Program & Registration

You can register for the workshop on the main HRI conference registration site. 

Additionally, let us know you are attending with this link.

Program (9am - 1pm MT)

9:00 - 10:00

Introduction & Agenda - 10 min 

Invited Speaker: Samantha Reig - 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A

Paper Presentations*: Designed identity & embodiment - 25 min

Session Chair: Joel E. Fischer

"A Gender-Controlled Replication Study on Deconstructed Trustee Theory" (Alexandra Bejarano, Tom Williams)

"Towards understanding the robot-mediated identity of telepresence" (Andriana Boudouraki)

"Robot Costume Design: Identity as a Narrative" (Nathaniel Dennler, Amy O’Connell, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja Matarić)

"Clothing for Robot Identity" (Natalie Friedman, Alexandra Bremers, Bolor Amgalan, Ray LC, AJ Parry, Kari Love, Wendy Ju) 

"Designing Re-embodiment and Telepresence metaphors for Augmented Reality facilitated Robotic Guidance" (Yifei Zhu, Tom Williams)

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break (conference-wide)

10:30 - 11:30

Discussion: Designed identity & embodiment - 15 min

Paper Presentations*: Personal & social identity - 30min

Session Chair: Gisela Reyes-Cruz

"Who is a robot? A fundamental model of artificial identity" (Lux Miranda)

"Social Injustice, Group Membership and Epistemic Trust in Robots" (Samantha Stedtler)

"What Should Supportive Agents Aim to Be?" (Irene Lopatovska)

"Creative Writers: Guardians of the Robot Galaxy" (Jorrit Thijn, Mike E.U. Ligthart)

Discussion: Personal & social identity- 15 min

11:30-11:45

Break

11:45-12:30

Paper Presentations*: In the Shared World - 25min

Session Chair: Rucha Khot

"Robot Explanation Identity" (Amar Halilovic, Senka Krivic)

"Can They Really Know You? Adaptability Considerations in the Era of Large Language Models" (Isabel Thomas)

"More than just a Tool: People’s Perception and Acceptance of Prosocial Delivery Robots as Fellow Road Users" (Vivienne Bihe Chi, Elise Ulwelling, Kevin Salubre, Shashank Mehrotra, Teruhisa Misu, Kumar Akash)

"The Utility of Non-Anthropomorphic Robot Identities" (Maria P. Stull, Bradley Hayes)

Discussion: In the Shared World - 15 min

12:30 - 13:00

Discussion Regroup & Share - 15 min 

Future Plans & Closing - 15 min

* Each paper presentation will be 4-5 minutes with time for 1-2 questions