Full Program

Monday, 4th
Tuesday, 5th
Wednesday, 6th
Thursday, 7th
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
Conference registration opens at 08:30.
Location: Svea, Lindholmen Campus
Address: Forskningsgången 4
09:00 – 17:00
Workshops
Location: All workshops will held in the Svea building, Lindholmen Campus. Please check your workshop info for the specific location.
AI for People and with People

Time: Half Day Morning

Location:
This workshop will be held online: Link.
We will also broadcast this workshop in Svea, Room 121, for participants that would like to attend in person.

Organizer: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

Interdisciplinary Approaches in Human-Agent Interaction

Time: Half Day Afternoon

Location: Svea, Room 228

Online Meeting Link: Link

Organizers: Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Laetitia Tanqueray, Samantha Stedtler, Dr. Katie Seaborn

Cars As Social Agents (CArSA): A Perspective Shift in Human–Vehicle Interaction

Time: Half Day Afternoon

Location: Svea, Room 221

Online Meeting Link: Link

Organizers: Franziska Babel, Philipp Hock, Sam Thellman, Tom Ziemke

MULTITTRUST: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human-AI Team Trust

Time: Full Day

Location: Svea, Room 215

Organizers: Nicolo’ Brandizzi, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Roberto Cipollone, Francesco Frattolillo, Prof. Luca Iocchi, Dr. Anna-Sophie Ulfert

The Importance of Human-Factors for Trusted Human-Robot Collaborations

Time: Full Day

Location: Svea, Room 240

Organizers: Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Ilaria Torre, Maximilian Diehl, Emmanuel Dean

Why is my Agent so Slow? Deploying Human-Like Conversational Turn-Taking

Time: Full Day

Location: Svea, Room 241

Organizers: Dr. Matthew Peter Aylett, Eva Szekely, Donald McMillan, Professor Gabriel Skantze, Dr. Marta Romeo, Joel E Fischer, Gisela Reyes-Cruz

08:00 – 08:45
Registration
Conference registration opens at 08:00
08:45 – 09:00
Conference Opening
Welcoming Note from the General Chairs and Program Chairs
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center
09:00 – 10:00
Keynote 1 with Tony Belpaeme: Is the Autonomous Social Robot within Reach?
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center
Is the Autonomous Social Robot within Reach?

Speaker: Tony Belpaeme
Professor at Ghent University, Belgium
Visiting Professor of Cognitive Systems and Robotics at Plymouth University, The UK

10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:40
Session 1: Conversation & Interaction
Session chair: Matthew Aylett, Heriot-Watt University
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center

Co-Designing with a Social Robot Facilitator: Effects of Robot Mood Expression on Human Group Dynamics
Authors: Alwin de Rooij, Simone van den Broek, Michelle Bouw, and Jan de Wit

Investigating the Intervention in Parallel Conversations
Authors: Shota Mochizuki, Sanae Yamashita, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Reiko Yuasa, Tomonori Kubota, Kohei Ogawa, Jun Baba, and Ryuichiro Higashinaka

Identifying the Focus of Attention in Human-Robot Conversational Groups
Authors: Hooman Hedayati, Annika Muehlbradt, James Kennedy, and Daniel Szafir

11:40 – 12:50
Lunch
13:00 – 14:10
Session 2: Empirical Research in Human-Robot Interaction
Session chair: Sofia Serholt, University of Gothenburg
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center

Designing Evaluation Metrics for Quality of Human-Robot Interaction in Guiding Human Behavior
Authors: Yoshiaki Mizuchi, Yusuke Tanno, and Tetsunari Inamura

That’s not a Good Idea: A Robot Changes Your Behavior Against Social Engineering
Authors: Dario Pasquali, Austin Kothig, Alexander Mois Aroyo, John Edison Muñoz Cadorna, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Stefano Bencetti, Rea Francesco, and Alessandra Sciutti

14:10 – 15:50
Poster Session 1 with Coffee
Location: Foyer, Wallenberg Conference Center

Influence of Stereotypic Humanoid Agents on Robotic Touches in Virtual Reality
Authors: Manuel Mayer, Taishi Sawabe, Masayuki Kanbara, and Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Hirokazu Kato

Native Czech Speakers Consider English-speaking Robots More Intelligent
Authors: Barbara Wzietek, Gabriela Sejnova, Paul Gajewski, Michal Vavrecka, and Bipin Indurkhya

A Comparative Study of Physical and Virtual Reality Prototyping of a Migrating Agent Interface
Authors: Emma Mainza Chilufya, Mattias Arvola, and Tom Ziemke

How do Humans take an Object from a Robot: Behavior Changes Observed in a User Study
Authors: Parag Khanna, Elmira Yadollahi, Iolanda Leite, Mårten Björkman, and Christian Smith

A Structured Prompting based on Belief-Desire-Intention Model for Proactive and Explainable Task Planning
Authors: Minsu Jang, Youngwoo Yoon, Jaewoo Choi, Hyobin Ong, and Jaehong Kim

Human-like “agents” or “tools”?: Exploring the implicature-of-quantity in HAI
Authors: Chisato Nishihata, Harumi Kobayashi, and Tetsuya Yasuda

From Self to Avatar as Likeness: Legal Barriers and Opportunities
Authors: Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl and Stefanie Meyer

Teacher’s Perception on Social Robots to Promote the Integration of Children with Migration Background
Authors: Daniel C. Tozadore, Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, and Sanna Kuoppamäki

Enhancing Explainability in AI: Food Recommender System Use Case
Authors: Melissa Tessa, Sarah Abchiche, Yves Claude Ferstler, Igor Tchappi, Karima Benatchba, and Amro Najjar

External Presence in Online Communication and the Impact of Introducing Proxy Agents
Authors: Hayato Kishi, Kenta Hashiura, Keigo Inukai, and Keita Watanabe

Investigation for Comfortable Robot Interaction Design of “Gentle Stroke with Speech”
Authors: Taishi Sawabe, Shotaro Yamauchi, Masayuki Kanbara, Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Hirokazu Kato

Towards a Food Recommender Systems Considering the African Context
Authors: Ephraim Pagou Sinyabe, Vivient Corneille Kamla, Igor Tchappi, Amer Marzouk, and Amro Najjar

Enhancing Training and Learning in Virtual Reality: The Influence of Alien Motion on Sense of Embodiment
Authors: Vittorio Fiscale, Tetsunari Inamura, and Agata Marta Soccini

Towards Explainable Recommender Systems for Illiterate Users
Authors: Igor Tchappi, Joris Hulstijn, Ephraim Sinyabe Pagou, Sukriti Bhattacharya, and Amro Najjar

BlueData: AI Assisted Primary Data Collection System for Conflict Zones
Authors: Amer Marzouk, Basel Al-Sayed Hasso, Igor Tchappi, Bassam Al-Kuwatli, and Amro Najjar

15:50 – 17:00
Session 3: Robotic Design
Session chair: Elmira Yadollahi, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center

It Patted my Arm: Investigating Social Touch from a Virtual Agent
Authors
: Fabien Boucaud, Catherine Pelachaud, and Indira Thouvenin

A survey of Attributions and Preferences Regarding Higher-order Mental States in Artificial Agents
Authors: Sam Thellman, Olle Ageskär, Ida Allander, Markus Degerstedt, Olof Hyland, Philip Nguyen, Hilda Nääs, Nils Wickman, and Tom Ziemke

17:00 – 18:00
Lucia Traditional Celebration
Lucia procession visits the conference venue with glögg and traditional sweets
Location: Foyer, Wallenberg Conference Center
Lucia procession visits the conference venue with glögg and traditional sweets.
Location: Foyer, Wallenberg Conference Center
08:00 – 9:00
Registration
Conference registration opens at 08:00
09:00 – 10:00
Keynote 2 with Elisabeth André: Social Signals as a Facilitator of Human-Robot Interaction
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center
Social Signals as a Facilitator of Human-Robot Interaction

Speaker: Elisabeth André
Full Professor at the University of Augsburg, Germany

10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:40
Session 4: Privacy Perception of Robots
Session chair: Loïs Vanhée, Umeå University
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center

Co-Learning around Social Robots with School Pupils and University-Students Focus on Data Privacy Considerations
Authors: Aino Ahtinen, Aparajita Chowdhury, Valentina Ramírez Millan, Chia-Hsin Wu, and Gayathri Menon

Effect of Robot Notification on Acquiring Permission to Use Personal Information
Authors: Kazuki Sakai, Seiya Mitsuno, Midori Ban, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Fumio Shimpo, Shinichiro Harata, and Hiroshi Ishiguro

Understanding Privacy-friendly Design of Robot Eyes
Authors: Maino Shinohara, Daisuke Sakamoto, Tetsuo Ono, and James Everett Young

11:40 – 11:50
Sponsor Presentation: MERPHI
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center
MERPHI: Human-Robot Interaction Design in Real Life Applications
Speaker: Mehrdad Farimani
11:50 – 11:55
Group Photo at the Auditorium
11:55 – 12:50
Lunch
13:00 – 14:10
Session 5: Education/Learning Applications
Session chair: Sakai Kazuki, Osaka University
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center

User Interface Interventions for Improving Robot Learning from Demonstration
Authors: Ornnalin Phaijit, Claude Sammut, and Wafa Johal

Learning Spatial Reasoning in Virtual vs. Physical Games with Robots
Authors: Elmira Yadollahi, Miguel Alexandre Monteiro, and Ana Paiva

14:10 – 15:40
Poster Session 2 with Coffee
Location: Foyer, Wallenberg Conference Center

Investigating the Role of Robot Voices and Sounds in Shaping Perceived Intentions
Authors: Ayesha Kajol Rafi, Akshata Murdeshwar, Adrian Benigno Latupeirissa, and Roberto Bresin

Championing Design Knowledge in Human-Drone Interaction Research
Authors: Mafalda Gamboa, Sara Ljungblad, Wafa Johal, Omar Mubin, and Mohammad Obaid

From Pain to Design Recommendations for Assistive Robotics
Authors: Natalia Walczak, Martina De Cet, Andrzej Romanowski, and Mohammad Obaid

Examining the Role of Genuine Emotions for Trustworthy AI
Authors: Tim Wibiral and Glenda Hannibal

Verification of Factors Involved in Attributing Subjective Opinions to a Conversational Android
Authors: Yuki Sakamoto, Takahisa Uchida, Midori Ban, and Hiroshi Ishiguro

Exploring User Acceptance of Minimally Designed Driving Agents: An Online Video Experiment
Authors: Nihan Karatas, Takahiro Tanaka, Yuki Yoshihara, Hiroko Tanabe, Motoshi Kojima, Masato Endo, and Shuhei Manabe

“You’ve Got a Friend in Me”: A Formal Understanding of the Critical Friend Agent
Authors: Joel Wester, Andreas Brännström, Juan Carlos Nieves, and Niels van Berkel

A Critical Analysis of the Visual Notation for Team Design Patterns
Authors: Christian Fleiner, Goran Zvekan, and Tomas Hatas

Behavioural Observations as Objective Measures of Trust in Child-Robot Interaction: Mutual Gaze
Authors: Anastasia Akkuzu, Natalia Calvo-Barajas, and Ginevra Castellano

Reinforcement Learning for Sustainable Mobility: Modeling Pedalcoin, a Gamified Biking Application
Authors: Sukriti Bhattacharya, Oussema Gharsallaoui, Igor Tchappi, and Amro Najjar

Leveraging Large Language Models for Goal-driven Interactive Recommendations
Authors: Alan Said, Martijn C. Willemsen, Leandro Balby Marinho, and Itallo Silva

Cyclists’ Perception of Automated Shuttle Buses in Shared Spaces
Authors: Franziska Babel, Sam Thellman, and Tom Ziemke

Towards Investigating Gaze and Laughter Coordination in Socially Interactive Agents
Authors: Vladislav Maraev, Chiara Mazzocconi, Christine Howes, and Catherine Pelachaud

Presenting Data with Social Robots: An Exploration into Conveying Data Videos using an Artificial Physical Narrator
Authors: Anuradha Herath, Samar Sallam, Tanvi Vuradi, Yumiko Sakamoto, Randy Gomez, and Pourang Irani

Expanding the Senses: Considering the Use of Active Smell Delivery for Human-Robot Interactions
Authors: Harufumi Nakashima, Drazen Brscic, and Takayuki Kanda

Study on Virtual Agents that Encourage You via Networks
Authors: Manabu Okamoto, Haruka Miura, and Shin-Nosuke Yamada

Leveraging Interactional Sociology for Trust Analysis in Multiparty Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Marc Hulcelle, Léo Hemamou, Giovanna Varni, Nicolas Rollet, and Chloé Clavel

15:40 – 17:10
Session 6: Healthcare Applications
Session chair: Emilia Barakova, Eindhoven University of Technology
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center

Co-Design of a Robotic Mental Well-being Coach to Help University Students Manage Public Speaking Anxiety
Authors: Samira Rasouli, Linda Johnston, Jennifer Yuen, Moojan Ghafurian, Leah Foster, and Kerstin Dautenhahn

Motivating Online Game Intervention to Enhance Practice Engagement in Children with Functional Articulation Disorder
Authors: Naixin Liu, Emilia I. Barakova, Feiran Zhang, Ting Han, and Jincai Feng

18:30 (sharp)
Social Event and Dinner*
Location: Universeum
*Note: This event is at a different location. The doors will open from 18.30. Please try to be there at 18.30 sharp.
How to get there.
08:00 – 9:00
Registration
Conference registration opens at 08:00
09:00 – 09:10
TAIGA
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center
Introduction and invitation to connect to TAIGA, Umeå’s center for transdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence.
Speaker: Loïs Vanhée
09:10 – 10:20
Session 7: Companionship
Session chair: Arzu Güneysu, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center

Towards Intelligent Companion Systems in General Aviation using Hierarchical Plan and Goal Recognition
Authors: Prakash Jamakatel, Pascal Bercher, Axel Schulte, and Jane Jean Kiam

Robot to Play Video Games Together
Authors: Shogo Kanda, Masayuki Kanbara, Taishi Sawabe, Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Hirokazu Kato

Let’s Face It: Investigating User Preferences for Virtual Humanoid Home Assistants
Authors: Nima Zargham, Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Thomas Mildner, and Robert Porzel, and Rainer Malaka

Hospitable Guide Robot: Demonstrating the Impact of Vertical Oscillation and Looking Back Motion
Authors: Masaya Iwasaki, Zihao Chi, Kazuki Masuda, Alexis Meneses, Kazuki Sakai, Megumi Kawata, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Yuichiro Yoshikawa

10:20 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:55
Session 8: Trust & Empathy in Human-Agent Interaction
Session chair: Sam Cox, National University of Singapore
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center

Empathy-Based communication Framework for Chatbots: A Mental Health Chatbot Application and Evaluation
Authors: Shuya Lin, Lingfeng Lin, Cuiqin Hou, Baijun Chen, Jianfeng Li, and Shiguang Ni

Comparing a Mentalist and an Interactionist Approach for Trust Analysis in Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Marc Hulcelle, Giovanna Varni, Nicolas Rollet, Chloe Clavel

Modelling Human Trust in Robots During Repeated Interactions
Authors: Muneeb Ahmad, Abdullah Alzahrani, Simon Robinson, and Alma Rahat

11:55 – 12:50
Lunch
13:00 – 14:00
Inclusion & Diversity Session
Session chair: Hanan Salam
Location: Foyer, Wallenberg Conference Center
More Information: Link to D&I Page
14:00 – 15:10
Session 9: Explainability & Dialogue
Session chair: Christine Howes, University of Gothenburg
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center

Investigating the Effects of Dialogue Summarization on Intervention in Human-System Collaborative Dialogue
Authors: Sanae Yamashita, Shota Mochizuki, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Tomonori Kubota, Kohei Ogawa, Jun Baba, and Ryuichiro Higashinaka

15:10 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:40
Session 10: Behavioural Design/Multimodal Expressions
Session chair: Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center

How Should a Social Robot Deliver Negative Feedback Without Creating Distance between the Robot and Users?
Authors: Yumiko Sakamoto, Anuradha Herath, Tanvi Vuradi, Samar Sallam, Randy Gomez, and Pourang Irani

Analysis of Behaviors that Promote New Participation Based on Body Torque of Others in Robot-Human Interactions
Authors: Karebu Takagi, Takafumi Sakamoto, Jun Ichikawa, and Yugo Takeuchi

16:40 – 17:00
Closing and Award Ceremony
Session chair: TBD
Location: Auditorium, Wallenberg Conference Center