Hangzhou, CHINA
20 October 2025
| Time (CST) | Program | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Opening Remarks | Organizers | |
| 9:10 - 9:40 | Invited Talk | Gentiane Venture | How Should Robots Behave? |
| 9:40 - 10:10 | Invited Talk | Weidong Chen | Improving Autonomy and Safety of Intelligent Wheelchair in Dynamic Environments |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Spotlight Talks from Participants | Human-in-the-Loop Optimisation in Robot-Assisted Gait Training (Andreas Christou, Andreas Sochopoulos, Elliot Lister and Sethu Vijayakumar) | |
| COMMET: A System for Human-Induced Conflicts in Mobile Manipulation of Everyday Tasks (Dongping Li, Shaoting Peng, John Pohovey and Katherine Driggs-Campbell) | |||
| From Fairy Tales to Feature Sets: Measuring Children's Engagement with NAO (Laura Fiorini, Elena Adelucci, Lorenzo Pugi, Stefano Scatigna, Chiara Pecini and Filippo Cavallo) | |||
| Skeleton-Based Posture Classification to Promote Safer Walker-Assisted Gait in Older Adults (Sergio David Sierra Marín, Monica Sinha, Marcela Múnera and Carlos A. Cifuentes) | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Invited Talk | Xiaojuan Ma | Designing Humanized, Engaging Conversational Agents to Administrate Medical Interviews |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Spotlight Talks from Participants | When Do Robots Lose Our Attention? Investigating Dynamics of Repetitive Human-Robot Interaction in Assistive Context (Alessandra Sorrentino, Jasmine Pani, Carlo La Viola, Laura Fiorini and Filippo Cavallo) | |
| Interfacing Children and Robots for Stress Management in ASD Therapy: A Preliminary Case Study (María Gaitán-Padilla, Elizabeth Sánchez R., Maria José Pontes, Carlos A. Cifuentes and Camilo A. R. Diaz) | |||
| Modeling Visual/Tactile Sensory Information Processing Based on Free Energy Principle (Emiko Uchiyama and Rumi Hisakata) | |||
| Robot-Assisted Group Tours for Blind People (Yaxin Hu, Masaki Kuribayashi, Allan Wang, Seita Kayukawa, Daisuke Sato, Bilge Mutlu, Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa) | |||
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Invited Talk | Geng Yang | AI Enhanced Robot E-Skin for a Safer Human-Robot Interaction |
| 12:20 - 12:50 | Invited Talk | Barbara Bruno | Socially Assistive Robot in a Kindergarten: Assessing Long-Term Engagement in the Field |
| 12:50 - 13:00 | Closing Remarks | Organizers |