| 2026 | RoSIP: A Scale for Measuring Appearance-Based Social Interaction Potential in Robots. | Xucong Hu, Qinyi Hu, Tianya Yu, Mowei Shen, Jifan Zhou |
| 2026 | From Failing to Exceeding User Expectations: A Large-Scale Study Exploring the Role of Expectation Gap Magnitude and Direction in Robot Adoption Intention. | Aurora An-Lin Hu, Dimity Crisp, Sharni Konrad, Damith Herath, Janie Busby Grant |
| 2026 | Can Vision Language Models Zero-Shot Thermal Images for Private and Robust Human Robot Interaction? | Han Hu, He Chen |
| 2026 | Reimagining Social Robots as Recommender Systems: Foundations, Framework, and Applications. | Jin Huang, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Hatice Gunes |
| 2026 | "Can I Draw Here?" Embodied Proactive Suggestions in a Robotic Arm Painter. | Junhong Huang |
| 2026 | Should Robots Comply with Our Instructions or Intentions? | Tiffany Horter, Andrew Markham, Niki Trigoni, Serena Booth |
| 2026 | ZTL: Lightweight Communication Patterns for HRI. | Patrick Holthaus, Trenton Schulz, Lewis Riches, Claudia-Andreea Badescu, Farshid Amirabdollahian |
| 2026 | BPM-HRI: Best Practices and Methods in HRI Research. | Patrick Holthaus, Daniel Hernndez Garca, Patricia H. Shaw, Francesco Del Duchetto, Marta Romeo, Muneeb Imtiaz Ahmad, Daniel Tozadore, Shelly Bagchi |
| 2026 | Empowering Human Learning through Human-Robot Interaction. | Hui-Ru Ho |
| 2026 | More Than Human-Robot Interaction (Keynote). | Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas |
| 2026 | SCOPE: Real-Time Natural Language Camera Agent at the Edge: A Sim-to-Real Benchmark and Analysis of Open-Source Vision and Language Agents for PTZ Camera Tasks. | Nikolaj Hindsbo, Sina Ehsani, Pragyana Mishra |
| 2026 | RECS: LSTM-Based Cognitive Status Estimation for Human-Robot Interaction. | Mark Higger, Zhuoyi Wang, Polina Rygina, Lara Ferreira Bezerra, Logan Daigler, Zane Aloia, Sheena Wu, Ishani Pandey, Amanda Chen, Tom Williams |
| 2026 | Context-Aware Generation and Modulation of Expressive Motion Behavior using Multimodal Foundation Models. | Till Hielscher, Fabio Scaparro, Kai O. Arras |
| 2026 | From Human Bias to Robot Choice: How Occupational Contexts and Racial Priming Shape Robot Selection. | Jiangen He, Wanqi Zhang, Jessica K. Barfield |
| 2026 | LEGS-POMDP: Language and Gesture-Guided Object Search in Partially Observable Environments. | Ivy Xiao He, Stefanie Tellex, Jason Xinyu Liu |
| 2026 | Telepresence Robots in Industrial Environments: Early Findings on Usability and Functionality Requirements. | Francisco Hernandez, Vernica Ahumada-Newhart, Angelika C. Bullinger |
| 2026 | Robots in the Room: A Qualitative Exploration of Democratic Agency and AI-Augmented Deliberations. | Damith Herath, Hans Asenbaum, Janie Busby Grant, Maleen Jayasuriya, Emanuela Savini, Harshith Ghanta |
| 2026 | Investigating Cross-Agent Trust Transfer: Effects of Informational and Operational Errors in Human-Robot Collaboration. | Xiaoxuan Hei, Sofia Gioumatzidou, Juan Jose Garcia Cardenas, Adriana Tapus |
| 2026 | Lonely Students, Different Needs: How Emotional and Social Loneliness Shape Expectations for Social Robots. | Franziska Elisabeth Heck, Emilia Sobolewska, Debbie Meharg, Khristin Fabian |
| 2026 | Robots vs. Virtual Reality in Solution-Focused Counseling for Older Adults: Effects on Emotional Expression and Lexical Structure. | Yugo Hayashi, Shigen Shimojo, Keita Kiuchi |
| 2026 | Multi-robot Stimulation for Immersive Robotic Massage with Virtual Therapists. | Naoya Harada, Michiteru Kitazaki, Ryosuke Tasaki |
| 2026 | Enhanced Social Navigation Simulation for Community-Driven Participatory Evaluation of Sidewalk Robots. | Howard Ziyu Han, Ying Zhang, Allan Wang, Nikolas Martelaro |
| 2026 | Do Type and Importance of Agent's Resource Matter? How Robots' Helping Behavior Influences Human Trust to Them. | Chenlin Hang, Masahiro Shiomi, Rui Prada, Seiji Yamada |
| 2026 | Simulating Preference-Aware Robot Explanations: A Probabilistic Perspective on When and How to Explain. | Amar Halilovic, Senka Krivic |
| 2026 | Exploring the Potential of Dialogue-Based Robots to Motivate Social Connection in Older Adults. | Pascal Haberkorn, Corinna Mack, Manuel Giuliani |