<aside> ⚠️ Important Dates
◦ Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2022
◦ Notification of Acceptance: August 19th, 2022
◦ Workshop Date: August 29th, 2022
◦ Camera-Ready Deadline: after the workshop
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Workshop Underline link: https://underline.io/events/350/sessions?eventSessionId=12255
As robots are engaging with more users in a variety of contexts, it is critical to ask who are robots being designed for, who are designing these systems, and with whom they are designing these systems.
This workshop focuses on all three of the areas listed above through the lens of participatory design (PD), a methodology that emphasizes and incorporates users in the design process through empowerment and amplification of voices that are often not heard in technology design.
We call for engaging more deeply in the topic of PD in HRI to support generating guidelines for researchers and practitioners to further deploy, expand, and address challenges in PD methods for designing robots. The aim of this half-day workshop is to engage in PD to delineate methods for how researchers and practitioners in HRI can approach and gain experience in PD through mindful community engagement.
The workshop will focus on generating a structure of PD in HRI that can support future researchers in deploying PD methodologies being mindful of its core values of democracy, advocacy, and empowerment. It will engage in discussion around the ethical issues of PD, especially related to HRI such as privacy concerns, autonomy, and transparency, to name a few.