The 3-volume set LNAI 16131 -16133 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference, ICSR+AI 2025, held in Naples, Italy, during September 1012, 2025.

The 117 full papers and 57 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 276 submissions. They focus on the topical sections:

Part 1 Emotion & Affective Interaction; Applications in Real-World Case Studies; LLMs & Conversational / Verbal Interaction; Motion Control, Prosthetics & Functional Robotics; Context Awareness & Explainability; Ethics, Trust & Social Acceptability.
Part 2 Emotion & Affective Interaction; Applications in Real-World Case Studies; LLMs & Conversational / Verbal Interaction; Motion Control, Prosthetics & Functional Robotics; Context Awareness & Explainability; Ethics, Trust & Social Acceptability; Decision-Making / Behavior Modeling.
Part 3 Emotion & Social Interaction in HRI; Trust, Autonomy, and Cognitive Models ; Assistive & Educational Applications in HRI.

Inhalt

.- Emotion & Affective Interaction.
.- Emotionally Adaptive Conversational Models for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction Using Proximal Policy Optimization.
.- Individual Differences in Social and Emotional Responses to Robotic Dining Companions: Toward Personalized Interaction Design.
.- Affective Communication via Haptic Technology: A Usability Study of a Huggable Device for Older Adults.
.- Multimodal Framework for Adaptive HRI via Dynamic Engagement and Affective Feedback.
.- User Concerns Regarding Social Robots for Mood Regulation: A Case Study on the "Sunday Blues".
.- Applications in Real-World Case Studies.
.- Social Robot Assistive Intervention for Science Students to Prevent Laboratory Accidents.
.- Remote vs. Presence Laboratories in Human-Robot Interaction with Social Robots: A Study on Task Performance.
.- Do Social Robots Motivate Students Like Humans?.
.- More Than a Tool: A Multi-Method Exploration of Contextual Social Robot Roles in German Secondary Schools.
.- Children's Questions to Robots as an Educational Opportunity Design Implications.
.- LLMs & Conversational / Verbal Interaction.
.- AwaR(e)obot: Towards Designing and Generating Context-Aware Companion Robot Behavior Using LLMs.
.- Message for You: Observing the Effects of a Social Robot's Interruptions during an Office Task.
.- Who Ignores You Matters Asymmetrical Team Dynamics in HumanRobot Collaboration.
.- Exploring LLM-generated Culture-specific Affective Human-Robot Tactile Interaction.
.- Knowledge-based design requirements for persuasive LLM-powered social robots in eldercare.
.- Motion Control, Prosthetics & Functional Robotics.
.- A Learning Based Model Reference Adaptive Controller Implemented on a Prosthetic Hand Wrist.
.- Design and Optimization of a Sliding Mode Controller for a Modified EduExo Upper Limb Exoskeleton.
.- HumanRobot Co-Design for Cleaning: Leveraging Vision Language Model and Multi-Objective Optimization for Adaptive Layouts.
.- Efficient Path Planner via Predator Dominance and Prey Approach for a Vector Surveillance Robot.
.- It's the Way You Move: Efficient Movement Shapes Robot Perception Across Embodiments.
.- Context Awareness & Explainability.
.- Context is Cue-cial.
.- I Can See All of You: Supporting User Awareness with Augmented Field-of-View for Remote Collaborative Work.
.- Social Robot Haru Imitating Human Gaze for Attention and Turn-taking Coordination in Multi-party Conversation.
.- Modeling Social Robot Navigation: From Human Observation to Proxemics-Based Scenario Simulation.
.- When Robots Say No: Temporal Trust Recovery Through Explanation.
.- Ethics, Trust & Social Acceptability.
.- Determinants of Attitudes Toward Social Robots The Role of Contact, Ethical Concerns, and Beliefs in Human Uniqueness.
.- Adaptive Defense Against Socio-Emotional Exploitation in Social Robots: A Review of Physiologically-Informed Approaches.
.- Exploring Mentalising Tendencies Toward a Non-Humanoid Robot in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study.
.- Gender and Technology Knowledge Role on Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction.
.- Children's Acceptance of the TABAN Social Robot in LLMPowered Collaborative Visual Storytelling.
.- Feature-Conditioned WGAN for Generating Alzheimer's EEG: Enabling GAN-Based Synthesis Under Data Scarcity.