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Designing Robotic Movement with Culture in Mind

V. Lalioti, H. Samani

Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London, London, UK

2nd International Workshop on Cultural Robotics @ ACM/IEEE HRI 2025 · 2025

Poster: portrait layout. Left two-thirds white, with black title and text, then three rows of colour photos: workshop participants at tables of coloured cards, small robot prototypes and toolkit objects. Right third is a black panel showing a tall thin robot rising from a white perforated sphere.
Poster as presented, 2500 × 3534 px. Select it to zoom and pan.

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This research through participatory co-design practice, seeks to explore designing robotic movement that is expressive,culturally dependent and contextually sensitive. We developed a new process, including a design toolkit, an expressive movement card-game and an open design brief and participatory structure. We present the resulting robot morphologies and participant feedback from workshops in Japan and UK, and conclude by discussing limitations and further research in designing robots with expressive movement and culture in mind.

Published as

lalioti2026designingpp. 71–92

Designing Robotic Movement with Culture in Mind

Vali Lalioti, Shota Kiuchi, Alisa Koegel and 3 others

Cultural Robotics: Diversified Sustainable Practices · 2026 · pp. 71–92

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@misc{lalioti2025designing, title = {Designing Robotic Movement with Culture in Mind}, author = {V. Lalioti and H. Samani}, howpublished = {Poster, 2nd International Workshop on Cultural Robotics @ ACM/IEEE HRI 2025}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.culturebots.org/publications/hri2025-poster-10/} }