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Three Lessons from Citizen-Centric Participatory AI Design
Eike Schneiders, Sarah Kiden, Beining Zhang +5
This workshop paper examines challenges in designing agentic AI systems from a citizen-centric perspective. Drawing on three participatory workshops conducted in 2025 with members…
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…
Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction
Steve Benford, Eike Schneiders, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila +9
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 artist…
Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories
Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Christine Li +10
We reappraise the idea of colliding with robots, moving from a position that tries to avoid or mitigate collisions to one that considers them an important facet of human interactio…
How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics
Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Eike Schneiders +5
We explore transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and roboticists across a portfolio of artworks. Brendan Walker's Broncomatic was a breath controlled mechanical rodeo bu…
Objection Overruled! Lay People can Distinguish Large Language Models from Lawyers, but still Favour Advice from an LLM
Eike Schneiders, Tina Seabrooke, Joshua Krook +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) are seemingly infiltrating every domain, and the legal context is no exception. In this paper, we present the results of three experiments (total N = 2…
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…
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…
Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration
Eike Schneiders, Christopher Fourie, Stanley Celestin +2
Successful entrainment during collaboration positively affects trust, willingness to collaborate, and likeability towards collaborators. In this paper, we present a mixed-method st…
The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction
Ayodeji O. Abioye, William Hunt, Yue Gu +7
Formal Modelling is often used as part of the design and testing process of software development to ensure that components operate within suitable bounds even in unexpected circums…