Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction

The tenth annual AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI) will take place on October 25-27, 2023, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA, USA. We are planning a hybrid in-person and online format to reach more people who would not be able to attend in person.

News

18/10/2023 — We have our three confirmed speakers: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Michael Littman and Katherine Tsui!

30/09/2023 — The program for AI-HRI 2023 is out!

09/01/2023 — Registration to the AAAI 2023 Fall Symposium Series is now open!

07/12/2023 — Call for paper for AI-HRI 2023 is out!

Introduction

Since 2014, the Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI) symposium has been a successful venue for discussion and collaboration on the topic of AI applied to HRI, exploring diverse challenges and impacting communities spanning academia, industry, and government across the globe. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, we are reflecting on the achievements of the community as we transition to a new venue and spiritual successor, Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI). We invite all contributions related to any topic on the intersection of AI and HRI, and welcome new researchers who wish to take part in this thriving and growing community.

Format

This year's symposium will focus on the accomplishments in the field of AI-HRI as well as look to its future challenges, ranging from research directions to establishing an ongoing collaborative community. We will invite symposium participants to present their own work as it contributes to understanding what matters towards these goals, though all research on AI-HRI will be considered.

We will continue to include AI-HRI's signature community-building efforts into the schedule, including paper presentations, poster sessions, and breakout group discussions. These are ideal within the symposium community, which is small enough that we can all learn each other's names and faces, but large enough to draw an audience of people who have a real impact in our field. These discussions give perfect opportunities for new researchers in the field to meet senior members in a more informal setting and become more involved in future interactions and collaborations within the community.

This year, we have the opportunity to gather in person. However, for inclusiveness, we are planning in advance to implement a hybrid in-person and online format to reach more people who would not be able to attend in person. The diversity chair will lead the efforts for creating an inclusive community and will work with AAAI to manage the logistics for hybrid participation.

Topics

• Future of AI-HRI and TAHRI
• Emergent abilities of LLMs in AI-HRI
• Ethics, fairness, trust, and explainability in AI-HRI
• Architectures, software tools, and systems supporting autonomous HRI
• Interactive task learning, dialog systems, and natural language
• Field deployments, studies, experimental, and empirical HRI
• Safety and ergonomics in HRI
• Robot planning, abstraction, and decision-making
• AI for social robots
• Safety and human comfort in HRI
• Software tools for autonomous HRI
• Physical HRI
• Knowledge representation and reasoning to support HRI
• AI-HRI in teams and groups
• Replication studies and reproducibility in AI-HRI
• Test methods and metrics for AI-HRI
• … and any other topics relevant to the application of AI to HRI

Invited Speakers

Important Dates

Submissions Due: August 06 August 13, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth)

Notification of acceptance: September 01, 2023

Camera-ready version of Accepted Submissions: September 29, 2023

Registration deadline: September 29, 2023, Register Here

The symposium will be held on October 25-27, 2023

Submission Instructions

All submissions should be 2-4 pages (not including references), introducing work that will receive feedback to prepare a follow-up submission to TAHRI. Tracks for submissions include:

• Research papers highlighting state-of-the-art or ongoing HRI-oriented AI research, HRI research focusing on the Future of AI-HRI, the use of autonomous AI systems, an overview of an AI-HRI research topic, an outline of new or controversial views on AI-HRI research, or the implementation of AI systems in commercial HRI products.



• Artifact/Tool papers describing novel software, hardware, or datasets of interest to the AI-HRI community.



• Demo papers introducing some portion of a tool, short, or full paper-level deliverable in the form of a public-facing experience.



• Blue Sky papers fostering a forward-thinking discussion on the future at the intersection of AI and HRI.

All accepted papers will be presented orally and published in their choice of the proceedings through ArXiv or AAAI's symposium proceedings. 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!

Note: all authors of submitted papers are expected to review 2 other papers.

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

Program

Day 1 - Wednesday, October 25 (all times EST)

Day 2 - Thursday October 26 (all times EST)

Day 3 - Friday October 27 (all times EST)

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. 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.

Organizing Committee

Contact us at ai4hri@gmail.com.

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