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Video Talks of HAI 2022

Since not all registered authors will be able to attend the conference in person, some talks are now available via video. Links to the Papers will be added after the start of the conference.

Please enjoy the following talks at your own convenience. To access the video, click on the title of the respective talk.

Can Moral Rightness (Utilitarian Approach) Outweight the Ingroup Favoritism Bias in HRI? by Aldo Chavez, Marlena R. Fraune, and Ricarda Wullenkord

Find the paper here.

Students’ Views on Intelligent Agents as Assistive Tools for Dealing with Stress and Anxiety in Social Situations by Samira Rasouli, Moojan Ghafurian, and Kirsten Dautenhahn

Find the paper here.

Don’t Take it Personally: Resistance to Individually Targeted Recommendations from Conversational Recommender Systems by Guy Laban and Theo Araujo

Find the paper here.

A User-centered Evaluation of Data-Driven Sign Language Avatar System: A Pilot Study by Alfarabi Imashev, Nurziya Oralbayeva, Vadim Kimmelman, and Anara Sandygulova

Find the paper here.

Effect of Group Identity on Emotional Contagion in Dyadic Human Agent Interaction by Nora Joby and Hiroyuki Umemuro

Find the paper here.

Furthermore, there is a video poster presentations available as well, which you can access here:

User Experience of Human-Robot Long-Term Interactions by Guy Laban, Arvid Kappas, Val Morrison, and Emily S. Cross

Find the short paper here.

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Call for student volunteers

A total of six volunteers are needed for this year’s HAI conference. Each volunteer should work for at least one day. All volunteers are expected to perform their assigned work actively and efficiently. To recognize their work, each volunteer will receive a NZ$300 discount for conference registration and a certificate of appreciation as Student Volunteer.

If you are interested in becoming a student volunteer at HAI 2022, please submit your EOI via the following link before 25th November 2022:  https://forms.office.com/r/gdtHcYf3Ae. Acceptance will be notified on Novemer 30th, 2022.

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Meet Early Bird Registration

Full papers are under review, and the registration website is up! Make sure to get your earlybird registration by September 29 New Zealand time.

If you want to be more involved in the conference, you can still submit a poster or workshop proposal by August 2 and 1, respectively.

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What do you need to know if you are heading to New Zealand?

If you are heading to New Zealand to visit the HAI 2022 there are a few facts that come in handy.

Our conference is in December. For New Zealand, that means it is summer and you can expect temperatures around 14-28 degrees celsius. It is recommendable to pack a variety of different clothing as the weather tends to change suddenly. And bring good sunscreen!

English, next to Te Reo and NZ Sign Language is the official language, so you will have no problems communicating in everyday encounters. Have a chat!

New Zealand uses three prong angled power sockets at 230/240 volts, so bring adapters if you need them.

You can use all major credit cards if you want to pay for something. Taxes are included in the prices that are on display, so there is no need to do any calculations. Want to know more? Have a look at our pages about the venue, possible activities, and if you want to know what you need to bring with regard to documents we got you covered at our travel page as well.

And in case you want to have a sneak peak of what to expect when visiting New Zealand, check out this video:

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University of Canterbury AI Conference

UPDATE: The UC AI conference has been merged with the New Zealand AI conference and will now take place in November 2022.

The HAI2022 conference is organized in collaboration with the University of Canterbury’s AI Conference that will take place on 9 December 2022. Please consider attending/contributing to the UC AI conference right after the HAI2022 conference.

UC AI is a newly-formed transdisciplinary cluster for artificial intelligence research. UC AI encompasses researchers from UC’s departments and schools of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Mathematics and Statistics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Psychology, Education, the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the New Zealand Human Interface Technology Laboratory. UC AI’s Conference also provides an opportunity to celebrate Ada Lovelace’s birthday in December. Nearly 200 years ago, Lovelace and Charles Babbage wrote the first programs for a universal digital computer.