HRI 2010 workshop 1: What do collaborations with the arts have to say about HRI?

Human-Robot Interaction researchers are beginning to reach out to fields not traditionally associated with interaction research, such as the performing arts, cartooning, and animation. These collaborations offer the potential for novel insights about how to get robots and people to interact more effectively, but they also involve a number of unique challenges. This full-day workshop will offer a venue for HRI researchers and their collaborators from these diverse fields to report on their work, share insights about the collaboration process, and to help begin to define an exciting new area in HRI.