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Creative Informatics Final Report (2024)
Report
Terras, M., Osborne, N., McDonald, C., Henderson, D., Pirie, E., Tyndall, A., Sulaiman, Y., Smyth, M., Panneels, I., Speed, C., Bates, C., Black, S., Jones, V., Zeller, F., Murray, V., Dale Steyn, I., & Smythe, J. (2024). Creative Informatics Final Report. Edinburgh: AHRC

This Creative Informatics Final Report summaries the work of Creative Informatics, a partnership project which has been supporting creatives in Edinburgh and South East Scotland from 2018-2024. We look back over the different strands of the programme... Read More about Creative Informatics Final Report.

News media’s framing of telehealth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, H., Fischer, L., Fortin, K., & Zeller, F. (2024). News media’s framing of telehealth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Facts and Frictions: Emerging Debates, Pedagogies and Practices in Contemporary Journalism, 3(2), 39-61. https://doi.org/10.22215/ff/v3.i2.06

This research contributes to the literature on journalistic news framing by analyzing the portrayal of telehealth as a particularly relevant topic during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frames before and after the onset of the pandemic were examined across fo... Read More about News media’s framing of telehealth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Perspectives of Healthcare Providers to Inform the Design of an AI-Enhanced Social Robot in the Pediatric Emergency Department (2023)
Journal Article
Hudson, S., Nishat, F., Stinson, J., Litwin, S., Zeller, F., Wiles, B., Foster, M. E., & Ali, S. (2023). Perspectives of Healthcare Providers to Inform the Design of an AI-Enhanced Social Robot in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Children, 10(9), Article 1511. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10091511

Children commonly experience pain and distress in healthcare settings related to medical procedures such as blood tests and intravenous insertions (IVIs). Inadequately addressed pain and distress can result in both short- and long-term negative conse... Read More about Perspectives of Healthcare Providers to Inform the Design of an AI-Enhanced Social Robot in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung (2023)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2023). Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung. In J. Schmidt, & M. Taddicken (Eds.), Handbuch Soziale Medien (167-187). Wiesbaden: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25995-2_21

Der Beitrag bietet einen Überblick zu sozialen Medien in der empirischen Forschung mit einem methodologischen und instrumentellen Fokus. Er diskutiert die unterschiedlichen Methoden, welche in der Kommunikationswissenschaft bereits angewandt werden,... Read More about Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung.

Systems of collaboration: challenges and solutions for interdisciplinary research in AI and social robotics (2022)
Journal Article
Zeller, F., & Dwyer, L. (2022). Systems of collaboration: challenges and solutions for interdisciplinary research in AI and social robotics. Discover Artificial Intelligence, 2(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44163-022-00027-3

This article examines the challenges and opportunities that arise when engaging with research across disciplines, contributing to the growth of social robotics and artificially intelligent systems. Artificial intelligence has a significant role to pl... Read More about Systems of collaboration: challenges and solutions for interdisciplinary research in AI and social robotics.

Algorithmic machines: From binary communication designs to human-robot interactions (2021)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2021). Algorithmic machines: From binary communication designs to human-robot interactions. In M. Taddicken, & C. Schumann (Eds.), Algorithms and Communication (95-132). Digital Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.48541/dcr.v9.4

This article discusses aspects of future research in communication sciences related to a popular and omnipresent artefact of algorithmic machines, social robots. Social robots are defined in this article as physical entities or machines, which may re... Read More about Algorithmic machines: From binary communication designs to human-robot interactions.

Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung (2020)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2020). Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung. In J. Schmidt, & M. Taddicken (Eds.), Handbuch Soziale Medien (1-21). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03895-3_21-2

Der Beitrag bietet einen Überblick zu sozialen Medien in der empirischen Forschung mit einem methodologischen und instrumentellen Fokus. Er diskutiert die unterschiedlichen Methoden, welche in der Kommunikationswissenschaft bereits angewandt werden,... Read More about Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung.

New Research Avenues in Human-Robot Interaction (2020)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2020). New Research Avenues in Human-Robot Interaction. In D. Zhang, & B. Wei (Eds.), Human–Robot Interaction: Control, Analysis, and Design (75-92). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Killing Robots (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Blanchet, L. Killing Robots. [Theatre]. 2019 - 2020. (Unpublished)

HitchBot est un robot auto-stoppeur créé par un laboratoire canadien en 2014, pour étudier les interactions entre les hommes et les machines. Il a la taille d’un enfant de six ans ; il a été fabriqué avec des matériaux simples pour ne pas tenter les... Read More about Killing Robots.

Social Media in Human-Robot Interaction (2019)
Journal Article
Zeller, F., Smith, D. H., Duong, J. A., & Mager, A. (2020). Social Media in Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 12, 389-402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-019-00573-4

The objective of this paper is to discuss and demonstrate in a case study the application of social media as a tool for acceptance, sociability and interaction in human-robot interaction (HRI). By adopting the concept of mediatization as discussed in... Read More about Social Media in Human-Robot Interaction.

hitchBOT Permanent Exhibition (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Harris Smith, D., & Zeller, F. hitchBOT Permanent Exhibition. [Mixed]. Exhibited at Paderborn, Germany. 2018. (Unpublished)

Tracking the imagined audience: A case study on Nike’s use of Twitter for B2C interaction (2017)
Journal Article
Au Duong, J., & Zeller, F. (2017). Tracking the imagined audience: A case study on Nike’s use of Twitter for B2C interaction. First Monday, 22(5), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i5.6607

Social media platforms have become the new centre of attention in business-to-consumer (B2C) communication. These interactions provide a rich source of information for businesses in terms of their customers’ preferences, backgrounds and behaviour. We... Read More about Tracking the imagined audience: A case study on Nike’s use of Twitter for B2C interaction.

The Death and Lives of hitchBOT: The Design and Implementation of a Hitchhiking Robot (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, D. H., & Zeller, F. (2017). The Death and Lives of hitchBOT: The Design and Implementation of a Hitchhiking Robot. Leonardo, 50(1), 77-78. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01354

In the early morning hours of 1 August 2015, as it waited for its next ride on a Philly park bench, unknown assailants destroyed hitchBOT. Arms torn from its body, legs broken, gutted of its electronics, it was left discarded in a park, minus its smi... Read More about The Death and Lives of hitchBOT: The Design and Implementation of a Hitchhiking Robot.

My kulturBOT 1.0: A robotic art reviewer (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Smith, D. H., Zeller, F., & Men, I. My kulturBOT 1.0: A robotic art reviewer. [Robotics and multimedia]. Exhibited at You Me Gallery, Hamilton, ON. 2016. (Unpublished)

Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung (2016)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2017). Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung. In J. H. Schmidt, & M. Taddicken (Eds.), Handbuch Soziale Medien (389-408). Wiesbaden: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03765-9_21

Der Beitrag bietet einen Überblick zu sozialen Medien in der empirischen Forschung mit einem methodologischen und instrumentellen Fokus. Es werden die unterschiedlichen Methoden diskutiert, welche aus der Onlineforschung übernommen werden können sowi... Read More about Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung.