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Harrison, K. (2025). Behind the Science: The Invisible Work of Data Management in Big Science (1ed.). Bristol: Bristol University Press
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2025 (English)Book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. p. 145 Edition: 1
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-214093 (URN)9781529230109 (ISBN)9781529230123 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-05-28 Created: 2025-05-28 Last updated: 2025-05-28
Akalin, N., Arnelid, M. & Harrison, K. (2025). Gendering Robots in Human-Robot Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Approach. In: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: . Paper presented at 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Melbourne, Australia, 04-06 March, 2025 (pp. 1104-1110). IEEE
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2025 (English)In: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, IEEE , 2025, p. 1104-1110Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in exploring the concept of robot gender within Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). It draws on a case study of the authors' own collaboration, where interdisciplinary discussions on the nature of gender informed the design of a multimethod study. This approach allowed us to avoid assigning a binary gender to Pepper robot, while still encouraging participants to reflect on their own gendering practices during interactions with robots. Additionally, we invite readers to consider alternative ways of conceptualizing robot gender in HRI—specifically, as fluid and performative rather than binary, which relies on stereotypical cues. After describing how our discussions on gender influenced and reshaped the study design, we offer practical advice on fostering interdisciplinary collaborations. These suggestions focus on communication strategies, mindset, and the practical setup of collaborative studies. We hope that these recommendations will inspire other researchers to continue exploring new and interdisciplinary ways of approaching robot gender in HRI.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2025
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-214096 (URN)10.1109/hri61500.2025.10974049 (DOI)2-s2.0-105004875333 (Scopus ID)9798350378931 (ISBN)9798350378948 (ISBN)
Conference
2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Melbourne, Australia, 04-06 March, 2025
Available from: 2025-05-28 Created: 2025-05-28 Last updated: 2025-05-28
Harrison, K., Somasundaram, K. & Loutfi, A. (2025). The Imperfectly Relatable Robot: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Failures in Human–Robot Relations. In: How That Robot Made Me Feel: (pp. 141-164). MIT Press
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2025 (English)In: How That Robot Made Me Feel, MIT Press , 2025, p. 141-164Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MIT Press, 2025
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-214095 (URN)10.7551/mitpress/15314.003.0009 (DOI)9780262381437 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-05-28 Created: 2025-05-28 Last updated: 2025-05-28
Harrison, K., Somasundaram, K. & Loutfi, A. (2025). The imperfectly relatable robot: an interdisciplinary approach to failures in human-robot relations. In: Ericka Johnson (Ed.), How that robot made me feel: (pp. 141-164). Cambridge: MIT Press, Sidorna 141-164
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2025 (English)In: How that robot made me feel / [ed] Ericka Johnson, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2025, Vol. Sidorna 141-164, p. 141-164Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2025
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-215053 (URN)9780262381437 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-06-18 Created: 2025-06-18 Last updated: 2025-06-18Bibliographically approved
Enlund, D. (2024). Exploring the horizontal tensions of complex smart city governance.
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2024 (English)Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Keywords
environment/sustainability, governance, infrastructure, technology/smart cities
National Category
Social and Economic Geography Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-210493 (URN)
Projects
Sustainability means inclusivity: Engaging citizens in early stage smart city development
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2019-01281
Available from: 2024-12-16 Created: 2024-12-16 Last updated: 2024-12-16
Enlund, D. & Harrison, K. (2024). The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance. Urban Studies
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2024 (English)In: Urban Studies, ISSN 0042-0980, E-ISSN 1360-063XArticle in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Smart cities build on visions for using technology to optimise various infrastructural functions and make city management more efficient, sustainable, and reliable. However, scholarship on smart cities has drawn attention to how data-centric planning simplifies the complexity of the urban environment and how a dichotomous approach to smart cities as either top-down or bottom-up may be overly reductive. This paper attempts to remedy this divide by highlighting the horizontal tensions in smart city planning, where tensions around implementing smart technologies appear as multiple actors and discourses converge in creating complex governance structures. We offer a case study of how scalar, temporal and social tensions around implementing smart city technologies are negotiated, based on interviews with employees in a Swedish municipality and several municipal corporations. We elaborate on three themes around time, the role of the municipality and infrastructure to gain a deeper understanding of the governance of and attitudes towards smartification. The interviewees described the complexities of implementing smart technology in reality, spanning various scales and intermingling public and private interests. These issues matter for how the municipality and the municipal corporations work with implementing smart technologies, making it anything but a straightforward process.

Abstract [zh]

智慧城市建立在利用技术优化各种基础设施功能,并使城市管理更加高效、更可持续、更可靠的愿景之上。关于智慧城市的学术研究已经引起了人们对以数据为中心的规划如何简化城市环境复杂性的关注,以及对智慧城市采取自上而下或自下而上的二分法可能会过于简化的关注。本文试图通过强调智慧城市规划中的横向冲突来填补这种鸿沟。在智慧城市规划中,随着多个参与者和话语在创建复杂的治理结构时汇集,就会围绕智能技术的实施出现冲突。基于对瑞典一个市政当局和几家市政公司雇员的采访,我们进行了案例研究,探讨人们如何协商围绕智慧城市技术的实施出现的标量冲突、时间冲突和社会冲突。我们对时间、市政当局的角色和基础设施这三个主题进行了详细阐述,以更深入地了解对城市智慧化的治理和各种态度。受访者描述了在现实中实施智能技术的复杂性,涵盖了各种规模,并融合了公共和私人利益。这些问题关系到市政当局和市政公司如何实施智能技术,这使得这一过程绝不简单。

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SAGE Publications, 2024
Keywords
complexity, governance, resistance, smart city, Sweden, vignettes, 复杂性, 治理, 阻力, 智慧城市, 瑞典, 花絮
National Category
Social and Economic Geography Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-187666 (URN)10.1177/00420980241298607 (DOI)001377125300001 ()2-s2.0-85211811285 (Scopus ID)
Projects
Sustainability means inclusivity: Engaging citizens in early stage smart city development
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2019-01281
Available from: 2024-12-16 Created: 2024-12-16 Last updated: 2025-05-05
Harrison, K. & Johnson, E. (2023). Affective Corners as a Problematic for Design Interactions. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 12(4), Article ID 41.
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2023 (English)In: ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, E-ISSN 2573-9522, Vol. 12, no 4, article id 41Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Domestic robots are already commonplace in many homes, while humanoid companion robots like Pepper are increasingly becoming part of different kinds of care work. Drawing on fieldwork at a robotics lab, as well as our personal encounters with domestic robots, we use here the metaphor of “hard-to-reach corners” to explore the socio-technical limitations of companion robots and our differing abilities to respond to these limitations. This paper presents “hard-to-reach-corners” as a problematic for design interaction, offering them as an opportunity for thinking about context and intersectional aspects of adaptation.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023
Keywords
Social robotics; design; affect; Law social and behavioural science; Machine learning; Human-centred computing; HCI design and evaluation methods; Robotics; User characteristics
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-195533 (URN)10.1145/3596452 (DOI)001077335300001 ()
Note

Funding agencies: Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program –Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

Available from: 2023-06-21 Created: 2023-06-21 Last updated: 2023-11-03
Winkle, K., McMillan, D., Arnelid, M., Balaam, M., Harrison, K., Johnson, E. & Leite, I. (2023). Feminist Human-Robot Interaction: Disentangling Power, Principles and Practice for Better, More Ethical HRI. In: Ginevra Castellano, Laurel Riek, Maya Cakmak, Iolanda Leite (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: . Paper presented at ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction 2023, Stockholm 13 March 2023 through 16 March 2023 (pp. 72-82). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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2023 (English)In: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction / [ed] Ginevra Castellano, Laurel Riek, Maya Cakmak, Iolanda Leite, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2023, p. 72-82Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is inherently a human-centric field of technology. The role of feminist theories in related fields (e.g. Human-Computer Interaction, Data Science) are taken as a starting point to present a vision for Feminist HRI which can support better, more ethical HRI practice everyday, as well as a more activist research and design stance. We first define feminist design for an HRI audience and use a set of feminist principles from neighboring fields to examine existent HRI literature, showing the progress that has been made already alongside some additional potential ways forward. Following this we identify a set of reflexive questions to be posed throughout the HRI design, research and development pipeline, encouraging a sensitivity to power and to individuals' goals and values. Importantly, we do not look to present a definitive, fixed notion of Feminist HRI, but rather demonstrate the ways in which bringing feminist principles to our field can lead to better, more ethical HRI, and to discuss how we, the HRI community, might do this in practice.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023
Series
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), ISSN 2167-2121, E-ISSN 2167-2148
Keywords
feminism, research methodology, design methodology
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-195859 (URN)10.1145/3568162.3576973 (DOI)2-s2.0-85150374447 (Scopus ID)978-1-4503-9964-7 (ISBN)
Conference
ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction 2023, Stockholm 13 March 2023 through 16 March 2023
Note

Funding agencies: Digital Futures, and the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program—Humanities andS ociety (WASP-HS) funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation. 

Available from: 2023-06-27 Created: 2023-06-27 Last updated: 2023-06-27
Enlund, D., Harrison, K., Ringdahl, R., Börütecene, A., Löwgren, J. & Angelakis, V. (2022). The role of sensors in the production of smart city spaces. Big Data and Society, 9(2), Article ID 20539517221110218.
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2022 (English)In: Big Data and Society, E-ISSN 2053-9517, Vol. 9, no 2, article id 20539517221110218Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Smart cities build on the idea of collecting data about the city in order for city administration to be operated more efficiently. Within a research project gathering an interdisciplinary team of researchers ? engineers, designers, gender scholars and human geographers ? we have been working together using participatory design approaches to explore how paying attention to the diversity of human needs may contribute to making urban spaces comfortable and safe for more people. The project team has deployed sensors collecting data on air quality, sound and mobility in a smart city testbed in Norrköping, Sweden. While these sensors are meant to capture an accurate ?map? of the street and what is going on along it, our interdisciplinary conversations around the sensors have revealed the heterogeneity both of smart city planning and spatial formulations of the city. The discussions have given rise to questions regarding the work that goes into constructing the sensor box itself, as well as the work of deploying it, and how these influence the ?map? that the sensors produce. In this paper, we draw on Lefebvre to explore how the sensors themselves produce smart spaces. We analyze how the box depends on perceived space to function (e.g. requiring electricity), and simultaneously it produces conceptualizations of space that are influenced by the materiality of the box itself (e.g. sensors being affected by heat and noise). Further, we explore how the (in)visibility of sensor technology influences lived space.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SAGE Publications Ltd, 2022
Keywords
Sensor technology, production of space, smart cities, boundary objects, testbed, interdisciplinary research
National Category
Social and Economic Geography Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-187698 (URN)10.1177/20539517221110218 (DOI)000843304200001 ()
Projects
Sustainability means inclusivity: Engaging citizens in early stage smart city developmentTestbed Kungsgatan
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2019-01281
Note

Funding: FORMAS, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development [2019-01281]; Norrkopings fond for forskning och utveckling (project Testbed Kungsgatan 2019-2021)

Available from: 2022-08-22 Created: 2022-08-22 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved
Arnelid, M., Harrison, K. & Johnson, E. (2022). What Does It Mean to Measure a Smile?: Assigning numerical values to emotions. Valuation Studies, 9(1), 79-107
Open this publication in new window or tab >>What Does It Mean to Measure a Smile?: Assigning numerical values to emotions
2022 (English)In: Valuation Studies, ISSN 2001-5992, Vol. 9, no 1, p. 79-107Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article looks at the implications of emotion recognition, zooming in on the specific case of the care robot Pepper introduced at a hospital in Toronto. Here, emotion recognition comes with the promise of equipping robots with a less tangible, more emotive set of skills – from companionship to encouragement. Through close analysis of a variety of materials related to emotion detection software – iMotions – we look into two aspects of the technology. First, we investigate the how of emotion detection: what does it mean to detect emotions in practice? Second, we reflect on the question of whose emotions are measured, and what the use of care robots can say about the norms and values shaping care practices today. We argue that care robots and emotion detection can be understood as part of a fragmentation of care work: a process in which care is increasingly being understood as a series of discrete tasks rather than as holistic practice. Finally, we draw attention to the multitude of actors whose needs are addressed by Pepper, even while it is being imagined as a care provider for patients.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping University Electronic Press, 2022
Keywords
care robots; emotions; emotion detection software; care; digital valuation
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-190708 (URN)10.3384/VS.2001-5992.2022.9.1.79-107 (DOI)
Note

Funding agencies: Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

Available from: 2022-12-21 Created: 2022-12-21 Last updated: 2022-12-21
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