A research studio exploring the interplay between people, technologies, and the more-than-human worlds they inhabit.
Identity and experience, not gaps in the literature, are our vantage points.
Our studio approach reflects our passion for creating things. It privileges felt experience, physical media and embodied practice. We believe that meaning and insight live not only in minds but in bodies, spaces, and the relationships between them. Our work as researchers advances theory and ideas by going into the world, observing and changing it.
We resist the comfort of resolved practices or fixed methodologies. Instead, we cultivate an environment of intellectual tension by weaving together different ways of knowing and doing, different practices and epistemologies.
We treat research as a site of play. Play is our attitude towards experimentation and learning.
We aspire to truth, beauty, and justice in all aspects of our work.
Work Highlights
Power in Human-Robot Interaction
DOIHou, Yoyo Tsung-Yu; Cheon, EunJeong; Jung, Malte F.2024
Constructing a Social Life with Robots: Shifting Away From Design Patterns Towards Interaction Ritual Chains
DOIKamino, Waki; Jung, Malte F.; Sabanović, Selma2024
Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships
DOIHohenstein, Jess; Kizilcec, Rene F.; DiFranzo, Dominic; Aghajari, Zhila; Mieczkowski, Hannah; Levy, Karen; Naaman, Mor; Hancock, Jeffrey; Jung, Malte F.2023
Designing Robot Sound-In-Interaction: The Case of Autonomous Public Transport Shuttle Buses
DOIPelikan, Hannah R. M.; Jung, Malte F.2023
Micbot: A Peripheral Robotic Object to Shape Conversational Dynamics and Team Performance
DOITennent, Hamish; Shen, Solace; Jung, Malte
2019