TRUST 2025
This workshop will be a full day event on 29 August 2025, in conjunction with the IEEE RO-MAN 2025 conference, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Statement of Objectives
The TRUST workshop is the result of a collaboration between two established workshops in the field of Human-Robot Interaction: SCRITA (Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction) and RTSS (Robot Trust for Symbiotic Societies). This joint initiative brings together the complementary goals of these workshops to advance research on trust from both the human and robot perspectives.
The RTSS component addresses a critical challenge in the development of future human-robot symbiotic societies: enabling robots to form trustworthy interactions with both human and robotic partners. While trust from the human perspective has been extensively studied, RTSS emphasizes the need to explore how autonomous agents assess and establish trust in heterogeneous peers. It promotes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and designing mechanisms for robot trust, with the aim of advancing technological, social, and ethical aspects of symbiotic interaction.
On the other hand, SCRITA focuses on people’s trust and acceptance of robots in a wide range of social and collaborative contexts. Previous SCRITA workshops have highlighted progress in short-term and controlled interaction studies but also emphasized the need for robust, unambiguous metrics for evaluating human trust in more realistic and dynamic environments. SCRITA promotes cross-disciplinary dialogue to identify key factors affecting trust and to develop novel methodologies to measure and foster trust in long-term human-robot relationships.
The TRUST workshop thus provides a unique forum for synthesizing these perspectives, bringing together researchers from robotics, psychology, AI, and HRI to explore how trust can be modeled, measured, and maintained in complex, real-world interactions. It aims to generate novel insights and guidelines for designing trustworthy robotic systems capable of adapting to and thriving in diverse human environments
Audience and Topics
The workshop will be open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user profiling. In particular, we aim to integrate expertise from roboticists with psychologists' and sociologists' insights and experiences to foster a multidisciplinary and human-focused discussion that can capture the multi-faceted nature of trust and acceptance. We will foster the exchange of views on past and ongoing research and contribute to the discussion of innovative ideas for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and inspirational directions for research.
We again expect a vibrant and successful event with a similarly high number of participants as in the previous editions of this workshop.
Invited speakers
The following speakers have agreed to give a keynote talk:
- Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark
- Roy Lindelauf, Tilburg University
- Philip Brey, University of Twente
- Minoru Asada, Osaka University
News
- 25-05-22 Workshop day confirmed as Friday, 29 August 2025.
- 25-05-10 Submission open at EasyChair.
- 25-05-01 Invited speakers confirmed: Kerstin Fischer, Roy Lindelauf, Philip Brey, Minoru Asada.
- 25-03-25 SCRITA has been accepted as workshop at RO-MAN 2025.