Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Mechatronics and robot platforms for HRI Robot middleware and software architectures Robot learning from human guidance and demonstration Robotic navigation and mobile manipulation for HRI Dialog and natural language for HRI Mixed initiative and sliding autonomy Privacy and security for real world HRI Enabling reproducibility and interoperability in robotics Safety and physical interactions between robots and humans Perception and recognition of human actions and activities Multi-modal interaction, perception, and decision making Task allocation and coordination Collaboration between humans and robots Social, lifelike, and/or companion robotics Field and service robotics Assistive robotics (e.g., autism, healthcare, rehabilitation, aging in place) Telepresence robots Long term interaction with robots Human-centered process for designing robot morphologies and behaviors New methods that enable the study, analysis, or construction of HRI Ethical, societal, and legal considerations in human-robot interaction Need finding for HRI Ethnography and field studies of HRI contexts Metrics and benchmarking for HRI User studies of HRI HRI group dynamics Autonomy and trust Interfaces and techniques for supervisory control Methods and tools to monitor, log, analyze, and recover from failures