WCGW-19: What could go wrong?!' 2nd Workshop on lessons learned when doing HRI user studies with off-the-shelf social robots HRI 2019 Daegu, South Korea, March 11, 2019 |
Conference website | http://ii.tudelft.nl/what-could-go-wrong-workshop/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcgw19 |
Submission deadline | February 4, 2019 |
After a successful first workshop at HRI 2018 in Chicago, we are organizing a second What could go wrong?! workshop. This interactive and ands-on workshop is not just about listening to your HRI colleagues, but it’s about actively sharing your experiences. We hope to inspire the HRI community to be open about the reality of conducting HRI research and to communicate about issues, challenges or unexpected outcomes.
Everyone doing HRI research with end-users are invited to submit a case study to our workshop. We are particularly interested in case studies where things did not go as planned. Case studies describing research in the lab or in the wild are both welcome. Examples of unplanned experiences could include, but are not limited to, unexpected responses from the user, issues with the experimental setup or simply having challenges with transferring theory to the real world.
In this workshop, we focus on off-the-shelf robots. In order to generalize and compare differences across multiple HRI domains and create common solutions, we will provide a template for your case study.
We are interested in learning how such unexpected HRI results can be reported. In the workshop, we will discuss and study how failures are reported and be inspired to create a list of good ways to report failures, which can hopefully be inspiring for the HRI community.
Submission Guidelines
Participants are invited to submit a case study (up to 4 pages) to join the half-day workshop. The case study should cover the following sections such that the case studies can be compared in the workshop:
• A description of the study detailing:
- the problem domain;
- the aim of the study;
- the targeted population and
- the used off-the-shelf robot.
• The methodology and study set-up detailing:
- the (experimental) design;
- the recruitment process;
- participant demographics;
- instruments and measured used;
- the set-up and
- the (experimental) procedure.
• A description of the encountered issues / unexpected situations / negative results / failures / mistakes
• A root cause analysis of the encountered issues and optionally a reflection on the tried ad hoc solutions.
Organisers
Shirley A. Elprama, imec - SMIT - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
An Jacobs, imec - SMIT - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Katie Winkle, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK
Mike Ligthart, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Koen Hindriks, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to whatcouldgowrong.hri@gmail.com