Call for Papers:

“TRUST: Building Trust in Human-Robot Interaction”
A full-day SCRITA and RTSS Workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2025
August 29, 2025
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
TRUST 2025 Workshop: https://scrita.herts.ac.uk/2025/
RO-MAN 2025 Conference: http://ro-man2025.org/

Deadline for submission of papers: June 30, 2025

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

The TRUST workshop is the result of a collaboration between two established workshops in the field of Human-Robot Interaction: SCRITA (Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction) and RTSS (Robot Trust for Symbiotic Societies). This joint initiative brings together the complementary goals of these workshops to advance research on trust from both the human and robot perspectives.

The RTSS component addresses a critical challenge in the development of future human-robot symbiotic societies: enabling robots to form trustworthy interactions with both human and robotic partners. While trust from the human perspective has been extensively studied, RTSS emphasizes the need to explore how autonomous agents assess and establish trust in heterogeneous peers. It promotes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and designing mechanisms for robot trust, with the aim of advancing technological, social, and ethical aspects of symbiotic interaction.

On the other hand, SCRITA focuses on people’s trust and acceptance of robots in a wide range of social and collaborative contexts. Previous SCRITA workshops have highlighted progress in short-term and controlled interaction studies but also emphasized the need for robust, unambiguous metrics for evaluating human trust in more realistic and dynamic environments. SCRITA promotes cross-disciplinary dialogue to identify key factors affecting trust and to develop novel methodologies to measure and foster trust in long-term human-robot relationships.

The TRUST workshop thus provides a unique forum for synthesizing these perspectives, bringing together researchers from robotics, psychology, AI, and HRI to explore how trust can be modeled, measured, and maintained in complex, real-world interactions. It aims to generate novel insights and guidelines for designing trustworthy robotic systems capable of adapting to and thriving in diverse human environments

AUDIENCE AND TOPICS

The workshop will be open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user profiling. In particular, we aim to integrate expertise from roboticists with psychologists’ and sociologists’ insights and experiences to foster a multidisciplinary and human-focused discussion that can capture the multi-faceted nature of trust and acceptance. We will foster the exchange of views on past and ongoing research and contribute to the discussion of innovative ideas for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and inspirational directions for research.

We again expect a vibrant and successful event with a similarly high number of participants as in the previous editions of this workshop.

INVITED SPEAKERS

The following speakers have agreed to give a keynote talk:

• Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark
• Roy Lindelauf, Tilburg University
• Philip Brey, University of Twente
• Minoru Asada, Osaka University

SUBMISSIONS

Due to this year special organisation, we invite authors to submit position papers and four-pages papers:

• We invite authors to submit 4 pages long (excluding references), discussing novel works in the scope of the workshop.
• We invite authors to submit position papers, 2 to 4 pages long (excluding references), discussing their prior experience and new developments in the scope of the workshop to feed into the group and the following panel discussions.

All accepted papers will have short oral presentations. We will encourage authors of the accepted papers to present a video or demonstrate their works and achievements.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission deadline: 30 June 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 21 July 2025
• Camera-ready submission: 08 August 2025
• Workshop day: 29 August 2025

GUIDELINES

Authors should prepare papers formatted according to the IEEE two-column format, which is also used for contributions to the main conference. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX or MS-Word.

Each paper will receive at least two reviews. All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other’s identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript.

Please submit your paper to EasyChair.

ORGANIZERS

• Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
• Patrick Holthaus, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
• Gabriella Lakatos, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
• Sílvia Moros, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
• Ali Fallahi, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
• Murat Kirtay, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands
• Marie Postma, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands
• Erhan Oztop, Osaka University Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center (SISReC), Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka, Japan; Ozyegin University, Computer Science Department, Istanbul, Turkey