program

Each oral presentation is allocated 18 minutes including 3 minutes of Q&A.

Nov. 10th

8:00AM – 9:00AM

9:00AM – 6:00PM

  • Coffee Break (10:15AM – 10:45AM)
  • Coffee Break (3:00PM – 3:30PM)

Evening

  • Welcome reception

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Nov. 11th

8:00AM – 9:00AM

9:00AM – 9:15AM

  • Opening and Welcome

9:15AM – 10:15AM

10:15AM – 10:45AM

  • Coffee Break

10:45AM – 12:00PM

  • 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

12:00PM – 1:00PM

  • Lunch Break

1:00PM – 2:15PM

  • 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

2:15PM – 4:15PM

4:15PM – 5:30PM

  • 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

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Nov. 12th

8:00AM – 9:00AM

9:00AM – 10:00AM

10:00AM – 10:30AM

  • Coffee Break

10:30AM – 11:45PM

  • Session 4 – Embodiment, Multimodality & Situated Interaction
    • 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, YusukeAshizawa, 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

11:45AM – 12:45PM

  • Lunch Break

12:45PM – 2:00PM

  • Session 5 – Multi-Agent Systems, Reasoning & Orchestration
    • 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

2:00PM – 4:00PM

4:00PM – 5:15PM

  • 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 Interaction
      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

7:00PM – 9:00PM

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Nov. 13th

8:00AM – 9:00AM

9:00AM – 10:00AM

10:00AM – 10:30AM

  • Coffee Break

10:30AM – 11:45AM

  • Session 7 – Learning, Memory & Adaptation in Agents
    • 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

11:45AM – 12:45PM

  • Lunch Break

12:45PM – 2:00PM

  • Session 8 – Humour, Creativity & Playful Interaction
    • 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

2:00PM – 2:30PM

  • Coffee Break

2:30PM – 4:05PM

  • Session 9 – Meta-Research & Methodological Advances
    • 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

4:05PM – 4:35PM

  • Closing
  • Award Ceremony
  • Next HAI 2026 announcement

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Important Date

Registration Deadline:

  • Early-bird registration deadline: September 21, 2025 (23:59 AoE)
    (closed)
  • Final registration deadline: November 3, 2025 (23:59 AoE)
    * Banquet guarantee deadline: October 20, 2025 (23:59 AoE)
    (closed)

Conference Dates: November 10-13, 2025

Registration

Please visit the Registration Page for details on fees and how to register.

Call for Papers

The call for papers is now closed. Thank you to all who submitted their work!