Call for Papers

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Paper Submission:  *July 30, 2025*

Paper Acceptance Notification:  August 10, 2025

Camera Ready Paper:  August 14, 2025

Submission link: Easychair

Templates for Paper Submissions: The manuscripts should conform to the RO-MAN 2025 guidelines (link).

Submissions

We welcome prospective participants to submit either short papers (up to 4 pages excluding references) or extended abstracts (up to 2 pages excluding references). Papers can be on research that the authors would like to discuss during the workshop, especially encouraging papers on new ideas or research that the authors plan to conduct.  Each paper will receive a minimum of two reviews. 

All accepted papers will be allocated time for a lightning talk and a poster presentation and will be archived on the workshop’s website. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended/revised version of the papers for a special issue in a recognized international journal.

List of Topics

We invite contributions on the following topics (but not limited):

● Trustworthy Human-Robot Teams (HRT) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

● Variable Autonomy (VA) paradigms and Human-Centered Robot Autonomy for HRT and HRI (including shared control and shared autonomy, mixed-initiative, human-initiative, adjustable autonomy etc.)

● Transparency and Explainable AI (XAI) in HRI, HRT, and VA

● Human factors, psychology and modelling of human behavior

● Situation awareness for context-dependent HRT and HRI

● Interfaces for VA, HRT, and HRI

● Practical work/experiments with VA and Human-Centered Autonomy

● Testbeds, experimental design and evaluation methods