July 3, 2026 – 14:00 – 17:00, Room 2
14:00 Welcoming speech by organizers
Session 1:
14:05 Invited Speaker: Kim Baraka - Human-Interactive Robot Learning: Definition, Challenges, and Opportunities (30+5min for Q&A)
14:40 Contribution 1 : Mental-Model-Aware Retail Robots: Neuro-Symbolic Explainable Assistance for Trustworthy Human–Robot Commerce (Senka Krivic, Amar Halilovic, Diogo S. Carvalho, and Salman Ahmad) 10+5min for Q&A)
14:55 Invited Speaker: Daniel Tozadore - If Adaptation in Social Robots Were a Game, Who Would Be the Final Boss? (35+5min for Q&A)
15:30 Coffee break (Coffee break is between 15:00 -16:00 in the main caterin room on the ground floor)
Session 2:
15:45 Invited Speaker: Lola Canamero - You Are in My Body: Modeling Humans Without A User Model (35+5min for Q&A)
16:20 Contribution 2: An Adaptive Bio-Inspired Robot Architecture for Interaction with Different Caregiver Profiles (Lorenzo Aloe, Salvatore Anzalone, Elisabetta Zibetti, and Lola Cañamero) (10+5min for Q&A)
16:35 Contribution 3: When and How Should the Agent Intervene? Designing an RL-Driven Multimodal Virtual Agent for Proactive (Truong Le Minh Toan, Tan Duy Le, Eike Schneiders, Sarvapali Ramchurn, and Nguyen Tan Viet Tuyen) (10+5min for Q&A)
16:50 Discussion & Closing Remarks