The Human - Foundation Model Interaction (FoMo-HRI) workshop fosters interdisciplinary discussions around the applications and opportunities that emerge from integrating foundation models in HRI.
The workshop provides an important venue to encourage debate around issues concerning multi-modality, LLM grounding and real-world deployments as well as issues around safety, reliability, trustworthiness, and the ethical deployment of such models.
We hope discussions will inform and guide the HRI community towards research that can leverage the potential of foundation models to enable multi-modal human-robot communication.
The workshop will take place on August 25, 2025 at Eindhoven, the Netherlands during the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025)
Organizers
Daniel Hernández García is a research fellow at the Interaction Lab in Heriot-Watt University. His current research focuses on developing socially aware robots with the capacity for cognitive interactions.
Marta Romeo is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK). Her current research, within the UKRI TAS Node on Trust, focuses on investigating how trust between humans and robots can be built, maintained, and recovered.
Tony Belpaeme is Professor at Ghent University and Senior Researcher at imec. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and currently leads a team studying cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction.
Micol Spitale is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at the Politecnico di Milano, as well as a Visiting Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge. In recent years, her research has been focused on the field of Social Signal Processing, Human-Robot Interaction, and Affective Computing, exploring ways to develop robots that are socio-emotionally adaptive in different contexts with the goal of having a positive impact on the society.
Sara Incao is a postdoctoral researcher in the CONTACT (COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies) Unit of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). She received her PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics from the University of Genoa, with a dissertation on the concept of Self, Artificial Self and subjective experience for cognitive architectures in HRI. She received her M.A. in Philosophy from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
Carlo Mazzola is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Robotics at the CONTACT unit of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). He received his PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics from the University of Genoa with a dissertation on Shared Perception in Human-Robot Interaction. His current research focuses on human-awareness and explainability in the context of multi-party interactions.