Date: Sunday 24th of November, 2024
Location: Workshops will be held in the Faraday Building. The specific rooms can be seen below.
List of Workshops
- Socially Competent Agents That Care
- Challenges and opportunities for the adoption and Integration of Human-Robot Interaction technologies
- TheoriseHAI: Shaping Human-Agent Interactions Through Interdisciplinary Theories
- Algorithmic Authority & AI Influence in Decision Settings: Theories and Implications for Design
- Fluidity in Human-Agent Interaction
Socially Competent Agents That Care
Workshop Summary
This full-day workshop focuses on advancing research and development in socially-competent agents that care. Many agent platforms and kinds of embodiments of agents that have a primary focus on caring, one way or another, for the end users. In this workshop, we aim to look at value-based design, inclusiveness, empathetic design and long-term human-agent interaction for socially competent agents that care.
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Faraday E & Full Day
Workshop Organizers
1. Pieter Wolfert, Radboud University, Netherlands
2. Anouk Neerincx, Utrecht University, Netherlands
3. Sofia Thunberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
4. Martijn Vastenburg, Radboud University, Netherlands
5. Mark Neerincx, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands TNO, Netherlands
Challenges and opportunities for the adoption and Integration of Human-Robot Interaction technologies
Workshop Summary
The integration and adoption of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) technologies present numerous challenges and opportunities. Adoption refers to the initial selection for use, while integration involves acceptance within the user environment [Eneh(2010)]. As we move towards a hybrid society with robots, issues like privacy concerns, ethical considerations and potential job displacement must be addressed. However, the benefits are equally compelling, including improved efficiency, enhanced safety in hazardous environments, and assistance with physically demanding or repetitive tasks. Our proposed workshop will explore these challenges and opportunities, providing a crucial platform for researchers, developers, and stakeholders to collaborate, share insights, and address these issues collectively. By fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, our workshop aims to catalyze innovation, establish best practices, and inform policies for responsible HRI integration. The community will gain invaluable knowledge, networking opportunities, and the chance to shape the future of HRI technologies while considering the technological and social factors crucial to their adoption and integration. Our main objective is to create a welcoming environment to discuss these issues and explore potential improvements together with attendees.
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Faraday F & Half Day
Workshop Organizers
1. Mr Alex Elias, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
2. Tania Carolina Camacho-Villa, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
3. Miss Bethan Alice Moncur, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
4. Dr Maria Jose Galvez Trigo, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
TheoriseHAI: Shaping Human-Agent Interactions Through Interdisciplinary Theories
Workshop Summary
AI agents are increasingly interacting with humans in their daily lives. This has highlighted several problems in the current application of human-agent interactions (HAI), such as non-use and rejection and concern over the impact on human behaviour. This workshop will explore cognitive, social, and psychological aspects of HAI, including how human behaviour and mental models influence and are influenced during these interactions. We aim to contribute with potential classical and novel theories that could be applied to ground HAI, understand what is needed, and how to develop efficient, ethical, social, and engaging HAI.
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Faraday G & Full Day
Workshop Organizers
1. Maitreyee Tewari, Corvinus University, Hungary, Umeå University, Sweden
2. Michele Persiani, Umeå University, Sweden
3. Roland Chen, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
4. Linda Li, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Algorithmic Authority & AI Influence in Decision Settings: Theories and Implications for Design
Workshop Summary
This workshop explores the influence of AI systems on human decision-making – algorithmic authority – and the broader concept of technology dominance, which includes both positive and negative impacts of AI reliance. Drawing from diverse fields such as Human-AI Interaction, Sociology, Epistemology, and Cognitive Science, the workshop will discuss theoretical foundations, empirical studies, and design implications of AI’s role in shaping human judgment and behavior. The objectives are to examine in-depth the concepts of algorithmic authority and technology dominance, and identify metrics for their assessment. The workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and produce practical design principles that help to counter risks associated to AI technology dominance and thus foster a responsible use of AI systems.
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Faraday H & Half Day
Workshop Organizers
1. Alessandro Facchini, USI-SUPSI, Switzerland
2. Caterina Fregosi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
3. Chiara Natali, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
4. Alberto Termine, USI-SUPSI, Switzerland, Technische Universität München, Germany
5. Ben Wilson, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Fluidity in Human-Agent Interaction
Workshop Summary
Fluidity is a key quality of human-human and more natural human-agent interaction (HAI). The concept of fluidity is difficult to define formally, however, interaction partners and users perceive the difference between more and less fluid interaction. As an initial informal definition, fluidity in interaction can be considered the abilities to seamlessly transition in turn-taking, to allow appropriate overlap of turns between agents, including multimodally, and to allow action using prediction. The purpose of this workshop is to bring agent designers together to attempt to define fluidity in interaction more precisely and propose ways in which we can make HAI more fluid.
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Faraday J & Full Day
Workshop Organizers
1. Julian Hough, Swansea University, United Kingdom,
2. Carlos Baptista De Lima, Swansea University, United Kingdom
3. Frank Förster, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
4. Patrick Holthaus, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
5. Yongjun Zheng, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom