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

.- Regular Session 2.1 Emotion & Affective Interaction.
.- **** Visualizing the past: emotional and cognitive impacts of AI-Generated Images in Human-Robot Interaction.
.- When Robots Care: Elderly Reactions to Emotionally Intelligent Actroid-F.
.- A Multimodal Emotion Recognition Approach for Socially Assistive Robots.
.- Empathy in child-robot interaction.
.- Driven by Personality?.
**.- Regular Session 2.2 Applications in Real-World Case Studies.
** .- EBO Robot in Elderly Care: Interaction Styles and Multimodal Engagement Through Serious Games in Care Centers.
.- Designing User Experiences with Social Robots: A Field Study on Acceptance in Public Libraries.
.- Participatory Design for Human-Robot Interaction with Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
.- Using the Pepper Robot to Support Sign Language Communication.
.- Evaluating the Role of Robot Form and Intelligence in the Ultimatum Game.
**.- Regular Session 2.3 LLMs & Conversational / Verbal Interaction.
** .- Connecting through shared memories. Episodic Memory for Social Robots Using Offline LLMs.
.- Intuitive Control of a Social Robot Using Natural Language with Large Language Model and Error Correction Capabilities.
.- Storytelling and self-other integration with robots: creation and validation of storytelling stimuli that induce social identification with the QT robot.
.- Personalized Socially Assistive Robots With End-to-End Speech-Language Models For Well-Being Support.
.- Towards improving turn-taking in social robots using Visual-Only Voice Activity Detection in multimodal dialogue systems.
**.- Regular Session 2.4 Motion Control, Prosthetics & Functional Robotics.
** .- Optimizing Prosthetic Wrist Movement: A Model Predictive Control Approach.
.- Evaluating social impact of pedipulation with quadrupedal robot.
.- Slosh-Aware Trajectory Control in a Reconfigurable Staircase Service Robot.
.- HaptiCam: Skin-drag Haptic Feedback for Real-time Communication of Camera Settings.
.- A Mixed Reality User-friendly Interface for Robot Teleoperation.
**.- Regular Session 2.5 Context Awareness & Explainability.
** .- Classification of User Satisfaction in HRI with Social Signals in the Wild.
.- Bayesian goal inference engine for intent prediction in Human-Robot Collaboration.
.- Pluri-perspectivism in Human-robot Co-creativity with Older Adults.
.- Exploring Avoidance Strategies between Humans and Robots in Social Navigation.
.- Improving Human-swarm Interaction Through Speech Control and Peer-to-peer Micro-agent Communication.
**.- Regular Session 2.6 Ethics, Trust & Social Acceptability.
.- Ethical and Societal Challenges Facing Social and Educational Robots Insights from the KASPAR experience.
.- Bayesian Proximal Policy Optimization with Adaptive Learning and Episodic Memory for Social Robot Navigation.
.- Automatic Assessment of Speaking Proficiency for Language Practice Robots.
.- Towards improving turn-taking in social robots using Visual-Only Voice Activity Detection in multimodal dialogue systems.
.- Improving Engagement in Robot Lecture through Personality Expressed by Teacher Robot.
.- Regular Session 2.7 Decision-Making / Behavior Modeling.**
.- A Bayesian Neural Networks Approach for Spatial Relations Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration.
.- Vision based Hybrid IK Task Planning with Feedforward Neural Network for Collaborative Plant-Robot Interaction in Precision Farming.