1st Residential Workshop

 

1st Residential Workshop

12-14 January 2026

Location: León, Spain


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Programme

Day 1: Monday 12th – Introduction of research and training objectives with the scientific, technological, and business foundations of service robotics

         TIME                            ACTIVITY / TITLE SPEAKER /         LOCATION
10:30Registration and Welcome Coffee 
11:00Session 1: Welcome and Project Overview 
11:00Welcome from the Director of School of EngineeringJoaquín Barreiro García, ULE
11:10Welcome, agenda, practicalitiesVicente Matellán, ULE
11:30SWEET presentationSilvia Rossi, UNINA
12:00DCs self-introduction 
13:30Lunch 
15:00Session 2: Scientific and Business Foundation of Service Robotics 
15:00Personal career development planLuigi D’Arco, UNINA
16:00AI and EthicsFrancisco J. Rodríguez-Lera, ULE
16:30Statistical Analysis for HRIAntonio Andriella, CSIC
17:00Visit to Robotics Lab. MIC 
20:15Social gathering 

Day 2: Tuesday 13th – Training the DC on qualitative methodologies

         TIME                          ACTIVITY / TITLESPEAKER /      DETAILS
08:30Introduction and overview of qualitative methods in HRIM. Antonietta Grasso, NAVER
09:30Ethnography and interaction designTommaso Colombino, NAVER
10:30Coffee Break 
11:00Applying ethnomethodology I (Group activity)
  • Goal: Learn to analyze micro-coordination between humans and robots. 
  • Activity: Small groups annotate short video segments to identify coordination of cues, breakdowns, and repairs. 
  • Discuss what these reveal about interaction design implications.
 
12:00Ethnography and service designM. Antonietta Grasso, NAVER
13:30Lunch 
15:00

Applying ethnomethodology II (Group activity) / Supervisory Board Meeting

  • Goal: Identify and visualize stakeholder values and tensions. 
  • Activity: Groups use the given scenario and draw a value tension map: alignments, conflicts, mediations. 
  • Discuss what these reveal about interaction design implications. 
 
16:00Presentations by students (results of the group work) 
17:00Visit to SCAYLE (Supercomputing Center)Edificio CRAI-TIC
20:30Social dinnerCasablanca Restaurant

Day 3: Wednesday 14th – Scientific Publishing, Research, and Farewell

         TIME                            ACTIVITY / TITLE SPEAKER / DETAILS
08:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee  
09:00 Session 6: Scientific Publishing  
09:00 Systematic review of the literature Camino Fernández, ULE
09:30 How to write a paper: abstract, introduction, related work. Samuele Vinanzi, SHU
10:00 How to make a scientific presentation Ángel Manuel Guerrero, ULE
10:30 Session 7: Research Methods  
10:30 Research Methods in HRI Alessandra Rossi, UNINA
11:00 Research Methods for Cognitive Robotics Samuele Vinanzi, SHU 
11:30 Robotic technologies Pablo Bustos, UNEX
12:00 Session 8: Experiment design and analysis in robotics  
12:00 Legislation and Ethics  Ludovica Sposini, SSSA
12:30 Metrics in HRI Alessandra Rossi, UNINA
13:00 Business Models for Service Robots  Gizem Bozdemir, PAL 
13:30 Lunch  
15:00 Final Remarks and Farewell Vicente Matellán & Silvia Rossi