Astrid Weiss‘ Research
Creating technology for and with people…
Industry 4.0 & Cobots
Within industrial work settings, studying how work is distributed between people and technology, how it is practically achieved, and how systems...
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User Involvement
As a social scientist working together with engineers and computer scientists I am often asked: Why does this humanist stuff matter? The answer...
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Social Human-Robot Interaction (sHRI)
Right now is an important time in the research fields of Human-Robot Interaction and Social Robotics (sHRI): Technological readiness levels...
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Social Acceptance
What makes people accept or reject technology? User acceptance of interactive technology...
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How to design robots that we trust in interaction? An autonomous system is a machine or...
Learn moreLong-Term Studies
How does technology experience change over time? A key question in HCI and HRI is not only...
Learn moreGender & Tech
How does gender impact technology usage and design? Agent-like technology, such as voice...
Learn moreAstrid Weiss @TedxTuwien 2017 – Will care robots care?
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Article published in AI & Society
Robots beyond Science Fiction: mutual learning in human–robot interaction on the way to participatory approaches I hardly ever promote single publications, however...
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In the newspaper: OÖ Zukunftsforum-„Der Mensch im Mittelpunkt“ – German
I was invited to give a talk on the future of work wrt. Cobots and AI at the Upper Austria „Zukunftsforum“, which was already advertised in the Krone...
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Online interview: FWF Am PULS 72 „Intelligente Roboter – die leistungsfähigeren Menschen? – German
The FWF did an online interview on my HRI research in discussion and exchange with AI expert Michael Früh. All in German...
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