Katie Winkle
About Me
"Critical" Roboticist / Designer / Engineer / (Social) Scientist
I'm an assistant professor (biträdande universitetslektor) at the Department of Information Technology (Division Vi3; Human-Machine Interaction Unit) at Uppsala University in Sweden.
I hold an MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bristol (UK) and received my PhD in Robotics and Autonomous Systems from the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England (via the FARSCOPE centre for doctoral training at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory) in 2020. Following my PhD I was awarded a Digital Futures postdoctoral research fellowship at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) where I worked at the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning.
I work to unlock and harness the power of human-robot interaction "for good" - to try and ensure we're engineering interactions that are socially sustainable and support human flourishing.
Contact information can be found on my university profile page.
Selected Talks and Media
-
Feminist HRI: Power, Principles Practice (Award Winning) Paper at HRI 2023
-
Boosting Robot Credibility & Challenging Gender Norms Paper at alt.HRI 2021
-
Running with a Robot - BBC Coverage of my PhD Work BBC Click, 2020
-
In-Situ Learning for Socially Assistive Robots Paper at RSS 2020
Team
- Alessio GalatoloLarge Language Models for Socially Assistive Robots in Healthcare
- Lux Miranda Ethics and Diversification around Identity in Social Robotics
- Laetitia TanqueraySociology of Law, HRI and Feminist Theory (Lund University)
- Gaye Askin "Robotonomy" via Cognitive Science & Feminist HRI (Lund University)
- Pegah Rahimian Mutual Human-Robot Learning: Building a Robot Football Coach
I am main PhD supervisor to:
I am PhD co-supervisor to:
and I supervise the following postdoctoral researchers: