Introduction
The field of human-robot interaction (HRI) is a broad community encompassing robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), human-computer interaction (HCI), psychology and social science. In this meeting, we seek to bring together and strengthen the subset of the HRI community that is focused on the AI challenges inherent to HRI.
HRI aims to develop robots that are intelligent, autonomous, and capable of interacting with, modeling, and learning from humans -- goals that are also at the core of the field of AI. While HRI work is seen across a variety of venues (e.g., HRI, RSS, ICRA, IROS, Ro-Man, RoboCup, and more), AI-HRI seeks to serve as the gathering point for the AI-focused community within HRI.
The central purpose of this symposium is to share the most exciting research in this area while cultivating a vibrant, interconnected research community. We will build on the success of last year's symposium by introducing a heavier emphasis on sharing research results and devoting more time to the presentation and discussion of current work in the field. Accordingly, AI-HRI is accepting extended abstracts/short papers (up to 4 pages) and full length papers (up to 8 pages) for inclusion in the symposium.
Invited Keynote Speakers
Senior Keynotes
- Peter Stone (UT-Austin)
- Song-Chun Zhu (UCLA)
- Greg Hager (Johns Hopkins University)
Keynotes
- Bilge Mutlu (Wisconsin)
- Stefanie Tellex (Brown)
- Ross Knepper (Cornell)
- Dmitry Berenson (WPI)
- Scott Niekum (UT-Austin)
- Aurélie Clodic (LAAS)
- Arun Jayaraman (RIC)
Schedule
November 12
9:10 - 10:00 Invited talk: Bilge Mutlu (Wisconsin)
10:00 - 10:30 Accepted Papers: Short Talks
- Exploring Affordances Using Human-Guidance and Self-Exploration - Vivian Chu and Andrea L. Thomaz
- Developing Adaptive Social Robot Tutors For Children - Aditi Ramachandran and Brian Scassellati
- The RoboHelper Project: From Multimodal Corpus to Embodiment on a Robot - Barbara Di Eugenio and Milos Zefran
- Missteps in Robot Social Navigation - Andrew Sutcliffe, Joelle Pineau and Neil Tenenholtz
- Integration of Planning with Plan Recognition Using Classical Planners - Richard Freedman and Alex Fukunaga
11:00 - 11:55 Accepted Papers: Long Talks
- Towards Situated Open World Reference Resolution - Tom Williams, Stephanie Schreitter, Saurav Acharya and Matthias Scheutz
- Temporal and Object Relations in Unsupervised Plan and Activity Recognition - Richard Freedman, Hee-Tae Jung and Shlomo Zilberstein
- Robotic Social Feedback for Object Specification - Emily Wu, Yuxin Han, David Whitney, John Oberlin, James MacGlashan and Stefanie Tellex
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:55 Accepted Papers: Long Talks
- Towards Robot Adaptability in New Situations - Adrian Boteanu, David Kent, Anahita Mohseni-Kabir, Charles Rich and Sonia Chernova
- A Taxonomy for Improving Dialog between Autonomous Agent Developers and Human-Machine Interface Designers - Daylond Hooper, Jeffrey Duffy, Gloria Calhoun and Thomas Hughes
- Agent Requirements for Effective and Efficient Task-Oriented Dialog - Shiwali Mohan, James Kirk, Aaron Mininger and John Laird
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 - 4:15 Accepted Papers: Long Talks
- Minecraft as an Experimental World for AI in Robotics - Krishna Aluru, Stefanie Tellex, James MacGlashan and John Oberlin
4:50 - 5:30 Invited talk: Arun Jayaraman (RIC)
6:00 - 7:00 Reception
November 13
9:40 - 10:30 Accepted Papers: Short Talks
- “Sorry, I can’t do that”: Developing Mechanisms to Appropriately Reject Directives in Human-Robot Interactions - Gordon Briggs and Matthias Scheutz
- Towards Robot Moderators: Understanding Goal-Directed Multi-Party Interactions - Elaine Short and Maja Matarić
- Promoting Social Collaboration between Children with a Social Robot - Sarah Strohkorb and Brian Scassellati
- Represent and Infer Human Theory of Mind Human-Robot Collaboration - Yibiao Zhao, Steven Holtzen and Song-Chun Zhu
- Towards Affect-awareness for Social Robots - Samuel Spaulding and Cynthia Breazeal
- Towards Gaze and Gesture based Human-Robot Interaction for Dementia Patients - Alexander Prange, Takumi Toyama and Daniel Sonntag
- Toward Personalized Pain Anxiety Reduction for Children - Jillian Greczek and Maja Mataric
11:00 - 11:35 Invited talk: Stefanie Tellex (Brown)
11:35 - 12:10 Breakout Session and Discussions
12:10 - 12:30 Accepted Papers: Long Talks
- Coordination of Human-Robot Teaming with Human Task Preferences - Matthew Gombolay, Cindy Huang and Julie Shah
2:00 - 2:35 Invited Talk: Dmitry Berenson (WPI)
2:35 - 3:30 Poster Teasers and Poster Session
- Why did the Robot do that? Explainability of Robot Plans - Stephanie Rosenthal
- From computer-graphics animation to robot animation: development of an HRI system uing the Keepon robot and Nutty Tracks - Tiago Ribeiro, André Pereira, Brian Scassellati and Ana Paiva
- Gaze and Attention During an HRI Storytelling Task - Yerlikzhan Sabyruly, Frank Broz, Ingo Keller and Katrin Lohan
- A Sensorimotor Account of Attention Sharing in HRI: Survey and Metric - Nick Depalma and Cynthia Breazeal
- (Software/Tools for AI-HRI) - Introducing Quori: A Community-Driven Modular Social Robot Platform for Human-Robot Interaction - Ross Mead
- (Software/Tools for AI-HRI) - Natural Language Understanding and Communication for Multi-Agent Systems - Sean Trott
- (Software/Tools for AI-HRI) - The RoboHelper Project: A Publicly Available Multimodal Corpus - Barbara Di Eugenio and Milos Zefran
4:00 - 5:00 Invited Talk: Peter Stone (UT-Austin)
5:00 - 5:30 Accepted Papers: Long Talks
- MARTHA Speaks: Implementing Theory of Mind for More Intuitive Communicative Acts - Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, George Moe and Adolfo Moreno
- Expressive Lights for Revealing Mobile Service Robot State - Kim Baraka, Ana Paiva and Manuela Veloso
November 14
9:55 - 10:30 Accepted Papers: Short Talks
- Natural Language Understanding and Communication for Multi-Agent Systems - Sean Trott, Aurélien Appriou and Jerome Feldman
- Who's Talking? -- Efference Copy and a Robot's Sense of Agency - Justin Brody, Don Perlis and Jared Shamwell
- A Unified Framework for Human-Robot Knowledge Transfer - Nishant Shukla, Caiming Xiong and Song-Chun Zhu
- Modeling Situated Conversations for a Child-care Robot Using Wearable Devices - Kyoung-Woon On, Eun-Sol Kim and Byoung-Tak Zhang
- Pororobot: A Deep Learning Robot That Plays Video Q&A Games - Kyung-Min Kim, Chang-Jun Nan, Jung-Woo Ha, Yu-Jung Heo and Byoung-Tak Zhang
- Modeling Motivational States in Adaptive Robot Companions - Elena Corina Grigore, Andre Pereira and Brian Scassellati
11:00 - 11:30 Accepted Papers: Short Talks
- On the Ability to Provide Demonstrations on a UAS: Observing 90 Untrained Participants Abusing a Flying Robot - Mitchell Scott, Bei Peng, Madeline Chili, Tanay Nigam, Jave Pascual, Cynthia Matuszek and Matthew E. Taylor
- Robot Nonverbal Communication as an AI Problem (And Solution) - Henny Admoni and Brian Scassellati
- Anticipation of Touch Gestures To Improve Robot Reaction Time - Cody Narber, Wallace Lawson and Greg Trafton
- "It's amazing, we are all feeling it!'" - Emotional Climate as a group-level emotional expression in HRI - Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Pedro Sequeira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Sofia Petisca, Carla Guerra, Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva
- More may be Less: Emotional Sharing in an Autonomous Social Robot - Sofia Petisca, João Dias and Ana Paiva
Important dates
Submission: July 17 August 7, 2015.
Notifications: August 5 August 30, 2015.
Camera-ready version of Accepted Submissions: By September 4, 2015.
(To be collected into a technical report for the symposium attendees.)
The symposium will be held Nov 12-14, 2015 in Arlington, VA, USA.
Submission Instructions
Please see the AAAI Author Kit for paper templates to ensure that your submission has proper formatting.
Contributions may be submitted here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aihri2015
Organizing Committee
Bradley Hayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matthew C. Gombolay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brenna D. Argall, Northwestern University
Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Julie A. Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sonia Chernova, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kris Hauser, Duke University
Andrea L. Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Scassellati, Yale University