HRI 2026

일정: 2026년 3월 16일~19일
장소: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
행사장: Edinburgh International Conference Centre (Main) & Heriot-Watt University (Workshops)
주최: ACM / IEEE

제21회 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction 학회인 HRI 2026은 'HRI Empowering Society'를 주제로 2026년 3월 16-19일 에든버러에서 열렸다. 5개 트랙에서 정규 논문 7편이 Best Paper를 받았다. 오픈소스 ROS 2 VR 원격조작 프레임워크 Quest2ROS2가 Best Short Contribution을 받았다. 참가자 수나 발표 녹화본은 공개되지 않았다. 논문은 ACM Digital Library에 수록되어 있다.

주요 정보

일시 및 장소: 제21회 ACM/IEEE HRI 학회는 2026년 3월 16-19일 에든버러에서 열렸다. 3월 16일 워크숍은 Heriot-Watt University에서, 본 프로그램은 Edinburgh International Conference Centre에서 진행되었다.
Best Paper: 5개 트랙에서 정규 논문 7편이 Best Paper를 받았으며, 여기에는 WAFFLE(Systems), 멀티모달 파운데이션 모델 기반 표현적 동작 생성(Technical), 실물 대 VR 협동로봇 비교 연구(Theory)가 포함된다.
Best Short Contribution: Lund University가 개발한 양손 VR 원격조작용 오픈소스 ROS 2 프레임워크 Quest2ROS2가 Best Short Contribution을 받았다.
Test of Time: 두 편의 논문이 Test of Time 상을 받았다: 'Common metrics for human-robot interaction'(Steinfeld 외)과 'Legibility and predictability of robot motion'(Dragan, Lee, Srinivasa).
기조연설: Yukie Nagai, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Benjamin Rosman, Benjamin R. Cowan이 기조연설 4건을 맡았으며, 초록은 ACM companion proceedings에 수록되어 있다.

기조연설자

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

워크숍

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/

공식 링크

웹사이트: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/