<div dir="ltr">HRI 2021 Conference: March 8-11, 2021 The<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> full schedule for HRI 2021 is <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">now available, Mountain Time Zone (GMT-7)!<a href="https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/schedule/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/schedule/</a> This year’s conference will be highly interactive, utilizing the <a href="https://www.hopin.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hopin</a> platform with live sessions, video panels and student-led social hours. The conference will also include industry sessions for attendees to connect with companies related to the field. The HRI conference aims to showcase the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in human-robot interaction with roots in and broad participation from robotics, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, human factors, design, and social and behavioral sciences. REGISTRATIONThe theme of HRI 2021, the 16th annual conference for basic and applied human-robot interaction research is “<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bolder Human-Robot Interaction.” Be bold. Register now. <a href="https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/registration/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/registration/</a> Don’t miss your chance to participate with a lower than usual registration fee to hear researchers from around the world share their best work furthering state-of-the-art human-robot interaction! KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hiroshi Ishiguru “Constructive Approach for Interactive Robots and the Fundamental Issues” <span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mary-Anne Williams “Designing Human-Robot Interaction with Social Intelligence” <span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mark Billinghurt “Empathic Computing and Human Robot Interaction” WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALSWorkshops & Tutorials Page: <a href="https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/workshops/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/workshops/</a> MARCH 8 - WORKSHOPS<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.56;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full day:</h2><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="http://www.hripioneers.info/hri21/index.html" style="text-decoration-line:none">HRI Pioneers</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/non-verbal-hri-2021/home" style="text-decoration-line:none">Exploring Applications for Autonomous Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://child-robot-interaction.github.io/index.html" style="text-decoration-line:none">Child-Robot Interaction</a></li></ul> Half-day, morning session:<ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://leap-hri.github.io/" style="text-decoration-line:none">Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI)</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://rtdxhri.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none">Research through Design Approaches in Human-Robot Interaction</a></li></ul><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.56;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Half-day, afternoon session: </h2><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="http://vam-hri.github.io/" style="text-decoration-line:none">Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI)</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/agentidentity/home" style="text-decoration-line:none">Robo-Identity: Exploring artificial identity and multi-embodiment</a></li></ul> MARCH 12 - WORKSHOPS<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.56;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full day:</h2><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://www.nist.gov/el/intelligent-systems-division-73500/hri-metrology-workshop" style="text-decoration-line:none">Novel and Emerging Test Methods and Metrics for Effective HRI</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/wysdworkshop/home" style="text-decoration-line:none">Workshop YOUR study design! Participatory critique and refinement of participants’ studies</a></li></ul> Half-day, morning session:<ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/realworldhri-workshop/home?authuser=1" style="text-decoration-line:none">Solutions for socially intelligent HRI in real-world scenarios (SSIR-HRI) – 2nd Edition</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://sites.google.com/cornell.edu/hri-clothes-for-robots/home" style="text-decoration-line:none">Designing Functional Clothing for Human-Robot Interaction</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/traits-hri/home" style="text-decoration-line:none">The Road to a Successful HRI: AI, Trust and ethicS – TRAITS</a></li></ul><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.56;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Half-day, afternoon session: </h2><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://robinson.audio/SoundInHRI" style="text-decoration-line:none">Sound in Human-Robot Interaction</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://robot4learning.github.io/event/hri2021/" style="text-decoration-line:none">Robots for Learning – Learner-Centred Design</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://www.combotlabs.org/hmchri2021.html" style="text-decoration-line:none">Building bridges and not walls: Expanding the human-machine communication connections within HRI</a></li></ul>TUTORIALS<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.56;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Offered Asynchronously:</h2><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">Robo Ludens: Game Design Techniques Applied in HRI Experiments</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">Acoustically Aware Robots: Detecting and evaluating sounds robots make and hear</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><a href="https://furhatrobotics.com/tutorial-hri2021/" style="text-decoration-line:none">Conversational Interaction with Social Robots</a></li></ul> SPONSORS<img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/lp2bVdGMWRwGMIDhYkE0sBNVyn01gKYC2f1lNr8fZVqXNgba0UMTBTtfejKa_-iQN5jVXLQWNkYaCZv0RvH8VYE6518L-891K6HJXIrYwsxKrSoK4CuR6pOpANUWrfVMliZMlybT" width="364" height="129" style="margin-left: 0px; 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margin-top: 0px;"> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIRS (<a href="mailto:generalchairs2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">generalchairs2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Cindy Bethel (Mississippi State University, USA)Ana Paiva (INESC-ID, IST, UNiversity of Lisbon, Portugal) PROGRAM CHAIRS (<a href="mailto:programchairs2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">programchairs2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Elizabeth Broadbent (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)David Feil-Seifer (University of Nevada Reno, USA)Daniel Szafir (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIRS (<a href="mailto:local2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">local2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Dan Grollman (Plus One Robotics, USA)Brad Hayes (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)Tom Williams (Colorado School of Mines, USA) FINANCE CHAIRS (<a href="mailto:financechairs2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">financechairs2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Henny Admoni (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)Kate Tsui (Toyota Research Institute, USA)Laura Hiatt (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL CHAIRS (<a href="mailto:workshops2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">workshops2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Tesca Fitzgerald (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Brittany Duncan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) ALT.HRI CHAIR (<a href="mailto:althri2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">althri2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Kerstin Fischer (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)Eduardo Benitez Sandoval (The University of New South Wales, Australia) VIDEO CHAIRS (INCLUDING DEMOS) (<a href="mailto:videos2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">videos2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Ginevra Castellano (Uppsala University, Sweden)Ho Seok Ahn (University of Auckland, New Zealand) LATE BREAKING REPORT CHAIRS (<a href="mailto:lbr2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">lbr2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Francois Ferland (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)Tariq Iqbal (University of Virginia, USA)Marynel Vazquez (Yale University, USA) FUNDRAISING AND VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS CHAIRS (<a href="mailto:sponsorship2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">sponsorship2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)James Kennedy (Disney Research – USA)André Pereira (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)Randy Gomez (Honda Research Institute-Japan) PUBLICITY AND SOCIAL CHAIR (<a href="mailto:publicity2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">publicity2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Heather Knight (Oregon State University, USA)Fumihide Tanaka (University of Tsukuba, Japan) REGISTRATION CHAIRS (<a href="mailto:registration2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">registration2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Chris Crawford (University of Alabama, USA)Sarah Sebo (University of Chicago, USA) PUBLICATIONS CHAIR (<a href="mailto:publication2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">publication2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Daniel Rea (University of New Brunswick, Canada; and Kyoto University, Japan)Wafa Johal (University of New South Wales, Australia) STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION CHAIR (<a href="mailto:sdc2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">sdc2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Patricia Alves-Oliveira (University of Washington, USA)Séverin Lemaignan (Bristol Robotics Lab, United Kingdom) PIONEER CHAIRS (<a href="mailto:general-chairs@hripioneers.info">general-chairs@hripioneers.info</a>)Siya Kunde (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)Elmira Yadollahi (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne/Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Switzerland/Portugal) STUDENT VOLUNTEER CHAIR (<a href="mailto:volunteers2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">volunteers2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Kerstin Haring (University of Denver, USA) ACCESSIBILITY CHAIR (<a href="mailto:accessibility2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">accessibility2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Elaine Short (Tufts University, USA)Hugo Nicolau (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal) WEB CHAIR (<a href="mailto:web2021@humanrobotinteraction.org">web2021@humanrobotinteraction.org</a>)Nhan Tran (Robust AI, USA)</div>