BIG Publications
We publish our research in top-tier conferences and journals across a variety of disciplines including computer science, human-computer interaction, psychology, social science, and design.
- By: Ellen Weir
2026
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Between Control and Surrender: Exploring Shape and Interactivity with Human-Scale Inflatable Robots
Ellen Weir, Ece Cinar Balci, Emma Powell, Robert Nixdorf, Richard Sewell, Ute Leonards & Anne Roudaut
To appear at ACM DIS 2026, 2026. BIG::Tech -
Puppet Prototyping: Exploring Puppetry as a Design Method for Relational Robots
Ellen Weir, Ute Leonards & Anne Roudaut
To appear at ACM DIS 2026, 2026. BIG::Tech -
Dancing with Giants: Learning Goal-Directed Non-Verbal Attunement with Large-Scale Inflatable Robots
Ellen Weir
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026. BIG::Health BIG::Tech -
Everything Is a Robot (and Nothing Is)
Amy Ingold, Jessica R. Cauchard, Lisa May Thomas, Madeline Balaam, Ellen Weir, Anne Roudaut, Alice C Haynes, Amy Winters & Zhuzhi Fan
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026.
2025
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The Work to Make a Heat Pump Work-Investigation into the Adoption of Domestic Heat Pumps through Social Practice and Complex Systems
Sarah Wilkie, Qiushuo Cheng, Cicely Mathews, Abdelrahman Otify, Fin Schofield, Ellen Weir, Paul Marshall & Aisling O'Kane
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS '25), 2025. BIG::Tech -
"You Can Fool Me, You Can't Fool Her!": Autoethnographic Insights from Equine-Assisted Interventions to Inform Therapeutic Robot Design
Ellen Weir, Ute Leonards & Anne Roudaut
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. BIG::Health BIG::Tech -
Lost in Translation: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Linguistic Inaccessibility in HCI
Eszter Vigh, Ellen Weir, Grace Stangroome, Alex Tcherdakoff, Yelu Gu, Oussama Metatla, Mamoru Watanabe, René Schäfer, Sophie Hahn, Konrad Mikolaj Krawczyk, Marcela Godoy, Rodolfo Cossovich, Randy Morin, Kristine Dreaver-Charles, Marguerite Koole & Frank Lewis
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), 2025. BIG::Culture BIG::Diverse
2024
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Sevenfold Paths: HCI Journeys through Dystopian Sins and Utopian Virtues
Eszter Vigh, Ellen Weir, Joseph Howard & Anne Roudaut
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024.