Organization
This workshop will be part of the IEEE-ROMAN 2026 conference.
It will be a half-day hybrid workshop, and the provisional program includes 4 keynote talks and 4 paper presentations as detailed below:
• 15:00 - 15:05 Welcome and introduction to the workshop
• 15:05 - 15:35 Keynote talk 1
• 15:35 - 16:05 Keynote talk 2
• 16:05 - 16:20 Paper presentation 1
• 16:20 - 16:35 Paper presentation 2
• 16:35 - 17:00 Coffee Break
• 17:00 - 17:30 Keynote talk 3
• 17:30 - 18:00 Keynote talk 4
• 18:00 - 18:15 Paper presentation 3
• 18:15 - 18:30 Paper presentation 4
• 18:30 - 18:40 Concluding remarks
This workshop targets an audience interested in using physiological measures to evaluate and adapt the interaction between humans and robots. We welcome an interdisciplinary audience of roboticists, human factors specialists, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and those working in connected fields.
Important Dates
- Call for papers: April 2
- Submission deadline: May 31
- Notification of acceptance: June 19
- Camera-ready deadline: July 17
Call for Papers
We invite papers of 3-4 pages (additional pages for references), including work in progress containing preliminary results, technical reports, case studies, surveys, opinion, and state-of the-art research. Papers will be reviewed for their relevance, novelty, and scientific and technical soundness. The submissions will be asked to follow the guidelines established by IEEE ROMAN 2026. You can download a template file: LaTeX (http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php) or MS-Word, (http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php). Use these templates/style files to create the paper and save in PDF format. The selected papers will be published on the workshop website.
The four best papers will be selected for oral presentations.
Submission will be shortly possible HERE using the CMT platform.
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
List of Topics
The following list of topics is not exhaustive and proposed in no specific order:
• Neuroergonomics for Human-Robot Interaction
• Physiological computing
• Interaction metrics
• Cognitive and affective mental state detection
• Multimodal interaction metrics
• Social robotics
• Mental and physical health support
• Assistive technology
• Adaptive HRI
• Biomarkers
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Telepresence
• Trust assessment
• Fairness & Ethics for HRI metrics and data sharing
• LLM-based interaction
• Virtual agents and humanoid robots
Keynote Speakers
- Pr Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany
Elisabeth André is a full professor of Computer Science and the founding chair of Human-Centered Multimedia at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She is a leading expert in human-computer interaction, social robotics, and affective computing, with a strong focus on embodied conversational agents and social signal processing. A member of several prestigious academies (Bavarian Academy of Sciences, German National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech, and Leopoldina), she was also elected an ECCAI fellow for her outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence. Her research, which bridges technology and human sciences, aims to make human-machine interactions more natural and intuitive.
- Pr Ranjana Mehta, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Ranjana Mehta is a Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering. Her research examines the mind-motor-machine nexus using a novel neuroergonomics approach to understand, monitor, and predict human performance under fatigue and stress and when interacting with robots. With these predictions, research in her lab focuses on developing closed-loop human augmentation technologies (sensory, neural, physiological) for safety-critical applications (emergency response, space exploration, & oil and gas).
- Dr André Pereira, KTH, Sweden
André Pereira is a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). His work is focused on Human–Robot Interaction and socially embodied AI, including building conversational robots and modeling user states like engagement and enjoyment from multimodal signals such as neuroimaging. His recent projects explore multimodal machine learning for engagement/enjoyment detection, tabletop co-play, VR/telepresence, and robot-assisted learning.
- Pr Adriana Tapus, ENSTA Paris, France
Adriana TAPUS is Full Professor in the Autonomous Systems and Robotics Lab in the Computer Science and System Engineering Department (U2IS), at ENSTA (France). Her main interests are on long-term learning (i.e. in particular in interaction with humans), human modeling, and on-line robot behavior adaptation to external environmental factors.
Organizers
- Pr. R. N. Roy (ISAE-SUPAERO, Univ. Toulouse, FR)
- Dr A. Clodic (LAAS, CNRS, Toulouse, FR)
- Dr M. Alimardani (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
- Dr H. Sumioka (ATR, Kyoto, JP)
- Dr F. I. Dogan (Univ. Cambridge, UK)
- Pr K. Dautenhahn (Univ. Waterloo, CA)
- Pr H. Günes (Univ. Cambridge, UK).
Statement of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity
In order for this workshop to be the most inclusive, for participants who cannot travel for medical or financial reasons, remote attendance will be provided in addition to onsite one. Moreover, for participants who have unreliable internet access or a strong time-on-zone constraint, there will be a possibility to send a recorded presentation as back-up.
We are advocates for inclusion, and will encourage participants of all gender, age, ethnicity, social back-ground, religion and ability to participate. In this workshop, we will work to promote an anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels safe and welcome.
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