Longitudinal Social Impacts of HRI over Long-Term Deployments

HRI 2022 Workshop

March 7th, 2022

Virtual - 9:00 am - 7:00pm PST

Workshop Objective

This workshop seeks to grow the study of how real-world, deployed robot systems impact the people who interact with them and the social structure of the places that they inhabit. As the world sees robots begin to inhabit places designed for people - delivery robots on city streets, and robots with jobs in airports, shopping malls, and in the home - we expect the importance of understanding these impacts to grow. By bringing together researchers interested in longitudinal studies on real-world human-interactive long-term deployments, we hope to arrive at a clearer vision of how best to study these systems.

Workshop Audience

We invite technical and/or social science researchers whose work incorporates longitudinal studies, real-world deployments, long-term deployments, ethics and social impacts, and general human-robot interaction for a day of talks and discussions regarding objectives, metrics, hypotheses, and best practices.

Workshop Details

The event will contain multiple virtual sessions including invited talks, oral paper presentations, poster presentations, and panel discussions. After the day’s presentations, there will be hosted breakout discussions intended to aid in the formation of collaborations and the synthesis of ideas. In the evening there will be a virtual social event to form and deepen connections amongst this research community.

Paper Topics

Contributions are invited on all topics relevant to longitudinal social impacts of HRI over long-term deployments and topics that can help to inform this core idea, including (but not limited to):

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Longitudinal studies of HRI over real-world large-scale deployments -

Interdisciplinary approaches and long-term autonomy -

Methodological and technical challenges for longitudinal studies -

Social impacts of HRI over long-term deployments -

Social effects such as safety, privacy, and inclusion -

New opportunities for HRI and HR teaming -

Demonstrations of long-term deployments -

Hardware and devices for human-robot interaction -

New sensors, biological signals for longitudinal HRI

Social Science and Technical Review Tracks

While the event itself will be single track, all submissions will select at least one review track for their paper: either social science or technical. A submission may select both tracks if it appropriately represents the work. These tracks are to ensure the relevance of reviews, and submissions which are a blend of each are welcome. Each corresponding author will be asked to briefly review up to two other submissions per submitted papers, and to select at least one review track for which they’d be comfortable reviewing. Author reviews will be coordinated by a workshop program committee, which will request additional reviews as needed and generally ensure the formation of a compelling workshop program.

Submission types

Submission types for this workshop include:

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short work-in-progress and position papers (2-4 pages) -

long-format integration and experimental papers (4-6 pages).

All papers are to be considered for both oral presentations and posters, with final format to be indicated along with acceptance.

Key Dates

Early Submission Deadline January 17, 2022

Early Submission Notifications February 7, 2022

Late Submission Deadline February 14, 2022

Late Submission Notifications March 1, 2022

Workshop Website

https://sites.google.com/view/lsi-hri/home

Submission Site

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsihri22

Organizers

Justin Hart - h**t@cs.utexas.edu

Elliot Hauser - e***3@utexas.edu

Samuel Baker - s*****r@austin.utexas.edu

Joydeep Biswas - j******b@cs.utexas.edu

Junfeng Jiao - j***o@austin.utexas.edu

Luis Sentis - l*****s@utexas.edu