Submitting

Graduate students pursuing a PhD in a field related to human-robot interaction, should submit the following materials:

• Extended abstract — an anonymized, two-page description of the applicant's past, current, or proposed work (templates available). In particular, it should cover:
  • the key research questions/motivation of the applicant's work,
  • background and related work that informs the research,
  • the research approach and methodology, and
  • results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work.
• CV — a two-page curriculum vitae of the student.

The application process will open on October 10 and will continue through November 6, 2015 (11:59pm PST) November 20, 2015 (11:59pm PST).

Use the submission and review website of the HRI conference (https://precisionconference.com/~hri/) to submit the materials.

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Reviewing

The HRI Pioneers Workshop will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including:

• the quality of the submission (blind review),
• the expected benefits of the workshop for the student's PhD research, and
• the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions.

We hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions. As such, we do not expect more than two students to be invited per institution. In addition, we especially encourage groups traditionally underrepresented in computer science to apply.

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Publication & Attendance

Accepted abstracts will be published alongside Late-Breaking Reports in the extended abstracts section of the main HRI conference proceedings, and archived in the ACM Digital Library. All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Pioneers Workshop and the main conference poster session, at which they will present their work as a poster.

A detailed program for the workshop and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.