I am a postdoc in the AI in Motion project led by Barry Brown and Mathias Broth, funded by the The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS). I use video to study how humans make sense of robots in real world settings – currently I am particularly interested in robots on public roads. My work is located at the intersection of ethnomethodology & conversation analysis and human-robot interaction and I combine insights from human social interaction with interaction design for robots.

About me

Dr. Hannah Pelikan is a PostDoc at Linköping University. She works in a project funded by the Swedish Wallenberg AI initiative WASP-HS on AI in Motion with professors Barry Brown and Mathias Broth. In 2023, Hannah obtained a PhD in language and culture from Linköping University. Her PhD thesis was part of professor Leelo Keevallik’s Non-Lexical Vocalizations project and explored robot sound design for coordination between humans and robots. Hannah holds a BSc in Cognitive Science from University of Osnabrück and graduated with an MSc cum laude in Interaction Technology from University of Twente. She has been affiliated with Malte Jung’s Robots in Groups lab at Cornell University through multiple research visits, funded among others by the Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova.

Hannah publishes at prestigious international venues such as HRI, CSCW and CHI. Her work was honoured with best paper awards at HRI and at CSCW. In 2023, Hannah was selected as an HRI Pioneer. Hannah is regularly invited as a speaker, among others at the Mixed Reality Lab at University of Nottingham, the Mirror Lab at Colorado School of Mines and the Centre for Robotics at Queensland University of Technology. She gave a featured talk at the conference on Conversational User Interface (CUI 2021). Hannah has presented at popular science events such as Pint of Science and Forskarfredag and her work has been covered in several press releases.