Katie Winkle
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Information Technology; Vi3; Human Machine Interaction
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 23 64
- E-mail:
- katie.winkle@it.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Hus 10, Regementsvägen 10
- Postal address:
- Box 337
751 05 UPPSALA
Short presentation
I work to unlock and harness the power of human-robot interaction "for good" - to try and ensure we're engineering interactions that are socially sustainable and support human flourishing.
Read more on my website: https://kwinkle.github.io/

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, p. 1-37, 2024
- DOI for Facing LLMs: Robot Communication Styles in Mediating Health Information between Parents and Young Adults
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Designing Human-Robot Interactions: A StEER Tutorial
Part of ADJUNCT PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH NORDIC CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, NORDICHI 2024, 2024
Assistive Applications, Accessibility, and Disability Ethics in HRI
Part of COMPANION OF THE 2024 ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, HRI 2024 COMPANION, p. 1305-1307, 2024
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Embodied Agents for Wellbeing
Part of International Journal of Social Robotics, p. 833-834, 2024
The Human Behind the Robot: Rethinking the Low Social Status of Service Robots
Part of Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, p. 1-10, 2024
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, p. 1-37, 2024
- DOI for Facing LLMs: Robot Communication Styles in Mediating Health Information between Parents and Young Adults
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Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Embodied Agents for Wellbeing
Part of International Journal of Social Robotics, p. 833-834, 2024
A case study in designing trustworthy interactions: implications for socially assistive robotics
Part of Frontiers in Computer Science, 2023
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Part of International Journal of Social Robotics, p. 1769-1790, 2023
- DOI for (Counter-)stereotypical Gendering of Robots in Care: Impact on Needs Satisfaction and Gender Role Concepts in Men and Women Users
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Part of International Journal of Social Robotics, p. 1933-1947, 2023
- DOI for The Right (Wo)Man for the Job?: Exploring the Role of Gender when Challenging Gender Stereotypes with a Social Robot
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Part of International Journal of Social Robotics, p. 1705-1706, 2023
Enactive artificial intelligence: subverting gender norms in human-robot interaction
Part of Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2023
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15 Years of (Who)man Robot Interaction: Reviewing the H in Human-Robot Interaction
Part of ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 2022
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Conference papers
Designing Human-Robot Interactions: A StEER Tutorial
Part of ADJUNCT PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH NORDIC CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, NORDICHI 2024, 2024
Assistive Applications, Accessibility, and Disability Ethics in HRI
Part of COMPANION OF THE 2024 ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, HRI 2024 COMPANION, p. 1305-1307, 2024
The Human Behind the Robot: Rethinking the Low Social Status of Service Robots
Part of Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, p. 1-10, 2024
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2024
A Case for Diverse Social Robot Identity Performance in Education
Part of COMPANION OF THE 2024 ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, HRI 2024 COMPANION, p. 28-35, 2024
- DOI for A Case for Diverse Social Robot Identity Performance in Education
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Part of HRI '24, p. 781-790, 2024
- DOI for Anticipating the Use of Robots in Domestic Abuse: A Typology of Robot Facilitated Abuse to Support Risk Assessment and Mitigation in Human-Robot Interaction
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Memory-Augmenting Decoder-Only Language Models through Encoders: (Student Abstract)
Part of THIRTY-EIGTH AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, VOL 38 NO 21, p. 23494-23496, 2024
Part of HRI '23, p. 72-82, 2023
- DOI for Feminist Human-Robot Interaction: Disentangling Power, Principles and Practice for Better, More Ethical HRI
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Inclusive HRI II: Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community
Part of HRI '23, p. 956-958, 2023
Part of 2023 32ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, RO-MAN, p. 607-613, 2023
2023
What's at Stake?: Robot explanations matter for high but not low-stake scenarios
Part of 2023 32ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, RO-MAN, p. 2421-2426, 2023
Personality-Adapted Language Generation for Social Robots
Part of 2023 32ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, RO-MAN, p. 1800-1807, 2023
Part of 2023 32ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, RO-MAN, p. 2439-2446, 2023
How Did We Miss This?: A Case Study on Unintended Biases in Robot Social Behavior
Part of Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, p. 11-20, 2023
Examining the State of Robot Identity
Part of HRI '23, p. 658-662, 2023
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