Theme:

 Shaping our hybrid future with robots together

While robots become increasingly more able to socially interact with people, it is important to start thinking about how we can shape a future with these robots in which we collaborate and work together with these new team members that are on the horizon. Rather than replacing us, our vision is that robots will complement us. We envision a hybrid intelligence where robots and humans together will be more able, effective, productive, efficient, and fun to work with. To realize a successful integration of these socially interactive robots into our society, we need to invest in a future where human-robot teams could become prevalent. To this end, we need to create a clear vision of this future and create innovations related to interaction models, social capabilities, and the skills of these robots to understand how they can work together with us.

The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss a variety of topics related to the broad theme of Robot and Human Interactive Communication involving theories, methodologies, technologies, empirical and experimental studies, and generate more insights for the future of Robot and Human Interactive Communication!