POSTED: 01 Dec, 2023

As part of 2023 OzCHI conference held in New Zealand from 1-6th December, our researchers along with those from CSIRO, conducted a workshop on “Empowering People in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) Why, How, When, and for Whom”. This is the second year this workshop has run and this year it was hybrid.

During the workshop, there were over 17 attendees with a program that included:

• A panel discussion featuring Cécile Paris, Glenda Caldwell, Jared Donovan, and Hashini Senaratne on Why, How, When, and for Whom aspects of HRC,
• Two external experts, Christoph Bartneck, Mahla Nejati, who discussed barriers and pathways to HRC
• Presentations of 4 papers
• Road mapping activity and follow on presentation of these roadmaps.

A summary of this workshop will be available here: https://workshophri.github.io/OzCHI2023/

The workshop organisers included: Stine S. Johansen, ACC; Hashini Senaratne, CSIRO; Alan Burden, ACC; Melanie McGrath,CSIRO; Claire Mason, CSIRO; Glenda Caldwell, ACC; Jared Donovan, ACC; Andreas Duenser, CSIRO; Matthias Guertler, ACC; David Howard, CSIRO; Yanran Jiang, CSIRO; Cecile Paris, CSIRO; Markus Rittenbruch, ACC; Jonathan Roberts, ACC.