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We are pleased to announce our recent issue, 14(1)...check out some amazing new papers! dl.acm.org/toc/thri/2025/…

Here's to another year of HRI research!

Happy New Year from THRI! We're happy to announce 2024 was another year of excellent publication of THRI. with a 70% increase in submission volume and achieving an Impact Factor of 4.2 from Clarivate Analytics. THRI was ranked in 2nd quartile in the category of Robotics (14/46)!

While generative AI is all the rage, deep learning can still (and will, likely) facilitate a lot of robot capability to work flexibly in the real world. This THRI paper surveys data-driven methods for generating robot communication behaviors dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Part of accessibility can be from difficulty understanding and conforming to social cues and standards. What if a teleoperation system could help people focus on communication, and leave some social standards to an autonomous system? dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Teleoperation is not just a pure control problem, but the task and context, such as social interaction, should be taken into account for these systems. This THRI paper builds politeness into its controls to reduce workload and improve social interactions dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Non-verbal sound is still a less explored area in HRI. This THRI paper maps out a design space for communicating state or task information with non-verbal sound and find that it could and should be leveraged in HRI dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

In one of our recent special issues, authors discuss the need for telepresence measurements not born from military research, and they adjust an existing spatial awareness questionnaire to social contexts dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

Happy new year from THRI! Over the holidays, we fully released our latest issue which includes our Special Issue on Sound in Human-Robot Interaction! Check them out here: dl.acm.org/toc/thri/2023/…

#d1e1689" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35… Teleoperators' actions are strongly linked to how they perceive and reason about their environment. This paper examines some of the mechanisms of this link, and has recommendations for cameras and haptics for future robot and interface designs.

Sometimes some introspection is good. This THRI article looks at hundreds of HRI papers and finds gender biases in our participant pools, raising questions about our results, but ends with suggestions, best practices, and future optimism. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

Teleoperated robots are in use to help some children attend school remotely, but how can the remote children engage in play with their peers? This paper explores self directed play behavior between in-person and remote children via teleoperation dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

This week in THRI, check out this paper on robot's that help children co-regulate an interaction for increased child agency and acceptance of the robot, helping the children have a more fulfilling interaction with the robot dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

If you would like an update, overview or new perspective on the work in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality HRI, a recent THRI paper creates a new taxonomy of the virtual design elements in VAM-HRI, and where challenges still lie. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

If you haven't seen the news, we are delighted to announce that ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction received its first Impact Factor in the latest Journal Citation Reports release from Clarivate Analytics. Its 2022 impact factor is 5.1!

Touch is integral to how we view, sense, perceive, explore, and understand the world. We need robust sensing of touch then, to help robot teleoperators. This paper explores several haptic modalities for operator input dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34…

Robot's embodiment in physical space enables them engage our brains in numerous ways. This THRI paper looks at in-depth opinions of robot-delivered games for cognitive stimulation dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34…

From our new issue: robots will need the intelligence to react and adapt to changes in their environment and not need painful reprogramming. This paper develops a data-driven approach using neural attention and approximate string matching dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34…

We are happy to announce our latest THRI issue, now out and available! It includes a thoughtful perspective piece on the future of social robots for rehabilitation dl.acm.org/toc/thri/2021/…

from our recent SI: there is still a lot of research needed in how we communicate spatially and through other actions. This paper investigates back-off behavior in robot movement trajectories to communicate intent to yield a space to other pedestrians dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34…