Human-Robot Interaction

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  1. Empirical Pedestrian Safety Assessment in a Mobile Robot Using a Predictive Social Force Model

    Jul 10, 2026Alireza Jafari, Yun-Hao Tsai, Yen-Chen LiuSafe Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan

  2. A New Human-Likeness and Comfort Index for Robot Movements Along Prescribed Paths

    Jul 9, 2026Rosanna Coccaro, Enrico Ferrentino, Antonio Parziale +2Robot Motion GenerationHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM), University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy

  3. Factors Influencing Conversational Engagement in Robot-Delivered Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) for Dementia in Home Settings

    Jul 9, 2026Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole SalomonsHealthcareHuman-AI Interaction

    Imperial College London

  4. Soft Robotic Exogloves for Dexterous Mobility -- Towards Personalized Rehabilitation

    Jul 8, 2026Paul Dela Cruz, Mostafa Mo. Massoud, Jacqueline LibbyRobotic Hand DesignAssistive Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA · Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA

  5. Immersive Social Interaction with VR and LLM-Assisted Humanoids

    Jul 8, 2026Niraj Pudasaini, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Pranav Doma +2Robot TeleoperationHumanoid Robot Control

    New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), UAE

  6. Initiation Safety: A Missing Dimension in Generalist-Robot Safety

    Jul 8, 2026Zhijin Meng, Francisco CruzAI Agent SafetyRobot Safety

    School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales

  7. Communicative Efficiency of Single vs. Multi-Axis Robot Neck Motion

    Jul 8, 2026Chapa Sirithunge, Haewon Jeong, Qinghua Guan +2Robot Morphology-Control Co-DesignRobotics

    University of Bristol School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, Tankard’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TW, UK · EPFL Institute of Mechanical Engineering, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland · University of Tokyo Department of Precision Engineering, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

  8. Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Turn-Taking in Social Robots with Voice-Activity-Related Pretrained Encoders

    Jul 8, 2026Antonio Cano, Guillermo Pérez, Luis Merino +1Conversational AgentsHuman-Robot Interaction

    4i Intelligent Insights, Seville, Spain · Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain · Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain +1

  9. Embodied Human-Robot Interaction via Acoustics: A MARL Approach with AcoustoBots for Spatial Data Physicalization

    Jul 7, 2026Shiqi Liu, Narsimlu Kemsaram, Prateek Mittal +2Human-Robot Interaction

    Department of Computer Science University College London London, United Kingdom · Department of Artificial Intelligence University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  10. Towards Real-World Applications with an Autonomous Powered Wheelchair

    Jul 7, 2026Simone Arreghini, Alessandro Giusti, Alex Bordini +3Robot NavigationAssistive Robotics

    Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), USI-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland. · Genny Factory, Sant’Antonino, Switzerland.

  11. Responsible Personalisation: The Double-Edged Sword of Personalisation in Human-Robot Interaction

    Jul 7, 2026Antonio Andriella, Jauwairia Nasir, Andrea Rezzani +7Human-Robot InteractionResponsible AI

    Universität Augsburg Augsburg, Germany · Oakland University Rochester, MI, USA

  12. Co-STAR: Cognitive Stimulation Therapy by an Autonomous Robot for Dementia -- A One-Week In-Home Study

    Jul 7, 2026Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole SalomonsHealthcareAssistive Robotics

    Imperial College London

  13. Toward Personalized Social Robots for Child Well-being: Data Requirement Principles from a Recommender-System Perspective

    Jul 6, 2026Jin Huang, Eric Nichols, Fethiye Irmak Dogan +1User ModelingHuman-Robot Interaction

    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom · Honda Research Institute Japan, Wako, Japan

  14. Designing Touch for Trauma-Informed Social Robots: A Design Space for Direct and Indirect Actuation

    Jul 6, 2026Madeleine Rischer, Benedikt BußmannMental HealthRobotics

    AI Ethics Research Hub Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany

  15. HRIBench: Benchmarking Interaction-Centric Human-Robot Collaboration

    Jul 5, 2026Chang Liu, Jiawei Zhang, Tao Zhang +3Robot Foundation ModelsHuman-Robot Collaboration

    1Renmin University of China · 2Beijing Normal University

  16. Invisible Strings: Deriving Puppetry Principles and their Hidden Connections to Robot Behavior Design

    Jul 3, 2026Claire Lewis, Sawyer Collins, Alyssa Hanson +2RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA · California Sate University San Bernadino, San Bernadino, California, USA

  17. Beyond Heuristics: A Standardized Real2Sim Pipeline for Physical Human Robot Interaction in Human-in-the-Loop Simulation

    Jul 3, 2026Chengyuan Yang, Yifan Wang, Chun Kwang Tan +5System IdentificationAssistive Robotics

    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore · Guangdong Zhongxin Intelligent Rehabilitation Research Institute, Foshan, China 528200

  18. The Individual-Targeting Assumption: A Systematic Review of Proactive Robots in Human Group Settings

    Jul 2, 2026Tauhid Tanjim, Tasmia Mayen, Malte F. Jung +1Human-Robot Interaction

    Department of Information Science at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA · School of Education, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70802, USA

  19. Robots Ask the Way: Communication-Enabled Social Navigation

    Jul 1, 2026Valentino Sacco, Luca Scofano, Indro Spinelli +1Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

  20. Adaptive Companionship for Group-Following Robots: Handling Dynamically Changing Group Formations

    Jul 1, 2026Cong-Thanh Vu, Yen-Chen LiuSocial Robot NavigationHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.

  21. From Technical Metrics to User Perception: A User Study of a Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction System for Object Detection and Grasping

    Jul 1, 2026Jian Song, Tian Zi, Shen GuantingRobotic GraspingHuman-in-the-Loop Evaluation

    The authors are with the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.

  22. Stop Pretending Social Robots Are Inevitable

    Jun 30, 2026Serge ThillRoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour Radboud University Nijmegen 6525GD Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  23. HABIT: Human-Aware Behavior and Interaction Training Dataset for Robot Manipulation

    Jun 30, 2026Jaehwi Song, Suchae Jeong, Byeongguk Jeon +4Robot Policy LearningRobotic Data Collection

    Config · Config, KAIST

  24. LLM-Powered Interactive Robotic Action Synthesis from Multimodal Speech, Gestures, and Music

    Jun 30, 2026Snehasis Banerjee, Ranjan DasguptaRobotic ControlLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    Physical AI Research · TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services · Kolkata, India

  25. REPAIR-Bench: A Benchmark for Robot Error Perception And Interaction Recovery

    Jun 29, 2026Giuliano Pioldi, Yashika Batra, Arman Ibrayeva +4Robot Failure DetectionRobot Failure Recovery

    Cornell University Cornell Tech New York, NY

  26. Legible Shared Autonomy: Implicit Communication of Robot Belief through Motion

    Jun 29, 2026Jinwei Liu, Pengfei Li, Shaofeng Chen +2Robotic ManipulationShared Autonomy

    Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China · Department of Automation, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China · National Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

  27. Understanding LLM Intervention Explanations in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction

    Jun 28, 2026Micol Spitale, Massimiliano Nigro, Emily CrossExplainable Artificial IntelligenceSpoken Dialogue Systems

    Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy · GESS Department, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  28. Embodiment Meets Environment: Toward Context-Aware, Safe Physical Caregiving Robots

    Jun 26, 2026Zhanxin Wu, Ruofei Tong, Jiaying Fang +1Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningAssistive Robotics

    Cornell University

  29. When May I Help You? On The Effect of Proactivity on Group Human-Robot Collaboration

    Jun 26, 2026Thomas Vitry, Vanessa Maeder, Kieran von Valeburg +6Proactive AssistanceHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Knowledge Technology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · Ecole Normale Superieure de Rennes, Rennes, France

  30. Charting the Growth of Social-Physical HRI (spHRI): A Systematic Review Pipeline Augmented by Small Language Models

    Jun 24, 2026Mayumi Mohan, Ju-Hung Chen, Alexis E. BlockEvidence SelectionSmall Language Models

    Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, USA