Antonia Krummheuer

• Dr
• Professor (Associate) at Aalborg University

The workshop is the second in a row in which we gather and discuss interdisciplinary approaches on reconfiguring HRI. We will present and discuss new paradigms for HRI that enrich our understanding of the complex and mutual construction of (social) robots, socio-technical practices and (social) institutions. In doing so, we aim a) to cross the boun...

Insights → Dyadic concepts of single-user interaction underly most current HRI theory, experiments, and evaluations. → This dyadic focus is especially inappropriate in the care context, as robotic functionality and agency are a situated, mutual construction. → We should consider HRI as mediated interactions between multiple agents.

This paper reports on a full iteration from a project with an older adult, P, residing at a 24hour Danish care center for adults with acquired brain damage. P has due to a cognitive impairment severe challenges in remembering planned activities, which requires a substantial need for staff to remind him round the clock, thus leading to further depen...

This Work-in-Progress paper describes current work and future challenges of co-designing social robots with cognitively impaired residents. The project has in time of writing ran more than two years, which allows the reporting of both technical outcomes and methodological challenges.

Special needs education is focusing on a complex interplay of cognitive (knowledge), physical (motor rehabilitation), and social (interaction) learning. There is a strong discrepancy between the institutional spaces in which learning takes place and the need for scaffolding these levels of learning. In this paper, we present a first part of an ongo...

Vores mål med kapitlet er at gøre opmærksom på, at transskribering er en lærerig og uomgængelig del af den analytiske proces – noget, som skal plejes, udvikles og finpudses over tid, i takt med at ens transskription udvikles og raffineres. Det er i denne proces, at ens analyse og argumentation tager form samtidig med en udformning af, hvordan trans...

It has been shown that the development of social robots for the elder care sector is primarily technology driven and relying on stereotypes about old people. We are focusing instead on the actual social practices that will be targeted by social robots. We provide details of this interdisciplinary approach and highlight its applicability and usefuln...

The paper highlights how the material affordances of a teleoperated robot (Telenoid) enable identity construction in interactions with people living with acquired brain injury (ABI). The focus is set on the identity construction of the robot in relation to both its operator and the interlocutors. The analysis is based on video recordings of a works...

This article contributes to the discussion of how people with limited communication means become active participants in the assessment of welfare technologies. The article combines ethnomethodology with insights from Science and Technology Studies and emphasises the situated and multimodal practices that constitute the trial as a joint activity in...

Human-agent interaction (HAI), especially in the field of embodied conversational agents (ECA), is mainly construed as dyadic communication between a human user and a virtual agent. This is despite the fact that many application scenarios for future ECAs involve the presence of others. This paper critiques the view of an ‘isolated user’ and propose...

This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion on interactional management of communicative impairment by focusing on practices, in which people with an impairment are supported by those without to collaborate in an activity. Thus, a conversation and embodied interaction analysis is conducted of a routine in which a physiotherapist assists a clie...

Embodied Conversational Agents sollen ihren Entwicklern zufolge ein menschenähnliches Interaktionsverhalten aufweisen. Dies fordert die Soziologie heraus und es stellt sich die Frage nach der Art des Austauschs, der zwischen Agent und Nutzer stattfindet. Der Artikel geht vor dem Hintergrund der interpretativen Soziologie und einer empirischen Studi...

Diese empirische Studie untersucht den Austausch zwischen Menschen und virtuellen Agenten aus soziologischer Perspektive. Virtuelle Agenten sind verkörperte Softwareprogramme, die wie Menschen kommunizieren sollen. Während die Programmentwickler von einer ‚Interaktion’ zwischen Menschen und Agenten sprechen, schließt der soziologische Interaktionsb...

In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten wurde eine Vielzahl von Forschungsfeldern etabliert, die sich mit der Entwicklung interaktiver Technologien beschäftigen, welche die klassische Bedienung des Rechners über „windows, menues, and mouse“ (Dourish 2001: 14) überwinden sollen (vgl. Dourish 2001; Suchman et al. 1999). Die verschiedenen Projekte können grob...

Der Begriff der Informationsgesellschaft versucht die Entwicklungen, Strukturen und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen zu erfassen, die durch den Eintritt neuer Informations- und Kommunikationsmedien in Alltag, Freizeit und Arbeitswelt entstehen.2 Medien ermöglichen eine Entgrenzung der Kommunikation von Zeit und Raum. Gerade die Entwicklung neuer In...

This paper discusses the impact of the video technology on the recorded in-teraction. The findings are based on the analysis of videos which recorded human-actors communication with an virtual agent (intelligent, interactive software program). To gain a better understanding of the impact the orienta-tion of the participants towards the research equ...

With COSIMAB2B we demonstrate a prototype of a complex and vi- sionary e-procurement application. The embodied character agent named COSIMA is able to respect a customer's preferences and deals with him or her via natural speech. She expresses various emotions via mimic, gesture, com- bined with speech output, and COSIMA is even able to consider th...

Big Brother kündigt die ›reality soap‹ als ein exemplarisches Unterhaltungsformat der Multimedialität an, das von der Faszination durch den Alltag zehrt. Wenn ›reality‹ zur ›soap‹ und ›soap‹ zur ›reality‹ wird, dann versagen die herkömmlichen Kategorien der Kulturkritik: Statt Flucht in Traumwelten bietet Big Brother den (eigenen) Alltag als Zufluc...