HRI 18

<,p>,It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction-HRI',18. The HRI Conference is a highly selective international meeting showcasing the best research in human-robot interaction (HRI), with broad participation from various communities of scholars, including robotics, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, engineering, social and behavioral sciences, and design.<,/p>, <,p>,The theme of this year',s conference is Robots for Social Good, considering two trends that have shaped HRI-related technologies in the past year. One is that after many years of research, social robots are being finally introduced ',en masse', as consumer devices. And the second is a worldwide recognition, increasingly appreciated in the consumer software sector, that developers of new technologies need to be cognizant of the societal consequences of psychologically impactful devices.<,/p>, <,p>,Balancing this societal and humanistic goal with the continuous evolution of technology, both in hardware and software, requires the multidisciplinary view that the HRI conference offers. To support this coming together of research areas, we solicited and reviewed papers under four submission themes