About the Conference
The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is the premier venue for innovations on human-robot interaction. Sponsored by the ACM special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and artificial intelligence (SIGAI) as well as the IEEE robotics and automation society (RAS), HRI brings together researchers spanning robotics, human-computer interaction, human factors, artificial intelligence, engineering, and social and behavioral sciences. The theme of the 21st edition of HRI is HRI Empowering Society. Our field has the potential to bring about positive change in many areas of our societies such as healthcare, transport, remote working, agriculture and industry. HRI 2026 will focus on: 1) how we can ethically integrate robots in everyday processes without creating disruptions or inequalities, carefully thinking at the future of work and services; 2) how we can make them accessible to the general public (in terms of design, technical literacy and cost) with the final aim to make robots more willingly adopted as technological helpers.
Subject Areas
Keynote Speakers
Yukie Nagai
Project Professor · International Research Center for Neurointelligence, University of Tokyo
Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
Assistant Professor · University of Glasgow
Benjamin Rosman
Professor · University of the Witwatersrand
Benjamin R. Cowan
Professor · University College Dublin
Important Dates
Call For Papers
Theory and Methods
Design
Technical
Systems
User Studies
Publication & Indexing
Conference Organization
Supported by
Committee
General Chair
Lynne Baillie
Heriot-Watt University
Bill Smart
Oregon State University
Program Chair
Maartje De Graaf
Utrecht University
Matthew Gombolay
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ilaria Torre
Chalmers University of Technology
Finance Chair
Sarah Sebo
University of Chicago
Nicole Salomons
Imperial College London
Local Chair
Mary Ellen Foster
University of Glasgow
Marta Romeo
Heriot-Watt University
Alt.HRI Chair
Mathew Aylett
Heriot-Watt University
Tony Belpaeme
Ghent University
Frank Broz
TU Delft
Registration Chair
Filipa Correia
Interactive Technologies Institute
Antonio Andriella
Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial
Publications Chair
Ho Seok Ahn
University of Auckland
Zhao Han
University of South Florida
Late-Breaking Report Chair
Masahiro Shiomi
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Patrick Holthaus
University of Hertfordshire
Friederike Eyssel
Bielefeld University
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Short Contributions Chair
Anara Sandygulova
Nazarbayev University
Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
Cornell University
Community Engagement Chair
Alistair McConnell
Heriot-Watt University
Industry Chair
Sara Cooper
PAL Robotics
Kate Tsui
Toyota Research Institute
Ingo Keller
National Robotarium
Interactivity Chair
Alessandro di Nuovo
Sheffield Hallam University
Elmira Yadollahi
Lancaster University
Mohan Sridharan
University of Edinburgh
Partnership/Sponsorship Chair
Nathan Kirchner
Presien Pty. Ltd.
Ross Mead
Semio, Inc.
Accessibility Chair
Emmanuel Senft
Idiap Research Institute
Raj Korpan
Hunter College, City University of New York
Sustainability Chair
Maria Teresa Parreira
Cornell University
Moojan Ghafurian
University of Waterloo
Web/Publicity Chair
Bahar Irfan
Familiar Machines & Magic
Nathan Dennler
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Francesca Cocchella
Italian Institute of Technology
Student Volunteer Chair
Yan Zhang
University of Melbourne
Muneeb Ahmad
University of Swansea
Workshop Chair
Katie Winkle
Uupsala University
Micol Spitale
Politecnico di Milano & University of Cambridge
Student Competition Chair
Sonya Kwak
Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Daniel Hernández García
Heriot-Watt University
Jamison Heard
Rochester Institute of Technology
HRI Pioneers Chair
Dakota Sullivan
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Paige Tuttosi
Simon Fraser University
Program Committee - Technical Track Chair
Paul Robinette
Silvia Rossi
Program Committee - Technical Area Chair
Mattia Racca
Maya Cakmak
David Feil-Seifer
Chung Hyuk Park
Mary Ellen Foster
Hae Won Park
Ross Mead
Cynthia Matuszek
Kelilah Wolkowicz
Michael Hagenow
Christoforos Mavrogiannis
Rohan Paleja
Andreea Bobu
Manuel Giuliani
Program Committee - Theory and Methods Track Chair
Alan Wagner
Katie Winkle
Program Committee - Theory and Methods Area Chair
Tom Ziemke
Thomas Weisswange
Hannah Pelikan
Shelly Bagchi
Serena Booth
Mark Neerincx
Safina Ali
Thomas Arnold
Wendy Ju
Guy Laban
Franziska Babel
Program Committee - Design Track Chair
Stela Seo
Hee Rin Lee
Program Committee - Design Area Chair
Hyungjun Cho
Damith C. Herath
Haipeng Mi
Stine Johansen
Daniel Rea
Alyssa Kubota
Jodi Forlizzi
David Sirkin
Ji Youn Shin
Yunkyung Kim
Rhim Jimin
Annette Masterson
Long-Jing Hsu
Anna Dobrosovestnova
Program Committee - Systems Track Chair
Brittany Duncan
Emmanuel Senft
Program Committee - Systems Area Chair
Pamela Carreno-Medrano
Dražen Brščić
Luis Figueredo
Alessandro Roncone
Joshua Peschel
Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
David Porfirio
Daniel Rakita
Justin Hart
Satoru Satake
Jamison Heard
Program Committee - User Studies Track Chair
Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten
Anara Sandygulova
Greg Trafton
Takayuki Kanda
Program Committee - User Studies Area Chair
Boyoung Kim
Nicole Salomons
Merel Keijsers
Maike Paetzel
Selma Sabanovic
Laura Kunold
Laura Stegner
Bengisu Cagiltay
Jane Li
Theodoros Georgiou
Hidenobu Sumioka
Aike Horstmann
Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie
Snehesh Shrestha
Matthew Aylett
Barbara Bruno
Mirjam De Haas
Paul Vogt
Maha Salem
Sarah Sebo
Goren Gordon
James Kennedy
Sachie Yamada
Wafa Johal
Brian Scassellati
Angelique Taylor
Christopher Crick
Hadas Erel
Samantha Reig
Maia Stiber
Tsung-Chi Lin
Cristina Wilson
Janie Busby Grant
Nakul Gopalan
Takahisa Uchida
Reuth Mirsky
Alessandra Rossi
Kantwon Rogers
Joe Michaelis
Alexis Block
Steering Committee Co-chair
Elizabeth Broadbent
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Laura Hiatt
Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Steering Committee Member
Anara Sandygulova
Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Bill Smart
Oregon State University, USA
Bradley Hayes
CU Boulder, USA
David Sirkin
Stanford University, USA
Drazen Brscic
Kyoto University, Japan
Hatice Gunes
University of Cambridge, UK
Ilaria Torre
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Iolanda Leite
KTH, Sweden
James Young
University of Manitoba, Canada
Lynne Baillie
Heriot-Watt University, UK
Maartje De Graaf
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Marynel Vazquez
Yale University, USA
Matthew Gombolay
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Nicole Salomons
Imperial College London, UK
Sarah Sebo
University of Kansas, USA
Severin Lemaignan
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Spain
Tony Belpaeme
Ghent University / University of Plymouth, Belgium / UK
Vicky Charisi
European Commission, JRC, Centre for Advanced Studies
Wafa Johal
University of Melbourne, Australia
Wendy Ju
Cornell Tech., USA
Zhi Tan
Northeastern University, USA
Steering Committee Managing Director
Giulia Pusceddu
Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
