These statements and work summaries present perspectives and background from the CHI community who wonder "What is a Robot?" and how HCI can lead the drive to find answers.
Buse Aktaş
Emergent Human–Robot Interaction Without Robots
Margo Biret, Aurélie Clodic & Anke M. Brock
Customization of a robotic platform for a telepresence system for hospitalized children
Robin Bretin, Robin Dheilly, Tom Lautenbach & Jessica Cauchard
A Robot Is What It Becomes: Toward Ecological Robotics
Adelina-Laura Bulibașa
Beyond the Object – Robots as Relational Narratives
Robin Dheilly, Robin Bretin, Tom Lautenbach & Jessica Cauchard
“I Contain Multitudes”: Interaction in Modular Robotics
Waki Kamino, Steven J. Jackson, Selma Šabanović & Malte F. Jung
What Is a Robot? Conceptualizing Robots as Fluid Sociotechnical Assemblages
Yixun Li
Holding MenstaRay: Expressing Menstrual Pain through Tactile and Knitted Soft Robotic Interactions
Shreya Mathur
Crossing Paths: Designing Trust Between Humans and Delivery Robots
Victor Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange & Marc Hassenzahl
Robots are Us: From Social Imitation to the Social Becoming of Human Groups
Adhityan Raja
Janusz Swierczynski & Trudi Lang
Haunted by Design: Ghost Scenarios in Robotics
David Wagmann
Beyond Anthropomorphism: Bio-Inspired Feedback for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Dong Zhang