We would like to invite you to submit to the first workshop on human-robot interaction in extreme and challenging environments (exactingHRI) at HRI 2025 (3 Mar 2025 in Melbourne, Australia & online). Both full papers (6-8 pages) and short contributions (2-4 pages) are welcome.

The exactingHRI 2025 workshop focuses on the difficult cases where HRI is tested in the wild, over extended periods, at target locations, or with target users. We invite discussions on challenges brought by the complexities in the human, task, and environmental factors, the limitations of the robot's autonomy, the knowledge and data availability, and the hardware and software design, as well as the missing theoretical, methodological, or governance frameworks to investigate exactingHRI. 

Please submit your papers via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exactinghri2025

The review will be conducted in a single-blind manner. Accepted submissions will be published on arXiv. In addition, authors of accepted submissions will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscript to the Frontiers in Robotics and AI research topic on Errors and Mistakes in HRI: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/64147/errors-and-mistakes-in-human-robot-interactions

The submission deadline is 20 Jan 2025 (23:59 AoE). Please check our website for more information and submission instructions: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/exactinghri/exactinghri2025

Thank you and we look forward to receiving your submissions!

Best regards,

The exactingHRI 2025 organising committee