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• Robot Characters: Co-Designing Dynamic Personalities for Cognitively Assistive Robots

  Dagoberto Cruz-Sandoval, Alyssa Kubota, Connie Guan, Soyon Kim, Laurel D. Riek · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

  The paper introduces the concept of a "robot character" — a holistic, context-sensitive framing of robot personality that extends beyond trait-based models such as Big Five by incorporating shared interests, cultural background, lived experiences, and environmental factors. To…

  cognitively assistive robots · robot personality · co-design · inclusive design · dementia

• Socio-Technical Aspirations for Children with Special Needs: A Study in Two Locations – India and Finland

  Sumita Sharma, Krishnaveni Achary, Saurabh Srivastava, Blessin Varkey, Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen · 2020 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This cross-cultural qualitative study proposes extending Boujarwah et al.'s three-part framework for assistive technology design by adding a fourth dimension: socio-technical aspirations. The authors define this as "individual- or community-driven ambition and desire to own or…

  assistive technology design · cross-cultural research · special education · autism · ADHD

• Imagining Artificial Intelligence Applications with People with Visual Disabilities using Tactile Ideation

  Cecily Morrison, Edward Cutrell, Anupama Dhareshwar, Kevin Doherty, Anja Thieme, Alex Taylor · 2017 · Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  This paper presents a novel tactile ideation methodology for working with people with visual disabilities to imagine future AI applications, and reports on cross-cultural workshops conducted in the UK (6 participants) and India (8 participants). Rather than asking users about…

  artificial intelligence · blindness · visual impairment · participatory design · design methodology

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