Organizers

Vicky Charisi is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Studies of the JRC, European Commission with a focus on the impact of AI on Human Behaviour, in particular on Child-Robot Interaction. Her research interests include child’s cognitive and socio-emotional development and creative thinking in the context of emergent technologies, such as robotics, and her work informs policy-oriented discussions. Currently, she serves as a Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for Cognitive and Developmental Systems TF for Human-Robot Interaction and she is a core member of the International Consortium for Socially Intelligent Robotics.

Laura Malinverni is a postdoctoral researcher at Universitat de Barcelona. Her research focuses on creative methods to research and design emergent technologies with and for children. She holds a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies, a MSc in Cognitive Science and Interactive Media and a BA in Fine Arts. In the past, she has worked as researcher in both EU and national-funded projects as well as educator in several projects with at-risk youth.

Elisa Rubegni is a Lecturer in HCI and Children-Computer Interaction at Lancaster University, UK. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating children's experience in interacting with mobile, distributed technologies and social agents in educational contexts. Recently, she was awarded by Quality-Related Strategic Priorities Funding (QR-SPF) UKRC funding scheme to conduct a project focused on designing technology for very young children to empower them in reading at school. Dr. Rubegni is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. She is a constant presence at the IDC conference where she successfully organised and led three workshops.

Marie-Monique Schaper is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Computational Thinking and Design, Aarhus University. Her research focuses on merging playful technologies and design research in different disciplines of interaction. Marie is specifically interested in the exploration of novel strategies for participatory design methods and techniques to promote critical reflection around emergent technologies for children. She has worked in design projects with intergenerational stakeholders in the media industry and in academic contexts.