A full-day workshop at the 35th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2026)
Robots and AI agents are increasingly deployed as everyday companions, assistants, and coaches in homes, workplaces, education, and healthcare. Yet interaction design that reliably supports sustained human behavior change remains underdeveloped.
We lack shared design principles across embodied robots, smartphone agents, and XR/virtual agents, and agreed-upon evaluation metrics and ethical safeguards for influence. Aligned with the RO-MAN 2026 theme "Realizing Human-Robot Symbiosis with AI," IA4BC brings together researchers and practitioners to build an interdisciplinary forum connecting HRI/HAI research with behavioral science, cognitive neuroscience, and ethics.
Our goal is to leave RO-MAN 2026 with a concrete research agenda and an initial set of practical guidelines — spanning design, evaluation, and ethics — for behavior-change-oriented interactive agents.
| Format | Full-day workshop (~7 hours), on-site at RO-MAN 2026 |
| Invited talks | 6–8 talks (25–30 min each + Q&A) |
| Short papers | Open call · 2–4 pages · non-archival · ~10 posters accepted |
| Expected attendance | 40–60 participants |
| Supported by | JST CREST Symbiotic AI program |