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Co-Designing Technology Kits for the Library of Inspiration (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meharg, D., Zeller, F., McGregor, I., Donald, I., Wagner, H., & Darzentas, D. (2024, November). Co-Designing Technology Kits for the Library of Inspiration. Presented at The 5th Barcelona Conference on Education (BCE2024), Barcelona, Spain

This study employs a co-design approach with students, library staff, and teachers to create technology kits for secondary school libraries, aimed at fostering interest in STEM careers among underrepresented groups such as girls, young carers, and st... Read More about Co-Designing Technology Kits for the Library of Inspiration.

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.

HUDS and Senses: Leveraging Game Design to Enhance Situational Awareness for Telepresence Robot Operation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Darzentas, D., Zeller, F., & Robson, E. (2023, September). HUDS and Senses: Leveraging Game Design to Enhance Situational Awareness for Telepresence Robot Operation. Presented at MobileHCI 2023: The ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Athens, Greece

Remotely operated telepresence robots are increasing in prevalence across several domains ranging from highly critical and difficult tasks in challenging and contested spaces, to creative and recreational usage of drones. A significant challenge for... Read More about HUDS and Senses: Leveraging Game Design to Enhance Situational Awareness for Telepresence Robot Operation.

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.

Co-design of a Social Robot for Distraction in the Paediatric Emergency Department (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Foster, M. E., Candelaria, P., Dwyer, L. J., Hudson, S., Lindsay, A., Nishat, F., Pacquing, M., Petrick, R. P. A., Ramírez-Duque, A. A., Stinson, J., Zeller, F., & Ali, S. (2023, March). Co-design of a Social Robot for Distraction in the Paediatric Emergency Department. Presented at HRI '23: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Stockholm, Sweden

We are developing a social robot to help children cope with painful and distressing medical procedures in the hospital emergency department. This is a domain where a range of interventions have proven effective at reducing pain and distress, includin... Read More about Co-design of a Social Robot for Distraction in the Paediatric Emergency Department.

Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung (2023)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2023). Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung. In J.-H. Schmidt, & M. Taddicken (Eds.), Handbuch Soziale Medien (167-187). 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.

Ethical Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Robots in Children’s Healthcare Experiences (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zeller, F., Petrick, R. P., Harris Smith, D., Stinson, J., Ellen Foster, M., & Ali, S. (2021, March). Ethical Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Robots in Children’s Healthcare Experiences. Presented at HRI 2021 Workshop on Measuring Child-Robot Relationships, Online

This multi-disciplinary project aims to develop and evaluate an ethical, AI-enhanced, socially intelligent robot designed to alleviate children’s distress and pain in a clinical setting. Spanning different disciplines such as HRI, communication scien... Read More about Ethical Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Robots in Children’s Healthcare Experiences.

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.

Mediated Participatory Urban Planning and Design: An Interdisciplinary Framework (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zeller, F., Smith, D. H., Eyles, E., Eyles, J., Silva de Jesus, D., & Hillis, C. (2021, June). Mediated Participatory Urban Planning and Design: An Interdisciplinary Framework. Paper presented at Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data, London, UK

This paper describes a theoretical, interdisciplinary framework for mediated participatory urban planning and design. More specifically, the framework aims to provide a theoretical background and overview for participatory urban planning that integra... Read More about Mediated Participatory Urban Planning and Design: An Interdisciplinary Framework.

Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung (2020)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2020). Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung. In J.-H. 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.

Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ellen Foster, M., Ali, S., Litwin, S., Parker, J., Petrick, R. P. A., Harris Smith, D., Stinson, J., & Zeller, F. (2020, November). Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences. Presented at International Conference on Social Robotics, Golden, Colorado

This paper describes a new research project that aims to develop an autonomous and responsive social robot designed to help children cope with painful procedures in hospital emergency departments. While this is an application domain where psychologic... Read More about Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences.

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 Scholars Publishing

How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fraser, K. C., Zeller, F., Smith, D. H., Mohammad, S. M., & Rudzicz, F. (2019, June). How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction. Presented at Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis,, Minneapolis, Minnesota

In 2014, a chatty but immobile robot called hitchBOT set out to hitchhike across Canada. It similarly made its way across Germany and the Netherlands, and had begun a trip across the USA when it was destroyed by vandals. In this work, we analyze the... Read More about How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction.

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

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.