Robots Gone Wrong: The role of failure in human-robot interactions
TECoSA Seminar with Rebecca Stower
All are welcome to this hybrid seminar! See the Zoom link below, or contact vickid@kth.se if you want to join in real life on KTH Campus.
Time: Thu 2023-02-02 15.00 - 16.00
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267
Language: English
ABSTRACT: As robotics research continues to advance, there are increased opportunities for humans and robots to coexist in workplaces, homes, and public spaces. Yet, alongside this increased presence comes also more opportunities for failures to occur. Such failures can be physical, technical, or social and can lead to sometimes severe communication and task breakdowns. In this seminar, I will cover the role of such failures in shaping (different kinds of) human-robot interactions. I will also discuss different psychological concepts that are especially relevant to assessing and understanding robot failures, including trust, robot agency, and likeability. This research can also be considered in light of the replication crisis, where different challenges might be encountered by researchers when designing and implementing user studies involving both humans and robots. Consequently, the seminar will also consider the role of interdisciplinary robotics research in addressing such challenges
BIO: Rebecca Stower is a postdoctoral researcher in the social robotics lab (SORO) at the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning at KTH Royal Institution of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Previously, she worked as a researcher at the Paris8 CHArt Laboratory in collaboration with the Laboratory of Intuitive and Natural Interactions with Teleoperated Robots (INIT) in Montreal. She graduated with her PhD in Psychology in 2021 as part of the ANIMATAS H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie European Training Network (2018-2022). She is interested in the role of failures during human robot interactions, and how this affects people’s attitudes and behaviours towards robots. She is also highly involved with interdisciplinary research and the open science movement. You can read more on her homepage!
TECoSA hosts a guest speaker on the first Thursday of each month during term time. The seminars are free and all are welcome to attend. This Spring, all seminars will be available via Zoom (with some also IRL at KTH Campus). Please see the TECoSA Seminar Series homepage for details! www.tecosa.center.kth.se/tecosa-seminar-series/