1st Workshop on Design-Centered HRI and Governance

Gordana Dodig-Crnković is Professor of Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology and Professor of Computer Science at Mälardalen University, Sweden. She holds PhD degrees in Physics and Computer Science. Her research focuses on the relationships between computation, information and cognition, including ethical and value aspects. She is a member of the editorial board of the Springer SAPERE series, World Scientific Series in Information Studies, and number of journals. She is a member of the AI Ethics Committee at Chalmers University of Technology and the Karel Capek Center for Values in Science and Technology. More information can be found at http://gordana.se

Diana Saplacan is a researcher at the University of Oslo, at the Department of Informatics, Robotics and Intelligent Systems Research Group. She currently works in Vulnerability in Robot Society (VIROS) research project. She has also recently been listed as one of the 30 women in Norway changing the field of Artificial Intelligence. The nomination was made by the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NORA). She received her Ph.D. degree (2020) from the University of Oslo, Norway, and her M.Sc. degree (2013) from Kristianstad University, Sweden. Her Ph.D. degree is interdisciplinary within Design of Information Systems, at the cross of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) fields, with Universal Design (UD) knitting these fields. She previously worked as a Lecturer in Computer Science at Kristianstad University, Sweden (2013-2016/2020). Her current interests include Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Robot cooperation, ethics regarded through Universal Design principles, inclusion, and accessibility. 

Joshua C. Gellers, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida, Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, and Core Team Member of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment. A former Fulbright Scholar to Sri Lanka, his research focuses on environmental politics, human rights, and technology. Josh's work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and cited in several UN reports. He is the author of The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights (Routledge 2017) and Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law (Routledge 2020).

Professor Dr. Robert van den Hoven van Genderen has a vast history in business and science. Currently, he is director of the Center for Law and Internet of the Law Faculty of the VU University of Amsterdam and managing partner at Switchlegal Lawyers in Amsterdam. In the recent past, he has been an executive legal officer for the European Project Hemolia on anti-money laundering for financing terrorism and advisor for the Council of Europe sand Nato on privacy. Further, he has been director for regulatory affairs of BT Netherlands and Telfort and secretary Information Policy for the Netherlands Employers Organisation. He has published several articles and books on telecommunication law, IT law, privacy and robot law and lectured on these subjects at different universities in the Netherlands and abroad

Takashi Izumo, Dr. jur., is an Associate Professor in the College of Law at Nihon University. His research focuses on legal history and legal theory, especially on natural law in the early modern period. He worked as gest researcher in the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main. He is the author of Die Gesetzgebungslehre im Bereich des Privatrechts bei Christian Thomasius (Peter Lang 2016).

Dr. Gabriele Trovato is currently Assistant Professor in Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and Principal Investigator in Waseda of the EU-Japan Horizon 2020 project e-ViTA. He received his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, and Ph.D. degree in Biorobotics in Waseda University. Within the relations between the two countries, Gabriele Trovato has been in the organising committee of Italy-Japan Workshops since 2011. He has been Visiting Researcher in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), Carnegie Mellon University (USA), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), PUCP (Peru) and Imperial College London (UK) among others. His main research interests are interdisciplinary and include Human-Robot Interaction, with focus on culture and religion related aspects, artificial emotions in humanoids, robot aesthetics, and procedural content generation.

Nathalie is a researcher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law, where she examines ethical and legal questions around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other technologies. Her research focuses particularly on AI’s impact on human rights and societal values. Nathalie is also involved in the Council of Europe’s Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI) as an independent expert, and a member of the OECD’s Network of Experts in AI (ONE AI). Previously, she worked as a lawyer in an international law firm, and at the European Commission (DG Connect) where she coordinated the work of the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence and contributed to EU policy-making on AI. Nathalie holds degrees in Law and Philosophy from the KU Leuven, and an LL.M. from the University of Chicago School of Law. She is a qualified attorney at the New York Bar.