Maria Luce Lupetti is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. Her research explores the role of critical design approaches for the development of responsible and desirable artificial agents.

Cristina Zaga is an Assistant professor at the Human-Centred Design Group (Design and Production Management department) and at The DesignLab at the University of Twente. Her research focuses on design methods for embodied AI and interactive agency.

Nazli Cila is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. Her work combines interaction design with cognitive/social psychology and humanities to investigate philosophical, practical, and ethical issues surrounding collaborations with artificial agents.

Michal Luria is a Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, and has recently completed her Ph.D. at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work makes use of RtD and Speculative Design approaches to explore future interactions with social robots and other forms of emerging technology.

Marius Hoggenmüller is a Ph.D. candidate in the DesignLab at The University of Sydney. His work focuses on prototyping and probing urban interactions with robots and autonomous systems, thereby applying RtD methods and Media Architecture principles.

Malte F. Jung is an Associate Professor in Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on design and behavioural aspects of human-robot interaction in group and team settings. He seeks to build understanding about interpersonal dynamics and how those can be shaped by machines.