program

Nov. 10th workshop day

Evening: welcome reception

Nov. 11th morning

Keynote 1: Yoichiro Miyake, Human Agent Interaction in Digital Games

Session 1 – Social Influence & Emotional Dynamics in HAI (4 papers)

When AI Gets Persuaded, Humans Follow: Inducing the Conformity Effect in Persuasive Dialogue — Rikuo Sasaki, Michimasa Inaba
The Role of a Critical Tongue Dialogue Strategy in Stimulating Emotion Regulation: An Interaction Model and Video-Based Study — Keisuke Magara, Tomoki Miyamoto, Akira Utsumi
Emotional Coregulation in Close Relationships with AI Agents: A Survey of ChatGPT and Replika Users — Ethel Pruss, Maryam Alimardani, Sascha Struijs, Sander L. Koole
“Why Always Me?” Rumination and Self-Blame Are Stronger After Human Than Algorithmic Rejection in Job Applications — Clarissa Sabrina Arlinghaus, Catharina J. Schedler, Günter W. Maier

Nov. 11th afternoon

Session 2 – Personality, Identity & Anthropomorphism (4 papers)

Robots with Attitudes: Influence of LLM-Driven Robot Personalities on Motivation and Performance — Dennis Becker, Kyra Ahrens, Connor Gäde, Erik Strahl, Stefan Wermter
Speaking or Writing? Do Response Times Influence Anthropomorphism Differently for ADHD and Neurotypical Users in a Mental Health Chatbot? — Linus Holmberg, Maria Riveiro, Sverker Sikstrom
Concept Acceptance and Attitude Change of Fluffy Robot for Elderly People — Mari Saito, Junko Yamaguchi, qiu li
One Robot, Many Minds: Factors Shaping Visitors’ Evaluation of an Autonomous Museum Robot Guide — Luca Garello, Francesca Cocchella, Manuel Catalano, Alessandra Sciutti, Rea Francesco

Poster session 1

Session 3 – Health, Wellbeing & Assistive Agents (4 papers)

The Impact of Health Literacy in a Virtual Agent Intervention Addressing Barriers to Cancer Clinical Trial Participation — Rashi Ghosh, Christopher You, Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Benjamin Lok
Acupressure Robot Synchronized with User Respiratory Phase for Mood Enhancement — Tomoko Yonezawa, Kuya Moriyama, Ryosuke Fujii, Yuto Nishiguchi
The Double-Edged Sword: Exploring Older Adults’ Interaction and Imagination with an LLM-Enhanced Health Agent — Leon Munz, Caterina Neef, Ivonne Preusser, Anja Richert
RIMER: A Shoulder-Mounted Remote Dialogue Facilitation Robot for Situated Reminiscence Therapy — Ryunosuke Ito, Yosuke Fukuchi, Takuho Matsumuro, Kenshin Nakanishi, Michita Imai

Nov. 12th morning

Keynote 2: Henny Admoni,

Session 4 – Embodiment, Multimodality & Situated Interaction (4 papers)

TailCue: Exploring Animal-inspired Robotic Tail for Automated Vehicles Interaction — Yuan Li, Xinyue Gui, Ding Xia, Mark Colley, Takeo Igarashi
Hybrid Robot Integrating Physical and Virtual Body Parts: Effects of Head and Arm Modalities on Social Presence — Ikkaku Kawaguchi, Keiichi Ihara, Ayumi Ichikawa, Aoi Sakata, Yusuke Ashizawa, Shintaro Mori, Miki Hasegawa, Kosuke Fujikawa
Exploring the Role of Co-Speech Gestures: An In-the-Wild Study with a Virtual Agent in a Museum — Oliver Chojnowski, Ana Kirschbaum, Caterina Neef, Sabina Jeschke, Anja Richert
It’s LeviOsa, Not LevioSA: How Intentional Robot Mistakes Can Impact Children’s Reading Skills — Hunter Ceranic, Divya Patel, Julia Rosén, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch

Welcome party

Nov. 12th afternoon

Session 5 – Multi-Agent Systems, Reasoning & Orchestration (4 papers)

Towards Co-Constructed Explanations: A Multi-Agent Reasoning-Based Conversational System for Adaptive Explanations — Dimitry Mindlin, Meisam Booshehri, Philipp Cimiano
From Conversation to Orchestration: HCI Challenges and Opportunities in Interactive Multi-Agentic Systems — Sarah Schömbs, Yan Zhang, Jorge Goncalves, Wafa Johal
Exploring Creative Human-Agent Discussion via Assigned Perspectives — Arisa Naka, Mamoru Yoshizoe, Hiromitsu Hattori
LLM-based Agentic Workflow on Verbal and Non-verbal Audiovisual Perceptions and Actions for Proactive Situated Human-Robot Interactions — Virgile Sucal, Maxime Jullien, Ahmed Njifenjou, Fabrice Lefèvre

Poster session 2

Session 6 – Trust, Fairness & Ethical Decision-Making (4 papers)

AI Resource Allocation: On the Contribution of Distributive and Procedural Fairness — Christopher Esch, Deborah Werner, Mascha Gross, Elisabeth Kals, Christina U. Pfeuffer
Trustworthy Conflict Resolution in Human-Robot Interactions — Antonia Welzel, Rebekka Wohlrab, Mohammad Obaid
Designing in the Mist: Investigating How a Mist-augmented Virtual Reality Space Agent Can Promote Creativity as A Socially Interactive Design Partner — Yixiao Wang, Jiaze Yu, Tim Purdy
Influence of agent’s strategy on individual’s cognition and decision making: Experimental investigation using ultimatum game — Kishin Oasa, Shigen Shimojo, Yugo Hayashi

Banquet 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at Shinyokohama prince hotel

Nov. 13th morning

Keynote 3, Judith Mastoff, Personalizing Human-AI Interaction

Session 7 – Learning, Memory & Adaptation in Agents (4 papers)

Human-Like Remembering and Forgetting in LLM Agents: An ACT-R-Inspired Memory Architecture — Yudai Honda, yuki fujita, Keiichi Zempo, Shogo Fukushima
Real-Time Adaptive Visual Backgrounds for Human and Agent Interaction — Hibiki Harano, Hirotaka Osawa
Impact of Personality on Generation of Co-speech Nonverbal Behaviors Represented by 3D Skeleton Pose — Ryo Ishii, Shin-ichiro Eitoku, Yoshihide Sato
Lost in the Story: The Impact of Narrative with a Direction-Giving Robot — Bruce Wilson, Mei Yii Lim, Helen Hastie, Matthew Aylett

Nov. 13th afternoon

Session 8 – Humour, Creativity & Playful Interaction (4 papers)

Fart gags and prudish machines: Laughter in human-agent interactions — Vanessa Vanzan de Oliveira, Talha Bedir, Vladislav Maraev, Erik Lagerstedt, Mathias Barthel, Christine Howes
Exploring Interactions with Companion Virtual Agents — Rodrigo Calvo, Heting Wang, Alexander Barquero, Xuanpu Zhang, Rohith Venkatakrishnan, Jaime Ruiz
Exploring Color-Based Emotion Visualization for the Design of Affective Agents: A Pilot Study in a Special Needs School — SunKyoung Kim, Jaeryoung Lee, Yuichi Iwai
Smarter Waiting: Understanding and Enhancing Children’s Queue Experience in Digital Chats with AI-Powered Storytelling — Rahil (Somayeh) Jafaritazehjani, Vilma Christensen, Arzu Guneysu

Session 9 – Meta-Research & Methodological Advances (5 papers)

A Bibliometric Analysis of Human-Robot Interaction Behaviour Research — Yichen Lian, Zachary McKendrick, Ori Fartook, Ehud Sharlin
Multimodal Classification of Co-speech Gesture Pragmatical function in Storytelling — Zhang Jinqian, Sixia Li, Candy Olivia Mawalim, Shogo Okada
Linguistic Anthropomorphism in Chatbots: Effects of Style, Topic, and Interaction on Users’ Perceptions and Behaviors — Charlotte Stinkeste, Gabriel Skantze
The Architecture of Trust: A Three-Layered Mathematical Model for Human-Robot Collaboration — Abdullah ALZAHRANI, Muneeb Ahmad
Effect of Number of Teachable Agents in Learning-by-Teaching on Learners’ Motivation — Kazuma Ichikawa, Hirotaka Osawa

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