Call for Submissions

Student Design Challenge (SDC)
19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024)
Boulder, Colorado
March 11-14, 2024
Student Design Challenge: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024/student-design-challenge/
HRI 2024: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024/

Deadline for initial submission (draft paper + video): December 8, 2023

Calling all robotics students, designers and educators!

We are excited to share details of this year’s Student Design Challenge (SDC) associated with the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024) to be held in Boulder, Colorado, March 11-14 2024.

The SDC is designed to provide university student teams (of any level/discipline) with an opportunity to design and develop a human-robot interaction. Are you a university teacher? We suggest the SDC might also make for an excellent group project for courses relating to HRI, design, robotics and mechatronics etc.

The challenge requires student teams to submit a short written paper (1-4 pages inc. references) and video presentation/demonstration detailing their work. A number of submissions will be invited for showcase at the main HRI conference – these will be included in the conference companion proceedings (i.e. listed with referencable DOI in the ACM digital library/IEEE Xplore).

Building on the overall conference theme of HRI in the real world, we encourage SDC submissions which explore making the everyday interactive. Whether teams decide to re-imagine existing, everyday human-machine interactions (what does HRI for a coffee machine look like?) or develop novel, interactive robot artifacts to be deployed in the office, the schoolroom, the city park etc., the aim is to generate affectively compelling interactions that have potential to inspire, surprise, and delight.

For full details, requirements, design questions and inspiration, please check out the conference website: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2024/student-design-challenge/

IMPORTANT DATES

8th December 2023 (AOE): initial submission (draft paper + video) due
12th January 2024: acceptance notifications
17th January 2024: camera ready paper + video presentations due
11th-14th March 2024: The HRI 2024 conference, during which video submissions will be showcased, award winners will be announced and we hope to arrange an SDC mingle.

Best wishes from your HRI 2024 Student Design Challenge chairs:

Katie Winkle (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Sydney Skybetter (Brown University, USA)
~ contact us via sdc2024@humanrobotinteraction.org