We are pleased to invite you to the inaugural workshop, Multi-Agentic Systems in HRI (MAgicS-HRI): Bridging Design and Real-World Challenges for End Users, which will be part of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction on March 16th, 2026, in Edinburgh, UK.

The session will provide a valuable opportunity for researchers with diverse backgrounds to share and learn about the opportunities for exploring solutions to design challenges in multi-agentic systems on various types of robots in real-world contexts.  

We encourage the submission of short papers (maximum 4 pages, excluding references, deadline February 15th, 2026 AoE) presenting their recent work on the following topics of interest:

• Orchestration interfaces for human oversight of agents and robots
• Failure and trust in human-robot interaction
• Risk communication for inter-robot or human-robot conflicts
• Humans’ mental model and cognitive load in HRI with multi-agentic systems
• Anthropomorphism in multi-agentic robots
• Re-embodiment, co-embodiment, distributed embodiment
• Human-multi-agents communication
• Human-robot interaction in real-world scenarios
• LLMs and agents powered human-robot interaction
• Theoretical frameworks for human and multi-agentic interaction

The contributions may include work in progress with preliminary results or positioning work. Authors will have the opportunity to present their research during the “paper madness session”. Contributions can be submitted through the EasyChair platform. 

For more information about the topics and the call for papers, please visit the workshop’s website or contact us. 

Organizing Committee:

• Yan Zhang, University of Melbourne
• Sarah Schömbs, University of Melbourne
• Xiang Pan, Kyoto University
• Jan Leusmann, LMU Munich
• Sara Mongile, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
• A/Prof. Mohammad Obaid, Chalmers University of Technology
• A/Prof. Wafa Johal, University of Melbourne