Selma Šabanović will be the Keynote speaker for the Inter.HAI workshop
Selma Šabanović is a Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science at Indiana University. Her work combines the social studies of computing, focusing particularly on the design, use, and consequences of socially interactive and assistive robots in different social and cultural contexts, with research on human-robot interaction (HRI) and social robot design. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction since 2017.
Better Together: Methods and tools to support co-designing an assistive robot for older adults
Designing socially assistive robots requires not only the engagement of multiple disciplines – such as social, health, and computer scientists – but also practitioners and potential end users and others affected by such robots. To build such collaborations, researchers and their co-design need to spend time together to develop a common understanding and trust. They also often need to amend design methods to engage different types of participants, and develop tools that can support design by people with different skillsets and background knowledge. In this talk, I will discuss both design methods and tools that we have developed to support the creation of a socially assistive robot meant to support older adults in 2 countries: the US and Japan. I will particularly focus on challenges and solutions to bringing together participants from different disciplines and institutions in the 2 countries, including clinicians and older adults, to design the robot together.