Awards

Best Paper Award

Sensing the partner: toward effective robot tutoring in motor skill learning, by Giulia Belgiovine, Francesco Rea, Pablo Barros, Jacopo Zenzeri, Alessandra Sciutti

Best Paper Runner up Award

Social Sharing of Emotions with Robots and the Influence of a Robot’s Nonverbal Behavior on Human Emotions, by Reina Shimizu, Hiroyuki Umemuro

Best Student Paper Award

Explainable Agency by Revealing Suboptimality in Child-Robot Learning Scenarios, by Silvia Tulli, Marta Couto, Miguel Vasco, Elmira Yadollahi, Francisco Melo, Ana Paiva

Paper Award Finalists
  • Explainable Agency by Revealing Suboptimality in Child-Robot Learning Scenarios, by Silvia Tulli, Marta Couto, Miguel Vasco, Elmira Yadollahi, Francisco Melo, Ana Paiva
  • Using Robot Adaptivity to Support Learning in Child-Robot Interaction, by Alessia Vignolo, Alessandra Sciutti, John Michael
  • Sensing the partner: toward effective robot tutoring in motor skill learning, by Giulia Belgiovine, Francesco Rea, Pablo Barros, Jacopo Zenzeri, Alessandra Sciutti
  • Adapting Usability Metrics for a Socially Assistive, Kinesthetic, Mixed Reality Robot Tutoring Environment, by Kartik Mahajan, Thomas Groechel, Roxanna Pakkar, Julia Cordero, Haemin Lee, Maja Mataric
  • Social Sharing of Emotions with Robots and the Influence of a Robot’s Nonverbal Behavior on Human Emotions, by Reina Shimizu, Hiroyuki Umemuro

Robot Design Competition

Innovation in Software and Interaction modalities for Social Robots and HRI
Winner

UX-HRI: A multimodal and multilingual robot for stressed hospital visitors by Josephine Chow, Sarita Herse, Benjamin Johnston, David Kelly, Meg Tonkin, Jonathan Vitale, Mary-Anne Williams

Runner-up

Sign Language and Emotion Understanding by Emily Zou, Richard Ng

Innovation in Hardware, design and interfaces for Social Robots and HRI
Winner

Reachy, the open source interactive humanoid robot for services and assistance by Matthieu Lapeyre, Pierre Rouanet, Augustin Crampette

Runner-up

A Casual Conversation with a Robot by David Hinwood, Neelu Gurung, Christian Kroos, Damith Herath

Innovation as potential responses to Covid 19 global pandemic
Winner

WallBo – The Handwashing Robot Buddy by Amol Deshmukh

Runner-up

Facilitating Accessible Play for Children with Physical Special Needs through MyJay by Hamza Mahdi, Shahed Saleh, Omar Shariff, and Kerstin Dautenhahn

Finalists
  • Facilitating Accessible Play for Children with Physical Special Needs through MyJay
    by Hamza Mahdi, Shahed Saleh, Omar Shariff, and Kerstin Dautenhahn
  • Reachy, the open source interactive humanoid robot for services and assistance
    by Matthieu Lapeyre, Pierre Rouanet, Augustin Crampette
  • Jean Joseph ZERO: Improving Social Emotional Bonding in COVID-19 by Direct Brain-to-Brain NeuroTouch Wearable Robotics Empowered by Generative Adversarial Network
    by Ker-Jiun Wang, Caroline Yan Zheng, Mohammad Shidujaman
  • UX-HRI: A multimodal and multilingual robot for stressed hospital visitors
    by Josephine Chow, Sarita Herse, Benjamin Johnston, David Kelly, Meg Tonkin, Jonathan Vitale, Mary-Anne Williams
  • Robot Receptionist by Kazuki Saegusa, Rishab Goswami
  • Sign Language and Emotion Understanding by Emily Zou, Richard Ng
  • WallBo – The Handwashing Robot Buddy by Amol Deshmukh
  • A Casual Conversation with a Robot by David Hinwood, Neelu Gurung, Christian Kroos, Damith Herath
  • TUTUS: Track Utilizing Transport for User Safety by Daniel Shin, Joey Sehan Back, Tony Lee, Peter Cheong