1st Residential Workshop

1st Residential Workshop – Empirical Research

12-14 January 2026

Location: León, Spain


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This workshop was the first opportunity where all the DCs will meet and introduce themselves to the whole consortium. The workshop aims to provide lectures on introducting of research and training objectives with the scientific, technological, and business foundations of service robotics. An entire day was devoted to training the DC on co-design methodologies. Simulations on co-design activities were implemented.

 
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