All Outputs (10)

Playing with Telepresence Robots for Design Speculation (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avila, J. M., Boudouraki, A., Cameron, H., Reyes Cruz, G., Spors, V., Turmo Vidal, L., Windlin, C., Elmimouni, H., Rode, J. A., & Read, J. C. (2025, July). Playing with Telepresence Robots for Design Speculation. Presented at ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS) 2025, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

This workshop explores how telepresence robots can be used for playful design speculation, leveraging their inherent asymmetries to create engaging and innovative experiences. By focusing on playfulness instead of purely utilitarian applications this... Read More about Playing with Telepresence Robots for Design Speculation.

Contesting Control with Automation in Technology-Mediated Interactions (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boudouraki, A., Cameron, H. R., Reyes-Cruz, G., Martinez Avila, J. P., Orduna, M., Varela Castro, S., & Kohonen-Aho, L. (2025, April). Contesting Control with Automation in Technology-Mediated Interactions. Presented at CHI EA '25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

With the growing use of autonomous systems in computer-supported communication(CSC) such as recommended text in emails, speaker tracking in videoconferencing or automated facial expressions in VR avatars, machine agency is increasingly becoming entwi... Read More about Contesting Control with Automation in Technology-Mediated Interactions.

How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Garrett, R., Schneiders, E., Tennent, P., Chamberlain, A., Avila, J., Brundell, P., & Castle-Green, S. (2024, October). How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics. Presented at 16th International Conference on Social Robotics + AI (ICSR + AI) 2024, Odense, Denmark

We explore transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and roboticists across a portfolio of artworks. Brendan Walker’s Broncomatic was a breath controlled mechanical rodeo bull ride. Blast Theory’s Cat Royale deployed a robot arm to play with a... Read More about How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics.

Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Schneiders, E., Martinez Avila, J. P., Caleb-Solley, P., Brundell, P. R., Castle-Green, S., Zhou, F., Garrett, R., Höök, K., Whatley, S., Marsh, K., & Tennent, P. (2025, March). Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at HRI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Melbourne, Australia

As robots enter the messy human world so the vital matter of safety takes on a fresh complexion with physical contact becoming inevitable and even desirable. We report on an artistic-exploration of how dancers, working as part of a multidisciplinary... Read More about Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction.

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.

Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities (2023)
Journal Article
Benford, S., McGarry, G., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Gibson, R., & Avila, J. P. M. (2023). Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities. Journal of New Music Research, 52(5), 436-455. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2024.2423613

We explore how augmenting musical instruments with digital identities can enhance their provenance, utility during creative practice, and personal meaning. A literature review reveals the importance of object identities in general and instrument iden... Read More about Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities.

The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars (2023)
Journal Article
Martinez Avila, J., Hazzard, A., Greenhalgh, C., Benford, S., & McPherson, A. (2023). The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars. Journal of New Music Research, 52(1), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2274832

Guitarists struggle to play their instruments while simultaneously using additional computing devices (i.e., encumbered interaction). We explored designs with guitarists through co-design and somaesthetic design workshops, learning that they (unsurpr... Read More about The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars.

Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vear, C., Benford, S., Avila, J. M., & Moroz, S. (2023, August). Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity. Presented at Artificial Intelligence and Music Creativity 2023, Sussex University

In this paper, we present a framework for understanding human-AI musicking. This framework prompts a series of questions for reflecting on various aspects of the creative interrelationships between musicians and AI and thus can be used as a tool for... Read More about Human-AI Musicking: A Framework for Designing AI for Music Co-creativity.

Being (A)part of NIME: Embracing Latin American Perspectives (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martinez Avila, J. P., Tragtenberg, J., Calegario, F., Alarcon, X., Cadavid Hinojosa, L. P., Corintha, I., Dannemann, T., Jaimovich, J., Marquez-Borbon, A., Matus Lerner, M., Ortiz, M., Ramos, J., & Solís García, H. (2022, June). Being (A)part of NIME: Embracing Latin American Perspectives. Presented at NIME 2022: New Interfaces for Musical Expression, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Latin American (LATAM) contributions to Music Technology date back to the early 1940’s. However, as evidenced in historical analyses of NIME, the input from LATAM institutions to its proceedings is considerably low, even when the conference was recen... Read More about Being (A)part of NIME: Embracing Latin American Perspectives.

Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case (2021)
Journal Article
Höök, K., Benford, S., Tennent, P., Tsaknaki, V., Alfaras, M., Martinez Avila, J., Li, C., Marshall, J., Daudén Roquet, C., Sanches, P., Ståhl, A., Umair, M., Windlin, C., & Zhou, F. (2021). Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 28(6), Article 40. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462448

We report on a somaesthetic design workshop and the subsequent analytical work aiming to demystify what is entailed in a non-dualistic design stance on embodied interaction and why a first-person engagement is crucial to its unfoldings. However, as w... Read More about Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case.