Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007). HRI is a highly selective annual conference that seeks to showcase the very best research and thinking in human-robot interaction. Human-robot interaction is inherently inter-disciplinary, and the conference sought papers from researchers in robotics, human-factors, ergonomics, human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, and other fields. The mission of the conference is to create a common venue for this broad set of researchers.This year's conference theme is "Robot as Team Member". Robots are used in such critical domains as search and rescue, military theater, mine and bomb detection, scientific exploration, law enforcement, and hospital care. Such robots must coordinate their behaviors with human team members; they are more than mere tools but rather quasi-team members whose tasks have to be integrated with those of humans. HRI 2007 is dedicated to these and other issues in human and robot interaction, highlighting the importance of building core science and understanding the social and technical issues in human-robot interaction in the context of teams and groups.Of the 93 submissions, the program committee accepted 22 papers and 26 posters that cover a variety of topics, among them field studies of robots in public spaces, operator-robot rescue teams, attributions of robot behavior, and human-robot dialogue. The program includes paper presentations, a video session, two interactive poster sessions, panels on robots in teams and the future of HRI research, and keynote speeches by human teamwork expert, J. Richard Hackman of Harvard, and by Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University and ATR. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for HRI researchers and students.