The workshop is organized as part of MuC conference

Mensch und Computer 2022
4 – 7 September in Darmstadt

https://muc2022.mensch-und-computer.de/en/

Workshop Schedule

9:30 – 10:00  – Opening and introductions
10:00-10:30  – Paper session 1
10:30-11:00 – Coffee
11:00-12:00 – Paper session 2 & 3
12:00-12:30 – Interactivity I
12:30-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:30 –  Interactivity 2
15:30-16:00 – Coffee and Demos
16:00-16:30 – Discussion and closing
16:30 – End of the workshop

Robots are an emerging area in human- computer interaction. Although different types of robots have been around for automation and maintenance tasks, they are now emerging more and more towards use cases with social interaction, bringing new opportunities and challenges for the designers. Robots are being integrated into different work and service domains, including office work, healthcare and education. When designing interactive technologies, we need to take into account different user groups, use contexts, and even cultural sensitivities to achieve good user experiences. With robots, also tangible interaction, the form factor, and physical appearance are part of the interactive system design. This workshop addresses interaction with robots, focusing especially on the user experience and social interaction side of it. The workshop invites researchers and practitioners to present their work, or position papers, on the topic and to discuss about related case studies, applications, research methods, and experiences.

The workshop invites researchers and practitioners with background in, but not limited to, HCI, computer science, design, and psychology and social science related to technology use. The workshop invites submissions of case studies, applications, methodological notes, as well as position papers, related to topics such as

  • interaction with social robots
  • use of robots in a societal interactions
  • social robots as mediators of human interactions
  • service concepts integrating robots as part of the service experience
  • user experience with automation robots
  • emotions and affect with robots
  • user experience with robots in healtcare, education, rescue or other professional contexts
  • telepresence or robots as avatars
  • interaction with robots in cross-cultural contexts
  • ethics in human-robot interaction

Important dates

Submission: 20.06.2022

Notification: 01.07.2022

Final submission: 08.07.2022

Workshop 04.09.2022

Submission instructions

Submit your non-anonymized workshop papers via Easy Chair through this link.
The workshop papers should follow the ACM template, be the length of 2-4 pages, and not be anonymized. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and other experts on the field.
Templates:
Overleaf & LaTeX, and use documentclass[sigconf,screen]{acmart}
Word template

List of Accepted Papers:

Paper session 1 – Designing Interactions

  • Khaled Kassem and Florian Michahelles: Exploring Human-robot Interaction by Simulating Robots
  • Kyoko Sugisaki: How users solve problems with presence and affordance in interactions with conversational agents: A wizard of Oz study
  • Kirsikka Kaipainen, Salla Jarske, Aino Ahtinen and Kaisa Väänänen: Physical appearance drives design: Insights from co-designing a citizens’ initiative robot with high school students

Paper session 2 – Trustful Future

  • Svenja Schött and Andreas Butz: Robo-Tooltips: Understandable Robots for Trustworthy Interactions
  • Jonna Häkkilä, Siiri Paananen and Kaisa Väänänen: Personalizing Robot Avatars – Opening the Discussion
  • Basil Ugbomoiko and Ishan Lamsal: Human-Robot Interaction: Delineating the boundaries of Ethical compliance

Paper session 3 – Robots for Assistance

  • Siiri Paananen, Emma Eckhoff, Jonna Häkkilä, Aino Ahtinen and Kaisa Väänänen: Customizing Social Assistant Robots – Concepting Functionalities and Aesthetics
  • Susanna Kraemer, Eyal Ginosar, Susanne Boll-Westermann and Jessica Cauchard: Designing goal sharing for medical autonomous vehicles
  • Ashley Colley, Juri Etto, Juho Saavalainen, Petri Hannula and Jonna Häkkilä: Design Cases for Rescue and Maintenance Robots in a Northern Use Context

Group photo at the Workshop! Photo taken by our Student Volunteer Tamara!

Workshop Organizers:

Jonna Häkkilä, University of Lapland, Finland
Kaisa Väänänen, Tampere University, Finland
Markus Löchtefeld, Aalborg University, Denmark
Aino Ahtinen, Tampere University, Finland
Kirsikka Kaipainen, Tampere University, Finland
Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark
Siiri Paananen, University of Lapland, Finland
Petri Hannula, Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Ashley Colley, University of Lapland, Finland