Human-Robot Teaming was a full day workshop held on March 2nd, 2015 at HRI 2015 in Portland, Oregon. The workshop involved interdisciplinary discussion covering the various facets of teamwork facilitation between humans and robots.

Developing collaborative robots that can productively and safely operate out of isolation in uninstrumented, human-populated environments is an important goal for the field of robotics. The development of such agents, those that handle the dynamics of human environments and the complexities of interpreting human interaction, is a strong focus within Human-Robot Interaction and involves underlying research questions deeply relevant to the broader robotics community.

This workshop aimed to bring together peer-reviewed technical and positional contributions spanning a multitude of topics within the domain of human-robot teaming. We bring together researchers from a wide array of human-robot interaction research concentrations with the common ideal of enabling humans and robots to better work together towards common goals. The morning session was devoted to gaining insight from invited speakers and contributed papers, while the afternoon session heavily emphasized participant interaction via poster presentations, breakout sessions, and an expert panel discussion.

We welcome submission on all topics related to human-robot teaming and collaboration. The program will include a mix of position papers, extended abstracts, and technical papers. Technical and position papers will be limited to 8 pages, while extended abstracts must be no longer than 4 pages including references. All submissions should follow the ACM conference format (templates available here).

Review will be conducted single-blind, meaning authors should include their names and affiliations on their submissions. Each submission will be assigned at least two reviewers that will evaluate the submission based on significance, relevance, technical quality, and quality of evaluation. Accepted papers will be assigned either as oral presentations or poster presentations.

9:00am	Welcome and Introductions
9:05am	Invited Talk - Elizabeth Croft, UBC
9:30am	Industry Perspectives - Jeremy Marvel, NIST
10:00am	Coffee Break
10:30am	Invited Talk - Joachim de Greeff, Delft University of Technology
10:50am	Justin Hart, Sara Sheikholeslami, Matthew Pan, Wesley Chan and Elizabeth Croft - Predictions of Human Task Performance and Handover Trajectories for Human-Robot Interaction
11:10am	Invited Talk - Malte Jung, Cornell
11:40am	Sean Trott, Huda Khayrallah, Jerome Feldman and Luca Gilardi - Natural Language For Human Robot Interaction [video]
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Invited Talk - Mark Neerincx, TNO
1:20pm	Matthew Johnson, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Daniel Duran, Micael Vignati, Paul J. Feltovich, Catholijn Jonker and M. Birna van Riemsdijk - RT4T: A Reconfigurable Testbed for Joint Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork
1:40pm	Industry Perspectives - Maarten Sierhuis, Nissan Research Silicon Valley
2:10pm	Short Talks
	Elena Corina Grigore and Brian Scassellati - Maintaining Engagement in Shared Goals with a Personal Robot Companion through Motivational State Modeling
	Henny Admoni and Brian Scassellati - Eye Gaze in Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction
	Jake Bruce, Jens Wawerla, Richard Vaughan - Human-Robot Rendezvous by Co-operative Trajectory Signals
2:30pm	Poster Session
3:00pm	Coffee Break
3:30pm	Invited Talk - Bilge Mutlu
4:00pm	Breakout Activity and Group Discussions
4:30pm	Panel Discussion on Human-Robot Teaming Geoff Hollinger, Maarten Sierhuis, Jessie Chen, Matthias Scheutz
[Weather Cancellation]	Invited Talk - Ross Knepper, Cornell
[Weather Cancellation]	Peter Trautman - Assistive Planning in Complex, Dynamic Environments: a Probabilistic Approach
[Weather Cancellation]	Shokoofeh Pourmehr, Jens Wawerla, Richard Vaughan and Greg Mori - On the Scalability of Spatially Embedded Human Multi-Robot Interfaces

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	Elizabeth Croft is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she is director of the Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory.
	Ross A. Knepper is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research addresses algorithmic aspects of advanced factory automation, enabling autonomous robots to function safely and comprehensibly alongside humans in environments structured for people.
	Bilge Mutlu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Psychology, and Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on building human-centered methods and principles for designing robotic technologies that help people communicate, work, and pursue personal goals.
	Jeremy Marvel is a research scientist in the Intelligent Systems Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Jeremy is currently the project leader for multiple industrial robot safety projects. His research focuses on intelligent and adaptive solutions for robot applications, with particular attention paid to human-robot collaborations, multi-robot coordination, safety, perception, and automated parameter optimization. He currently leads a team of researchers and engineers in metrology efforts at NIST for collaborative robot performance.
	Maarten Sierhuis is the research director of the Nissan Research Center Silicon Valley (NRC-SV). Maarten's accomplished research career spans over 25 years, having spent time at NASA, Xerox PARC, NYNEX, IBM, and Delft University of Technology. He currently leads the NRC-SV's efforts in the areas of autonomous driving and connected-vehicle systems.

	Bradley Hayes is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Social Robotics Laboratory at Yale University, advised by Brian Scassellati. His research focuses on designing and evaluating algorithms to support multi-agent, human-in-the-loop planning and leveraging social signals within the context of human-robot collaboration.
	Matthew Gombolay is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, where he is a member of the Interactive Robotics Group directed by Dr. Julie Shah. Matthew's research focuses on developing methods for coordinating multi-agent teams in time and space
	Malte Jung is an Assistant Professor in Information Science at Cornell University. The goal of his research is to inform our basic understanding of technology supported teamwork as well as to inform how we design technology to support teamwork across a wide range of settings.
	Brian Scassellati is a Professor of Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Cognitive Science at Yale University, where he directs the Social Robotics Lab. He is currently the lead investigator on an NSF Expedition in Socially Assistive Robotics.
	Julie A. Shah is an Assistant Professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, where she leads the Interactive Robotics Group. The aim of her research is to design new computational methods and models that enable robots to plan to work more effectively with people.
	Koen Hindriks is an Assistant Professor in the Interactive Intelligence section at Delft University of Technology. His main research interests are autonomous decision making using cognitive agents, teamwork and coordination models for multi-robot systems, and human-robot interaction.
	Joachim de Greeff is a postdoctoral researcher working on the EU FP 7 Long-Term Human-Robot Teaming for Robot-Assisted Disaster Response (TRADR) project at Delft University of Techology.
	Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova is a senior researcher at DFKI, focusing on computational linguistics, various areas of discourse and dialogue processing, and human-robot interaction.
	Jeffrey M. Bradshaw is a Senior Research Scientist at IHMC where he has pioneered research in software agents, semantic technologies, and human-agent-robot teamwork. With Robert Hoffman and Ken Ford, he serves as co-editor of the Human-Centered Computing Department for IEEE Intelligent Systems and is a co-editor of Collected Essays on Human-Centered Computing, 2001-2011.
	Catholijn M. Jonker is head of the Interactive Intelligence section at Delft University of Technology.Her research is on cognitive processes and concepts such as trust, negotiation, teamwork and the dynamics of individual agents and organizations. Her mission is to create synergy between humans and technology by understanding, shaping and using fundamentals of intelligence and interaction.
	Mark Neerincx is professor in Human-Centered Computing at the Delft University of Technology, and senior research scientist at TNO Perceptual and Cognitive Systems. In the safety, health and space domains, he has been in front of several projects on Human-Robot Collaboration, focusing on the situated cognitive engineering of ePartners that enhance the social, cognitive and affective processes in human-automation teams.
	Maarten Sierhuis heads the Nissan's Research Center in Silicon Valley. The center’s research focuses on the development of autonomous cars, connected cars and the human machine interaction and interfaces for the autonomous and connected car.
	Matt Johnson has been a researcher with IHMC since 2002. Matt is passionate about making robotic systems more flexible, resilient and effective through human-machine teamwork. In support of this, he is interested in robot control theory, human-centered computing, human factors, and interface design.

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