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SUMMARY:Users in focus: Creating service robots for and with people
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Astrid Weiss\, University of Technology\, Vienna\nAstrid We
 iss is a postdoctoral research fellow in HRI at the Vision4Robotics group 
 at the ACIN Institute of Automation and Control at Vienna University of Te
 chnology (Austria). Her current research focuses on Human-Robot Cooperatio
 n in vision-based tasks and service robots for older adults. Her research 
 is inspired by Theory of Mind and the approach of transferring findings fr
 om human-human studies to human-robot interaction in order to improve intu
 itiveness and acceptance. Her general research interests are user-centered
  design and evaluation studies for Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Ro
 bot Interaction with a focus on in-the-wild studies and controlled experim
 ents. She is especially interested in the impact technology has on our eve
 ryday life and what makes people accept or reject technology. Before her p
 osition in Vienna she was a postdoc researcher at the HCI&Usability Unit\,
  of the ICT&S Center\, University of Salzburg\, Austria and at the Christi
 an Doppler Laboratory on “Contextual Interfaces” at University of Salz
 burg. Astrid holds a master’s degree in sociology and a PhD in social sc
 iences from the University of Salzburg. During her studies she specialized
  on methodologies of empirical social research and applied statistics. Fro
 m September 2011 until January 2012 she was on a short-term sabbatical at 
 the University of Amsterdam\, Intelligent Systems Lab and the University o
 f Twente\, HMI group to work with Vanessa Evers on Cross-Cultural studies 
 in Human-Robot Interaction.\nUser involvement is a widely accepted princip
 le in the development of usable and acceptable technology. However\, it is
  still a vague approach in the research field of human-robot interaction. 
 This talk begins by explaining the nature of user involvement and how it c
 an be integrated in the development of service robots\, providing examples
  from different contexts (elderly care\, public space\, factory environmen
 ts\, etc.) and user groups (children\, older adults\, naive users\, expert
  users\, etc.) . The talk closes with a reflection on the benefits of user
  involvement for human-robot interaction\, outwaying the barriers and stum
 bling blocks on the way.
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