Irene Alcubilla Troughton

• Master of Research
• PhD Student at Utrecht University

This paper critically evaluates how emotional and intentional movement is conceptualised and deployed in social robotics and provides an alternative by analysing contemporary robotic artworks that deal with affective human-robot interaction(HRI). Within HRI, movement as a way of communicating emotions and intent has become a topic of increased inte...

A key challenge in human-robot interaction (HRI) design is to create and sustain engaging social interactions. This paper argues that improvisational techniques from the performing arts can address this challenge. Contrary to the ways in which improvisation is generally used in social robotics, we propose an understanding of improvisational techniq...

Social robots have become increasingly prominent in the realm of physical activity promotion. However, the technological complexity and primarily anthropomorphic designs of these robots pose challenges for their application in everyday settings. This study positions spherical robots as an emerging subtype of social robots and explores their potenti...

This article proposes a joint reading of the scenography and costume designs of Cubist artist Pablo Picasso and Bauhaus member Oskar Schlemmer, arguing that they share a common project of re-articulating the body and its movements that echoes contemporary concerns about how notions of normalcy govern the relationships between bodies and space. We p...

In this article, the author proposes an alternative narrative opposed to those of traditional recognition in order to address the relationship between humans and the environment in the Anthropocene. With regards to current discourses around Gaia in the Anthropocene, and especially when dealing with climate change, authors such as Isabelle Stengers...

Book Review in Journal of Applied Arts & Health (10:1)

In this paper, the author analyses the interseccon between audiovisual devices and live performance in Kitchen (you've never had it so good) by the collecve Gob Squad. This piece is considered through the lens of intermediality, inasmuch as its blurring between media enables new perceppons and consideraaons of the status of arrssc forms. This analy...

This article will show, through the work of two contemporary Spanish theatre makers, the way in which performing arts, within the field of what Lehmann named as ‘postdramatic theatre’, focus on staging diverse corporealities, especially those deemed by us as ‘unproductive bodies’. This ‘unproductive body’ will be framed under the general assumption...

Introduction to Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities about Borders and Migrations. After a brief state of the art on the scholarly work on the topic, three main issues in relation to borders and migrations are addressed. Firslty, the so-called "borderless" state of contemporary society in terms of transnational flows of capital, human and/...

Visual and textual analysis of contemporary portrayals of women in advertisement, with an especial emphasis on the Dove case, to find the underlying assumptions of their mercantilised usage of feminism.

Bachelor's thesis about the influence of existential philosophy, mainly as understood by Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, in two case studies of Spanish and English literature through a comparative literary method: La familia de Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela and Ritual in the Dark by Colin Wilson.