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To help the Program Committee better align reviewers to standard review papers, TAHRI strongly encourages (but does not require) the early submission of paper metadata (e.g., tentative title, authors, keywords, and abstract) before the deadline, even if this paper metadata may change.

All paper submissions should be double-column and should fit within the appropriate page length; note that the page length does not include references. All papers for the conference must be submitted in PDF format and conform to ACM Proceedings specifications. Please note that TAHRI follows the general ACM SIG format (“sigconf”, double column format), not the SIGCHI format. Templates are available here (US letter). In addition, ACM has partnered with Overleaf, where you can start writing here.

All full papers (i.e., standard review papers and rapid review papers) are required to be anonymized for the review process. References to previous work by the authors should not be redacted, but should be referred to in the third person. Further instructions are below for anonymization specific to different paper types.

• Standard review papers: Anonymization includes any supplementary materials, and authors should ensure that identifying information does not appear in code, videos, file metadata, etc. The Program Committee reserves the right to reject a paper that fails to comply with this requirement.

• Rapid review papers: In Step 1 of the rapid review paper SPECIAL SUBMISSION PROCESS (see paper types above), the previously reviewed paper and any original supporting files should not be modified from their original state, and, thus, should match the anonymization policy of the original venue. If the previously reviewed paper is not already anonymized, the Program Chairs will anonymize it prior to review by the Program Committee. In Step 3 of the rapid review paper SPECIAL SUBMISSION PROCESS (see paper types above), the rapid review paper and any supplementary materials should be fully anonymized consistent with that of standard review papers.

• Short papers: Anonymization for review is encouraged, but anonymization is not required.

We are asking all authors to make an effort to make their submissions more accessible at every point in the submission process. The HRI 2024 conference organizers have done a fantastic job of creating accessibility guidelines for paper submissions, and we strongly encourage authors to follow them.

Full papers (i.e., standard review papers and rapid review papers) are expected to contain a section in the paper body on how the technological contribution can be reused. TAHRI strongly encourages the presence of a section in the paper detailing the reuse procedure (e.g., system requirements, model parameters, etc.). TAHRI also recommends using services (e.g., OSF) for anonymous hosting of your project materials, and releasing those materials under an appropriate license; please review “choose an open source license” for additional details.

For authors who conducted a user study, we strongly suggest generating a study summary using the form here to be optionally included in the supplementary materials discussed below. For more information about this form, please read the accompanying short paper from HRI 2023: “Towards Improved Replicability of Human Studies in Human-Robot Interaction: Recommendations for Formalized Reporting”.

As a potential published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM publications policies, including ACM’s new publications policy on research involving human participants and subjects. Please review these links carefully if your studies involved human participants.

Authors can add supplementary material to their submissions, such as videos, text, images, or other documents. TAHRI organizers strongly encourage authors to submit a short demonstration video of up to 20MB and up to one (1) minute. This material should be required to understand the paper, and should be used as a way to avoid the page limitations. This material will also not be indexed in the ACM digital library, but may be archived on other servers (e.g., YouTube).

By submitting a standard review paper, its authors agree to collectively review up to three (3) other standard review papers at the request of the Program Committee.