HRI 2026

Date: 16–19 mar 2026
Luogo: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Sede: Edinburgh International Conference Centre (Main) & Heriot-Watt University (Workshops)
Organizzatore: ACM / IEEE

HRI 2026, la 21a conferenza ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction, si è svolta dal 16 al 19 marzo 2026 a Edimburgo con il tema 'HRI Empowering Society'. Sette articoli completi hanno vinto il Best Paper in cinque sessioni tematiche. Quest2ROS2, un framework open source ROS 2 per la teleoperazione in VR, ha vinto il Best Short Contribution. Non sono stati pubblicati dati sulla partecipazione né registrazioni dei talk. Gli articoli sono nella ACM Digital Library.

Informazioni chiave

Dove e quando: La 21a conferenza ACM/IEEE HRI si è svolta dal 16 al 19 marzo 2026 a Edimburgo, con i workshop alla Heriot-Watt University il 16 marzo e il programma principale all'Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Best Paper: Sette articoli completi hanno vinto il Best Paper in cinque sessioni tematiche, tra cui WAFFLE (Systems), il movimento espressivo da foundation model multimodali (Technical) e un confronto tra cobot fisico e in VR (Theory).
Best Short Contribution: Quest2ROS2, un framework open source ROS 2 per la teleoperazione bimanuale in VR della Lund University, ha vinto il Best Short Contribution.
Test of Time: Due articoli hanno ricevuto i premi Test of Time: 'Common metrics for human-robot interaction' (Steinfeld et al.) e 'Legibility and predictability of robot motion' (Dragan, Lee, Srinivasa).
Keynote: Quattro keynote sono state tenute da Yukie Nagai, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Benjamin Rosman e Benjamin R. Cowan, con gli abstract negli atti complementari ACM.

Relatori principali

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

Workshop

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/

Link ufficiali

Sito web: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/