HRI 2010 - 2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

Grand Technical and Social Challenges in HRI
Robots are becoming part of people’s everyday social
lives?and will increasingly become so. In future years,
robots may become caretaking assistants for the elderly, or
academic tutors for our children, or medical assistants, day
care assistants, or psychological counsellors. Robots may
become our co-workers in factories and oces, or maids in
our homes. They may become our friends. As we move to
create our future with robots, hard problems in human-robot
interaction (HRI) exist, both technically and socially. The Fifth
Annual Conference on HRI seeks to take up grand technical
and social challenges in the eld?and speak to their
integration. HRI is a single-track, highly selective annual
conference that seeks to showcase the very best research in
human-robot interaction with roots in robotics, psychology,
cognitive science, HCI, human factors, articial intelligence,
organizational behavior, anthropology, and many other elds.
We invite broad participation.
Conference site: Business Innovation Center Osaka
The site is located in the center of Osaka, which is easy to
access from Kansai International Airport and JR Kyoto
station. Osaka has a convenient transportation network
allowing us to access many historical institutions such as
Osaka Castle and Shitennoji Temple.