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Rober in the Room
Designing Human-Robot Encounters for the CTRL + ALT + PLAY event | By Pascalle Paumen From November 28 to November 30, 2024, researchers of the Dramaturgy for Devices project gathered in Utrecht for a second joint workshop to experiment with human-robot interactions. This time, we explored designing with and for encounters using the Rober robot
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Exploring the Relational and Performative Potential of Smart Materials | By Pascalle Paumen On September 26, 2024, I attended the workshop “Expressive Mechanisms: From Petri-dish to Performativity” which took place at the Innovation:Lab at Theater Utrecht. The workshop was organised by 4TU.Design United, coordinated by Amy Winters from TU/e, and involved researchers of the Dramaturgy
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Robots are an increasingly part of our daily lives. They help provide medical care, care for our homes and gardens, and support education and the workplace. They are increasingly able to perform simple tasks and convey messages, but they also lack many skills needed for interaction and communication. In research project Dramaturgy for Devices, researchers
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Children’s robot concert by Bram Ellens and Concertgebouw Robot artist Bram Ellens will stage the children’s concert ‘Robot van de Rommelmarkt’ (the recycled robot), a short story written by bestselling author Tonke Dragt, at Concertgebouw in January 2025. Child x robot The story (from 1971) takes place in the future. Every child is dependent on
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