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Aug 2025
Charting the Ecosystem of Trust in Cat Royale Or what it takes to trust a robot to play with cats - Steve Benford, Sarah Sharples, Clara Mancini, Simon Castle-Green, Victor Ngo, Joel Fischer, Nick Tandavanitj, Ju Row Farr, Matt Adams, Pepita Barnard, Helena Webb, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Alan Chamberlain, Guido Salimbeni, Eike Schneiders
Jul 2025
Playing with Telepresence Robots for Design Speculation - Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Charles Windlin, Andriana Boudouraki, Velvet Spors, Houd Elmimouni, Jennifer Rode, Harriet R Cameron, Laia Turmo Vidal
Jun 2025
Somatic and somaesthetic design practices in NIME - Juan Martinez Avila, Doga Cavdir, Courtney N Reed, Mary Mainsbridge, Kelsey Cotton, Tove Gramstad Bang, Lucia Montesinos Garcia
Apr 2025
Contesting Control with Automation in Technology-Mediated Interactions - Andriana Boudouraki, Harriet R Cameron, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Marta Orduna, Samanta Varela Castro, Ph. D., Laura Kohonen-Aho
Mar 2025
Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction - Steve Benford, Eike Schneiders, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Patrick Robert Brundell, Simon Castle-Green, Feng Zhou, Rachael Garrett, Kristina Höök, Sarah Whatley, Kate Marsh, Paul Tennent
Mar 2025
Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories - Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Christine Li, Paul Tennent, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Kristina Höök, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Joe Marshall, Eike Schneiders, Kristina Popova, Jude Afana
Jan 2025
Beyond Video-Conferencing: Telepresence Technologies for Extending Expertise Reach and Specialised Skill Sharing - Andriana Boudouraki, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Veronica Ahumada-Newhart, Niki Chouliara, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Houda Elmimouni, Laura Fiorini, Pratyusha Ghosh, Praminda Caleb-Solly
Jan 2025
Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations - Alan Chamberlain, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Victor Ngo, Steve Benford, Glenn McGarry, Angela Higgins
Nov 2024
Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities - Steve Benford, Glenn McGarry, Adrian Hazzard, Alan Chamberlain, Rebecca Gibson & Juan Pablo Martinez Avila
Oct 2024
How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics - Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Eike Schneiders, Paul Tennent, Alan Chamberlain, Juan Avila, Pat Brundell, Simon Castle-Green. How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics. arXiv:2410.22462