About The HRI Group

We are a research group at Heriot-Watt University, working on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - the interdisciplinary research area dedicated to understanding, designing, and evaluating robotic systems for use in collaboration with humans.

HRI Research Areas

  1. Interaction for Autonomy (INCRA Lab, Interaction Lab, Orca Hub, Robotics lab)
  2. Affective interaction (Interaction Lab, Affective Autonomous Agents, ITT)
  3. Explainable AI (Interaction  Lab)
  4. Health and wellness (ITT, Robotics lab)
  5. Instrumented interactive spaces  (Robotics lab, ITT)
  6. Multimodal interaction (Robotics Lab, ITT, Interaction Lab)
  7. Natural Language Interaction (Interaction Lab)
  8. Social robotics (Social Robotics, Robotics Lab, Affective Autonomous Agents, Interaction Lab, Developmental Psychology)
  9. Teachable robots (Affective Autonomous Agents, Interaction Lab, Robotics Lab)
  10. Robot navigation (Robotics Lab, Orca Hub)