The second international conference on Human-Robot Interaction.(Reports)(Conference news)
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07
Publication Title: AI Magazine
Format: Online
Author: Schultz, Alan C. ; Breazeal, Cynthia ; Fong, Terry ; Kiesler, Sara

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The second international conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2007) was held March 9-11, 2007, in Arlington, Virginia. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) through SIGCHI and SIGART, and by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The conference was organized in cooperation with AAAI and with the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

The field of HRI has grown dramatically in recent years. Spurred by advances in robotics technologies and communications, many researchers are studying how to use these advances to solve critical challenges in socially relevant problems. These efforts are inherently interdisciplinary, requiring input from engineering, computer science, psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, and human factors.

HRI-2007 was the second step toward becoming a premier interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of research results on leading-edge issues of human-robot interaction and collaboration. The three goals of the conference series are to promote...



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