[meetings][CFP] Sixth HRI Workshop on Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI)

[Rajat Kumar Jenamani]

Call for Submissions: LEAP-HRI 2026 Workshop

We invite submissions to the sixth edition of the Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI) Workshop, to be held as part of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2026).

Date: March 16, 2026
Location: Hybrid (Edinburgh, UK and online)
Website: https://leap-hri.github.io/
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=leaphri2026

The workshop focuses on how robots can continually learn from interaction and personalize assistance as human needs, routines, and contexts evolve over time.

Program highlights

• One-hour fireside chat with Laurel Riek and TBD industry researcher
• Accepted paper presentations (10-minute each)
• Two interactive discussion sessions

Topics of interest include

• Lifelong personalization and/or adaptation
• Continual/lifelong machine learning
• Adaptive assistance for evolving daily routines and real-world tasks
• Human–robot co-adaptation and shared autonomy over long-term use
• Evaluation methods and metrics for long-term adaptive assistance
• Balancing autonomy and user control in adaptive assistance
• Incremental and/or online learning in HRI
• Modeling user(s) and/or user behavior(s) in multi-session/long-term HRI
• Modeling robot behavior in multi-session/long-term HRI
• Modeling context in multi-session/long-term HRI
• Agent/robot architectures for personalization/adaptation
• Lifelong (long-term) human-agent or multi-user/multi-agent interactions
• Lifelong (long-term) multimodal interactions
• Long-term memory (episodic, semantic, associative)
• Transfer and generalization of learned behaviors across tasks, users, and contexts
• Privacy and ethical considerations in lifelong learning/ personalization in HRI
• Cross-cultural adaption in HRI

Submission format: 3-4 page papers

Important dates (All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth)

• Early-bird submission deadline: January 19
• Early-bird notification of acceptance: January 28
• General submission deadline: February 16
• General notification of acceptance: March 2

We look forward to your submissions!

Organizing Committee

• Bahar Irfan, Senior Research Scientist at Familiar Machines & Magic (USA)
• Nikhil Churamani, Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge (UK)
• Michelle Zhao, PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
• Rajat Kumar Jenamani, PhD Candidate at Cornell University (USA)
• Ali Ayub, Assistant Professor at Concordia University (Canada)
• Silvia Rossi, Professor at University of Naples, "Federico II'' (Italy)