London, UK
1st July 2026
Join us online: Zoom
| Time | Program | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Opening Remarks | Organizers | |
| 9:10 - 9:40 | Invited Talk | Raphaëlle N. Roy | Physiological Computing: A new avenue to enhance Human-Robot Interaction |
| 9:40 - 10:10 | Invited Talk | Carlos Cifuentes | Integrating Assistive and Social Robotics to Support Wellbeing in People Living with Dementia |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Spotlight Talks from Participants | Solveig Beyza Narli Evenstad | When Robots Help, Who Carries the Load? Technostress, Cognitive Load and Engagement in Social Robot Care (Solveig Beyza Narli Evenstad) [pdf] |
| Teodor-Alexandru Dicu | Cognitive Load and Engagement in Human-Robot Collaboration Across Hazardous Environments (Teodor-Alexandru Dicu and Adriana Tapus) [pdf] | ||
| Emilia Pietras | Patients as Independent Robot Users: Toward Adaptive Ultrasound Scanning for Arthritis (Emilia Pietras and Leon Bodenhagen) [pdf] | ||
| Yuying Zhang | Embodied Support for International Students: Reducing Cognitive Load and Enhancing Engagement (Yuying Zhang, Indu Bodala, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, and Nguyen Tan Viet Tuyen) [pdf] | ||
| Nicola Webb | A CAVE-Based Study of Drone Autonomy in Collaborative Search (Nicola Webb, Sanja Milivojevic, Chris Baber, and Edmund R. Hunt) [pdf] | ||
| 10:40 - 10:50 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Invited Talk | Alessandro Di Nuovo | From Measuring to Managing Cognitive Load in Human–Robot Interaction: Towards Adaptive and Age-Aware Social Robots |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Panel discussion | Carlos Cifuentes, Mark Neerincx, Nicola Webb | |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Wrap up and closing | Organizers |