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Speculative Design videos are a useful tool for asking provocative questions like “What could possibly go wrong?” and provide a starting point for discussions of future technologies. This short paper presents and discusses a speculative video showcasing ...

As commercial robots are increasingly present in everyday spaces, more efforts in the HRI community are directed towards investigating the complexity of interactions in naturalistic settings. Simultaneously, conversations about the potentials and ...

Our work is theoretically grounded in the notion of sociomorphing contending that not all dimensions of experienced sociality with robots pertain to projection of human-like mental states i.e. anthropomorphism. To investigate dimensions of attributed ...

Playful research approaches have become more popular in Human- Robot Interaction (HRI). In this paper, a tabletop role-playing game is introduced as a means to explore future robot technologies in a playful, immersive and human-centred approach. The ...

Within human-robot interaction (HRI), research on robot personality has largely drawn on trait theories and models, such as the Big Five and OCEAN. We argue that reliance on trait models in HRI has led to a limited understanding of robot personality as a ...

This paper on industrial experience reports on two prominent public transport companies who decided to incorporate diversity more substantially into their corporate culture. To achieve the integration, an initiative was started and a project ...

In the context of industrial settings, extensive research of in-situ projections has proven their benefits for task performance. However, to date, these projections have not explicitly addressed policies designed to mitigate the dangers and health ...

As people's expectations regarding robots are still mostly shaped by the media and Science Fiction, there exists a gap between imaginaries of robots and the state-of-the-art of robotic technologies. Care robots are one example of existing robots that the ...

In this paper, we reflect on the disciplinary foundations and dominant practices in the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) from the perspective of our own experience of working interdisciplinarily and drawing on colleagues' ongoing work that ...

Focusing on human experience of vulnerability in everyday life interaction scenarios is still a novel approach. So far, only a proof-of-concept online study has been conducted, and to extend this work, we present a follow-up online study. We consider in ...

People’s willingness to help robots has been explored in the lab and in the wild in various settings. While previous studies relied on robotic prototypes, service robots are now already deployed in public spaces. This presents a novel and exciting ...

Technology use is a socially embedded process, especially when it comes to older adults and care. However, the restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have limited social contact to protect vulnerable groups in care homes, and even if ...

Putting laypeople in an active role as direct expert contributors in the design of service robots becomes more and more prominent in the research fields of human–robot interaction (HRI) and social robotics (SR). Currently, though, HRI is caught in ...

When children and adults work together as partners throughout the design process in a collaborative and elaborative manner, children come up with a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. The 5-step plan is a holistic approach that empowers ...

We are excited to welcome you to the 17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human- Robot Interaction (HRI 2022)! This is the third time that the HRI research community cannot meet in person, because of the COVID-19 pandemic; originally, we ...

This paper presents a reflection on a master class on “Responsible Design of AI” aimed at raising critical thinking among students about the pros and cons of AI technology in everyday life usage on the example of chatbots. In contrast to typical ...

Ensuring trust in human-robot interaction (HRI) is considered essential for widespread use of robots in society and everyday life. While the majority of studies use game-based and high-risk scenarios with low familiarity to gain a deeper understanding of ...

Empirical evidence suggests that the first wave of commercially available social robots for private homes was doomed to fail. Robot start-ups shut down and participants in long-term field trials refused to use these robots after only weeks. We conducted a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to shutdowns in several countries all over the world, including Austria (March to April 2020). In February 2020 we initiated an ethnographic study to explore the adoption of the commercially available robot Anki Vector in eight ...

This paper presents the results of a user acceptance survey (based on the Technology Acceptance Model ? TAM) of the humanoid social robot Pepper as a communication channel in different information retrieval scenarios in a business context. In total, 239 ...