[iva] Call for Submission: Workshop on Participatory Design in Human-Robot Interaction @ RO-MAN 2022

[Anastasia Ostrowski]

We are excited to announce a call for submission for the  <http://designerlyhri.com/>Participatory Design in Human-Robot Interaction <https://www.notion.so/romanpd/workshop-on-participatory-design-in-human-robot-interaction-0599c39e0c9248518349c7509d203483> workshop at RO-MAN 2022!


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Important Dates

Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2022

Notification of Acceptance: August 14th, 2022

Camera-ready Deadline: August 20th, 2022

Workshop Date: August 29th, 2022

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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 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 will feature keynote talks from Wendy Ju (Cornell Tech) and Selma Šabanović (Indiana University) speaking on participatory design methods in HRI.


Call for Submission 

To participate in this workshop, you are invited to submit a 1- to 2-page response addressing the 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?


We also ask that you submit a short bio and 1-page CV. Materials can be submitted through the EasyChair link found on our website: https://www.notion.so/romanpd/call-for-submission-191db1386fb14a958853e303f2c54819 <https://www.notion.so/romanpd/call-for-submission-191db1386fb14a958853e303f2c54819> 

The deadline for submission is July 15th, 2022.


Registration 

Workshop participants can register for the workshop through the RO-MAN website <http://www.ro-man2022.org/>. 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


Please let us know if you have any questions! More details about the call for submissions can be found here: https://www.notion.so/romanpd/call-for-submission-191db1386fb14a958853e303f2c54819 <https://www.notion.so/romanpd/call-for-submission-191db1386fb14a958853e303f2c54819> 


We look forward to you joining us at the Participatory Design in HRI workshop at RO-MAN 2022 soon!


Best regards,

Participatory Design in HRI Team


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