakaki, Yoshio Ishiguro, Kento Ohtani, Takanori Nishino, Kazuya Takeda |
| 2026 | Expensive, Limited, and Still Here: The Paradox of Weak Robots in Family Homes. Zhao Zhao |
| 2026 | Explainable OOHRI: Communicating Robot Capabilities and Limitations as Augmented Reality Affordances. Lauren W. Wang, Mohamed Kari, Parastoo Abtahi |
| 2026 | Explaining Why Things Go Where They Go: Interpretable Constructs of Human Organizational Preferences. Emmanuel Fashae, Michael G. Burke, Leimin Tian, Lingheng Meng, Pamela Carreno-Medrano |
| 2026 | Exploring Labor Issues in Human-Robot Collaboration: Community-Based Research with Trade Unions in Manufacturing. Yuxuan Wang, Wenlong Zhang, Hee Rin Lee |
| 2026 | Fictional vs. Factual Robot Tutor Dialogue Can Shape Child Social-Emotional Learning. Lauren L. Wright, Kaitlyn Li, Hewitt Watkins, Kiljoong Kim, Sarah Sebo |
| 2026 | From Human Bias to Robot Choice: How Occupational Contexts and Racial Priming Shape Robot Selection. Jiangen He, Wanqi Zhang, Jessica K. Barfield |
| 2026 | From Metrics to Meaning: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Field Experiment on Retail Robot Deployment. Sichao Song, Yuki Okafuji, Takuya Iwamoto, Jun Baba, Hiroshi Ishiguro |
| 2026 | From Voice to Form: How Gender-Ambiguous Voices Shape Physical Robot Design. Martina De Cet, Negin Hashmati, Mohammad Obaid, Ilaria Torre |
| 2026 | Generative Encounters with Robin: Design through Adaptation and Appropriation of a Social Robot in Four Eldercare Facilities. Nan Hu, Selma Sabanovic |
| 2026 | GeoSACS: Geometric Shared Autonomy via Canal Surfaces. Shalutha Rajapakshe, Atharva Dastenavar, Michael Hagenow, Jean-Marc Odobez, Emmanuel Senft |
| 2026 | 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, Donghyun Kim |
| 2026 | How Human Motion Prediction Quality Shapes Social Robot Navigation Performance in Constrained Spaces. Andrew Stratton, Phani-Teja Singamaneni, Pranav Goyal, Rachid Alami, Christoforos I. Mavrogiannis |
| 2026 | IVoice: An Open-Source Real-Time Closed-Loop Voice Monitoring and Feedback Testbed for Cognitively Assistive Robots in Therapy. Iman Noferesti, Rahul Singh |
| 2026 | If It's Safe, Don't Ask: Decreasing Frustration through User Involvement for Risky Robot Behaviors. Jan Leusmann, Sarah Schömbs, Maximilian Diedrich, Florian Müller |
| 2026 | Immersive Social Teleoperation Interface with Semi-automatic Ingroup Navigation for Intuitive Communication. Akitomo Takeda, Stela Hanbyeol Seo, Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda |
| 2026 | Improvisational Participatory Storming: A Toolkit of Improvisational Design Methods for Human-Robot Interaction. Katie Schneider Assaf, Sawyer Collins, Kevin Rich, James Walker, Nicholle Harris, Tom Williams |
| 2026 | 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, Laurel D. Riek |
| 2026 | InterPReT: Interactive Policy Restructuring and Training Enable Effective Imitation Learning from Laypersons. Feiyu Gavin Zhu, Jean Oh, Reid G. Simmons |
| 2026 | Interface-Aware Trajectory Reconstruction of Limited Demonstrations for Robot Learning. Demiana R. Barsoum, Mahdieh Nejati Javaremi, Larisa Y. C. Loke, Brenna D. Argall |
| 2026 | Investigating the Impact of Robot Degree of Redundancy on Learning from Demonstration. Muhammad Bilal, D. Antony Chacon, Nir Lipovetzky, Denny Oetomo, Wafa Johal |
| 2026 | Is Robot Labor Labor? Delivery Robots and the Politics of Work in Public Space. Eunjeong Cheon, Do Yeon Shin |
| 2026 | 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, Selma Sabanovic |
| 2026 | LEGS-POMDP: Language and Gesture-Guided Object Search in Partially Observable Environments. Ivy Xiao He, Stefanie Tellex, Jason Xinyu Liu |
| 2026 | Lantern: A Minimalist Robotic Object Platform. Victor Nikhil Antony, Zhili Gong, Guanchen Li, Clara Jeon, Chien-Ming Huang |
| 2026 | Learning Contextually-Adaptive Rewards via Calibrated Features. Alexandra Forsey-Smerek, Julie Shah, Andreea Bobu |
| 2026 | 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, Marynel Vázquez |
| 2026 | 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, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto |
| 2026 | Let's Talk about (Our and Robots') Death: Mortality as a Core Principle in Human-Robot Interaction. Waki Kamino, Long-Jing Hsu, Selma Sabanovic, Malte F. Jung |
| 2026 | Long-Term Integration of a Robot in an Inclusive Daycare: An Ethnographic Study Focused on Children and Caregivers. Jan Ole Rixen, Kathrin Gerling, Barbara Bruno |
| 2026 | 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, Takahiro Tanaka |
| 2026 | MotionBuddy: Exploring Tactile-Based Motion Learning with a Tabletop Humanoid Robot for Blind People. Kengo Tanaka, Xiyue Wang, Hironobu Takagi, Yoichi Ochiai, Chieko Asakawa |
| 2026 | Navigation beyond Wayfinding: Robots Collaborating with Visually Impaired Users for Environmental Interactions. Shaojun Cai, Nuwan Janaka, Ashwin Ram, Janidu Shehan, Yingjia Wan, Kotaro Hara, David Hsu |
| 2026 | Neutral by Default? Replicating User Vocal Responses to Negative Affective Cues in Conversational Agents. Yong Ma, Yuchong Zhang, Di Fu, Stephanie Zubicueta Portales, Morten Fjeld |
| 2026 | 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, Raj Korpan |
| 2026 | Older Adult Perspectives on Home Monitoring Robots: User Preferences and Performance of Robot Observation Strategies. Nadira Mahamane, Sonia Chernova |
| 2026 | On Being Guided: How People Follow a Robot-Guided Tour. Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Stuart Reeves, Andriana Boudouraki, Dominic James Price, Joel E. Fischer, Praminda Caleb-Solly |
| 2026 | Open-Ended Goal Inference through Actions and Language for Human-Robot Collaboration. Debasmita Ghose, Oz Gitelson, Marynel Vázquez, Brian Scassellati |
| 2026 | 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, Iolanda Leite |
| 2026 | PEHRCIVE: Platform for Evaluating Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction in Virtual Environments. Eduardo Araújo, Paula Alexandra Silva, Sergi Bermúdez i Badia, Diogo Branco, Artur Pilacinski |
| 2026 | 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, Xinyi Fu |
| 2026 | Particle-Driven Robot Placement: A ROS 2 Plugin-Based Framework. Jesus Enrique Aleman Gallegos, Sven Wachsmuth |
| 2026 | Perceiving Animacy in Robots: A Neuroimaging Study. Or Yizhar, Amber Maimon, Zohar Tal, Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Hadas Erel, Doron Friedman, Oren Zuckerman, Amir Amedi |
| 2026 | Persona Non Graphica: Visual Representation Biases in Human-Robot Interaction Research. Katie Seaborn, Özge Nilay Yalçin |
| 2026 | Plant-Inspired Robot Design Metaphors for Ambient HRI. Victor Nikhil Antony, Adithya R. N, Sarah Derrick, Zhili Gong, Peter M. Donley, Chien-Ming Huang |
| 2026 | Plausible Explanations Reduce Phantom Cost Perception in HRI. Benjamin LeBrun, Christoph Bartneck, Andrew J. Vonasch |
| 2026 | Pluriversal Approach to Co-designing Delivery Robots with People with Disabilities. Abena Boadi-Agyemang, Sanika Moharana, Cynthia L. Bennett, Elizabeth J. Carter, Patrick Carrington, Aaron Steinfeld |
| 2026 | 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, Jessica Hodgins |
| 2026 | Post-growth Perspectives in HRI. Sofia Thunberg, Mafalda Gamboa, Ilaria Torre, Birgit Penzenstadler |
| 2026 | Practical Insights into Designing Context-Aware Robot Voice Parameters in the Wild. Amy Koike, Yuki Okafuji, Sichao Song |
| 2026 | Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, March 16-19, 2026 Lynne Baillie, William D. Smart, Maartje de Graaf, Matthew Gombolay, Ilaria Torre |
| 2026 | Quest2ROS2: A ROS 2 Framework for Bi-manual VR Teleoperation. Jialong Li, Zhenguo Wang, Tianci Wang, Maj Stenmark, Volker Krüger |
| 2026 | 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, Tom Williams |
| 2026 | Real-Time Hand Pose Tracking using 6-Axis IMUs. Anik Sarker, Ziyi Kou, Ergys Ristani, Li Guan, Taylor Niehues |
| 2026 | Reframing Conversational Design in HRI: Deliberate Design with AI Scaffolds. Shiye Cao, Jiwon Moon, Yifan Xu, Anqi Liu, Chien-Ming Huang |
| 2026 | Reimagining Social Robots as Recommender Systems: Foundations, Framework, and Applications. Jin Huang, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Hatice Gunes |
| 2026 | 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, Yi Yang |
| 2026 | Risk-Taking Behavior in Human-Robot Teams: Collaboration vs. Competition. Katharina Wille, Eva Wiese, Jairo Pérez-Osorio |
| 2026 | RoboCritics: Enabling Reliable End-to-End LLM Robot Programming through Expert-Informed Critics. Callie Y. Kim, Nathan Thomas White, Evan He, Frederic Sala, Bilge Mutlu |
| 2026 | Robot Fashion: The Social Psychology of Robot Clothing. Irvin Steve Cardenas, Jong-Hoon Kim, Linda Ohrn-McDaniel, Krissi Riewe Stevenson, J. R. Campbell, Natalie Yeo |
| 2026 | 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, Tony Belpaeme |
| 2026 | Robot Vandalism: A Senseless Act? Anna Dobrosovestnova, David J. Bailey, Ralf Vetter, Masoumeh Mansouri |
| 2026 | Robot as Self, Blurred Boundaries, and the Auxthetic Mind-Body: A Speculative Design through Poetry. Lux Miranda, Ginevra Castellano, Katie Winkle |
| 2026 | Robot-Assisted Exploration Decisions during a Planetary Analog Field Science Campaign. Ian C. Rankin, Shipeng Liu, Freya Whittaker, Sean Buchmeier, Liam Bouffard, Cristina G. Wilson |
| 2026 | Robot-Assisted Medical Training for Safety-Critical Environments. Huajie Jay Cao, Michael Joseph Sack, Lili Mkrtchyan, Kevin Ching, Tariq Iqbal, Hee Rin Lee, Angelique Taylor |
| 2026 | Robot-Mediated Mutual Gaze: How a Mobile Robot with Actuated Mirrors Facilitates Encounters between Strangers. Ge (Serena) Guo, Jenny J. Yu, Wenqian Niu, Yifei Gao, Guy Hoffman, Gilly Leshed, Keith Evan Green |
| 2026 | Robotic Bias and Its Dimensions. Tomislav Furlanis, Drazen Brscic, Takayuki Kanda |
| 2026 | Robots for Those in Transition: Exploring Mental Wellness through Design Probes. Minghe Lu, Yu Xing, Carlye Anne Lauff, Hee Rin Lee, Ji Youn Shin |
| 2026 | 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, Pragyana Mishra |
| 2026 | Seeing Eye to Eye Again: In-the-Wild Replication Study with an Expressive Eye Display for the Stretch Mobile Manipulator. Antara Shah, Naomi T. Fitter |
| 2026 | Should Robots Comply with Our Instructions or Intentions? Tiffany Horter, Andrew Markham, Niki Trigoni, Serena Booth |
| 2026 | Social Robotics for Disabled Students: An Empirical Investigation of Embodiment, Roles, and Interaction. Alva Markelius, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Julie Bailey, Guy Laban, Jenny L. Gibson, Hatice Gunes |
| 2026 | Social Robots as Active Safeguards for Children's Welfare: Community Stakeholder Insights and Design Recommendations. Nida Itrat Abbasi, Leigh Levinson, Selma Sabanovic, Hatice Gunes |
| 2026 | 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, Shruti Chandra |
| 2026 | Speaking of Safety: Drone-Based Voice Communication for Industry. Chandhawat Boonyard, Stine S. Johansen, Christophe Jouffrais, Anke M. Brock, Timothy Merritt |
| 2026 | Speaking with Screens: Design Space and Guidelines for Informational Robot Screens. Yujin Kim, Christine P. Lee, Bilge Mutlu |
| 2026 | Sympathy as a Lens for Human-Robot Interaction: Analysing YouTube Responses to Robot Abuse. Vlatka Tolj, Caterina Neef, Barbara Bruno |
| 2026 | Task-Oriented Robot-Human Handovers on Legged Manipulators. Andreea Tulbure, Carmen Scheidemann, Elias Steiner, Marco Hutter |
| 2026 | Teaching the Teacher: Live Foundation Model and Augmented Reality Feedback for Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer. Nina Marie Moorman, Matthew B. Luebbers, Zhang Xi-Jia, Yee Ching (Marcus) Lau, Yixing Yao, Megan Langwasser, Zulfiqar Zaidi, Letian Chen, Sanne van Waveren, Matthew Gombolay |
| 2026 | The 'Aww' Factor: Robot Cuteness as a Catalyst for Emotional Responses and Caretaking Tendencies. Giulia Perugia, Sascha Ankersmit, Nadia Jansen, Stefano Guidi |
| 2026 | The Action-Engagement-Collaboration Triad: A Multimodal Analytical Framework for Human-Robot Collaboration. Arvind, Naval Kishore Mehta, Himanshu Kumar, Sumeet Saurav, Sanjay Singh |
| 2026 | The Dynamics of Human Fairness Judgments towards a Robot. Houston Claure, Austin Narcomey, Kate Candon, Inyoung Shin, Marynel Vázquez |
| 2026 | 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, Daniel Tozadore |
| 2026 | 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 V. Hindriks, Mike E. U. Ligthart |
| 2026 | The Role of Agent's Anthropomorphism in Shaping Phantom Costs. Benjamin LeBrun, Christoph Bartneck, Andrew J. Vonasch |
| 2026 | The Roles of Fairness and Effectiveness in Promoting Legitimacy and Cooperation with Security Robotic Authority. Xin Ye, Lionel P. Robert |
| 2026 | The Valley of Ontological Friction: Motivating, Framing, and Guiding HRI Research on Verisimilitude and Its Implications. Tom Williams, Alexandra Bejarano |
| 2026 | Theory of Whose Mind? Exposing the Shortcomings of One of HRI's Core Concepts. Cansu Elmadagli, Jennifer Renoux |
| 2026 | Towards Intelligible Human-Robot Interaction: An Active Inference Approach to Occluded Pedestrian Scenarios. Kai Chen, Yuyao Huang, Guang Chen |
| 2026 | Towards a Systematic Model of the Effects of Transparency Utterances on Calibrating Trust in Social Robots. Kerstin Fischer, Matous Jelínek |
| 2026 | Uncanny Touch? Investigating the Influence of Lifelike Haptic Cues on User Perceptions of a Social Robot. Jacqueline Borgstedt, Shaun Alexander Macdonald, Jacob Bhattacharyya, Frank E. Pollick, Stephen A. Brewster |
| 2026 | 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, Joana Campos |
| 2026 | 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, Zackory Erickson |
| 2026 | We Cannot Outsource What We Value Most: Toward Deployable Research Products in HRI. Kayla Matheus, Brian Scassellati |
| 2026 | Welcome to the Shop! Field Trial of a VLM-Powered Autonomous Shop Worker Robot. Sachi Edirisinghe, Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda |
| 2026 | What Is a Robot? Understanding Baseball's "Robot Umpire" through the Lens of Fluid Technology. Waki Kamino, Andrea W. Wen-Yi, Guy Hoffman, Selma Sabanovic, Malte F. Jung |
| 2026 | What You Reward Is What You Learn: Comparing Rewards for Online Speech Policy Optimization in Public HRI. Sichao Song, Yuki Okafuji, Kaito Ariu, Amy Koike |
| 2026 | When Fatigue Shapes Trust: Perceptual Shifts beyond Performance in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration. Aakash Yadav, Prabhakar R. Pagilla, Ranjana K. Mehta |
| 2026 | When Robots Say No: The Empathic Ethical Disobedience Benchmark. Dmytro Kuzmenko, Nadiya Shvai |
| 2026 | When Robots Should Break the Rules. Rebecca Ramnauth, Brian Scassellati |
| 2026 | Who Leads the Story? Comparing Autonomous vs. Adult-Supported Child-Robot Interactions. Dotun Olutunbi, Riccardo Polvara, Tom Davies, Jenny Hamilton, Niko Kargas, Francesco Del Duchetto |
| 2026 | Who's the Boss? Children Negotiate Robot Control across Role and Context. Isabella Pu, Kantwon Rogers, Linh Dieu Dinh, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal |
| 2026 | Whose Robots? A Scientific Oligarchy in HRI Research? Amol Deshmukh |
| 2026 | Why Do Service Robots Fail? A Systematic Literature Review from a Service Design Perspective. Sanqi Yang, Jaehyun Park, Sangseok You, Younghoon Chang |
| 2026 | ZTL: Lightweight Communication Patterns for HRI. Patrick Holthaus, Trenton Schulz, Lewis Riches, Claudia-Andreea Badescu, Farshid Amirabdollahian |