Best Paper Winners

A Model of Social Explanations for a Conversational Movie Recommendation System
Florian Pecune, Shruti Murali, Vivian Tsai, Yoichi Matsuyama, Justine Cassell

Acting as if Being Aware of Visitors’ Attention Strengthens a Robotic Salesperson’s Social Presence
Masaya Iwasaki, Jian Zhou, Mizuki Ikeda, Yuya Onishi, Tatsuyuki Kawamura, Hideyuki Nakanishi

Best Paper Candidate

Deploying a Deep Learning Agent for HRI with Potential “end-users” at Multiple Sheltered Housing Sites
Marta Romeo, Daniel Hernández García, Ray Jones, Angelo Cangelosi

Best Poster Winners

How to Enhance Social Robots’ Heartwarming Interaction in Service Encounters
Junya Nakanishi, Jun Baba, Itaru Kuramoto

Development of a Prototype of Face-to-Face Conversational Holographic Agent for Encouraging Co-regulation of Learning
Ayane Hisatomi, Yutaka Ishii, Toshio Mochizuki, Hironori Egi, Yoshihiko Kubota, Hiroshi Kato

Pocketable Bones: A Portable Robot Sharing Interests with User in the Breast Pocket
Ryosuke Mayumi, Naoki Ohshima, Michio Okada