AI-HRI

News

11/19/2022 — We successfully had our first in-person (and online) AI-HRI symposium since 2019. Thanks for everyone's participation!

10/06/2022 — We are pleased to announce that we have worked with AAAI to obtain a number of complimentary registrations for under-represented members of our community! If you feel this applies to you, please fill out this application form so we can allocate the registrations.

08/4/2022 — We have another confirmed speakers: Hatice Gunes!

07/29/2022 — Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline is now August 15 (Monday). We look forward to your contributions!

07/25/2022 — We have two confirmed speakers so far: Cynthia Matuszek and Matthew Gombolay!

06/17/2022 — Call for paper for AI-HRI 2022 is out!

Introduction

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Symposium has been a successful venue of discussion and collaboration on AI theory and methods aimed at HRI since 2014. This year, after a review of the achievements of the AI-HRI community over the last decade in 2021, we are focusing on a visionary theme: exploring the future of AI-HRI. Accordingly, we added a Blue Sky Ideas track to foster a forward-thinking discussion on future research at the intersection of AI and HRI. As always, we appreciate all contributions related to any topic on AI/HRI and welcome new researchers who wish to take part in this growing community.

With the success of past symposia, AI-HRI impacts a variety of communities and problems, and has pioneered the discussions in recent trends and interests. This year's AI-HRI Fall Symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the globe, representing a number of university, government, and industry laboratories. In doing so, we hope to accelerate research in the field, support technology transition and user adoption, and determine future directions for our group and our research.

Topics

Future of AI-HRI and “Blue Sky” ideas
Ubiquitous HRI, including AR and VR
Ethics in HRI
Trust and Explainability in HRI
Robot planning and decision-making for HRI
Architectures and systems supporting autonomous HRI
Interactive task learning
Interactive dialog systems and natural language
Field studies, experimental, and empirical HRI
Safety and human comfort in HRI
Software tools for autonomous HRI
AI for social robots
AI for physical HRI
Knowledge representation and reasoning to support HRI
HRI in teams and groups
Replication studies and reproducibility
Test methods and metrics for AI-HRI
...and many other topics relevant to the application of Artificial Intelligence to Human-Robot Interaction!

Invited Speakers

Cynthia Matuszek
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Matthew Gombolay
Georgia Tech

Hatice Gunes
University of Cambridge

Important Dates

Submissions Due: ~~July 31~~ August 15, 2022

Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2022

Camera-ready version of Accepted Submissions: October 15, 2022

Registration deadline: October 14, 2022 (for authors), November 19, 2022 (for participants), Register Here.

The symposium will be held on November 17-19, 2022.

Submission Instructions

Authors may submit under one of the following paper categories:
(The listed page limits are excluding references.)

Full papers (6-8 pages) highlighting state-of-the-art AI-HRI-oriented research, HRI research focusing on the Future of AI-HRI, the use of autonomous AI systems, or the implementation of AI systems in commercial HRI products..
Short papers (2-4 pages) outlining new or controversial views on AI-HRI research or describing ongoing AI-oriented HRI research.
Tool papers (2-4 pages) describing novel software, hardware, or datasets of interest to the AI-HRI community.
Blue Sky papers (2-4 pages) fostering a forward-thinking discussion on the future at the intersection of AI and HRI.

Symposium participants presenting their work are encouraged to include a perspective on the reproducibility and ethics in HRI, though all research on AI-HRI will be considered.

All accepted papers will be presented orally and published in the proceedings through ArXiv. Authors will be notified as to whether they have been assigned a “full-length” or “lightning” presentation slot.

Please see the AAAI Author Kit for paper templates to ensure that your submission has the proper formatting.

Contributions may be submitted through the AAAI EasyChair site now!

For any extenuating circumstances that may result in a delayed submission, please contact us.

Program

Find our full proceedings on arXiv here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14292

Please find the schedule below. All times listed are in Eastern Time (GMT-4). Please consider the following for the time allocation for each type of presentations:

Full papers: 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A

Short papers: 5 min presentation + 2 min Q&A

Tool papers: 5 min presentation + 2 min Q&A

Blue Sky papers: 7 min presentation + 5 min Q&A

Thursday, November 17 (all times EST)

9:00 - 10:00	Keynote by Cynthia Matuszek: "Robots, Language, and the World: Language Grounding and Human-Robot Interaction in VR "
10:00 - 11:00	Breakout session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30	Paper Presentations 1 Knowledge-based and Data-driven Reasoning and Learning for Ad Hoc Teamwork Hasra Dodampegama and Mohan Sridharan Robust Planning for Human-Robot Joint Tasks with Explicit Reasoning on Human Mental State Anthony Favier, Shashank Shekhar, and Rachid Alami Towards an Interpretable Hierarchical Agent Framework using Semantic Goals Bharat Prakash, Nicholas Waytowich, Tim Oates, and Tinoosh Mohsenin Observed Adversaries in Deep Reinforcement Learning Eugene Lim and Harold Soh Mixed-Reality Robot Behavior Replay: A System Implementation Zhao Han, Tom Williams, and Holly A. Yanco Using Virtual Reality to Simulate Human-Robot Emergency Evacuation Scenarios Alan Wagner, Colin Holbrook, Daniel Holman, Brett Sheeran, Vidullan Surendran, Jared Armagost, Savanna Spazak, and Yinxuan Yin
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Invited talk by Matthew Gombolay: “Are Humans Amazing or…Not? Insights for Robot Learning from Human Demonstration”
15:00 - 16:00	Breakout session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00	Paper Presentations 2 A Symbolic Representation of Human Posture for Interpretable Learning and Reasoning Richard G. Freedman, Joseph B. Mueller, Jack Ladwig, Steven Johnston, David McDonald, Helen Wauck, Ruta Wheelock, and Hayley Borck Hidden Complexities in the Computational Modeling of Proportionality for Robotic Norm Violation Response Ruchen Wen and Tom Williams Behavior Modeling for Robot Theory of Mind Maitry Ronakbhai Trivedi, Saniya Vahedian Movahed, Russell Perkins, Paul Robinette, Seyed Reza Ahmadzadeh, and Maria E. Cabrera
17:00 - 18:00	Poster session
18:00 - 19:00	Reception

Friday, November 18 (all times EST)

9:00 - 10:00	Invited talk by Hatice Gunes: "Affective Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction Research: Lessons Learned along the Journey"
10:00 - 11:00	Breakout session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30	Paper Presentations 3: Blue sky paper SOCIALMAPF: Optimal and Efficient Multi-Agent Path Finding with Strategic Agents for Social Navigation Rohan Chandra, Rahul Maligi, Arya Anantula, and Joydeep Biswas Human Autonomy as a Design Principle for Socially Assistive Robots Jason Wilson AI-HRI Brings New Dimensions to Human-Aware Design for Human-Aware AI Richard Freedman User-specific, Adaptable Safety Controllers Facilitate User Adoption in Human-Robot Collaboration Ahalya Prabhakar and Aude Billard Considerations for Task Allocation in Human-Robot Teams Arsha Ali, Dawn Tilbury, and Lionel Robert
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Panel discussion on AI-HRI as a conference, moderated by Ross Mead
15:00 - 16:00	Breakout session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00	Paper Presentations 4 Taxonomy of A Decision Support System for Adaptive Experimental Design in Field Robotics Jason Gregory, Sarah Al-Hussaini, Ali-Akbar Agha-Mohammadi, and Satyandra K Gupta Towards Cognitive Robots That People Accept in Their Home Nina Moorman, Erin Hedlund-Botti, and Matthew Gombolay A Socially Assistive Robot using Automated Planning in a Paediatric Clinical Setting Alan Lindsay, Andres Ramirez-Duque, Ron Petrick, and Mary Ellen Foster
17:00 - 18:00	Poster session
18:00 - 19:00	FSS Plenary session

Saturday, November 19 (all times EST)

9:00 - 12:30

Continued discussion on AI-HRI as a conference

Diversity & Inclusion at AI-HRI

AI-HRI is committed to growing the diversity of our community and is actively pursuing ways to make our community more inclusive. Our efforts include diversifying the participation among our program committee, invited speakers, paper authors, and symposium attendees. If you are having difficulties, please contact us at ai4hri@gmail.com.

To support attendees from under-represented groups (URGs), AI-HRI will be providing a limited number of complimentary registrations. This includes but is not limited to those who identify as Women, African American/Black, Hispanic/Latine, Indigenous, persons with a disability, and/or LGBTQI+. To express your interest in receiving a complimentary registration, please fill out this form.

We are also looking to expand our ability to award complimentary registrations and are looking for sponsors to help. If you or your company is interesting in supporting our D&I initiative, please contact us.

If you have any other suggestions on how we can further promote diversity and inclusion at AI-HRI, please contact us at ai4hri@gmail.com.