Stuart Reeves, Hannah R. M. Pelikan, and Marina N. Cantarutti. 2025. Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article CSCW459 (November 2025), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757640. Find a summary here.
Ilaria Torre, Maria Teresa Parreira, Hannah Pelikan, Erik Lagerstedt, Sarah Schömbs, Katie Winkle, Sara Ljungblad (2025). Sustainable Human-Robot Interaction: from current trends to future visions. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics and AI (ICSR ’25).
Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Fanjun Bu, and Wendy Ju. 2025. The People Behind the Robots: How Wizards Wrangle Robots in Public Deployments. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 736, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713237
Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Bilge Mutlu, and Stuart Reeves. 2025. Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’25). IEEE Press, 152–162. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/3721488.3721511
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Anna Dobrosovestnova, Franziska Babel and Hannah Pelikan. 2025. Beyond the User: Mapping Subject Positions for Robots in Public Spaces. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’25). IEEE Press, 163–173. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3721488.3721512
Ilaria Torre, Sarah Schömbs, Katie Winkle, Sara Ljungblad, Erik Lagerstedt, Maria Teresa Parreira, and Hannah Pelikan. 2025. Sustainability-4-HRI, HRI-4-Sustainability. In Companion Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’25), 1991–93. https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI61500.2025.10974249
Hannah Pelikan, Katie Winkle, and David Porfirio. 2024. Designing Human-Robot Interactions: A StEER Tutorial. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI Adjunct 2024), October 13–16, 2024, Uppsala, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677045.3685467
Franziska Babel, Sam Thellman, Hannah Pelikan, Hatice Şahin Ippoliti, and Tom Ziemke. 2024. 2nd Workshop on Cars As Social Agents (CarSA): Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human–Vehicle Interaction. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI Adjunct 2024), October 13–16, 2024, Uppsala, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677045.3685460
Sergio Passero, Hannah Pelikan, Mathias Broth, and Barry Brown. 2024. Honkable Gestalts: Why Autonomous Vehicles Get Honked At. In AutoUI’24: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, September 22-25, 2024, Stanford, CA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3640792.3675732
Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Stuart Reeves, and Marina N. Cantarutti. 2024. Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’24), March 11–14, 2024, Boulder, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3634936. Video presentation. Best Paper Award User Studies.
Hannah Pelikan and Leelo Keevallik. 2024. Learning from Humans: How Research on Vocalizations can Inform the Conceptualization of Robot Sound. In R. Savery (Ed.) Sound and Robotics, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 33-60. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003320470. Pre-Print available here.
Frederic Robinson, Hannah Pelikan, Katsumi Watanabe, Luisa Damiano, Oliver Bown, and Mari Velonaki. 2023. Introduction to the Special Issue on Sound in Human-Robot Interaction. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. 12, 4, Article 45 (December 2023), 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3632185
Hannah Pelikan. 2023. Transcribing human–robot interaction: Methodological implications of participating machines. In P. Haddington, T. Eilittä, A. Kamunen, L. Kohonen-Aho, T. Oittinen, I. Rautiainen, & A. Vatanen (Eds.), Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and New Technologies (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003424888
Hannah R.M. Pelikan and Emily Hofstetter. (2023). Managing Delays in Human–Robot Interaction. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 30 (4), Article 50, 42 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569890. Video presentation.
Hannah Pelikan. 2023. Robot Sound in Interaction: Analyzing and Designing Sound for Human-Robot Coordination. PhD Thesis, Linköping University, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.3384/9789180751179
Hannah R. M. Pelikan and Malte F. Jung. 2023. Designing Robot Sound-In-Interaction: The Case of Autonomous Public Transport Shuttle Buses. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23), March 13–16, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576979. Nominated for Best Design Paper.
Hannah R. M. Pelikan. 2023. Robot Sound-In-Interaction. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23 Companion), March 13–16, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3579975
Hannah Pelikan, Mathias Broth and Leelo Keevallik. (2022). When a robot comes to life: The interactional achievement of agency as a transient phenomenon. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 5(3). https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v5i3.129915
Hannah Pelikan, Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou, Jenny Fu, Leelo Keevallik, Mathias Broth, and Malte F. Jung. 2022. Interaction Prototyping With Video: Bridging Video Interaction Analysis & Design. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503765
Hannah R.M. Pelikan. 2021. Why Autonomous Driving Is So Hard: The Social Dimension of Traffic. Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 81–85. https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447133
Hannah Pelikan, Frederic Anthony Robinson, Leelo Keevallik, Mari Velonaki, Mathias Broth, and Oliver Bown. 2021. Sound in Human-Robot Interaction. Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 706–708. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3444871 | Workshop recording.
Hannah Pelikan, Leelo Keevallik and Mathias Broth. 2020. Människa–robot-interaktion. In M. Broth & L. Keevallik (Eds.) Multimodal Interaktionsanalys (pp. 395-415). Studentlitteratur.
Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Mathias Broth, and Leelo Keevallik. 2020. ’Are You Sad, Cozmo?’ How Humans Make Sense of a Home Robot’s Emotion Displays. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374814 | Video presentation.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos and Hannah R. M. Pelikan. 2020. Towards Adaptive and Least-Collaborative-Effort Social Robots. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20 Companion), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378249
Amy Cheatle, Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Malte F. Jung, and Steven J. Jackson. 2019. Sensing (Co)operations: Articulation and Compensation in the Robotic Operating Room. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2, CSCW, Article 225 (November 2019), 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359327. Best Paper Award.
Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Amy Cheatle, Malte F. Jung, and Steven J. Jackson. 2018. Operating at a Distance – How a Teleoperated Surgical Robot Reconfigures Teamwork in the Operating Room. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2, CSCW, Article 138 (November 2018), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3274407
Hannah R. M. Pelikan and Mathias Broth. 2016. Why That Nao?: How Humans Adapt to a Conventional Humanoid Robot in Taking Turns-at-Talk. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4921-4932. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858478 | Video presentation.
Workshop Papers
Agnes Axelsson, Merle Reimann, Ronald Cumbal, Hannah Pelikan and Divesh Lala. 2025. Why Report Failed Interactions With Robots?! Towards Vignette-based Interaction Quality. RO-MAN 2025 Workshop on Real-World HRI in Public and Private Spaces: Successes, Failures and Lessons Learned. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10603
Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Stuart Reeves, and Marina N. Cantarutti. 2024. Whose Perspective are We Studying in Ethnographic HRI?. Ethnography for HRI Workshop at the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24), March 11–14, 2024, Boulder, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. PDF available here.
Hannah Pelikan, David Porfirio, and Katie Winkle. 2023. Designing Better Human-Robot Interactions Through Enactment, Engagement, and Reflection. CUI@HRI Workshop at the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’23), March13, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden. ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 7 pages. PDF available here.
Hannah Pelikan, Jenny Fu, Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou, Asher Lipman, and Malte Jung “Designing Minimal Sounds for Maximum Interaction.” Workshop Sound for Robots held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022).
Hannah Pelikan. 2022. Reconfiguring HRI – Combining EMCA Interaction Analysis and Design. Workshop Re-Configuring Human-Robot Interaction held in conjunction with the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’22).
Hannah Pelikan, Sofia Thunberg and Ericka Johnson. 2021. Gender Studies and Robotics – A Dialogue. Workshop GENDERING ROBOTS: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics at the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN’21).
Hannah Pelikan. 2021. Conversation Analysis and Research Through Design — A Fruitful Interaction? Workshop Research Through Design Approaches in Human-Robot Interaction held in conjunction with the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’21).
Hannah Pelikan. 2020. Intermediate-Level Knowledge: A Conversation Analysis Perspective. First international workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020).
Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Mathias Broth, and Leelo Keevallik. 2020. Designing for Incidental Encounters with Autonomous Buses: An Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Approach. The Forgotten in HRI: Incidental Encounters with Robots in Public Spaces at the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20).
Hannah Pelikan. 2019. “A Stubborn Child” – How Robot Sounds are Oriented to in Everyday Situated Interaction at Home. Mensch und Computer 2019 – Workshopband. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. DOI: 10.18420/muc2019-ws-659
Hannah R. M. Pelikan. 2019. Tackling Interactional Challenges in Social Robots: A Multimodal Conversation Analytic Approach. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, workshop on The Challenges of Working on Social Robots that Collaborate with People, Glasgow, UK.
Federico Fabiano, Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Jelle Pingen, Judith Zissoldt, Alejandro Catala and Mariët Theune. 2017. Designing a Co-Creative Dancing Robotic Tablet. 6th International Workshop on Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence, Madrid, Spain.
Poster/Abstracts
Hannah Pelikan, Mathias Broth and Barry Brown. 2025. It takes a village to make a robot autonomous. International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA 2025).
Stuart Reeves and Hannah Pelikan. 2025. Mobilising Delivery Robots: Coordinating Goods Dispatch via an Autonomous System. International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA 2025).
Hannah Pelikan. 2022. EMCA meets Interaction Design: Exploring how an autonomous shuttle bus could sound in interaction. Digital Meeting for Conversation Analysis (DMCA 2022).
Hannah Pelikan. 2022. Communicative Practices in Teleoperation Settings: The Case of Surgical Robots. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL-WÜ 2022).
Hannah Pelikan and Emily Hofstetter. 2021. Humans and robots thinking out loud: Thinking as a multimodal social practice. Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction (NORDISCO 2021).
Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter, Agnes Löfgren, Hannah Pelikan, Sally Wiggins. 2021. Sounding for
others: Closing the intersubjective distance between interactants. Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction (NORDISCO 2021).
Hannah Pelikan, Mathias Broth and Leelo Keevallik. 2021. When a toy robot comes to life. The interactional achievement of agency. Copenhagen Multimodality Day: Interacting with AI
Hannah R. M. Pelikan. 2020. Coordinating Actions with a Mobile Embodied AI. European Conference on Conversation Analysis 2020 (ECCA2020) in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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