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title: Human-Robot Interaction
description: This interdisciplinary field studies the design, evaluation, and implementation of robotic systems intended for use by or with humans. Learners will understand communication modalities, safety protocols, and social robotics principles.
category: engineering
subcategory: robotics
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/human-robot-interaction
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# Human-Robot Interaction

This interdisciplinary field studies the design, evaluation, and implementation of robotic systems intended for use by or with humans. Learners will understand communication modalities, safety protocols, and social robotics principles.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Courses • 2 Websites

## Websites

### 1. ACM/IEEE HRI Conference

Home of the annual ACM/IEEE conference that sets the field's research agenda, with proceedings, calls for papers and workshop listings. The archive is the fastest route to current peer-reviewed work on trust, teleoperation, social robots and interaction design.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://humanrobotinteraction.org/

**Tags:** human-robot-interaction, research-conference, acm, ieee, robotics-papers

### 2. Robohub

Nonprofit robotics communication platform where researchers, engineers and industry experts publish articles, interviews, podcasts and research summaries on autonomous systems, robot learning, field and medical robotics, and the societal impact of robots, useful for following the field.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://robohub.org

**Tags:** robotics-research, autonomous-systems, robotics-industry, ai-and-robotics, robotics-news

## Books

### 1. Human-Robot Interaction: An Introduction

**Author:** Christoph Bartneck, Tony Belpaeme, Friederike Eyssel, Takayuki Kanda, Merel Keijsers, Selma Šabanović

A Cambridge University Press textbook covering the design, psychology, and evaluation of robots that work alongside people, from spatial behaviour and speech to emotion and ethics, with study methods for running your own HRI experiments.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1108735401?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, robotics

### 2. Social Robotics

**Author:** Shuzhi Sam Ge, Oussama Khatib, John-John Cabibihan

Refereed proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Social Robotics, collecting 66 papers on affective and cognitive models, assistive robots for elderly users, non-verbal interaction, and telepresence, giving a snapshot of the field's research questions and methods.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/3642341020?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, robotics

### 3. Trust in Human-Robot Interaction

**Author:** Chang S. Nam, Joseph B. Lyons

An edited research volume on how people come to trust, over-trust, or distrust robots, covering measurement scales, trust repair after failures, and design factors, aimed at readers who will run or interpret empirical HRI studies.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0128194723?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, robotics

## Courses

### 1. Advanced Human-Robot Interaction

Discover the basic concepts of human-robot interaction and how robots work. Learn how to design a human-robot interaction and different ways in which users can interact with robots.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.edx.org/learn/robotics/university-of-canterbury-introduction-to-human-robot-interaction

**Tags:** courses, engineering-manufacturing, robotics

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