Dear Colleagues,

This is the second call for submissions for our workshop, "TRUST: Building Trust in Human-Robot Interaction." The workshop is the joint work of SCRITA and RTSS workshops.

The TRUST workshop will be held as a full-day event at ROMAN 2025 on August 29, 2025, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Please find below the call for paper! Do not hesitate to contact us for more info.

We look forward to seeing you in Eindhoven!

best regards

Alessandra

on behalf of the SCRITA and RTSS workshops organisers

Important dates

Paper Submission Deadline: 30 June 2025, Anywhere on Earth

Notification of Acceptance: 21 July 2025

Camera-ready submission: 08 August 2025, Anywhere on Earth

Workshop website: https://scrita.herts.ac.uk/2025/

Invited speakers

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Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark - Roy Lindelauf, Tilburg University - Philip Brey, University of Twente - Minoru Asada, Osaka University & International Professional University of Technology in Osaka, Japan.

Call for contributions and submission format

We invite authors to submit position papers and four-page papers:

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We invite authors to submit four pages long (excluding references), discussing novel works in the scope of the workshop. -

We invite authors to submit position papers, 2 to 4 pages long (excluding references), discussing their prior experience and new developments in the scope of the workshop to feed into the group and the following panel discussions.

We encourage the authors to present a video or demonstrate their works and achievements. All accepted papers will have short oral presentations.

Submission Guidelines

Authors should prepare papers formatted according to the IEEE two-column format http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php, which is also used for contributions to the main conference. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php or MS-Word http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php.

Please submit your paper(s) to: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=scritartss2025

Aim and scope

The TRUST workshop is the result of a collaboration between two established workshops in the field of Human-Robot Interaction: SCRITA (Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction) and RTSS (Robot Trust for Symbiotic Societies). This joint initiative brings together the complementary goals of these workshops to advance research on trust from both the human and robot perspectives.

The RTSS component addresses a critical challenge in the development of future human-robot symbiotic societies: enabling robots to form trustworthy interactions with both human and robotic partners. While trust from the human perspective has been extensively studied, RTSS emphasizes the need to explore how autonomous agents assess and establish trust in heterogeneous peers. It promotes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and designing mechanisms for robot trust, with the aim of advancing technological, social, and ethical aspects of symbiotic interaction.

On the other hand, SCRITA focuses on people’s trust and acceptance of robots in a wide range of social and collaborative contexts. Previous SCRITA workshops have highlighted progress in short-term and controlled interaction studies but also emphasized the need for robust, unambiguous metrics for evaluating human trust in more realistic and dynamic environments. SCRITA promotes cross-disciplinary dialogue to identify key factors affecting trust and to develop novel methodologies to measure and foster trust in long-term human-robot relationships.

The TRUST workshop thus provides a unique forum for synthesizing these perspectives, bringing together researchers from robotics, psychology, AI, and HRI to explore how trust can be modelled, measured, and maintained in complex, real-world interactions. It aims to generate novel insights and guidelines for designing trustworthy robotic systems capable of adapting to and thriving in diverse human environments.

Audience and topics: The workshop is open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user profiling. In particular, we aim to integrate expertise from roboticists with psychologists' and sociologists' insights and experiences to foster a multidisciplinary and human-focused discussion that can capture the multi-faceted nature of trust and acceptance.

We will foster the exchange of views on past and ongoing research and contribute to the discussion of innovative ideas for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and inspirational directions for research.

Organizers

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Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy -

Patrick Holthaus, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) -

Gabriella Lakatos, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) -

Sílvia Moros, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) -

Ali Fallahi, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) -

Murat Kirtay, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands -

Marie Postma, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands -

Erhan Oztop, Osaka University Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center (SISReC), Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka, Japan; Ozyegin University, Computer Science Department, Istanbul, Turkey