Topics of Interest Include (but are not restricted to):

• Androids

• Anthropomorphic Robots and Virtual Humans

• Applications of Social Robots

• Assistive Robotics

• Cognitive Skills and Mental Models

• Cognitive and Sensorimotor Development

• Computational Architectures

• Cooperation and Collaboration in Human-Robot Teams

• Creating Human-Robot Relationships

• Curiosity, Intentionality and Initiative in Interaction

• Degrees of Autonomy and Teleoperation

• Detecting and Understanding Human Activity

• Embodiment, Empathy and Intersubjectivity

• Ethical Issues in Human-robot Interaction Research

• Evaluation Methods and New Methodologies

• HRI and Collaboration in Manufacturing Environments

• Human Factors and Ergonomics

• Innovative Robot Designs

• Interaction Kinesics

• Interaction with Believable Characters

• Linguistic Communication and Dialogue

• Long-term Experience and Longitudinal HRI Studies

• Machine Learning and Adaptation

• Medical and Surgical Applications

• Monitoring of Behaviour and Internal States of Humans

• Motion Planning and Navigation in Human-Centered Environments

• Motivations and Emotions in Robotics

• Multi-modal Situation Awareness and Spatial Cognition

• Multimodal Interaction and Conversational Skills

• Narrative and Story-telling in Interaction

• Non-verbal Cues and Expressiveness

• Novel Interfaces and Interaction Modalities

• Personalities for Robotic or Virtual Characters

• Philosophical Issues in Human-Robot Coexistence

• Programming by Demonstration

• Robot Companions and Social Robots

• Robotic Etiquette

• Robots in Education, Therapy and Rehabilitation

• Social Intelligence for Robots

• Social Learning and Skill Acquisition Via Teaching and Imitation

• Social Presence for Robots and Virtual Humans

• User-centered Design of Robots

• Virtual and Augmented Tele-presence Environments

• Robots in art and entertainment

• Art pieces supported by robotics

• Sound design for robots

• Story-telling in HRI