Organisers

Rucha Khot (r.khot@tue.nl) is a PhD student at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her work involves designing robots for the evolving condition of dementia that includes their evolving identity. She has a background in electronics engineering and integrated product design for healthcare technologies.

Minha Lee​ (​m.lee@tue.nl​) is an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Department of Industrial Design, with a background in philosophy, digital arts, and HCI. Her research concerns morally relevant interactions with various agents like robots or chatbots. Her recent work explores how we can explore our moral self-identity through conversations with digital entities, e.g., via acting compassionately towards a chatbot. She has organized the previous editions of Robo-identity workshops at HRI.

Alexandra Bejarano​ (​abejarano@mines.edu) is a PhD student at the Colorado School of Mines. She is interested in how identity can be presented by groups of robots and how that presentation influences human interactants' mental models. She also is interested in the design of multi-robot control interfaces, in particular exploring how robot identity could be included.

Lux Miranda (lux.miranda@it.uu.se) is a PhD student at the Uppsala Social Robotics Lab of Uppsala University. Their work is concerned with the ethics, diversification, and utility of artificial identity as it relates to human social identity and culture. They have a background in anthropology, complexity science, philosophy, and illumination.

Gisela Reyes-Cruz (gisela.reyescruz@nottingham.ac.uk) is a Transitional Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, with a background in HCI, EM/CA, and accessibility. Her recent work investigates collaboration with, and trust in, autonomous and robotic systems. 

Joel Fischer​ (​joel.fischer@nottingham.ac.uk​) is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Nottingham. His research takes a human-centred view to understanding the adoption and embedding of AI-infused technologies into everyday life and work and has included mobile telepresence robots and conversational HRI.

Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos (dkonto@mit.edu) is a PostDoctoral Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is interested in how robots’ embodiment and non-verbal behaviors affect the process of establishing, maintaining, and repairing mutual understanding as well as how robots explain their behaviour to humans. He has previously co-organized the previous editions of Robo-Identity workshops.