Katharina Brunnmayr

 

Katharina Brunnmayr

Institution: TU Wien

Expertise: Human-Centered Design

Role: PhD Student

Research Interests:

  • Playful Research Approaches
  • Participatory Design
  • Human-Robot Interaction

I joined the "Caring Robots // Robotic Care "project as a master's student. In my master's thesis, I created low-fidelity game prototypes to facilitate discussion about care technologies and explore novel roles for care robots. Currently, I am exploring play and playfulness as research approaches.

Katharina Brunnmayr and Astrid Weiss. 2024. Approaching Future Robot Technologies via Speculative Role-Playing. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 278–282. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640570 

Katharina Brunnmayr and Astrid Weiss. 2023. Bridging the Gap: Using a Game-based Approach to Raise Lay People's Awareness About Care Robots. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 452–455. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580125  

E-mail: katharina.brunnmayr@tuwien.ac.at