Robots in Public Space

Robots on Public Space is a research project that aims to improve how we understand the impact that robots have on public space.

It brings social scientific conceptual and methodological frameworks to a new study of human-robot interaction and new applications of socio-affective robotics, including interdisciplinary design workshops to test, refine and communicate these frameworks throughout the project.

This project is novel and ambitious in its interdisciplinary breadth, speculative approach and focuses on a rapidly-developing high-impact research area.

Publications

• User Expectations of Robots in Public Spaces: A Co-design Methodology
• Towards a Modular and Distributed End-User Development Framework for Human-Robot Interaction
• Robots in public spaces: implications for policy design
• Redesigning Human-Robot Interaction in Response to Robot Failures: a Participatory Design Methodology