The Schedule

Position Paper Presentations
Failures, Doubts and Lessons Learnt from Real-World HRI

8.40 am:
Presenter: Dong Won Lee (Massachussetts Institute of Technology),
Title: A Modern System Recipe for Situated Embodied Human–Robot Conversation with Real-Time Multimodal LLMs and Tool-Calling

8.47 am:
Presenter: A/Prof Wafa Johal (The University of Melbourne)
Title: Wild-Informed Lab Studies: Rethinking Micro-HRI for In-the-Wild Transfer

8.54 am:
Presenter: Resul Dagdanov (University of Technology Sydney)
Title: Measuring What Matters for Trust: Perceived Likelihood of Adverse Events and Robot Responsibility Attribution in Physical HRI

9.01 am:
Presenter: Ze'ev Krischer (University of Sydney)
Title: Beyond the Assumed User

9.08 am
Presenter: A/Prof Chaoyang Song (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Title: asMagicBrain: Reconfigurable Mobile-Edge Infrastructure for In-the-Wild Human-Robot Interaction

9.14 am
Presenter: Misa Matsumura (University of Tokyo)
Title: From Mechanical Success to Human Comfort: Lessons from Human Evaluation of Robot-Assisted Repositioning

Keynote 1: Prof Julie A. Adams
Human-Robot Teaming Evaluations in Extreme Environments

Road-mapping Group Activity

Rethinking potential avenues to overcome challenges, and prioritise opportunities