R House Robotics Laboratory - Indiana University, Bloomington
Talk: Designing Robots With and For Communities
Selma Sabanović is a Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Her research examines the design, use, and societal consequences of socially interactive and assistive robots across diverse cultural and social contexts, bringing critical perspectives from science and technology studies into human-robot interaction and social robot design.
University of Bristol Business School, UK
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Matt Dowse is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol Business School, UK, working within the Centre for Sociodigital Futures. His research critically examines and re-imagines organizing in complex social contexts, with a focus on alternative organizational models, inter-organizational relations, and co-production, employing provocative research methods to challenge conventional thinking. Matt also curates the UK Community Technology Network and stewards its Community of Practice.
Mixed Reality Lab, Univeristy of Nottingham, UK
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Stuart Reeves researches ways to hybridize HCI with studies of social organization (ethnomethodology, conversation analysis), often employing video-based and ethnographic approaches. Recently he has been applying this to problems in HRI and Human-Robot Collaboration. Stuart recently completed a Responsible AI UK funded International Partnerships Project “Understanding Robot Autonomy in Public” and is a consulting partner on a follow-on Vinnova funded Drive Sweden project with Linköping University (and other partners) entitled "When delivery robots enter public spaces: A longitudinal study of Starship robots in Stockholm."