2^nd International Workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge. Reflecting on HRI practices through Annotated Portfolios of Robotic Artefacts

Abstract

We propose a workshop stemming from ongoing conversations about the role of design methods and designed artefacts within the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Given the growing interest in understanding what the field can learn from design explorations, the workshop focuses on hands-on annotating activity where participants (researchers and practitioners from HRI, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design Research) will analyze and reflect upon selected collections of robotic artefacts. Ultimate goal of the workshop is to explicate values, concepts and perspectives that usually remain tacitly embedded in the designed artefacts and, as such, hard to appreciate as proper HRI contributions. The expected outcome of the workshop is a set of methodological recommendations and concrete examples of what kind of knowledge can be generated through robotic artefacts.

Eliciting New Perspectives in RtD Studies through Annotated Portfolios: A Case Study of Robotic Artefacts

“…Moreover, to the best of our knowledge, so far there is still no other HRI design work that adopts the usage of annotated portfolios on robotic artefacts [27,43]. As pointed out by several scholars [42,44,45], exploratory HRI design work carries crucial knowledge to understand the conceptual implications of robotic artifacts. To advance our understanding of designerly HRI work, investigations and examples are needed to foster and further the continuous questions and discussions around what design means to HRI.…”

“…However, there are subfields in HCI, as well as new emerging design domains with roots originated in engineering and technical sciences, where design research is still underrepresented. For example, recently, researchers in human-robot interaction (HRI) started to discuss the contributions that RtD work could bring to the field [44,45] and what design epistemology in HRI could be [42,43]. Although new methods building on speculative and critical design approaches have been proposed (e.g.…”