Submission Guidelines

The following paper categories are welcome:

• Extended abstracts: up to 4 pages formatted as LNCS one-column paper (no bibliographic references are expected)
• Short papers: minimum 5 max 9 pages (references included) formatted as LNCS one-column paper
• Long papers: minimum 10 pages formatted as LNCS one-column paper

Submitted papers should comply with CEURART style. We have prepared Latex and MS Word templates files for the BEAR Workshop that can be downloaded from this link. Please refer to the official instructions on the CEUR-WS webpage for further details.

Accepted contributions will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a Special Issue in an international journal.

List of Topics

• Personalisation in short and long-term HRI; 
• User modelling in HRI; 
• Robot's personality; 
• Context and situation awareness for robots; 
• Engagement evaluation and re-engagement strategies; 
• Personalised dialogue with robots; 
• Personalised non-verbal behaviour with robots; 
• Adaptive human-aware task planning; 
• Theory of Mind for adaptive interaction; 
• Machine Learning for robotic personalisation; 
• Lifelong (continual) learning for adaptation; 
• Adaptation in multimodal interaction; 
• Affective and emotion-adapted HRI; 
• Persuasion in HRI; 
• Culture-aware robots; 
• Evaluation metrics for adaptive robotic behaviour; 
• Ethical implications of personalisation; 
• Robot customisation and teaching.

Committees

Program Committee

TBD

Organizing committee

• Main Organisers
  • Antonio Andriella, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial
  • Francesca Fracasso, National Research Council of Italy
  • Luca Raggioli, University of Naples Federico II
• Co-Organisers
  • Alyssa Kubota, San Francisco State University
  • Francesco Vigni, University of Naples Federico II
  • Alessandra Sorrentino, University of Florence
  • Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  • Utku Norman, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Jauwairia Nasir, University of Augsburg
  • Laura Fiorini, University of Florence
  • Alessandro Umbrico, National Research Council of Italy
  • Rainer Wieching, University of Siegen
  • Luigi D’Arco, University of Naples Federico II
  • Marta Romeo, Heriot-Watt University

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Goldie Nejat, University of Toronto
• Prof. Dr. Friederike Eyssel, Bielefeld University
• Prof. Oya Celiktutan, King’s College London

Publication

BEAR 2025 proceedings will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Venue

The BEAR WORKSHOP will be held at the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2025), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on 25-29 August 2025.

Contact

• Antonio Andriella, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, aandriella@iri.upc.edu
• Francesca Fracasso, National Research Council of Italy, francesca.fracasso@istc.cnr.it
• Luca Raggioli, University of Naples Federico II, luca.raggioli@unina.it