We welcome you to the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015). The HRI Conference is highly selective and aims to showcase the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in human-robot interaction with roots in robotics, social psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, human factors, artificial intelligence, design, engineering, and etc. Robotics has become increasingly multidisciplinary in order to realize realizing capable and collaborative robot systems that are used and validated in both laboratory and real-world settings. We therefore invite broad participation and encourage discussion and sharing of ideas across a diverse audience.
This year's overall conference theme, titled "Broadening HRI: Enabling Technologies, Designs, Methods, and Knowledge," highlights the different types of contributions made by our multidisciplinary community centered around developing robotic systems that operate, collaborate with, learn from, and meet the needs of the human users. Acknowledgment and encouragement of this diversity was supported in the peer-review process by establishing five subcommittees, "Studies of HRI," "Enabling Technologies, "Enabling Designs," "Enabling Methods," and "Enabling Knowledge," each with a chair and dedicated program committee members. Together with the subcommittee chairs, we established and applied different set of review criteria for each of the five contribution types in order to represent the diversity of contributions in the conference program.
HRI is a highly selective conference, and this year was no exception. The conference attracted 169 submissions from Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Full Papers were aligned with a subcommittee, who managed the thorough review and discussion of the papers following a double-blind process. The process utilized a rebuttal phase, a shepherding mechanism, and a worldwide team of interdisciplinary reviewers. At the end of the process, the program committee selected 43 (25%) of the submissions. Due to the joint sponsorship of ACM and IEEE, papers are archived in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore.
Accompanying the full papers are the Late Breaking Reports, Videos, and Demos. Out of 102 submissions, 92 (90%) Late Breaking Reports were accepted and are presented at the conference poster sessions. Sixteen (84%) short videos were accepted for presentation during a dedicated video session from among 19 submissions. The program also includes nine demos of robot systems for all participants to interact with during the conference. The invited panel session, titled "Human-Robot Interaction: Law on the home front" will discuss contemporary and emerging issues in HRI. Rounding out the program are three keynote speakers who are inspiring leaders of the field and will discuss topics relevant to HRI: Dr. Antonio Bicchi, Dr. Takeo Igarashi, and Daniel H. Wilson.