Program

09:00–09:05 – Opening Remarks

09:05–10:05 – Panel #1
(Moderated by Cynthia Yeung – SoftBank Robotics)

10:05–10:30 – Breakout Session #1

10:30–10:50 – Coffee Break

10:50–12:05 – Full Talks
(12 minutes + 3-minute Q&A each)

10:50–11:05
Human Centered Robotics: Designing Valuable Experiences for Social Robots
Matthew Willis
11:05–11:20
Exploring the Use of Robots for Gathering Feedback in Hospitality Industry
Micael Jae-Yoon Chung and Maya Cakmak
11:20–11:35
HRI - “In the wild” In Rural India
Amol Deshmukh, Sooraj Krishna, Akshay Nagarajan, Vennila Vilvanathan, Sivaprasad J. V. and Bhavani Rao R.
11:35–11:50
Real-time Human Gaze following for Human-Robot Interaction
Akanksha Saran, Srinjoy Majumdar, Andrea Thomaz and Scott Niekum
11:50–12:05
Preliminary system and hardware design for Quori, a low-cost, modular, socially interactive robot
Andrew Specian, Nick Eckenstein, Ross Mead, Braden McDorman, Simon Kim, Maja Mataric, and Mark Yim

12:05–13:30 – Lunch

13:30–14:30 – Panel #2
(Moderated by Evan Ackerman – IEEE Spectrum)

14:30–15:30 – Full Talks
(12 minutes + 3-minute Q&A each)

14:30–14:45
Formalizing the Design Space and Product Development Cycle for Socially Interactive Robots
Eric Deng, Bilge Mutlu and Maja Mataric
14:45–15:00
Multi-modal Open-Set Person Identification in HRI
Bahar Irfan, Natalia Lyubova, Michael Garcia Ortiz and Tony Belpaeme
15:00–15:15
Getting things done in an autonomous vehicle
John Sherry, Richard Beckwith and Asli Arslan Esme
15:15–15:30
Intelligent Social Robots in the Wild: A Qualitative Study on Deploying Intelligent Social Robots with Growing Features to Real Home Environments
Chan Mi Park, Yuin Jeong, Kwangmin Jeong, Hae-Sung Lee, Jeehang Lee and Jinwoo Kim

15:30–15:50 – Coffee Break
(Setup for Interactive Session)

15:50–16:20 – Breakout Session #2

16:20–16:50 – Short Talks
(4 minutes + 1-minute Q&A each)

16:20–16:25
ChairBot Café: Personality-Based Expressive Motion
Abhijeet Agnihotri, Heather Knight, Alison Shutterly, Abrar Fallatah and Brian Layng
16:25–16:30
Robot-Centric Human Group Detection
Angelique Taylor and Laurel Riek
16:30–16:35
“Hi human, can we talk?” An in-the-wild study template for robots approaching unsuspecting participants
Elaheh Sanoubari and James E. Young
16:35–16:40
When Should a Service Robot Switch Tasks? A Learning-Based Approach for Interrupting Task Execution
Anahita Mohseni-Kabir and Manuela Veloso
16:40–16:45
Developmental Learning for Social Robots in Real-World Interactions
Alexandre Galdeano, Alix Gonnot, Clément Cottet, Salima Hassas, Mathieu Lefort and Amélie Cordier
16:45–16:50
Deploying a Social Robot to Co-Teach Social Emotional Learning in the Early Childhood Classroom
Ehren Wolfe, Jerry Weinberg and Stephen Hupp

16:50–17:50 – Interactive Session

17:50–18:00 – Closing Remarks