most citedDesigning Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans

22 citations · 40 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.RO2025★ 3 cited

Dancing with a Robot: An Experimental Study of Child-Robot Interaction in a Performative Art Setting

Victor Ngo, Rachel, Ramchurn +3

This paper presents an evaluation of 18 children's in-the-wild experiences with the autonomous robot arm performer NED (Never-Ending Dancer) within the Thingamabobas installation,…

cs.RO2025

Theatre in the Loop: A Rehearsal-Based, Collaborative Workflow for Expressive Robotic Behaviours

Pavlos Panagiotidis, Victor Zhi Heung Ngo, Sean Myatt +4

In this paper, we propose theatre-in-the-loop, a framework for developing expressive robot behaviours tailored to artistic performance through a director-guided puppeteering workfl…

cs.HC2025

Cat Royale: An Artistic Inquiry into Trust in Robots

Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, Steve Benford +9

Cat Royale is an artwork created by the artists Blast Theory to explore the question of whether we should trust robots to care for our loved ones. The artists endeavoured to create…

cs.HC2024★ 15 cited

Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space

Steve Benford, Clara Mancini, Alan Chamberlain +10

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 tha…

cs.HC2024★ 22 cited

Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans

Eike Schneiders, Steve Benford, Alan Chamberlain +7

We reflect on the design of a multispecies world centred around a bespoke enclosure in which three cats and a robot arm coexist for six hours a day during a twelve-day installation…