• 2010/8/22: First version of website uploaded
• 2010/9/26: Program committee and important dates added
• 2010/10/3: Application form added
• 2010/10/28: Application schedule updated, Invited speakers added
• 2010/11/3: Tentative schedule added.
• 2011/1/28: Participant Info added.
• 2011/2/16: Schedule updated with talks.
• 2011/3/2: Proceedings now available.
• 2011/3/4: Location information added.

The workshop will take place on the campus of EPFL in BC04. Posters can be be set up for the entire day in the exterior hall starting at 8:30AM.

The field of human-robot interaction is new but growing rapidly. While there are now several established researchers in the field, many of the current human-robotic interaction practitioners are students or recently graduated. This workshop, to be held in conjunction with the HRI 2011 conference, aims to bring together this group of researchers to present their current research to an audience of their peers in a setting that is less formal and more interactive than the main HRI conference; to talk about the important issues in their field; and to hear about what their colleagues are doing. Participants are encouraged to actively engage and form relationships with others by discussing fundamental topics in HRI and by engaging in hands-on group activities.

Participants will hear short presentations on current research from 6 selected participants, with time allotted for questions and discussion after each of these talks. Participants not allocated to oral presentations are encouraged to discuss their research with others throughout the day, such as during the ice breaker game, at lunch, during breaks, etc.

Following this, a panel of senior HRI researchers from both academia and industry will field questions from participants. These discussions may continue over lunch in smaller groups.

In the afternoon, a hands-on breakout session will involve small group projects in which participants will investigate how to design a HRI experiment. Afterward, the groups will present a summary to the entire workshop.

The workshop will take place on March 6, 2011, in Lausanne, Switzerland, in conjunction with the HRI 2011 conference.

Proceedings for the Workshop.

Note: You will be given a copy of the proceedings upon your arrival to the workshop, so there is no need to print them out.

• Amir Aly, ENSTA ParisTech
• Eleanor Avrunin, Yale University
• Jenay M Beer, Georgia Tech
• Iris Cohen, University Utrecht
• Lorin D. Dole, Stanford University
• Anca Dragan, Carnegie Mellon
• Heather E. Gary, University of Washington
• Michael Gielniak, Georgia Tech
• Søren Hansen, Danish Technological Institute
• Caroline Harriott, Vanderbilt University
• Heather Celeste Humphreys, Georgia Tech
• Andra Keay, University of Sydney
• Heather Knight, Carnegie Mellon
• Séverin Lemaignan, Université de Toulouse
• Yvonne Ludewig, Ilmenau University of Technology
• Matthew Marge, Carnegie Mellon
• Joshua M. Peschel, Texas A&M
• Annika Peters, Bielefeld University
• Stephanie Rosenthal, Carnegie Mellon
• Maha Salem, Bielefeld University
• Rachel Severson, University of Washington
• Irene Raw, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Christine Shin, Sungkyunkwan University
• David Sirkin, Stanford University
• Harold Soh, Imperial College, London
• Vasant Srinivasan, Texas A&M
• Pete Trautman, Caltech
• Huadong Wang, University of Pittsburgh

• 09:15-09:40 Participant and Organizing Committee introductions
• 09:40-10:00 Ice-breaker game
• 10:00-10:30 Talk I: Séverin Lemaignan
• 10:30-11:00 Talk II: Rachel Severson
• 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
• 11:30-13:00 Panel: The Interdisciplinary Challenge of HRI
• 13:00-14:00 Group lunch with discussion topics
• 14:00-15:30 Poster Session
• 15:30-16:00 Talk III: David Sirkin
• 16:00-16:30 Break
• 16:30-17:00 Talk IV: Stephanie Rosenthal
• 17:00-17:30 Talk V: Annika Peters
• 17:30-18:30 Breakout session: Create an Integrative Project
• 18:30-18:50 Presentation of results of the breakout session
• 18:50-19:00 Wrap up
• 19:00-21:00 Reception and group dinner

Topic: The interdisciplinary challenge in HRI research.

Invited speakers:

• Dr. Greg Trafton (Section Head for Intelligent Systems, Naval Research Laboratory,Washington D.C., USA)
• Dr. Peter Kahn (Associate Professor, University of Washington, Washington State, USA)
• Dr. Vanessa Evers (Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Dr. Takayuki Kanda (Senior Research Scientist, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories,Japan)

• Thomas Kollar, (General Chair) -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Astrid Weiss, PhD (Co-Chair) -- University of Salzburg, Austria
• Jason Monast (Finance Chair) -- University of Denver, USA
• Anja Austermann, PhD (Website Chair) -- SOKENDAI, Japan
• David V. Lu (Proceedings Chair) -- Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
• Mitesh Patel (Communication Chair) -- University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Elena Gribovskaya (Local Organisation Chair) -- EPFL, Switzerland
• Chandan Datta (Practical Session Chair) -- University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Richard Kelley (Program Committee Chair) -- University of Nevada, USA
• Hirotaka Osawa, PhD -- Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
• Lanny Lin (Panel Chair) -- Brigham Young University, USA

• Ronald Arkin, Georgia Tech, USA
• Aude Billard, EPFL, Switzerland
• Vanessa Evers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Michael Goodrich, Brigham Young University, USA
• Takayuki Kanda, ATR IRC Lab, Japan
• Sara Kiesler, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Hideaki Kuzuoka, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Robin Murphy, Texas A&M University, USA
• Monica Nicolescu, University of Nevada, USA
• Marjorie Skubic, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
• Kristen Stubbs, iRobot, USA
• Andrea Thomaz, Georgia Tech, USA
• Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria

• 29 December 2010 - Applications due
• 29 January 2011 - Notification of acceptance
• 7 February 2011 - Submission of final manuscript
• 6 March 2011 - HRI 2011 Young Pioneers Workshop
• 7-9 March 2011 - HRI 2011 Conference

We would like to thank the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) for travel support under grant number 1115939.

Potential participants are expected to submit 1) a 2-page abstract of their current research in the HRI late breaking report format 2) a letter of recommendation from their research adviser and 3) their curriculum vitae (CV). Please follow the instructions described here. The abstract, CV, and letter of recommendation (sent by the supervisor/advisor) should be sent to to [email protected] by 29th December 2010.

The workshop will be held at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. Please consult the main HRI conference website for maps and directions.