HRI Reading Group

The HRI Reading Group at Indiana University is an open, weekly discussion of recent work in human-robot interaction, interactive machine learning, and human-AI collaboration.

Logistics

When: Fridays, 10:00am-11:00am Eastern Time Zone
Where: Luddy AI Center, Conference Room 3053
Format: The HRI Reading Group uses a variety of formats to encourage discussion and engagement with current research. For standard paper discussions, one person leads a ~30-minute walkthrough of a selected paper, followed by an open group discussion. We also host invited speakers who share and discuss their recent work, as well as conference retrospectives highlighting interesting papers, talks, and emerging themes from recent HRI-related conferences.
Mailing list: Email Sunny Qiao to be added

Schedule

The full, live schedule is in the reading group spreadsheet.

Next up

PREFAIL: Identifying Precursors to Failures in Robotic Lift-and-Place Tasks to Improve Task Execution Performance · arXiv 2026

Oct 16, 2026 · led by Jiahe Liu

Past papers

Fall 2026

Date	Paper	Led by
Sep 18, 2026	INQUIRE: INteractive Querying for User-aware Informative REasoning CoRL 2022	Sunny Qiao
Sep 11, 2026	Robots That Ask For Help: Uncertainty Alignment for Large Language Model Planners (KnowNo) CoRL 2023	Mihir Parekh
Sep 4, 2026	Conformalized Interactive Imitation Learning: Handling Expert Shift and Intermittent Feedback ICLR 2025	Sunny Qiao
Aug 28, 2026	Overview discussion: Human-Robot Co-Adaptation & Alignment	Michelle Zhao