Social RoboticsMIT Personal Robots group wins best paper at HRI 2024
A paper on robots adapting their roles to keep groups engaged over time won the Theory and Methods award in Boulder.
The 19th ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction conference took place in Boulder, Colorado, with in-person and virtual attendance. Huili Chen, Sharifa Alghowinem, Hae Won Park and Cynthia Breazeal of the MIT Media Lab received the Best Paper award in the Theory and Methods category. Their paper proposes a conceptual model in which a robot changes its role over time to support a state of flow in long-term interactions with several people. Group and long-term interaction remain central open problems for social robots used in homes, schools and care settings.
Source: MIT Media Lab
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