Prof. Nele Rußwinkel and Thomas Sievers, together with others, have organized a workshop at the International Conference on Social Robotics + AI, which took place on September 10, 2025, in Naples, Italy.
SCOPE-HRI targeted at addressing all important aspects of human and robot behavior during embodied HRI. Cognitive principles provide the "why" and "how" humans behave, while multimodal real-time sensing provides the "what" and "when". Both the integration of cognitive models as well as multimodal sensing continuously evolve, particularly with the evolvement of AI and more specifically generative multimodal Large Language Models.
The goal of the SCOPE-HRI workshop was to stimulate discussion on the above-mentioned interrelated topics in order to enable robots to better apply cognitive principles in real time and via multimodal sensors to understand human intentions and emotions.
