TRANSOR
- RESEARCH NETWORK FOR TRANSDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN SOCIAL ROBOTICS
About the network
The Research Network for Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics (TRANSOR) is a platform for research exchange and joint Humanities research in social robotics, connecting researchers in philosophy, robotics, cognitive science, psychology, anthropology, educational science, linguistics, art and design studies, and communication and media studies.
The purpose of TRANSOR is to create research pathways within and between Danish and international research groups throughout Europe, in the USA, Korea, and Japan. One of the particular aims of TRANSOR is to address methodological problems of research in social robotics.
Current Members
Dina A Babushkina
Dr. Phil; Dr. SocSc, Associate Professor
University of Twente Department of Philosophy
Research areas:
- Ethics and epistemology of Artificial Intelligence
- Social robotics
- Hybrid decision making
Research areas:
- HRI and anthropology of technology
- Biopolitics and posthumanism
- Contemporary and bio-/science art
Research areas:
- Machine ethics
- Deontic logic
- Ethics related to technology
Mark H. Bickhard
Professor of cognitive robotics and Philosophy of Knowledge, Director of Institute for Interactivist Studies
Lehigh University Department of Philosophy
Research areas:
- Process Metaphysics in Psychology
- Agentive Cognition Emergence
- Consciousness Dynamics
- Representational Interactions
Jens Christian Krarup Bjerring
Ph.D., Associate Professor in philosophy
Aarhus University Department of philosophy
Research areas:
- Epistemology of AI
- Philosphical Logic
Research areas:
- HRI
- Human aware navigation
- Service robotics
Research areas:
- Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Technology, with Focus on the Ethics and Aesthetics of AI
- Animal Ethics and Bioethics
Maja Hojer Bruun
Anthropologist, Associate Professor
Aarhus University Department Educational anthropology and the Danish School of Education
Research areas:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics Technology
- Data Analytics
- Ethnographic Studies
- Workplace Dynamics
Amanda Brødsgaard
PhD Fellow
The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen (DK)
Research areas:
- STS, robotics
- Japan Studies
- Semiotics
- Techno-nationalism
Catherine Caudwell
Dr., Senior Lecturer
Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation
Research areas:
- Social robot design
- User experience design of robots
- Sociocultural studies of robots
Research areas:
- Ethics
- Social Science
- Value-Sensitive Design
Leon Bodenhagen
Dr., Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures
University of Sydney Discipline of Media and Communications
Research areas:
- Social Robots in Public Spaces
- Anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Interaction
- Mediation and Phenomenology in Robotics
- Professional Cultures of Roboticists
Research areas:
- Ethics of War
- Autonomous Weapons
- AI in War
- Just War Theory
Research areas:
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Robophilosophy
- Joint Action
Mark Coeckelbergh
Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology
University of Vienna Department of Philosophy
Research areas:
- Ethics of robotics and AI
- Intercultural robotics
Research areas:
- Embodied Experience in Social Interaction
- Long-term Engagement with Artificial Agents
- Behavioral and Brain-based Studies in Human-Agent Interaction
- Perceptual and Interactional Dynamics with Embodied and Screen-based Agents
Kerstin Fischer
Professor, Dr.
University of Southern Denmark Department of Design and Communication
Research areas:
- Linguistics and Communication in Technology Interaction
- Multimodal Interaction Analysis in Human-Robot Interaction
- Linguistic and Communication Perspectives on Robot Interaction
Research areas:
- Philosophy of Technology
- Robot Ethics
- Robot Moral Patiency
- Social Robots
- Interactivism
- Cognitive Science
- Robophilosophy
- HRI
Research areas:
- Moral responsibility, artificial moral agency
- Responsible design of AI and robots
- Autonomy and technology, HRI
Research areas:
- AI Ethics
- Robot Law and Ethics
- Philosophy of Technology
- Human Machine Communication
Research areas:
- HRI
- Conversational robots
- TTS (Text-to-Speech)
- Neuroscience
Research areas:
- Robonomics, Robotics, and AI
- Service Automation in Hospitality
- Hotel Marketing and Revenue Management
- Destination Marketing and Management
- Tourism's Economic and Political Implications
Research areas:
- Art
- Anthropomorphism
- Robots
- Technology
- Interaction
Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
Professor
Department of Psychology & School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
Research areas:
- human-robot interaction
- human-nature interaction
- authenticity of being
- human flourishing
Research areas:
- Human Robot Interaction
- Robots for Sustainability
- Robot development
Research areas:
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Artificial Intelligence
Research areas:
- Social Robotics
- HRI
- Agency
- Ethnography
- Co-creation
Leonardo Espinosa Leal
Senior Lecturer in Big Data Analytics
Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland (FI)
Research areas:
- Applied Machine Learning
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Autonomous Agents
- Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing
- Time Series Forecasting
- Multiscale Modelling
- Reinforcement Learning
- Ethics of AI and Philosophy of Technology
Research areas:
- Digital Intimacy
- Digital Emotions
- Phenomenology
- Postphenomenology
- Sexrobots
- Augmented Reality
- Teledildonics
- Smart Textile
Carlo Mazzola
PhD Student
Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Unit - Italian Institute of Tecnology (IIT).
Research areas:
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Social Robotics
- Cognitive Robotics
- Multi-modal Deep-Learning
- Artificial Self.
Zachary McDowell
PhD. Assistant Professor,
University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Communication (USA)
Research areas:
- Information literacy
- knowledge equity
- data ethics
- access and knowledge equity
- cybernetics
- political economy of AI
- human-machine communication
Felipe Meija-Medina
MA Candidate
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences Argentina (FLACSO) - Universidad El Bosque (CO)
Research areas:
- Global digital health
- Artificial intelligence
- Art
- Photography
- Video
- Bioethics
- Technology
- Expanded societies.
Ann Katrine Bønnelykke Miranda
Docent/reader
Copenhagen University College, School of Nursing (DK)
Research areas:
- Healthcare technology
- Technical literacy in health care
- Workplace studies
- Educational studies
Diana Mocanu
PhD Student
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Legal Sciences, Centre for Philosophy of Law (CPDR), Université Catholique de Louvain (BE)
Research areas:
- Legal Status of Artificial Intelligence in the European Union
- Classification Options: Things in the Law, Legal Persons, or Sui Generis Legal Entities
- Formulating Arguments for and Against Each Classification
- Future "Portrait-Robot" of AI's Legal Status in the EU
Julián Camilo Riaño Moreno
Physician, researcher, Ph.D. in Bioethics.
Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia: Faculty of Medicine, El Bosque University, Colombia: Head of Genetics and Molecular Oncology Unit, National Institute of Cancerology, Colombia (CO)
Research areas:
- Biopolitics and Genetics
- AI in Biomedicine and Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)
- Roboethics in Biomedicine
- International Health Regulations (IHR), Values, Capacities, and Doctor-Patient Relationship
- Vulnerability and Trust in IHR
Pekka Mäkelä
Dr. In practical philosophy, research coordinator
Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland (FI)
Research areas:
- Normative Dimensions of Collective and Social Action
- Collective Responsibility and Trust
- Social Ontology
- Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Philosophical Problems of Social Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction
Research areas:
- Roboethics and Information Ethics
- Intercultural Information Ethics
- Japanese Views on Life and Mono no Aware
- Comparative Views on Privacy: West vs. East
Research areas:
- Robo-ethics
- Computer Ethics
- Machine Ethics
- Big Data
- Autonomous Systems
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
Karsten Nymand
Vice-Director at Groove Inc, Chairman of Startup Odense, Chairman of Grønt Odense, Vice-chairman of ULYS, Art Director of The O'town Garage, Technical Lead at HAL1.
Denmark (DK)
Research areas:
- Robotics
- Philosophy
- Neuroscience
- Machine learning
- Future Scenarios
- Astrophysics.
Research areas:
- Robots and culture
- Beliefs and/in robots
- Human-robot interaction
- Sociological approaches in/to robotics
Ziggy O'Reilly
PhD Student
Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction - Italian Institute of Technology (IT)
Research areas:
- Robot ethics
- Intentional stance
- Theory of mind
- Social robotics
- Human-robot interaction
- Art & science
Research areas:
- Care Robotics and Ethics
- Phenomenology and Embodiment in Robotics
- Intercorporeality and Digital Proxemics
- Digital Self-Service and Governance
- AI Ethics and Governance
John Pender
Dr., Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Foresight Studies
Atlantic Technological University (IE)
Research areas:
- Social Robotics in Health and Social Care
- AI Applications in Social Work
- Algoracy and Future Politics and Society
- Social Robots in Non-STEM Learning Environments
- Impacts of Disruptive Technologies on Professional Identities
Research areas:
- History of Technology and its Implications
- Neuroscience and Anthropology of Cognition
- Critique of AI, Computing, and Digital Cultures
- Interactive Media Art and Philosophy
- Technology of Sustainability and Indigenous Pacific Seafaring
Kevin Purkhauser
PhD Student
University of Vienna, TU Vienna (AT)
Research areas:
- Complexity Science
- Physics
- Neuroscience
- AI
Laura Racciatti
School teacher
Germany (DE)
Research areas:
- Philosophy of Language
- Ethics
- Feminist philosophy.
Josh Redstone
Dr., Instructor
Department of Philosophy and Department of Cognitive Science, Carleton University (CA)
Research areas:
- Philosophy of Mind
- Cognitive Science
- Minds, Machines and A.I.
- Philosophy of Technology
Peter Reichl
Professor, Head of Research Group Cooperative Systems
Department of Computer Science, University of Vienna (AT)
Research areas:
- Computer Science
- Communication Networks
- Techoeconomics
- Human-Computer Interaction
Raffaele Rodogno
Associate Professor.
Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University (DK)
Research areas:
- Social Robots
- AI Ethics
- Study of Emotion
- Well-being in AI
Research areas:
- Robotic art
- Nonhuman creativity
- Science and Technology Studies
- Science Communication
- Media Studies
Eleanor Sandry
Senior Lecturer.
School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University (AU)
Research areas:
- Human-Machine Communication
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Technology Ethics
- Communication Theory
- Philosophy of Technology
Oliver Schürer
Senior Scientist, Dr.techn, Dipl.-Ing., Researcher, university teacher
Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics, ATTP, Institute of Architecture Sciences, Vienna University of Technology (AT)
Research areas:
- Social robotics
- Interaction by movement and speech improvisation
- Contemporary dance
- Ethics
- Care
- Artistic research methodology
Research areas:
- Social Cognition: Philosophy, Psychology, and AI
- Social Human-Machine Interactions
- Distributed Responsibility in Technology
- Language Models in AI
Ilona Straub
Dr., Postdoc and Chair of General Sociology and Cultural Sociology
University of Konstanz, Germany (DE)
Research areas:
- Social theory
- Social robotics
- Teleoperation
- Sociology of body
- Multimodality
- Human-robot-interaction
- Ethnomethodology
Mate Szondy
PhD; Associate Professor
Pazmany Peter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary, HU)
Research areas:
- Digital wellbeing
- Digital mindfulness
- Using social robots and AI in the education of psychologists
Vidmantas Tomkus
Dr./Researcher/FTMC
Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, State Research Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania (LT)
Research areas:
- High Intensity Lasers
- Free Space Communications
- Quantum Communications
- Unmanned Vehicles
Research areas:
- Ethics
- Metaphysics
- Anthropology
- Media Studies
- Human-Robot Communication
Evgenios Vlachos
Research Librarian, Associate professor
University Library of Southern Denmark, SDU and The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, SDU (DK)
Research areas:
- Social Robotics
- Human Robot Interaction
- Soft Robotics
- Emotions and Nonverbal Behavior
- Digital Humanities
- Research Data Management
Research areas:
- Social Robotics in the Social Professions
- Regulation of Social Robotics
- Workplace Integration of Social Robots
- Professional Identity and Social Robots
- Pedagogy and Training in Social Robotics
Robert Sparrow
Professor of philosophy
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Monash University (AU)
Research areas:
- Ethics of Military Robotics
- Ethics of Social Robotics
- Aged Care Robotics
- Robot Pets
- Driverless Vehicles Ethics
Research areas:
- Agency and attributability of automated systems
- Artificial Agency
- Action Theory
- AI-assistants
- Embodiment
- Interface AI & Robotics
Marieke Wieringa
PhD Candidate
Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (NL)
Research areas:
- Emotional Simulation in Robots and Human Emotional Responses
- Moral Considerations and Human Reactions to Emotionally Simulating Robots
David Amodio
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Research areas:
- Social cognition
- Behavioral regulation
- Social neuroscience
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