HRI 2026

• Termine: 16.–19. März 2026
• Ort: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Veranstaltungsort: Edinburgh International Conference Centre (Main) & Heriot-Watt University (Workshops)
• Veranstalter: ACM / IEEE

Die HRI 2026, die 21. ACM/IEEE-Konferenz zu Human-Robot Interaction, fand vom 16. bis 19. März 2026 in Edinburgh unter dem Motto 'HRI Empowering Society' statt. Sieben Full Paper erhielten in fünf Tracks einen Best Paper Award. Quest2ROS2, ein Open-Source-Framework für VR-Teleoperation mit ROS 2, gewann den Best Short Contribution Award. Teilnehmerzahlen oder Vortragsaufzeichnungen wurden nicht veröffentlicht. Die Paper sind in der ACM Digital Library verfügbar.

Eckdaten

• Ort und Zeit: Die 21. ACM/IEEE HRI fand vom 16. bis 19. März 2026 in Edinburgh statt, mit Workshops an der Heriot-Watt University am 16. März und dem Hauptprogramm im Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
• Best Papers: Sieben Full Paper erhielten in fünf Tracks einen Best Paper Award, darunter WAFFLE (Systems), ausdrucksstarke Bewegung aus multimodalen Foundation Models (Technical) und ein Vergleich physischer und VR-Cobots (Theory).
• Best Short Contribution: Quest2ROS2, ein Open-Source-Framework auf Basis von ROS 2 für bimanuelle VR-Teleoperation von der Universität Lund, gewann den Best Short Contribution Award.
• Test of Time: Zwei Paper erhielten Test of Time Awards: 'Common metrics for human-robot interaction' (Steinfeld et al.) und 'Legibility and predictability of robot motion' (Dragan, Lee, Srinivasa).
• Keynotes: Vier Keynotes hielten Yukie Nagai, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Benjamin Rosman und Benjamin R. Cowan; die Abstracts stehen im ACM-Companion-Tagungsband.

Keynote-Sprecher

• Yukie Nagai (International Research Center for Neurointelligence, University of Tokyo): Predictive Brain in Robots and Children: Toward Social Intelligence
• Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas (Animal-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Glasgow): More Than Human-Robot Interaction
• Benjamin Rosman (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa): Who Gets Represented in Robot Intelligence? Human-Robot Interaction, Societal Context, and the Future of Autonomy
• Benjamin R. Cowan (University College Dublin): Collaborating with Conversational Agents: Perspective Taking, Partner Modelling and the Division of Communicative Labour

Workshops

• Designing Transparent and Understandable Robots (D-TUR), Monday March 16 (Morning): https://dtur-hri.github.io/workshop2026/
• Methodological Innovation in Designing Sensations and Sentiments from Robot Touch, Monday March 16 (Morning): https://sites.google.com/view/touchwellhri2026workshop/home
• Unpacking Lived Experiences of Wizards of Oz, Monday March 16 (Morning): https://sites.google.com/view/wozhri/
• 3rd Workshop on Designerly HRI: Articulating the Value of Design Research for HRI, Monday March 16 (Morning): https://designerlyhri.org
• Robots for Care: Exploring Downstream Socio-Ethical Effects and Upstream Interventions, Monday March 16 (Morning): https://healthrobotsworkshop.github.io/HRI-workshop2026/
• Robots for Communities, Monday March 16 (Morning): https://sites.google.com/view/robots-for-communities/home
• Errors, Mistakes and Failures in Humans and Robots (EMF-HRI), Monday March 16 (Morning): https://sites.google.com/view/emfhri26/home
• InterAI: Interactive AI for Human-Centered Robotics (2nd edition), Monday March 16 (Morning): https://sites.google.com/view/interaiworkshophri2026/home
• Expressive Robot Faces with Vizij: A Workshop/Tutorial Hybrid, Monday March 16 (Full Day): https://vizij.ai/events/hri-2026-tutorial
• Roboticist's Guide to Working with Children: A Playful by Design Workshop, Monday March 16 (Full Day): https://sites.google.com/iu.edu/hri26-roboticist-guide-child/call-for-participation
• ROOTS-HRI: Responsible Outcomes and Operational Tools for Sustainability in HRI (2nd edition), Monday March 16 (Full Day): https://sites.google.com/view/roots-hri-2026/
• Workshop YOUR Study Design 2026 (6th edition), Monday March 16 (Full Day): https://sites.google.com/view/wysd-2026-at-hri
• Failing Forward: Design and Deployment Lessons from Real-World HRI, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/failfowardhri2026
• BPM-HRI: Best Practices and Methods in HRI Research, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://www.uk-hri.org/events/bpm-hri-2026
• LEAP-HRI: Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term HRI (6th edition), Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://leap-hri.github.io/
• Cruel Optimism, Lucid Despair, and Precarious Hope in HRI, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://sites.google.com/view/hriworkshop2026/home
• MAgicS-HRI: Multi-Agentic Systems in HRI, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://sites.google.com/view/magics-hri/home
• Equitable Robotics for Wellbeing (EqRoW), Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/eq-rw/
• A Tutorial for Finding and Evaluating HRI Scales, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://hri.lab.gmu.edu/workshops/hri-2026-workshop/
• Third International Workshop on Worker-Robot Relations: Futuring Worker Empowerment, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://sites.google.com/view/wwrworkshop3/home
• HuRoCo: Empowering Human-Robot Communication Through Non-Linguistic Pathways, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://dml.uni-bremen.de/huroco/HRI2026/
• Exploring the Safety, Trust, Psychosocial, Legal and Economic Impact of Cyber Attacks on Social Robots, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://securerobotics.net/

Offizielle Links

• Website: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/