Human-Robot Interaction

Also known as HRI

Overview

Human-robot interaction examines how people and robots understand one another and coordinate in settings such as collaborative work, social navigation, healthcare, and the home. Researchers combine multimodal perception and language models with shared-control policies, adaptive planning, haptics, and interfaces such as augmented reality; they study these systems through user experiments, field deployments, and benchmarks for tasks like handover and social navigation. The field also draws on design research and qualitative methods to understand trust, accessibility, privacy, agency, and how interactions affect different people and groups. A central challenge is translating strong task performance in controlled tests into safe, reliable, and socially appropriate behavior in real-world settings without increasing workload or reducing human control.

Latest papers

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453 papers44 papers in the last four weeks, down 31% on the four weeks before. 0.3% of all new papers.

  1. Users and Wizards in Conversations: How WoZ Interface Choices Define Human-Robot Interactions

    Mar 30, 2026Ekaterina Torubarova, Jura Miniota, Andre PereiraHuman-Robot InteractionHuman-AI Interaction

  2. Point of View: How Perspective Affects Perceived Robot Sociability

    Mar 30, 2026Subham Agrawal, Aftab Akhtar, Nils Dengler +1Social Robot NavigationHuman-Robot Interaction

  3. Control Without Control: Defining Implicit Interaction Paradigms for Autonomous Assistive Robots

    Mar 30, 2026Janavi Gupta, Kavya Puthuveetil, Dimitra Tsakona +3Human-Robot InteractionRobotic Control

  4. Safety in Embodied AI: A Survey of Risks, Attacks, and Defenses

    Mar 28, 2026Xiao Li, Xiang Zheng, Yifeng Gao +35Embodied AIAI Safety

  5. A Mentalistic Interface for Probing Folk-Psychological Attribution to Non-Humanoid Robots

    Mar 26, 2026Giulio Pisaneschi, Pierpaolo Serio, Estelle Gerbier +3Human-Robot InteractionAnthropomorphism in AI

  6. Visualizing Impedance Control in Augmented Reality for Teleoperation: Design and User Evaluation

    Mar 26, 2026Gijs van den Brandt, Femke van Beek, Elena TortaBimanual Robotic ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

  7. System Design for Maintaining Internal State Consistency in Long-Horizon Robotic Tabletop Games

    Mar 26, 2026Guangyu Zhao, Ceyao Zhang, Chengdong Ma +16RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

  8. A Minimum-Energy Control Approach for Redundant Mobile Manipulators in Physical Human-Robot Interaction Applications

    Mar 26, 2026Davide Tebaldi, Niccolò Paradisi, Fabio Pini +1Robotic ControlContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

  9. Aesthetics of Robot-Mediated Applied Drama: A Case Study on REMind

    Mar 25, 2026Elaheh Sanoubari, Alicia Pan, Keith Rebello +3Human-Robot InteractionSocial Robotics

  10. A Multimodal Framework for Human-Multi-Agent Interaction

    Mar 24, 2026Shaid Hasan, Breenice Lee, Sujan Sarker +1Human-Robot InteractionHuman-AI Interaction

  11. Human vs. NAO: A Computational-Behavioral Framework for Quantifying Social Orienting in Autism and Typical Development

    Mar 24, 2026Vartika Narayani Srinet, Anirudha Bhattacharjee, Braj Bhushan +1Autism Spectrum DisorderHuman-Robot Interaction

  12. Sense4HRI: A ROS 2 HRI Framework for Physiological Sensor Integration and Synchronized Logging

    Mar 20, 2026Manuel Scheibl, Julian Leichert, Sinem Görmez +1Human-Robot InteractionRobotics

  13. Introducing M: A Modular, Modifiable Social Robot

    Mar 19, 2026Victor Nikhil Antony, Zhili Gong, Yoonjae Kim +1Social RoboticsModular Robotics

  14. MERGE: Guided Vision-Language Models for Multi-Actor Event Reasoning and Grounding in Human-Robot Interaction

    Mar 19, 2026Joerg Deigmoeller, Nakul Agarwal, Stephan Hasler +8Vision-Language GroundingHuman-Robot Interaction

  15. "You've got a friend in me": Co-Designing a Peer Social Robot for Young Newcomers' Language and Cultural Learning

    Mar 19, 2026Neil Fernandes, Cheng Tang, Tehniyat Shahbaz +4Participatory DesignHuman-Robot Interaction

  16. Influence of Gripper Design on Human Demonstration Quality for Robot Learning

    Mar 17, 2026Gina L. Georgadarellis, Natalija Beslic, Seonhun Lee +2Healthcare RoboticsRobotics

  17. Faulty Coffees: Barriers to Adoption of an In-the-wild Robo-Barista

    Mar 17, 2026Bruce W. Wilson, David A. Robb, Mei Yii Lim +3Service RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

  18. Gaze-Aware Task Progression Detection Framework for Human-Robot Interaction Using RGB Cameras

    Mar 16, 2026Linlin Cheng, Koen Hindriks, Artem V. BelopolskyHuman-Robot Interaction

  19. Pointing-Based Object Recognition

    Mar 16, 2026Lukáš Hajdúch, Viktor KocurHuman-Robot Interaction

  20. Towards Equitable Robotic Furnishing Agents for Aging-in-Place: ADL-Grounded Design Exploration

    Mar 15, 2026Hansoo Lee, Changhee Seo, Subin Park +1Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

  21. From Woofs to Words: Towards Intelligent Robotic Guide Dogs with Verbal Communication

    Mar 13, 2026Yohei Hayamizu, David DeFazio, Hrudayangam Mehta +7Human-Robot InteractionAssistive Robotics

  22. ELLA: Generative AI-Powered Social Robots for Early Language Development at Home

    Mar 12, 2026Victor Nikhil Antony, Shiye Cao, Shuning Wang +1Human-Robot InteractionSocial Robotics

  23. Bridging the Awareness Gap: Socially Mediated State Externalization for Transparent Distributed Home Robots

    Mar 12, 2026Wenzheng Zhao, Manideep Duggi, Fengpei YuanHuman-Robot InteractionMulti-Robot Systems

  24. HiSync: Spatio-Temporally Aligning Hand Motion from Wearable IMU and On-Robot Camera for Command Source Identification in Long-Range HRI

    Mar 12, 2026Chengwen Zhang, Chun Yu, Borong Zhuang +9Human-Robot InteractionMultimodal Sensor Fusion

  25. From Pets to Robots: MojiKit as a Data-Informed Toolkit for Affective HRI Design

    Mar 12, 2026Liwen He, Pingting Chen, Ziheng Tang +4Human-Robot InteractionSocial Robotics

  26. A Causal Approach to Predicting and Improving Human Perceptions of Social Navigation Robots

    Mar 11, 2026Maximilian Diehl, Nathan Tsoi, Gustavo Chavez +2Human-Robot InteractionSocial Robot Navigation