Workshop Details:
Workshop date: March 16, 2026
Time: 9:00 - 17:00
Location: Robotarium Multiflex 2
Mini-Discussion Session:
Speaker: Dr. Greg Trafton, Cognitive Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory in the Artificial Intelligence Center.
Title: The importance of using the right scale in HRI & tools to help you decide
Time: 11:30-12:00
Lightning Talks Schedule
Co-designing personalized robot expressions of socio-emotional concepts with children with complex communication needs | 9:35 - 9:40
Michael Cabrera, John Kim, Alyssa Kubota
An Embodied Dialogue: Interacting with a Large-Scale Inflatable Robot Through Non-Verbal Movement | 9:40 - 9:45
Ellen Weir
How does robot interaction strategy affect human agency in group collaboration? | 9:45 - 9:50
Ruben Weijers, Milene Gonçalves, Mike Ligthart, Shihan Wang, Catherine Oertel
Skill Modelling for Group Tutoring Interactions | 9:50 - 9:55
Ranul Vithnage, Nicole Salomons
From Lab Encounters to Lived Companions: Refining a Paired Pet-Robot Study for Longitudinal, Socially Sustainable HRI | 9:55 - 10:00
Ghofran Alnabelsi, Mauro Dragone
Low-Cost Teleoperation Extension for Mobile Manipulators | 10:00 - 10:05
Danil Belov, Artem Erkhov, Yarolsav Savotin, Tatiana Podladchikova, Pavel Osinenko
Humanoid Group Reshaping and Adaptive Dynamics using VLM-Guided Control Barrier Functions | 10:05 - 10:10
Chauxuan Zhang, Yasaman Etesem, Mo Chen, Angelica Lim