Articulating the Value of Design Research for HRI

Authors: Marco C. Rozendaal, Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski, Mafalda Gamboa, Samantha Reig, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Maaike Bleeker //

The 3rd Workshop on Designerly Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) aims to bring together scholars and practitioners engaged in design-oriented research to articulate the value of design research within HRI broadly. We propose a half-day workshop to
(1) collectively map the diversity of design research in HRI, examining how contributions are framed and how quality is evaluated;
(2) discuss participants’ HRI design projects, showcased in an exhibition setting; and
(3) conclude with a focused conversation to identify common ground across diverse approaches and develop strategies for

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Marco C. Rozendaal, Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski, Mafalda Gamboa, Samantha Reig, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Maaike Bleeker, Maria Luce Lupetti, John Vines, Nazli Cila, Hannah Pelikan, Nikolas Martelaro, Selma Šabanović, David Sirkin, and Cristina Zaga. 2026. 3rd Workshop on Designerly HRI: Articulating the Value of Design Research for HRI. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion ’26), March 16–19, 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages.