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Topic 

Encountering AI in the City

Abstract

What happens when AI leaves the screen and begins to shape public life, the streets, plazas, and parks we move through every day? Autonomous vehicles share lanes with pedestrians and cyclists, delivery robots roll past school gates and caf茅 tables, drones drop parcels into urban parks, and service robots appear on plazas and campuses. Each of these systems acts on its own, often in ways that are hard to read, and becomes part of the environment whether or not anyone chooses to engage with it.

This talk is about the design of encounters between people and AI-driven systems in shared urban space. I will move across several threads of research: the external interfaces autonomous vehicles use to communicate intent and uncertainty to pedestrians; urban robots that act as social and playful presences rather than purely functional ones; robots that recruit bystanders into casual collaboration when they get stuck; and the prototyping methods, from immersive simulation to in-the-wild deployment, that let us study these systems in conditions closer to the streets they are built for. Across these threads, a shared question emerges: how do we design AI systems for the messy, public conditions they increasingly inhabit, rather than the controlled environments in which they are usually built and tested?

About the speaker

Marius Hoggenm眉ller is a Lecturer in Design at the Urban Interfaces Lab, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney. His research investigates how people encounter and interact with AI-driven systems in shared urban environments, including autonomous vehicles, delivery robots, drones, and other autonomous agents. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in venues such as ACM CHI, DIS, HRI, and AutomotiveUI, and his work has received Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards at CHI, OzCHI, and PerDis. In 2024 he held the Johann-von-Spix Guest Professorship at the University of Bamberg. He coordinates postgraduate teaching in interaction design at Sydney and serves as AI in Education Lead for the School of Architecture, Design and Planning.

On June 30th professor Hoggenm眉ller will give a lecture.

Pavlo Bazilinskyy, Assistant Professor at the department of Industrial Design.

Registration is required but free of charge.