Christopher D. Wallbridge is a Lecturer in HRI at Cardiff University; focusing on communication and trust - especially in the context of errors. 

He was recently awarded a RAICo fellowship investigating errors human-robot teams in a nuclear glovebox. He was previously an organiser of the Future Leaders Academy workshop for IROHMS (2022) and the Student Volunteer Chair for HRI'20.

Kavyaa Somasundaram is a final-year PhD candidate at Örebro University, Sweden. Her PhD focuses on intelligent error mitigation strategies in the context of human-induced errors during human-robot interaction. 

She co-led the workshop "The imperfectly relatable robot: An interdisciplinary workshop on the role of failures in HRI", organised at the ACM HRI'2023 conference.

Frank Förster is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire, performing research in developmental  robotics and HRI and focussing on speech-involving interactions. He is a Co-Investigator of the EPSRC FLUIDITY project and has led two workshops on `Working with Troubles and Failures in Conversation with Humans and Robots' in '22 and '23, the latter associated with CUI 2023. 

Maia Stiber is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. Her research focuses on leveraging implicit behavioral responses to robot actions to create human-aware, error-aware robots. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. She was previously a co-lead for the `SS4HRI: Social Signal Modeling in Human-Robot Interaction' workshop at HRI'24 and an organizer of the ERR@HRI Challenges in 2024 and 2025.

Eduardo B. Sandoval is a social robotics researcher, his work spans different aspects of social robotics, including Reciprocity in HRI, robots and education, robots and games, and creative interactions with robots. 

His work incorporates insights from behavioural economics and social psychology to explore different approaches in social robotics.

Chinmaya Mishra is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Multimodal Language Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. His research uses an interdisciplinary approach by combining insights from psychology, psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science in finding novel solutions to model/ automate robot behaviors that are needed to facilitate a seamless HRI with a special focus on nonverbal behaviors. He co-organized the "Do Social Robots Need a Face?" workshop at ICSR 2024.

Christina E. Stimson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Kyushu Institute of Technology. She recently completed her PhD at The University of Sheffield. Her thesis and current project focus on co-designing and evaluating an arts-based methodology for involving non-technical stakeholders in robot and assistive technology design with disabled people including children with osteogenesis imperfecta and older adults with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.

Patrick Holthaus is a Reader in Interactive Assistive Technology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

He currently leads the UK-RAS topic group on Human-Robot Interaction: Best practices and methods and is Co-I of the Horizon Europe project SWAG and Hospital@home funded by Dinwoodie. Patrick co-led the three-workshop series "Troubles and Failures in HRI", organised as standalone events and at CUI 2023.

Hatice Gunes is a Professor at the University of Cambridge, directing the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Lab (AFAR) and serving as Associate Director of CHIA. Her research advances social and affective AI with focus on ethics, fairness, and explainability. She has been named among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Elsevier. Hatice is also a co-chair of ERR@HRI and guest edits a special issue in ACM Transactions on errors and failures in HRI.