DEI 2023 Program (final version!)
DEI 2023 Program (final version!)
09:00 CET (March 13)
Welcome (10min)
Workshop organizers
09:10 CET (March 13)
Spotlight talks from invited speakers (40 min) - 10 min
Ashwin - Queer in AI: Lessons, Opportunities and Challenges for Participation as DEI
Maria Skoularidou - Challenges and biases of AI applications on disabled people
Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza - Designing Robots for Children: Challenges and Opportunities
David Vernon - Culturally Competent Social Robotics for Africa: A Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in HRI
09:50 CET (March 13)
Invited Speaker Panel Discussion (40 min)
10:30 CET (March 13)
Presentations of submitted papers (30 min + 1 hr) - 7-8 min + 2 min Q&A
10:30 - 11:00
Tom Williams and Kerstin Haring - No Justice, No Robots: Taking a hard look at Roboticist-Police Collaborations [PDF]
Cristina Zaga, Maria Luce Lupetti, Nazli Cila, Minha Lee, Gijs Huisman and Anne Arzberger - Towards Transdisciplinary and Futuring Tools for DEI and Social Justice in HRI [PDF]
Antonio Badillo-Perez, Donato Badillo-Perez, Alex Barco, Rocio Montenegro and Miguel Xochicale - Teaching AI and Robotics to Children in a Mexican town [PDF]
Break (10 min)
11:10 - 12:10
Aida Amirova, Zhansaule Telisheva, Aida Zhanatkyzy, Nazerke Rakhymbayeva and Anara Sandygulova - Sampling Bias in Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy: Towards Inclusive Research [PDF]
Julia Rosén and Erik Lagerstedt - Speaking Properly with Robots [PDF]
Liran Kalderon, Azriel Kaplan, Amit Wolfovitz, Yoav Gimmon and Shelly Levy-Tzedek - Vestibular Rehabilitation with Socially Assistive Robots: Concerns of Physical Therapists and Patients with Vestibular Dysfunction [PDF]
Katie Seaborn - Diversity Not Discussed: Centring Overlooked Factors of Inclusion within Human-Robot Interaction [PDF]
Jessica Barfield - Considering Perceived Robot Ethnicity in Human-Robot Interaction: Towards Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [PDF]
Luke Richards and Cynthia Matuszek - Machine Learning Security as a Source of Unfairness in Human-Robot Interaction [PDF]
12:10 CET (March 13)
Co-design activities to mitigate sampling biases and promote inclusion within HRI (50 min)
We will look into the issues of sampling biases in conducting HRI studies and discuss possible remedies to mitigate them.
We will do two collaborative activities: Card Sorting and Template Building. We will use the Miro platform (https://miro.com/) to perform the two activities.
Please bring a laptop as we will do the activities on the online platform Miro to accommodate participants in both in-person and virtual modes.
12.10: Introduction + Article
Goal, Process, Main Results (5 min)
Graphs (5 min)
Describing Factors (WEIRD + UNCANNY) (5 min)
12.25: Group Building + Break Out Room (5 min)
12.30: Card Sorting Activity Part 1 (30 min)
13:00 CET (March 13)
Lunch Break (1 hr)
14:00 CET (March 13)
Co-design activities to mitigate sampling biases and promote inclusion within HRI (2 hrs 15 min)
We will do two collaborative activities: Card Sorting and Template Building. We will use the Miro platform (https://miro.com/) to perform the two activities.
Please bring a laptop as we will do the activities on the online platform Miro to accommodate participants in both in-person and virtual modes.
14.00: Card Sorting Activity Part 2 (20 min) (activity)
14.20: Card Sorting Results (20 min) (presentation)
14.40: Group Building + Break Out Room (5 min)
14.45: Template Building (45 min) (activity)
15.30: Template Discussion (15 min) (presentation)
15.45: Next Steps + Joint Publication (30 min)
Break (15 min)
16:30 CET (March 13)
Spotlight talks from invited speakers (40 min) - 10 min
Raksha Muthukumar - What does organized labor mean for DEI in HRI?
Chris Crawford - Broadening Participation in Computing Through Brain-Robot Interaction
Michelle Johnson - DEI considerations in robot-assisted neurorehabilitation
Chad Jenkins - The Michigan Robotics Major: Defining the Discipline of Robotics for Equity and Excellence
17:10 CET (March 13)
Invited Speaker Panel Discussion (40 min)
18:00 CET (March 13)
Final remarks, way forward: passing the mic, closing of workshop (15 min)
18:15 CET (March 13)
End