EUD4HRI
End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction
Friday, March 15, 2024, Hybrid
Half-day Workshop (Morning)
Thank you all for participating! Hope to see you again soon.
This workshop is held in conjunction with the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
FOR THOSE ATTENDING VIRTUALLY: Please email Laura Stegner (stegner@wisc.edu) requesting the Zoom link and include the subject "EUD4HRI virtual attendance"
About
End-user development (EUD) represents a key step towards making robotics accessible for experts and non-experts alike. Within academia, researchers investigate novel ways that EUD tools can capture, represent, visualize, analyze, and test developer intent. At the same time, industry researchers increasingly build and ship programming tools that enable customers to interface with their robots. Yet, despite this increasing interest, the role of EUD within HRI is not well defined. EUD struggles to situate itself within a growing array of alternate approaches to application development, such as robot learning and teleoperation. EUD further struggles due to the wide range of individuals who can be considered end users, such as someone at the robot manufacturer, an independent third-party application developer, or a consumer/hobbyist using a robot in their home. Key questions remain such as how EUD is justified over alternate approaches to application development, which contexts EUD is most suited for, who the target users of an EUD system are, and where does interaction between a human and a robot take place, amongst many, many other questions. We seek to address these challenges and questions by organizing the first End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction (EUD4HRI) workshop at the 2024 International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction.
The workshop will bring together researchers with a wide range of expertise across academia and industry, spanning perspectives from multiple subfields of robotics, with the primary goal being a consensus of perspectives about the role that EUD must play within human-robot interaction.
To participate in the workshop, please use visit the Registration page. To submit a workshop paper, please refer to the Call for Papers page. For additional details on the workshop aims, see the extended abstract.
Please free to reach out if you have questions!
Laura Stegner (University of Wisconsin-Madison), stegner@wisc.edu
Dr. David Porfirio (US Naval Research Laboratory)
Dr. Ross Mead (Semio)
Dr. Severin Lemaignan (PAL Robotics)
Dr. Laura M. Hiatt (US Naval Research Laboratory)
Dr. Bilge Mutlu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)