Digital Life cooperates at ‘Designerly Human-Robot Interaction Knowledge’
04-09-2020
Nazli Cila, researcher at the Digital Life Centre, co-organized the 1st International workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge, which was held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE ‘International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication’ (RO-MAN 2020). The meeting was planned in Naples, but eventually took place entirely online.
Nazli cooperated together with Maria Luce Lupetti (TU Delft) and Cristina Zaga (Twente University). The workshop aimed at bringing the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) fields together, and was dedicated to the investigation of ‘designerly ways of knowing’ in HRI.
The workshop attracted international contributions and had 14 position papers presented. The accepted papers can be found here. Three leading names in HCI and HRI, i.e., Dr. Deborah Forster, Dr. Guf Hoffman, and Prof. Dr. Ron Wakkary, also gave keynote speeches about their work and joined to the panel discussing what HRI design epistemology is and could be, and how to evaluate and legitimate knowledge produced through HRI design practices.
This workshop will be followed-up by a special issue on this topic in one of the leading HRI journals.