Call for Submissions
Workshop on Participatory Design in Human-Robot Interaction
At 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)
Naples, Italy and Online [NOTE: This is for RO-MAN 2022; the Workshop website doesn’t specify location –Matthew]
August 29, 2022
Workshop: https://romanpd.notion.site/romanpd/workshop-on-participatory-design-in-human-robot-interaction-0599c39e0c9248518349c7509d203483
RO-MAN 2022: http://www.ro-man2022.org/
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2022
Notification of Acceptance: August 14th, 2022
Camera-ready Deadline: August 20th, 2022
Workshop Date: August 29th, 2022
As robots are engaging with more users in a variety of contexts, it is critical to ask who are robots being designed for, who are designing these systems, and with whom they are designing these systems.
This workshop focuses on all three of the areas listed above through the lens of participatory design (PD), a methodology that emphasizes and incorporates users in the design process through empowerment and amplification of voices that are often not heard in technology design.
We call for engaging more deeply in the topic of PD in HRI to support generating guidelines for researchers and practitioners to further deploy, expand, and address challenges in PD methods for designing robots. The aim of this half-day workshop is to engage in PD to delineate methods for how researchers and practitioners in HRI can approach and gain experience in PD through mindful community engagement.
The workshop will focus on generating a structure of PD in HRI that can support future researchers in deploying PD methodologies being mindful of its core values of democracy, advocacy, and empowerment. It will engage in discussion around the ethical issues of PD, especially related to HRI such as privacy concerns, autonomy, and transparency, to name a few.
The workshop is designed for a wide range of participants representative of the HRI community’s diverse discipline backgrounds to engage in the topic of PD. Our intended audience includes roboticists, design researchers, artists, engineers, computer scientists, and social scientists interested in learning about or deploying PD in their research and practice. We invite researchers who have experience with PD and people who are interested in the area and/or new to PD.
Interested participants are invited to submit a 1- to 2-page response addressing the following questions:
- What problems are central to your work? What problems are you seeking to solve in your work?
- What communities do you work with? What communities are engaged in the problems you are trying to solve?
- What methods have you used so far in your work? (participatory and otherwise)
- Why participatory design? Why do you choose to use this methodology? Or why are you interested in using this methodology?
- If you currently use PD, how many years have you been working in PD?
Interested participants should also submit a short bio and one-page CV to allow the organizers to understand the composition of disciplines of interested participants and to support discipline diversity at the workshop.
Relevant topics that interested participants may draw on include, but not limited to:
- The purpose and value of PD in HRI
- Translation of or adaption of PD for HRI
- How researcher background and expertise informs PD practices
- The value of interdisciplinarity in PD in HRI
- How PD can best be supported and deployed in HRI
- Ethical concerns HRI researchers need to examine when engaging in PD
- How to learn from the community about best PD practices for HRI
SUBMISSIONS
We will be using EasyChair for workshop submissions. Please submit your 1- to 2-page response, short bio, and one-page CV using this link or copy this url into your browser:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=pdroman2022
If you only have one author on your submission, leave the other author spaces blank in the EasyChair submission. If you have more than three authors, you can add additional authors on the EasyChair submission.
REGISTRATION
Workshop participants can register for the workshop through the RO-MAN website. Registration details for workshops are detailed through this link as well.
ORGANIZERS
Anastasia K. Ostrowski / Ph.D. candidate, MIT Media Lab
Patrícia Alves-Oliveira / Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Washington
Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa / Ph.D. Candidate, Chalmers University of Technology
Nikolas Martelaro / Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
SUGGESTED READINGS
Suggested readings around participatory design for some inspiration and thoughts to consider
- Janlert, L. E., & Stolterman, E. (2017). Things that keep us busy: The elements of interaction. MIT Press.
- Spiel, K., Brulé, E., Frauenberger, C., Bailly, G., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2018, August). Micro-ethics for participatory design with marginalised children. In Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Full Papers-Volume 1 (pp. 1-12).
- Harrington, C., Erete, S., & Piper, A. M. (2019). Deconstructing community-based collaborative design: Towards more equitable participatory design engagements. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3 (CSCW), 1-25.
- Björling, E. A., & Rose, E. (2019). Participatory research principles in human-centered design: engaging teens in the co-design of a social robot. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 3 (1), 8.
- Alves-Oliveira, P., Arriaga, P., Paiva, A., & Hoffman, G. (2021, March). Children as robot designers. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 399-408).
- Ostrowski, A. K., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2021, August). Long-term co-design guidelines: empowering older adults as co-designers of social robots. In 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1165-1172). IEEE.
- Weiss, A., & Spiel, K. (2021). Robots beyond Science Fiction: mutual learning in human–robot interaction on the way to participatory approaches. AI & SOCIETY, 1-15.
- Mott, T., Bejarano, A., & Williams, T. Robot Co-design Can Help Us Engage Child Stakeholders in Ethical Reflection. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.