Outputs (8)

Please Follow Me to the Next Stop: A Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Boudouraki, A., Price, D., Piskopani, A.-M., Barnard, P., Cameron, H., Maior, H., Trigo, M. G., Reeves, S., Fischer, J., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2026, April). Please Follow Me to the Next Stop: A Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK. Presented at ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025, Yokohama, Japan

Robots are increasingly being used in public spaces in the UK. Museums and galleries are a noteworthy setting for exploring robot adoption, such as for providing guided tours or enabling remote visits. Although robots have been deployed in museums in... Read More about Please Follow Me to the Next Stop: A Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK.

Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, H. R., Reyes-Cruz, G., Piskopani, A.-M., Barnard, P., Boudouraki, A., Caleb-Solly, P., Castle-Green, S. D., Fischer, J. E., Hyde, R., Kucukyilmaz, A., & Maior, H. A. (2025, April). Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives. Presented at CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Telepresence robots have the potential to change our experiences in galleries and museums, allowing for a range of hybrid interactions for visitors and museum professionals, improving accessibility, offering activities or information, and providing a... Read More about Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives.

Reimagining the Design of Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Reflections from a Hybrid Design Workshop (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Martinez Avila, J., Schneiders, E., & Boudouraki, A. (2024, September). Reimagining the Design of Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Reflections from a Hybrid Design Workshop. Presented at TAS '24: Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas, USA

Mobile robotic telepresence systems have been around for more than a decade, promising to improve on traditional video conferencing by enabling remote movement, and more recently, providing autonomous features for navigation, yet their use in the rea... Read More about Reimagining the Design of Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Reflections from a Hybrid Design Workshop.

An Interdependence Frame for (Semi) Autonomous Robots: The Case of Mobile Robotic Telepresence (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boudouraki, A., & Reyes-Cruz, G. (2024, September). An Interdependence Frame for (Semi) Autonomous Robots: The Case of Mobile Robotic Telepresence. Presented at TAS '24: Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas, USA

Technological advancements often promise to alleviate our reliance on one another through automating assistance. One such example is Mobile Robotic telePresence (MRP), which gives users the ability to move independently, whilst having a video call, b... Read More about An Interdependence Frame for (Semi) Autonomous Robots: The Case of Mobile Robotic Telepresence.

A Multimethod Analysis of US Perspectives towards Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barnard, P., Boudouraki, A., & Clos, J. (2024, September). A Multimethod Analysis of US Perspectives towards Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '24), Austin, Texas

The Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub is a collabora-tive platform that aims to guide the development of autonomous systems that are safe, reliable, and ultimately trusted by society. Its mission is to address the challenges surrounding the gr... Read More about A Multimethod Analysis of US Perspectives towards Trustworthy Autonomous Systems.

Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction: An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Boudouraki, A., Reyes-Cruz, G., Martinez Avila, J. P., Elmimouni, H., Grønbæk, J. E. S., Rintel, S., & Joshi, S. (2023, September). Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction: An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots. Presented at 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Athens, Greece

In recent years virtual meetings have become the predominant alternative to face-To-face meetings. Ongoing efforts in the design of telepresence robots promise remote access to physical settings and a greater sense of presence, leading to improved re... Read More about Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction: An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots.

Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Phypers, I., Boudouraki, A., Price, D., Fischer, J., Reeves, S., Galvez Trigo, M., & Maior, H. (2023, July). Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) allows remote users' access and mobility in a range of local environments. MRP devices have been adopted in societally significant domains such as workplaces, museums, commerce, education, and healthcare, especially... Read More about Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation.

"There is a bit of grace missing": Understanding non-use of mobile robotic telepresence in a global technology company (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boudouraki, A., Reeves, S., Fischer, J., & Rintel, S. (2023, July). "There is a bit of grace missing": Understanding non-use of mobile robotic telepresence in a global technology company. Presented at TAS '23: First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Edinburgh, UK

Mobile robotic telepresence technology may be a potential solution to hybrid communication as it allows remote attendees embodied movement in space. Yet, there is little exploration into how its affordances fit with the practices and needs of workpla... Read More about "There is a bit of grace missing": Understanding non-use of mobile robotic telepresence in a global technology company.