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How to Team with Your Robot? – Exploring Challenges and Opportunities for (Inclusive) Design of Human-Robot-Interaction

The full-day workshop is dedicated to multimodal human-robot interaction and discusses approaches such as speech, gestures, or AI-based intention recognition in the context of collaborative scenarios. Experts from academia and industry are invited to submit their contributions on topics such as user-centered design, social robotics, and interactive interfaces by July 18, 2025.

In the industrial sector but also in medicine and other contexts, robotic assistance is gaining importance. While use cases and users are diverse and show different characteristics, the interaction between robots and humans is often based on one primary input modality. In this workshop, we explore criteria of human-machine teaming from the perspective of human-human teaming and investigate novel approaches of multimodal interaction with robots, particularly for inclusive design. By enabling close collaboration between the workshop participants, we will (a) build a common understanding of the need for inclusive design in human-robot-interaction, (b) raise awareness of human-robot teaming aspects through an interactive experiment, (c) discuss current approaches, such as artificial intelligence or emotion recognition to, e.g. predict intentions in collaborative scenarios, and (d) elaborate on a joint workshop outcome that will, provide the human-computer interaction and human-robot collaboration communities with, e.g. recommendations for inclusive design in human-robot interaction.

Submission

Submissions (max. 4 pages in the correct format) are to be made via Conftool. All accepted workshop contributions will be published in the MENSCH und COMPUTER 2025 proceedings. Accepted contributions will be presented in person. Therefore, at least one author must be registered for both the workshop and the conference.

Target Audience

The workshop is aimed at individuals interested in interface sciences as well as those from fields such as robotics, computer science, engineering, psychology, and social sciences. It also explicitly welcomes representatives from business and industry.

  • Welcome
  • Get-to-know
  • Input «Teaming»
  • Practical Experiment «Teaming»
  • Discussion
  • Critical Reflection Part I

COFFEE BREAK

  • Critical Reflection Part II
  • Position Paper Presentation Part I
  • Interactivity: Knowledge Consolidation

LUNCH BREAK 

  • Keynote: Henny Admoni
  • Position Paper Presentation Part II
  • Interactivity: Knowledge Consolidation

COFFEE BREAK 

  • Discussion and Transfer into Practice
  • Outlook and Closing

Romina Poguntke
As Senior User Experience Developer at KUKA Deutschland GmbH, Romina is responsible for UX and UI design in robot operating software. In her research she focused on physiological and psychological components of stress induced by digital technologies and its mitigation. Romina holds a Bachelor Degree in Psychology, a Master Degree in Applied Cognitive and Media Sciences, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart. She teaches various courses as an external lecturer.

Sascha Kaden
Sascha is a researcher at the Chemnitz University of Technology in the field of robotics since 2018. His research focuses on the field of HRI, with an emphasis on mental workload and situational awareness. He holds a Master’s degree in Automation Systems from Chemnitz University of Technology.

André Dettmann
André is a scientest at Chemnitz University of Technology since 2012. He researches in the field of driver assistance systems and highly automated driving, as well as HRI. He holds a Masters Degree in Systems Engineering and a PhD from Chemnitz University of Technology.

Katrin Lohan
Katrin is since 2024 Head of the Institute for Development of Mechatronic Systems (EMS) and since 2019 Professor for Robotics and Automation at the EMS at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Buchs, Switzerland. Further, she is a visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University where she joint at 2013 (as an assistant Professor). Her main research interests are in understanding the learning mechanisms between parents and infants, between adults and adults, and between humans and robots to create a natural interaction with a robot. Furthermore, she is interested in deep learning of semantic objects, both through vision and speech.

Frieder Loch
Frieder is Professor for User-Centered Design at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Science in Rapperswil. His research focuses on the creation of intuitive and accessible user interfaces, especially for production environments. Frieder holds a Master Degree in Human Media Interaction from the University of Enschede and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich. He is the head of the Bachelor of Science in Digital Design.

Manuel Giuliani
Manuel is Professor for Geriatric Robotics at Kempten University of Applied Sciences. Before going to Kempten, Manuel was Professor in Embedded Cognitive AI for Robotics at the University of the West of England and Co-Director of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. Manuel’s research interests include assistive robotics, human-robot interaction, social robotics, natural language processing, multimodal fusion, multimodal output generation, augmented and virtual reality interfaces, and embedded cognitive robot architectures.