HRI 2017 is the 12th Annual Conference for basic and applied human-robot
interaction research. Researchers from across the world attend and submit
their best work to HRI to exchange ideas about the latest theories, technology,
data, and videos furthering the state-of-the-art in human-robot interaction.
Each year, the HRI Conference highlights a particular area through a theme.

The theme of HRI 2017 is “Smart Interaction,” following Vienna’s “Smart City”
initiative. The conference seeks contributions from a broad set of
perspectives, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and
theoretical, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods
in human-robot interaction. We particularly invite papers on work that
“enables” human-robot interaction through new technical advances, novel
robot designs, new guidelines for design, and advanced methods for
understanding and evaluating interaction.

The HRI Conference is a highly selective annual international conference that
aims to showcase the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
research in human-robot interaction with roots in and broad participation
from communities that include but not limited to robotics, human-computer
interaction, human factors, artificial intelligence, engineering, and social and
behavioral sciences.