Human-Robot Interaction

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  1. Ask Before It Tells: Benchmark-to-Robot Body-Cue Transfer for a Question-First Bedside Robot

    Sep 21, 2026Dongsik YoonHuman Activity RecognitionAssistive Robotics

    HDC LABS, Republic of Korea

  2. Toward Human-in-the-Loop Robot Failure Recovery: Bridging Communication Gaps in Human-Robot Collaboration

    Sep 21, 2026Promise Ekpo, Teju Vijay, Dhruv Mandalik +5Human-in-the-Loop EvaluationRobot Failure Recovery

    Cornell University, New York, New York, USA · Cornell Tech, New York, New York, USA · Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

  3. Cognitive Action Reasoning for Proactive Robots from Human-Centered Multimodal Observations

    Sep 20, 2026Zhihao Gu, Kechao Zhu, Yuanfeng Wu +7Multimodal ReasoningHuman-Robot Interaction

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

  4. EmoPose: Vision-Language Model Guided Emotion-Aware Gesture Generation for Humanoid Robots

    Sep 20, 2026Daojie Peng, Bingtao Wang, Fulong Ma +3Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningHumanoid Robot Control

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · The Shandong University · RoboScience

  5. Towards Reliable Underwater Diver-Robot Interaction: Gesture Design, Interaction Logic, and Real-World Evaluation

    Sep 20, 2026Yingqi Liu, Kanzhong Yao, Zimeng Peng +4Robotic ControlGesture Recognition

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. · Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom, Shanghai 200232, China.

  6. From Wizard-of-Oz Human-Robot Dialogue Collection to a Taxonomy of Robot Response Decisions: A Retrospective Analysis of Assistive Pilot Interactions

    Sep 16, 2026Guangping Liu, Nicholas Hawkins, Tipu Sultan +2Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2Department of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103, United States. · Department of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103, United States.

  7. Enhancing the Perception of Safety and Comfort during Physical Human-Robot Handshake Interactions by Integrating Flexible Elements into a Robotic Arm

    Sep 16, 2026Joel Hidalgo, Dennys Paillacho, Melissa Cobos +1Human-Robot InteractionSocial Robotics

    ESPOL Polytechnic University, Guayaquil, Ecuador

  8. Design and Experimental Validation of a 3D Printed Torsional Series Elastic Actuator for Safe Human Robot Interaction

    Sep 16, 2026Joel Hidalgo Pisco, Melissa Cobos Condo, Luigi Miranda +1Robotic ControlRobotics

    ESPOL Polytechnic University Guayaquil, Ecuador

  9. OHRID-Retail: An Open Multimodal Dataset of Human Activity in Retail Environments

    Sep 16, 2026Xiangrui Wang, Yuetong Wu, Jalen Beeman +6Human-Robot Interaction

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. · Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA · Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. +1

  10. Examining the Difference in Human Behavior Between Virtual and Real-World Human-Robot Teaming

    Sep 16, 2026Sean Dallas, Absalat Getachew, Motaz AbuHijleh +4Virtual RealityHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, United States · College of Innovation & Technology, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI 48502, United States · U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC), United States

  11. Towards Interaction Regulation from Human Feedback via Free Energy Minimization

    Sep 16, 2026Maria Paula Diaz Monfort, Cinzia Tomaselli, Michael Richardson +1Human-Robot Interaction

    Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli, Italy · Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia · University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

  12. Online Multimodal Workload Assessment in Contact-Rich Physical Human-Robot Interaction

    Sep 16, 2026Yanyi Chen, Fan Yang, Min DengHuman-Robot InteractionMultimodal Sensor Fusion

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA · College of Information and Communications, University of South Carolina, SC 29208, USA

  13. LOTUSim-Energy: A Maritime Simulator for Human-Drone Interaction in Autonomous Offshore Operation & Maintenance

    Sep 15, 2026Juliette Grosset, Marie Dubromel, Hélène Lechêne +2Multi-Robot SystemsRobotics Simulation

    CROSSING · CROSSING IRL 2010, Naval Group · CROSSING, IMT Atlantique +1

  14. Overcoming technical adoption barriers for mobile service robots in rehabilitation

    Sep 15, 2026Christian Sternitzke, Sebastian Blumenthal, Lukas Kleedoerfer +2Mobile RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    TEDIRO Healthcare Robotics, Ehrenbergstr. 11, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany · MetraLabs GmbH Neue Technologien und Systeme, Weimarer Str. 28, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany

  15. InterSocialBench: Benchmarking Human and LLM Preferences for Companion-Robot Social Behavior

    Sep 14, 2026Yaodan Xu, Boyang Guo, Yuqing Gu +4Human Preference ModelingAI Agent Benchmarks

    Xdream Robotics

  16. Understanding User Preferences of a Slope-Aware Variable-Admittance Filter for a Robot Guide Dog

    Sep 14, 2026Federico Esposito, Mario Selvaggio, Aaron Link +1Admittance ControlAssistive Robotics

    Federico Esposito, Mario Selvaggio, Aaron Link, and Fabio Ruggiero

  17. A Deployable Architecture for Robot-Mediated Tasks (DART): Evaluation in Socially Assistive Robot-Guided Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises

    Sep 14, 2026Mina Kian, Lydia Ignatova, Jiong Wang +12RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  18. When2Talk: When Should a Proactive In-Car Agent Talk?

    Sep 14, 2026Kaiser Hamid, Peihang Li, Nade LiangAutonomous DrivingProactive Assistance

    Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas, USA

  19. A Robot Among People:From Social Imitation to the Social Becoming of Human Groups

    Sep 14, 2026Victor Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange +1RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Ubiquitous Design / Experience & Interaction, University of Siegen Siegen, Germany · Honda Research Institute Europe Offenbach am Main, Germany

  20. A Novel Robot-Assisted Learning Pedagogy for Children with ASD

    Sep 13, 2026Laura Boccanfuso, Erin Barney, Marilena Mademtzi +7Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA · Now at Van Robotics, Inc. · Yale Social Robotics Lab, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA +1

  21. Freehand Sketching for End-User Programming of Robot Swarms

    Sep 11, 2026Riwa Karam, Ian Kuo, Magnus EgerstedtMulti-Robot Formation ControlSwarm Robotics

    Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

  22. DYAD: A Multimodal Dataset of Co-Located Human Assistance

    Sep 8, 2026Akhil Ajikumar, Mahya Qorbani, Sakib Reza +2Human-AI InteractionAssistive Robotics

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA · Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA · Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

  23. HiBRIDGE: A Hierarchical Bayesian Neural Network Framework for Interpretable Dialogue Management in Group-Robot Interaction

    Sep 8, 2026Massimiliano Nigro, Hatice Gunes, Micol Spitale +1Bayesian Neural NetworksHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy · Affective Intelligence and Robotics (AFAR) Lab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK

  24. CALM: Configuration-Aware Human Intervention Boundaries During Robot Approach

    Sep 7, 2026Xinting Gao, Sipu Zhu, Weimin ZhuangRobot SafetySafe Motion Planning

    School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China · Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tsinghua University, China

  25. Social Intuition vs. Machine Reasoning: Anticipating Human-Robot Interaction from multiple modalities

    Sep 7, 2026Raphael Lorenzo-Louis, Bertrand Luvison, Serena IvaldiHuman Behavior PredictionHuman-Robot Interaction

    Inria, CNRS, UL, Loria, HUCEBOT F-54600 Villers-les-Nancy France

  26. IRWOZ 2.0: A Large Language Model-driven Dialogue Dataset for Industrial Robot Conversations

    Sep 3, 2026Chen Li, Dimitrios ChrysostomouSpoken Dialogue SystemsSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, Fibigerstraede 16, Aalborg, 9220, Denmark.

  27. Establishing a Dynamic Multimodal HRI Dataset for Engagement Analysis with a Humanoid Robot

    Sep 3, 2026Buwan Kim, Wonse JoRobotic Data CollectionHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea 22012.

  28. A Physics-Consistent Benchmark for Contact-Rich Human-Robot Interaction in Assistive Care

    Sep 2, 2026Chengxiao He, Shanghai Yuan, Liuqun Fan +1Human-Robot InteractionAssistive Robotics

    School of Mechanical and Robotics Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology Innovation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  29. Towards a Foundational Ontology for Identifying and Resolving Contradictions in Dialogue-based Human-Robot Interactions

    Sep 2, 2026Maitreyee Tewari, Michele PersianiHuman-Robot Interaction

    Nord A1, Sweden · Alternative Intelligence LLP, Bologna, Italy · Department of Informatics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  30. Behavior--Realization Separation for Constrained Physical Human--Robot Interaction

    Sep 1, 2026Yongyan CaoRobotic ControlAdmittance Control

    Voryx Robotics LLC, San Jose, CA 95136, USA