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3rd Workshop on Designerly HRI:
Articulating the Value of Design Research for HRI
at the 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction in Edinburgh, UK
The 3rd Workshop on Designerly Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) aims to bring together scholars and practitioners engaged in design-oriented research to articulate the value of design research within HRI broadly.
This half-day workshop aims to (1) collectively map the diversity of design research in HRI, examining how contributions are framed and how quality is evaluated; (2) discuss participants’ projects, showcased in an exhibition setting, in relation to HRI design and (3) conclude with a focused conversation to identify common ground across diverse approaches and develop strategies for strengthening the position of design research in HRI and its connections with other HRI disciplinary communities
This workshop's target audience is people interested in design for HRI and/or those actively participating in design for HRI. As this is the third installation of the Designerly HRI series, we will also invite participants from previous workshops who have already expressed interest and engagement with these topics, continuing to support and grow the HRI Design community. Therefore, we plan to bring together researchers and practitioners who engage with Design for HRI from multiple backgrounds and perspectives.
Organisers
Marco C. Rozendaal
is an associate professor of Interaction Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft. His research explores HRI with a focus on the experiential, relational, and situated aspects of interaction.
Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski
is an assistant professor at Purdue University. Her research explores how to support design and implementation processes of robots and AI, incorporating design approaches, such as co-design and participatory design.
Mafalda Gamboa
is a PhD Student in Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology. Her research is focused on design theory, in particular research-through-design and first person methods.
Maaike Bleeker
is a professor of Performance, Science & Technology at Utrecht University. Her research investigates the performance of humans and technologies, and the potential of expertise from the theatre for developing robot behavior and HRI.
Nazli Cila
is an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology. Her work focuses on designing ethical human–AI/robot interactions, and on design epistemologies and methodologies for robotics.
Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
is an assistant professor of Robotics at the University of Michigan, where she leads Robot Studio, a research lab focused on creating robots for human health and creativity. Her research unifies the fields of Robotics, Design, and Psychology to create robots that are functional and aesthetically beautiful.
John Vines
is Chair in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He co-directs the Institute for Design Informatics. His research is at the intersection of participatory design, HCI and conducting research with groups typically at the margins of technology design decision making.
Hannah Pelikan
is an assistant professor at Linköping University and a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Her research oscillates between ethnomethodological studies of robots in the wild and interaction design grounded in video-recorded robot interactions.
Nikolas Martelaro
is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. His research seeks to augment designers' capabilities to best leverage human capacity and computation to solve society's toughest problems.
Samantha Reig
is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her research focuses on the agent and robot behavior design in socially complex settings.
David Sirkin
is an interaction design researcher, lecturer, and consultant, recently serving as Executive Director at Stanford’s Center for Design Research. His research focuses on physical interactions between humans and robotic objects, agents, and automated vehicles.
Selma Šabanović
is an assistant professor at Linköping University and a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Her research oscillates between ethnomethodological studies of robots in the wild and interaction design grounded in video-recorded robot interactions.
Maria Luce Lupetti
is an assistant professor in Design at the Department of Architecture and Design at Politecnico di Torino. Her research is concerned with all matters of human entanglement with the artificial world, especially concerning complex technologies such as AI and robotics.
Cristina Zaga
is an assistant professor of the Human-Centred Design group and DesignLab at the University of Twente. She is currently working on Design for Resistance approaches to contest and re-imagine the future of work and care with robots and AI.
The Venue
TBD
The workshop will happen in conjunction with the HRI conference in Edinburgh
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