Call for Papers
We are witnessing more and more applications carried out by robots in close collaboration with humans. This new generation of human-friendly robots will need to be safe and trustworthy in a physical and cognitive sense. New paradigms for the holistic development of collaborative cognitive robots need to be envisioned and experimentally validated. The benefit of humans and society is the central objective of such research effort and existing opportunities are arising from different application domains such as healthcare and high-tech systems.
HFR 2024 is a single-track symposium that aims at bringing together academic scientists, researchers, and industry to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects related to the introduction of robots into everyday life. The workshop covers a wide range of topics related to human-robot interaction, both physical and cognitive, including theories, methodologies, technologies, and empirical and experimental studies.
We strongly encourage women and young researchers’ participation, to support gender balance in robotics and the promotion of early-career researchers to present themselves to the community.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
physical human-robot interaction
cognitive human-robot interaction
cooperative task execution and sliding autonomy
control methods for safe and adaptive interaction
human-centered and interaction-based robot design
multi-modal human-robot communication
human monitoring & intention recognition
cognitive modeling for human-robot interaction
learning by demonstration
human factors & human-in-the-loop
benchmarking & performance analysis
safety in human-robot interaction
social and ethical issues related to human-robot interaction
social robots
collaborative robots
telerobotic systems
medical and rehabilitation devices
AI for perception and control of interacting agents
Instructions for Authors
We invite the submission of regular papers (maximum 15 pages, single column, in PDF format) or extended abstracts (maximum 4 pages, single column, in PDF format), which should be submitted for review. Please use the Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR) format available at the following link where you can find Latex and Word templates. The authors' guidelines for the preparation of contributions come with the templates.
As peer-reviewed archival publications, all accepted regular paper contributions will be published in the Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR, Series Editors: Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib) and presented at the workshop.
Extended abstracts will undergo a separate review process, and will not be published in the proceedings but only presented at the workshop.
Submissions are now open until 28 June 2024 6 July 2024, Anytime on Earth via the EasyChair paper submission system.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 5 August 2024. Final version of accepted papers and extended abstract has to be submitted by 6 September 2024.
At least one author for each accepted paper and extended abstract must register for the workshop.