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Maria Arnelid

PhD student

What kind of care is a robot imagined to perform? I am interested in what happens to care in the process of programming and testing social robots for care for older adults.

Robotic care imaginaries

I have a background in Social Anthropology and obtained my MA at Stockholm University (SU). I am interested in the development and use of social robots in care for older adults, particularly in how robotic care is imagined in this development. I use ethnographic and collaborative methods where I actively take part in the process of programming and testing social robots. I pay attention to how the various elements in these experimental practices shape the care that the robot is imagined to perform.

Publications

2024

Maria Arnelid, Dominika Lisy (2024) Public Research Communication as a PhD Student: Experiences from a Social Robot Exhibition Beyond academic publics: Conversations about scholarly collaborations with cultural institutions, p. 51-64 (Chapter in book)

2023

Sofia Thunberg, Maria Arnelid (2023) Robot Pets for Older Adults Adopted by Over Half of Swedish Municipalities PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11TH CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-AGENT INTERACTION, HAI 2023, p. 455-457 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Sofia Thunberg, Maria Arnelid, Hannah Bradwell, Leonie Cooper, Lihui Pu (2023) Second Edition of Workshop in Care Robots for Older Adults (CROA)
Katie Winkle, Donald McMillan, Maria Arnelid, Madeline Balaam, Katherine Harrison, Ericka Johnson, Iolanda Leite (2023) Feminist Human-Robot Interaction: Disentangling Power, Principles and Practice for Better, More Ethical HRI Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, p. 72-82 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI

2022

Maria Arnelid, Katherine Harrison, Ericka Johnson (2022) What Does It Mean to Measure a Smile?: Assigning numerical values to emotions Valuation Studies, Vol. 9, p. 79-107 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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