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

•  Research, design and development, and use of robots that interact collaboratively

•  Robots that support human collaboration

•  Innovative robot designs for HRI research

•  User‐centered design of social robots

•  Novel interfaces and interaction modalities 

•  Long‐term experience and longitudinal HRI studies

•  Evaluation methods and new methodologies for HRI research

•  Androids

•  Degrees of autonomy and teleoperation

•  Human factors and ergonomics in HRI research

• Virtual and augmented tele‐presence environments 

• Social, ethical and aesthetic issues in human‐robot interaction research

• Robots in education, therapy and rehabilitation 

• Medical and surgical applications of robots 

• Robot companions and social robots in home environments

• Assistive robotics for supporting the elderly or people with special needs

• Applications of social robots in entertainment, service robotics, space travel and

• others

• Anthropomorphic robots and virtual humans

• Interaction with believable characters

• Non‐verbal cues and expressiveness in interactions: gesture, posture, social spaces

• and facial expressions 

• Interaction kinesics

• Monitoring of behavior and internal states of human subjects

• Robotic etiquette

• Social intelligence for robots 

• Social presence for robots and virtual humans

• Creating relationships with robots and humanoids 

• Personalities for robotic or virtual characters

• Embodiment, empathy and intersubjectivity in interaction with robotic and virtual

• characters 

• Intelligence, motivations and emotions in robots 

• Curiosity, intentionality and initiative in interaction 

• Linguistic communication and dialogue with robots and intelligent interfaces 

• Multimodal interaction and conversational skills 

• Cognitive and sensori‐motor development in robots 

• Cognitive skills and mental models for social robots

• Social learning and skill acquisition via teaching and imitation

• Programming by demonstration

• Cooperation and collaboration in human‐robot teams

• Human‐robot interaction and collaboration in manufacturing environments

• Motion planning and navigation in the vicinity of humans

• Machine learning and adaptation in human‐robot interaction

• Multi‐modal situation awareness and spatial cognition

• Computational architectures for human‐robot interaction 

• Detecting and understanding human activity

• Narrative and story‐telling in interaction