<div dir="ltr">************************************************************************16th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021)<a href="https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/" style="text-decoration-line:none">https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/</a>March 8-11, 2021, Boulder, CO USAFull Paper Submission Deadline: Monday October 5 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE)************************************************************************ The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction is a premier, highly-selective venue presenting the latest advances in Human-Robot Interaction. The 16th Annual HRI conference theme is “Bolder HRI.” The conference seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, behavioural, theoretical, methodological, and metrological, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction. Full papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library. ** Full Papers: Due Monday October 5 11:59pm anywhere on earth ** Full papers are up to eight camera-ready pages, including figures, but excluding references. Submissions longer than eight pages of content excluding references will be desk rejected and not reviewed. Accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings and presented in an oral session. The HRI conference is highly selective with a rigorous, two-stage review model that includes an expert program committee meeting where papers are extensively discussed. As such, all submissions are expected to be mature, polished, and detailed accounts of cutting-edge research described and presented in camera-ready style. In cases of equally qualified papers, positive consideration will be given to submissions that address this year's theme of “Bolder Human-Robot Interaction.” ** Conference changes due to Covid-19 ** Due to the ongoing pandemic, the conference is currently being planned as a hybrid between an online and in-person conference. However, the organizing committee will continue to monitor the situation and the conference may switch to a fully virtual format if necessary. More information about the final conference format will be communicated in January 2021. We also acknowledge that many authors are concerned with how the pandemic has affected the feasibility of conducting in-person user studies. We want to stress that user studies are not the only possible means of assessing a research contribution. We encourage authors to consider the many other ways that contributions can be validated, and we will stress in the reviewing guidelines that, for many of the submitted works, user studies might not necessarily be the most appropriate, nor an indispensable method to demonstrate validity or provide valuable insights to the research community. ** Paper Submission ** Authors are encouraged to consult the guide regarding submissions to HRI provided at: <a href="https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/full-papers/" style="text-decoration-line:none">https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/full-papers/</a> To facilitate quality interdisciplinary reviewing, and to inform reviewer selection, authors will be required to select one main theme and one optional second theme for their full paper submissions. The HRI 2021 conference has four themes: User Studies, Technical Advances, Design, and Theory and Methods. Papers may have overlap between themes, but authors are encouraged to consider the main contribution of the work using this brief rule of thumb: - Human-Robot Interaction User Studies: The primary contribution is knowledge gained from human-focused experiments, e.g., new understandings of how humans perceive, interact with, or otherwise engage with robots. - Technical Advances in Human-Robot Interaction: The primary contribution is system-focused, e.g., algorithms, or computational methods supporting HRI. - Human-Robot Interaction Design: The primary contribution is design-focused, e.g., new morphologies, behavior paradigms, or interaction capabilities for robots. - Theory and Methods in Human-Robot Interaction: The primary contribution is methodological, e.g., new ways of studying HRI, elucidating or connecting fundamental HRI principles beyond individual interfaces or projects, new theoretical concepts in HRI, literature reviews, work that reproduces, replicates, or re-creates prior HRI work (or fails to), provides new HRI artifacts (e.g., datasets, software), etc. Authors are encouraged to review the extended call for papers on the conference website for more information regarding the themes, submission guidelines, etc.: <a href="https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/full-papers/" style="text-decoration-line:none">https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/full-papers/</a> HRI 2021 PC Chairs-------------------------------Elizabeth Broadbent, University of Auckland, New ZealandDave Feil-Seifer, University of Nevada, Reno, USADaniel Szafir, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Contact: <a href="mailto:programchair2021@humanrobotinteraction.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">programchair2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <mailto:<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:programchair2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">programchair2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>></div>