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 Monday August 25, 2025 at Eindhoven, the Netherlands during the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025). The conference will be hosted on the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) campus .
Format
This will be an afternoon half-day workshop, with interactive participatory activities.
Schedule
Tentative Schedule:
| TIME | SESSION | COMMENTS |
| 13.30 – 13.45 | Introduction | |
| 13.45 – 14.45 | Session I | Participant Talks |
| - Towards Multimodal Social Conversations with Robots: Using Vision-Language Models – Ruben Janssens - “Kyorikan” : Unconscious Vocal Adjustments Based on Interlocutor Proximity – Haruka Murakami - Generative AI for Shared Story-building with a Social Robot to Improve Language Learner Engagement – Eva Verhelst - Enhancing Human–AI Collaboration in Air Traffic Control with Foundation Models – Giuseppina Carannante - A Value-Compliant Robot Vacuum Cleaner for the Home – Giulio Antonio Abbo - Generation of Real-time Robotic Emotional Expressions Learning from Human Demonstration in Mixed Reality – Chao Wang |
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| 14.45 – 15.15 | Session II | Network and Icebreaker |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | Coffee break | |
| 15.30 – 16.15 | Session III | Collaborative Ideation |
| 16.15 – 16.55 | Session IV | Anticipating Challenges |
| 16.55 – 17.00 | Closing |
Location
The workshop will take place in Auditorium 10 located on level 2 of the Auditorium building at TUe.
