TY - GEN
T1 - Nurture Robotic Things
T2 - ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2026
AU - Li, Yanheng
AU - Sun, Xiaoqing
AU - Xu, Mingyang
AU - Yin, Zhen
AU - Ren, Xipei
AU - Lc, R. A.Y.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2026/6/12
Y1 - 2026/6/12
N2 - Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has made significant strides in understanding how people form relationships with robots, but has often focused on interactions that are bounded in time and context-capturing how relationships begin, rather than how they grow and change through years of cohabitation, limiting our capacity to explore human-robot relationships and robotic interactions. This workshop explores how creatively robotizing everyday objects can challenge anthropocentric paradigms in HRI and inspire new long-Term relational models. Through hands-on prototyping, design fiction, and reflection, participants will investigate how personal attachments to mundane objects might translate into richer, evolving relationships with robotic things. By treating human-object ties as a lens to rethink robot lifecycles and social ecologies, this workshop aims to provoke novel inquiries into how we might nurture robotic entities that learn, adapt, and creating bond over time. By reimagining HRI through the lens of human-object bonds, we aim to foster richer, reciprocal engagements, moving beyond utilitarian and anthropomorphic constraints toward dynamic, meaningful cohabitation.
AB - Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has made significant strides in understanding how people form relationships with robots, but has often focused on interactions that are bounded in time and context-capturing how relationships begin, rather than how they grow and change through years of cohabitation, limiting our capacity to explore human-robot relationships and robotic interactions. This workshop explores how creatively robotizing everyday objects can challenge anthropocentric paradigms in HRI and inspire new long-Term relational models. Through hands-on prototyping, design fiction, and reflection, participants will investigate how personal attachments to mundane objects might translate into richer, evolving relationships with robotic things. By treating human-object ties as a lens to rethink robot lifecycles and social ecologies, this workshop aims to provoke novel inquiries into how we might nurture robotic entities that learn, adapt, and creating bond over time. By reimagining HRI through the lens of human-object bonds, we aim to foster richer, reciprocal engagements, moving beyond utilitarian and anthropomorphic constraints toward dynamic, meaningful cohabitation.
KW - Long-Term HRI
KW - Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
KW - Relational Robotics
KW - Social Robot
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105042619069
U2 - 10.1145/3802974.3808000
DO - 10.1145/3802974.3808000
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105042619069
T3 - DIS 2026 - Companion Proceedngs of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
SP - 10
EP - 13
BT - DIS 2026 - Companion Proceedngs of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
A2 - Yen, Ching Chiuan
A2 - Lee, Jung-Joo
A2 - Do, Ellen Yi-Luen
A2 - Zheng, Clement
A2 - Yoo, Daisy
A2 - Tang, Tony
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 13 June 2026 through 17 June 2026
ER -