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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.

Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration (2025)
Journal Article
Reeves, S., Pelikan, H. R. M., & Cantarutti, M. N. (in press). Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction,

As we see robots being deployed into new places in everyday life, questions arise about what 'human-robot collaboration' (HRC) might look like there. At the same time, HRC researchers are looking to CSCW for better conceptualisations of 'collaboratio... Read More about Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration.

Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pelikan, H. R. M., Mutlu, B., & Reeves, S. (2025, March). Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design. Presented at HRI 2025, Melbourne, Australia

If robots are to be deployed in public places, we need to understand what factors their design should consider. Informed by sociological studies of urban settings, particularly the work of William H. Whyte and the Street Life Project, we describe fou... Read More about Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design.

Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorisation (2024)
Journal Article
Salimbeni, G., Benford, S., Reeves, S., & Martindale, S. (2024). Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorisation. Leonardo, 57(4), 415–421. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02546

The article presents a historical overview of the classification of contemporary artworks that either have utilized artificial intelligence as a tool in their creation or focus on AI as their central theme or subject matter. The authors analyze artwo... Read More about Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorisation.

Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pelikan, H. R. M., Reeves, S., & Cantarutti, M. N. (2024, March). Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets. Presented at 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Boulder, Colorado, USA

Robots deployed in public settings enter spaces that humans live and work in. Studies of HRI in public tend to prioritise direct and deliberate interactions. Yet this misses the most common form of response to robots, which ranges from subtle fleetin... Read More about Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets.

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.

Thinking Like a Machine: Alan Turing, Computation and the Praxeological Foundations of AI (2023)
Journal Article
Saha, D., Brooker, P., Mair, M., & Reeves, S. (2023). Thinking Like a Machine: Alan Turing, Computation and the Praxeological Foundations of AI. Science & Technology Studies, 37(2), https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.122892

As part of ongoing research bridging ethnomethodology and computer science, in this article we offer an alternate reading of Alan Turing’s 1936 paper, “On Computable Numbers”. Following through Turing’s machinic respecification of computation, we hop... Read More about Thinking Like a Machine: Alan Turing, Computation and the Praxeological Foundations of AI.

Your mileage may vary: Case study of a robotic telepresence pilot roll-out for a hybrid knowledge work organisation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boudouraki, A., Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., & Rintel, S. (2023, April). Your mileage may vary: Case study of a robotic telepresence pilot roll-out for a hybrid knowledge work organisation. Presented at CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany

Organisations wishing to maintain employee satisfaction for hybrid collaboration need to explore flexible solutions that provide value for both remote and on-site employees. In this case study, we report on the roll-out of a telepresence robot pilot... Read More about Your mileage may vary: Case study of a robotic telepresence pilot roll-out for a hybrid knowledge work organisation.

The Work to Make Facial Recognition Work (2023)
Journal Article
Greiffenhagen, C., Xu, X., & Reeves, S. (2023). The Work to Make Facial Recognition Work. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579531

Facial recognition technology (FRT) has become a significant topic in CSCW owing to widespread adoption and related criticisms: the use of FRT is often considered an assault on privacy or a kind of neo-phrenology. This discussion has revolved around... Read More about The Work to Make Facial Recognition Work.