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"Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions (2024)
Conference Proceeding

Radical and disruptive interventions are needed to reach "Net Zero" by 2050 to avert the climate catastrophe. Although governments, companies, cities, and institutions have pledged to take action and reduce their carbon emissions, the idea of persona... Read More about "Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions.

Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space (2024)
Conference Proceeding

While ethical challenges are widely discussed in HCI, far less is reported about the ethical processes that researchers routinely navigate. We reflect on a multispecies project that negotiated an especially complex ethical approval process. Cat Royal... Read More about Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space.

“They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot (2023)
Conference Proceeding

Increasingly, robots are adopted for routine tasks such as cleaning and disinfection of public spaces, raising questions about attitudes and trust of professional cleaners who might in future have robots as teammates, and whether the general public f... Read More about “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot.

RoboClean: Contextual Language Grounding for Human-Robot Interactions in Specialised Low-Resource Environments (2023)
Conference Proceeding

Building effective voice interfaces for the instruction of service robots in specialised environments is difficult due to the local knowledge of workers, such as specific terminology for objects and space, leading to limited data to train language mo... Read More about RoboClean: Contextual Language Grounding for Human-Robot Interactions in Specialised Low-Resource Environments.

Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation (2023)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Your mileage may vary: Case study of a robotic telepresence pilot roll-out for a hybrid knowledge work organisation (2023)
Conference Proceeding

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.

"Being in on the Action" in Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Rethinking Presence in Hybrid Participation (2023)
Conference Proceeding

Mobile Robotic Telepresence (MRP) systems afford remote communication with an embodied physicality and autonomous mobility, which is thought to be useful for creating a sense of presence in hybrid activities. In this paper, drawing on phenomenology,... Read More about "Being in on the Action" in Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Rethinking Presence in Hybrid Participation.

Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards (2022)
Conference Proceeding

Disabled people's experiences and knowledge are oftentimes not central in design processes. Further, the burden of outreach and sensitising others to these experiences and knowledge is frequently not recognised. This paper offers a workshop approach... Read More about Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards.

Effects of Wording and Gendered Voices on Acceptability of Voice Assistants in Future Autonomous Vehicles (2022)
Conference Proceeding

Voice assistants in future autonomous vehicles may play a major role in supporting the driver during periods of a transfer of control with the vehicle (handover and handback). However, little is known about the effects of different qualities of the v... Read More about Effects of Wording and Gendered Voices on Acceptability of Voice Assistants in Future Autonomous Vehicles.

ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies (2021)
Conference Proceeding

We present ALTCAI, a Wizard of Oz Embodied Conversational Agent that has been developed to explore the use of interactive agents as an effective and engaging tool for delivering health and well-being advice to expectant and nursing mothers in Nigeria... Read More about ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies.