| 2026 | Flexible LLM-Based Voice Assistance for Mobile Robots. | Shnke Benedikt Fischedick, Robin Schmidt, Benedict Stephan, Horst-Michael Gross |
| 2026 | Co-designing a Social Robot for Newcomer Children's Cultural and Language Learning. | Neil Fernandes, Tehniyat Shahbaz, Emily Davies-Robinson, Yue Hu, Kerstin Dautenhahn |
| 2026 | Finite State Machine Approach for Real-Time Gait Phase Detection in Exoskeletons. | Pooria Fazli, Amirhossein Nazari, Navid Jooyandehdel, Iman Kardan, Alireza Akbarzadeh |
| 2026 | Explaining Why Things Go Where They Go: Interpretable Constructs of Human Organizational Preferences. | Emmanuel Fashae, Michael G. Burke, Leimin Tian, Lingheng Meng, Pamela Carreno-Medrano |
| 2026 | A Real2Sim2Real Transformer Policy System for Bimanual R2R2H Tasks. | Ismael Espinoza, Yong-Hyeok Choi, Kangsan Lee, Ji-Heon Oh, Ki Joo Pahk, Tae-Seong Kim |
| 2026 | Winnie-the-Pooh-Powered: How LLMs and Well-Known Characters Can Create Adaptive Personalities for Aquatic Social Robot Interactions. | Mohsen Ensafjoo, Chau Nguyen, Roman Shumliakivskyi, Jamy Li, Paul H. Dietz, Ali Mazalek |
| 2026 | Theory of Whose Mind? Exposing the Shortcomings of One of HRI's Core Concepts. | Cansu Elmadagli, Jennifer Renoux |
| 2026 | Vizij: A Workshop & Tutorial on Expressive Robot Faces. | Saad Elbeleidy, Andrew J. Schoen, Christopher Birmingham, Tiago Ribeiro, Victor Palologue, Douglas Dooley, Ross Mead |
| 2026 | Sharing Public Space with Robots: Following a Fleet of Delivery Robots on City Sidewalks. | Simon Ekman, Joachim rtegren, Kacper Mateusz Sieklucki, Raymond Tchou, Ludwig Halvorsen, Hannah R. M. Pelikan |
| 2026 | Welcome to the Shop! Field Trial of a VLM-Powered Autonomous Shop Worker Robot. | Sachi Edirisinghe, Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda |
| 2026 | MuffBunny: Mimetic Ear-Based Interaction Design for Social Emotion Recognition and Implicit Expression. | Jinxuan Du, Rulan Li, Tianlu Zhou, Qianrui Liu |
| 2026 | Coordinating Speech with Touch Input and Visual Cues in Human-Robot Interaction: A Multimodal System Evaluated through Metamorphic Testing. | Massimo Donini, Paolo Arcaini, Michael Oliverio, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Alessandro Mazzei, Deyun Lyu, Cristina Gena |
| 2026 | Elevator Pitch: Ludic Design in Social Architectural Robots Fostering Togetherness. | Jennifer Dong, Sophie Weissel, Emily Zimmerman |
| 2026 | Designing Social Robots with Ethical, User-Adaptive Explainability in the Era of Foundation Models. | Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Alva Markelius, Hatice Gunes |
| 2026 | Cruel Optimism, Lucid Despair, and Precarious Hope in HRI. | Anna Dobrosovestnova, Barry Brown, Emanuel Gollob, Mafalda Gamboa, Masoumeh Mansouri |
| 2026 | Robot Vandalism: A Senseless Act? | Anna Dobrosovestnova, David J. Bailey, Ralf Vetter, Masoumeh Mansouri |
| 2026 | Bystander Privacy Implications of Robots in Everyday Spaces: A Scoping Review. | Manuel Dietrich, Alan Sarkisian, Thomas H. Weisswange |
| 2026 | Beyond the Novelty Effect: Mathematical Frameworks for Sustainable Robot-Assisted Habit Formation. | Amol Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Emily S. Cross |
| 2026 | Whose Robots? A Scientific Oligarchy in HRI Research? | Amol Deshmukh |
| 2026 | LLM-Driven Socially Assistive Robots: Comparing Simulated and Physical Embodiments in Healthcare Interaction. | Thomas Muller Dardelin, Damith Herath, Janie Busby Grant |
| 2026 | Episodic Social Memory via Per-Episode LoRA Adapters for Social Robots. | Cristian-Marius Cringasu, Adriana Tapus |
| 2026 | Collaborating with Conversational Agents: Perspective Taking, Partner Modelling and the Division of Communicative Labour (Keynote). | Benjamin R. Cowan |
| 2026 | Robot-Mediated Administration of Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices in Autistic Individuals. | Nicole Covone, Linda Pigureddu, Margherita Attanasio, Cristina Gena, Berardina De Carolis, Monica Mazza |
| 2026 | Of Dogs and Robots: More Than Human Interactions at Play? | Filipa Correia, Cristina Gena, Alberto Lillo, Laura Lossi, Claudio Mattutino, Valentina Nisi, Linda Pigureddu, Fabiana Vernero |
| 2026 | EMY: Supporting Autism Therapy with a Socially Assistive Robot. | Sara Cooper, Bartomeu Pou, Arnau Mayoral-Macau, Antonio Lobo-Santos, Miriam Martn, Raquel Ros |