Connectionists: HRI Workshop on Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction

[Nick DePalma]

You are invited to submit your research on Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction (nHRI) to this year’s HRI Workshop on Exploring Applications for Autonomous Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactions.


Two deadlines: January 24, 2021 & February 21, 2021

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/non-verbal-hri-2021/home


Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction (nHRI) encompasses factors such as: gaze, gesture, touch, body language, the expression of affect, paralinguistics, and facial expression. nHRI has advanced beyond theoretical and computational contributions. Progress has been made through a variety of user studies and laboratory experiments as well as practical efforts such as integration of nonverbal inputs with other HRI modalities including domain specific implementations. This workshop seeks to promote collaboration between two threads of research: experimental nHRI, and application domains that can benefit from its use.


The workshop will link researchers working on new approaches to nHRI in the laboratory to applied roboticists who present challenges in specific domains, such as: service robots, field robotics, socially-assistive robotics, and human-robot collaborative work that could benefit from richer nHRI. This workshop will draw participation from diverse areas to evaluate best practices and integration efforts across different research domains. We will target a broad, cross-disciplinary audience, and provide a venue for recent efforts related to multimodal interaction, system integration, data collection, and user studies.


The workshop will comprise three focus areas:

1) Theory, User Studies, and Laboratory Experimentation;

2) Applications and Application Domains; and

3) Domain-Specific Challenges.


Papers will include short work-in-progress and position papers (2-4 pages) and long-format integration and experimental papers (4-6 pages).


This workshop will facilitate cross-pollination from disparate efforts and improve our collective ability to evaluate future nHRI contributions.


Please see our website for more details.


Important Dates:

January 24: Submission deadline for notification before early registration

January 28: Notification for first deadline

January 31: Deadline for early registration


February 21: Submission deadline for any remaining papers

March 1: Notification for second deadline

March 8: ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Workshop date: TBD - The day before or the day after HRI



Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):


- Advantages of systems that leverage nHRI in teamwork, companionship, and other applications

- Theories and perspectives of non-verbal communication

- Exchange of gesture

- Studies of the interpretation of gesture and facial expression

- Microexpressions and affect

- Theory of mind approaches to non-verbal communication

- Variations across cultures of nonverbal expression

- Physical, mental, age, and gender specific expressions


On behalf of the organizing committee,

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Nick DePalma - Visiting Scientist, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Pittsburgh

Justin Hart - Assistant Professor of Practice, The University of Texas at Austin

Bradley Hayes - Assistant Professor, The University of Colorado Boulder

Karl Kruusamäe - Associate Professor, The University of Tartu

Reuth Mirsky - Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin

Mitch Pryor - Senior Research Scientist, University of Texas at Austin

Xuesu Xiao - Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin
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