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Sep 2025
Theatre in the Loop: A Rehearsal-Based, Collaborative Workflow for Expressive Robotic Behaviours - Pavlos Panagiotidis, Victor Zhi Heung Ngo, Sean Myatt, Roma Patel, Rachel Ramchurn, Alan Chamberlain, Ayse Kucukymilaz. 17th International Conference on Social Robotics+AI (ICSR+AI), Napoli, Italy, 10-12 September 2025.
Aug 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. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 32, No. 4, Article 37.
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. 17th International Conference on Social Robotics + AI (ICSR 2025)
Aug 2025
Decoupled, wearable soft robotic rehabilitation device for the upper limb - James Greig, Mhairi McInnes, Edward K Chadwick & Maria Elena Giannaccini. Wearable Technologies , Volume 6 , 2025 , e38
Jul 2025
Doing AI Differently: Rethinking the foundations of AI via the humanities - Drew Hemment, Cody Kommers, Ruth Ahnert, Maria Antoniak, Glauco Arbix, Vaishak Belle, Steve Benford et al. White Paper, 31 July 2025
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. DIS ’25 Companion, Funchal, Portugal
Jun 2025
Developing an Action Plan for Rural Informatics - Ben Davies, Ian G Johnson, Nick Taylor, Alan Chamberlain (2025): Developing an Action Plan for Rural Informatics. In: 23rd EUSSET Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Newcastle, UK
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. NIME ’25, June 24–27, 2025, Canberra, Australia
Jun 2025
AI and Intelligent Synthetic Skin: Advancing Beyond Human Skin for Sensory Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - Feng Zhou, Alan Chamberlain & Steve Benford, Third UK AI Conference, 23 June 2025, London, UK
Jun 2025
AI Lens: A Live Generative AI Camera System for Dynamic Image Transformation - Richard Ramchurn, Hermen Maat, Alan Chamberlain, Angela Higgins, Steve Benford, Paul Tennent, Kieran Woodward, Dominic Price, Gabriella Giannachi, Rachael Garrett, Chris Kitsidis, Third UK AI Conference June 2025, London , UK
Jun 2025
Embrace Angels: an Artistic Exploration of how Humans and Robots can Embrace - Karen Lancel, Hermen Maat, Richard Ramchurn, Alan Chamberlain, Angela Higgins, Steve Benford, Paul Tennent, Kieran Woodward, Dominic Price, Gabriella Giannachi, Rachel Garrett & Chris Kitsidis, Third UK AI Conference, June 2025, London, UK
Jun 2025
Explainable AI for the Arts 3 (XAIxArts3) - Cory Ford, Elizabeth Wilson, Shuoyang Zheng, Gabriel Vigliensoni, Jeba Rezwana, Lanxi Xiao, Michel Paul Lemens, Makayla Lewis, Drew Hemment, Alan Chamberlain, Helen Kennedy Nick Bryan Kinns, C&C '25: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition Pages 13 - 19
Jun 2025
The Virtual Session: Synchronizing Multiple Virtual Musicians Simulating an Irish Traditional Music Session - Marco Amerotti, Steve Benford, Bob L.T. Sturm, Juan Martinez Avila. Paper Session 50th Anniversary International Computer Music Conference, June 8-14 2025, Boston - 3B: Composition, Performance, and Interactive Systems 3
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
Apr 2025
Friction in Processual Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethical Relations in Interdisciplinary Research - Rachael Garrett, Patrick Brundell, Simon Castle-Green, Kat Hawkins, Paul Tennent, Feng Zhou, Airi Lampinen, Kristina Hook, Steve Benford. CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 400, Pages 1 - 15
Apr 2025
In the Moment of Glitch: Engaging with Misalignments in Ethical Practice - Rachel Garrett, Kat Hawkins, Patrick Brundell, SimonCastle-Green, Paul Tennent, Feng Zhou, Airi Lampinen, Kristina Hook, Steve Benford. CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 407, Pages 1 - 18
Apr 2025
Savouring Slow Gifts: Reflection from the Field Study of Hybrid Gifting - Hyosun Kwon, Steve David Benford, Boriana Koleva. CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 326, Pages 1 - 20
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. HRI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Pages 429 - 438
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. GROUP '25: Companion Proceedings of the 2025 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work Pages 6 - 8
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. Designing for Bodies: Practices, Imaginaries and Discourses, Kolding, Denmark, 2025.
Dec 2024
Performing with AI as a Practice-led Methodology for AI Music - Steve Benford, Marco Amerotti, Bob L. T. Sturm and Craig Vear, AIMS, 1st International Conference in AI Music Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 2024
Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities - Steve Benford, Glenn McGarry, Adrian Hazzard, Alan Chamberlain, Rebecca Gibson & Juan Pablo Martinez Avila. JOURNAL OF NEW MUSIC RESEARCH 2023, VOL. 52, NO. 5, 436–455
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. Social Robotics: 16th International Conference, ICSR + AI 2024, Odense, Denmark, October 23–26, 2024, Proceedings, Part III Pages 66 - 77
Oct 2024
Dancing with a Robot: An Experimental Study of Child-Robot Interaction in a Performative Art Setting. - Victor Ngo, Roma Patel, Rachel Ramchurn, Alan Chamberlain, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, International conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 23-26 October 2024, Odense, Denmark
Sep 2024
Negotiating Autonomy and Trust when Performing with an AI Musician - Steve Benford, Marco Amerotti, Bob Sturm, Juan Martinez Avila. Negotiating Autonomy and Trust when Performing with an AI Musician. TAS '24: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. Article No.6, Pages 1 – 10
Aug 2024
Elon Musks Tesla is promising to sell a humanoid robot. It could be the first of many - Steve Benford, Praminda Caleb-Solly. The Conversation, August 6, 2024
Aug 2024
Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorization - Guido Salimbeni, Steve Benford, Stuart Reeves, Sara Martindale. Leonardo (2024) 57 (4): 415–421.