The Third International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2008) with robots," highlights the importance It also featured Foundation, and the European a panel on "robo-ethics" intended Network for the Advancement of Artificial to start a discussion of the ethical Cognitive Systems (EU Cognition) and societal implications of provided grants. More than 250 autonomous robots and a panel on representatives from academia, government, "what is HRI?" that examined the constitutive and industry attended HRI-components of human-robot 2008. HRI is the premier forum for the Of the 134 submissions, the program presentation and discussion of committee accepted 48 full research results in human-robot interaction. Human-robot interaction 27 submissions) were featured in a special is inherently interdisciplinary session. The workshops artificial intelligence, cognitive science, addressed metrics (an examination of ergonomics, human-computer proposed guidelines for evaluating interaction, psychology, robotics, and HRI), coding behavioral video data other fields. From 1997 to 2000, he was vice president of development for Fourth Planet, Inc., a developer of real-time visualization software. Fong has published more than 50 papers in field robotics, human-robot interaction, virtual reality user interfaces, and parallel processing, was chair of the 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium on human-robot interaction in space, and is cogeneral chair for HRI-2008. Kerstin Dautenhahn is the research professor of artificial intelligence in the School of Computer Science and coordinator of the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. Save the Date! -- July 11-15, 2010 AAAI comes to Atlanta, Georgia in 2010! Please mark your calendars, and visit www. She was general chair of IEEE RO-MAN06 and cogeneral chair of HRI-2008. Scheutz was the coprogram chair for HRI-Seven student teams competed to award went to "Robots in Organizations: University of Amsterdam took top Jodi Forlizzi.