Human-Robot-Avatar Interaction and Collaboration:

Enhancing robot’s-avatar’s proactive social capabilities

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We strongly believe that Humanoids 2024 is an ideal venue to present recent successes and next steps in human-robot-avatar interaction and collaboration. This workshop is aimed not only at bringing together researchers from human-robot interaction, cybernetics avatars and interactive machine learning fields, but also at creating valuable collaborations, and attracting more roboticists into this growing community.

Topics of interest

  • Algorithms for Cybernetic Avatars
  • Ethical considerations for Human-Robot-Avatar Interaction
  • Predictive modeling of human intentions for avatar behavior
  • Motion planning and coordination in collaborative tasks with avatars
  • User studies for evaluating avatar-human interaction
  • Enhancing transparency and explainability in AI for avatars
  • Benchmarking and use cases for understanding avatar explainability
  • Social dynamics and empathy in avatar-mediated interactions
  • Human-centered design approaches for avatar development
  • Novel applications of cybernetic avatars in real-world scenarios with ethical considerations

Location and Venue

This workshop will be held on the 22 November as part of HUMANOIDS, which runs from 22-24 November 2024, at the Prouvé Convention Centre, Nancy, France.
Day: Monday 22 November 2024
Time: 0900 - 1230
Room #: 203


Invited Speakers

Name Affiliation Status
Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro Osaka University Confirmed
Alberto Sanfeliu IRI-UPC Confirmed
Prof. Christian Becker-Asano Stuttgart Media UniversityC Confirmed
Prof. Rachid Alami LAAS-CNRS Confirmed
Yiannis Demiris Imperial College London Confirmed

Intended audience

We strongly believe that HUMANOIDS 2024 is an ideal venue to present recent successes and next steps in human-robot interaction with cybernetics avatars. This workshop is aimed not only at bringing together researchers from human-robot interaction, cybernetic avatars and interactive machine learning fields, but also at creating valuable collaborations, and attracting more roboticists into this growing community.

Relationship to the conference proper

Research on Human-Robot-Avatar Interaction has grown substantially, due to modern advances in technology, materials, and systems of perception and control. Nevertheless, this topic is still new in comparison to other research areas in robotics. This workshop is needed to give the researches the opportunity to present their current work on this topics.

Structure of the event

  • Introduction by the organizers

The organizers will briefly introduce the current state-of-art in the field of human robot interaction and cybernetic avatars. They will then propose future challenges to be tackled to foster further discussions along the workshop.

  • Talks given by experts in the fields related to the workshop topics

Experts in different fields will share their works and experience in HRI and cybernetic, and the relation between these two important topics (please see the list of speakers above, depends on confirmation). They will also be encouraged to give their opinions and thoughts about the current and future problems in the field, providing different perspectives according to their areas of research.

  • Panel discussion
  • Closing remarks

The organizers will present a review of the most relevant presented ideas, and new frontiers to be carried out in the next future.

Program

Time Tentative Talks Speaker
9:00-9:15 Welcome and introduction Anais Garrell
9:15-9:40 How robot-avatars can improve human interaction using human intention information Prof. Alberto Sanfeliu
9:40-10:05 Planning for concurrent and compliant human-robot joint action Prof. Rachid Alami
10:05-10:30 TBD Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro
10:30-11:00  Coffee Break
11:00-11:25 Interactions with an android robot in a public museum in Germany Prof. Christian Becker-Asano
11:25-11:50 Trustworthy physical and cognitive robot assistance Prof. Yiannis Demiris
11:50-12:30 Panel discussion and closing remarks Moderator: Gustavo Garcia
Participants: Invited speakers



Institut de Robòtics i Informàtica Industrial (IRI)