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Use when deciding whether a human-robot-interaction project belongs at the ACM/IEEE HRI conference versus CHI, ICRA/IROS, RO-MAN, CoRL, HAI, or the THRI/JHRI journals, and then which of HRI's five full-paper tracks (User Studies, Technical, Design, Theory and Methods, Systems) it should enter, using the robot-embodiment and human-in-the-loop tests and the HRI calendar.

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# HRI Topic Selection

Two decisions precede everything else: **is this an HRI paper at all**, and **which of the five
tracks** does it enter. HRI is the flagship *interdisciplinary* venue for human-robot interaction —
it uniquely rewards work that sits *between* robotics, HCI, psychology, and design. Getting the
venue and track right is the highest-leverage move an author makes, because HRI judges each paper
by the contribution type of its chosen track. Facts below were read from the HRI 2026/2027 calls on
2026-07-09 (see `resources/official-source-map.md`); reopen the live call before deciding.

## The two gating tests

Apply both. HRI wants **a person and a robot interacting**.

1. **Robot-embodiment test.** Is there a robot — a physical or virtual *embodied* agent — that is
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