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Hannah Pelikan

Assistant Professor

My research combines human-robot interaction and ethnomethodologic interaction design

Interacting with mobile autonomous systems

I take an ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) perspective on human-robot interaction to study robots in everyday interaction.

My current work studies robots in public and I am particularly interested in the human wrangling work that makes robots (appear as) autonomous. I draw on a background in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, human-computer interaction and cognitive science to contribute an empirical understanding of how people interact with robots in everyday interaction. I draw on video recordings for analytical purposes and to develop methods for designing human-centered robots. My work advances interactional and embodied theories of human sociality and artificial intelligence.

Prior to my current position, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the WASP-HS AI in Motion project led by Barry Brown (Copenhagen/Stockholm) and Mathias Broth (Linköping), and a visiting researcher at the University of Nottingham (2025) where I collaborated with Stuart Reeves through a RAi UK international partnership. I graduated with a PhD in Language and Culture from Linköping University advised by Leelo Keevallik and Mathias Broth and I have been affiliated with Malte Jung’s Robots in Groups lab at Cornell University through multiple research visits. I hold a Dutch engineering degree in Interaction Technology from the University of Twente in the Netherlands and a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from Osnabrück University, Germany.

Research Interests

  • Robots in public
  • Embodiment and Multimodality
  • Interaction design
  • Sound design

News

Research

Publications

2025

Anna Dobrosovestnova, Franziska Babel, Hannah Pelikan (2025) 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), p. 163-173 (Conference paper)
Ilaria Torre, Sarah Schömbs, Katie Winkle, Sara Ljungblad, Erik Lagerstedt, Maria Teresa Parreira, Hannah Pelikan (2025) Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, p. 1991-1993 (Conference paper)
Hannah Pelikan, Bilge Mutlu, Stuart Reeves (2025) Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, p. 152-162 (Conference paper)
Hannah Pelikan, Fanjun Bu, Wendy Ju (2025) Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25)., Article 736 (Conference paper)

2024

Hannah Pelikan, Katie Winkle, David Porfirio (2024) ADJUNCT PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH NORDIC CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, NORDICHI 2024, Article 52 (Conference paper)

Education

Teaching

If you are a student in cognitive science or product design interested in working with me, please check my current projects for inspiration. I generally supervise user studies and interaction design projects. My main focus is on qualitative methods such as interaction analysis and ethnography as well as human-centered design. I have also supervised a number of survey and interview studies over the years.

I teach in the following courses:

  • 729G40
  • 729G81
  • 769A28

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