Astrid Weiss

Short Bio

Astrid Weiss is Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at the Vienna University of Technology. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences and Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Salzburg. She is particularly interested in the impact technology has on everyday life and what motivates people to reject or accept technology. The reseqrch question currently driving her work is: Do we really perceive and react differently to Embodied Artificial Intelligence than to any other technology? Astrid Weiss is considered one of the pioneers in combining empirical social research and robotics. She has published in conferences such as HRI, RO-MAN, and ICSR and journals such as International Journal of Social Robotics, Autonomous Robots, and the Journal of HRI. She is a regularly member of Program and Organizing Committees related to HRI research.

Publications

Weiss, A., & Spiel, K. (2021). Robots beyond Science Fiction: mutual learning in human–robot interaction on the way to participatory approaches. AI & Soc., 1–15. doi: 10.1007/s00146-021-01209-w

Weiss, A., Pillinger, A., Spiel, K., & Zauchner-Studnicka. Sabine (2020). Inconsequential Appearances: An Analysis of Anthropomorphic Language in Voice Assistant Forums. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '20, pp.1–7). https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382793 

Tolmeijer, S., Weiss, A., Hanheide, M., Lindner, F., Powers, T. M., Dixon, C., & Tielman, M. L. (2020, March). Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategies. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 3-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374793

Fischer, K., Seibt, J., Rodogno, R., Rasmussen, M. K., Weiss, A., Bodenhagen, L., Juel, W. K., and Krüger, N. 2020. Integrative social robotics hands-on. Interaction Studies 21, 1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18058.fis

Bajones, M., Fischinger, D., Weiss, A., Wolf, D., Vincze, M., de la Puente, P., Körtner, T., Weninger, M., Papoutsakis, K., Michel, D. and Qammaz, A., 2019. Results of field trials with a mobile service robot for older adults in 16 private households. J. Hum.-Robot Interact. 9, 2  (2019). https://doi.org/10.1145/3368554

Weiss, A., and Hannibal, G. What makes people accept or reject companion robots?: A research agenda. In Proceedings of the 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (PETRA’18). https://doi.org/10.1145/3197768.3203177

Huber, A. Weiss, A., Rauhala, M. The Ethical Risk of Attachment. How to identify, Investigate and Predict Potential Ethical Risk in the Development of Social Companion Robots. In HRI2016: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (altHRI track) (2016). https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2016.7451774 

Weiss, A., Mirnig, N., Bruckenberger, U., Strasser, E., Tscheligi, M., Wollherr, D., and Stanczyk, B. The Interactive Urban Robot: User-centered development and final field trial of a direction requesting robot. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, (2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2015-0005

Weiss, A., and Bartneck, C. Meta Analysis Of The Usage Of The Godspeed Questionnaire Series. In Ro-Man2015: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(2015). https://doi.org.10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333568

Lorenz, T., Weiss, A., and Hirche, S. Synchrony and Reciprocity: Key Mechanisms for Social Companion Robots in Therapy and Care International Journal of Social Robotics, (2015). https://doi.org.0.1007/s12369-015-0325-8

Contact Info

Office Phone: +43 (1) 58801 18785
Email: astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at
Webpage: https://astridweiss.net/