[iva] HRI 2021: Just Over A Week To The Conference! March 8-11th, 2021

[Knight, Heather M]

HRI 2021 Conference: March 8-11, 2021



The full schedule for HRI 2021 is now available, Mountain Time Zone (GMT-7)!

https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/schedule/


This year’s conference will be highly interactive, utilizing the Hopin
<https://www.hopin.com/> 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.


REGISTRATION

The theme of HRI 2021, the 16th annual conference for basic and applied
human-robot interaction research is “Bolder Human-Robot Interaction.”


Be bold. Register now.

https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/registration/


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

Hiroshi Ishiguru “Constructive Approach for Interactive Robots and the
Fundamental Issues”


Mary-Anne Williams “Designing Human-Robot Interaction with Social
Intelligence”


Mark Billinghurt “Empathic Computing and Human Robot Interaction”


WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS

Workshops & Tutorials Page:
https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/workshops/


MARCH 8 - WORKSHOPS
Full day:

   -

   HRI Pioneers <http://www.hripioneers.info/hri21/index.html>
   -

   Exploring Applications for Autonomous Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction
   <https://sites.google.com/view/non-verbal-hri-2021/home>
   -

   Child-Robot Interaction
   <https://child-robot-interaction.github.io/index.html>

 Half-day, morning session:

   -

   Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot
   Interaction (LEAP-HRI) <https://leap-hri.github.io/>
   -

   Research through Design Approaches in Human-Robot Interaction
   <https://rtdxhri.com/>

Half-day, afternoon session:

   -

   Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction
   (VAM-HRI) <http://vam-hri.github.io/>
   -

   Robo-Identity: Exploring artificial identity and multi-embodiment
   <https://sites.google.com/view/agentidentity/home>


MARCH 12 - WORKSHOPS
Full day:

   -

   Novel and Emerging Test Methods and Metrics for Effective HRI
   <https://www.nist.gov/el/intelligent-systems-division-73500/hri-metrology-workshop>
   -

   Workshop YOUR study design!  Participatory critique and refinement of
   participants’ studies <https://sites.google.com/view/wysdworkshop/home>

 Half-day, morning session:

   -

   Solutions for socially intelligent HRI in real-world scenarios
   (SSIR-HRI) – 2nd Edition
   <https://sites.google.com/view/realworldhri-workshop/home?authuser=1>
   -

   Designing Functional Clothing for Human-Robot Interaction
   <https://sites.google.com/cornell.edu/hri-clothes-for-robots/home>
   -

   The Road to a Successful HRI: AI, Trust and ethicS – TRAITS
   <https://sites.google.com/view/traits-hri/home>

Half-day, afternoon session:

   -

   Sound in Human-Robot Interaction <https://robinson.audio/SoundInHRI>
   -

   Robots for Learning – Learner-Centred Design
   <https://robot4learning.github.io/event/hri2021/>
   -

   Building bridges and not walls: Expanding the human-machine
   communication connections within HRI
   <https://www.combotlabs.org/hmchri2021.html>

TUTORIALS
Offered Asynchronously:

   -

   Robo Ludens: Game Design Techniques Applied in HRI Experiments
   -

   Acoustically Aware Robots: Detecting and evaluating sounds robots make
   and hear
   -

   Conversational Interaction with Social Robots
   <https://furhatrobotics.com/tutorial-hri2021/>


SPONSORS


Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors







ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


GENERAL CHAIRS (generalchairs2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Cindy Bethel (Mississippi State University, USA)

Ana Paiva (INESC-ID, IST, UNiversity of Lisbon, Portugal)


PROGRAM CHAIRS (programchairs2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

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 (local2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Dan Grollman (Plus One Robotics, USA)

Brad Hayes (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

Tom Williams (Colorado School of Mines, USA)


FINANCE CHAIRS (financechairs2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Henny Admoni (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Kate Tsui (Toyota Research Institute, USA)

Laura Hiatt (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)


WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL CHAIRS (workshops2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Tesca Fitzgerald (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Brittany Duncan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)


ALT.HRI CHAIR (althri2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Kerstin Fischer (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

Eduardo Benitez Sandoval (The University of New South Wales, Australia)


VIDEO CHAIRS (INCLUDING DEMOS) (videos2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Ginevra Castellano (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Ho Seok Ahn (University of Auckland, New Zealand)


LATE BREAKING REPORT CHAIRS (lbr2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Francois Ferland (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)

Tariq Iqbal (University of Virginia, USA)

Marynel Vazquez (Yale University, USA)


FUNDRAISING AND VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS CHAIRS (
sponsorship2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

James Kennedy (Disney Research – USA)

André Pereira (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Randy Gomez (Honda Research Institute-Japan)


PUBLICITY AND SOCIAL CHAIR (publicity2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Heather Knight (Oregon State University, USA)

Fumihide Tanaka (University of Tsukuba, Japan)


REGISTRATION CHAIRS (registration2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Chris Crawford (University of Alabama, USA)

Sarah Sebo (University of Chicago, USA)


PUBLICATIONS CHAIR (publication2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Daniel Rea (University of New Brunswick, Canada; and Kyoto University,
Japan)

Wafa Johal (University of New South Wales, Australia)


STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION CHAIR (sdc2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Patricia Alves-Oliveira (University of Washington, USA)

Séverin Lemaignan (Bristol Robotics Lab, United Kingdom)


PIONEER CHAIRS (general-chairs at hripioneers.info)

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 (volunteers2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Kerstin Haring (University of Denver, USA)


ACCESSIBILITY CHAIR (accessibility2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Elaine Short (Tufts University, USA)

Hugo Nicolau (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal)


WEB CHAIR (web2021 at humanrobotinteraction.org)

Nhan Tran (Robust AI, USA)
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