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This workshop taking place in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany, from March 24 to 26, 2025, offers a platform for networking, collaboration building, and topical exchange for early-career researchers working on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of work and organizational psychology/human factors/management and computer science, likely augmented with philosophical, ethical, and legal perspectives.  

Sihui Wu has been invited to join a panel of inspiring speakers at the Women in Robotics x ETH event on March 12, 2025.  The theme of her talk focuses on her work on diversity and robotics and she will share insights about her career path.

A new theory challenges how firms manage AI. Gudela Grote and colleagues published the paper in the Academy of Management Review. They argue that developers, users, and managers must share control and accountability through dialogue, negotiation, and careful design. The result could reshape how we trust AI.

On 7 March 2025, Sihui Wu and Kim Helmersen will give a guest lecture at the Cornell University, AAP Department of Design Tech, in the “Anthropocentric Models of Making With Cooperative Robots” seminar led by Marirena Kladeftira. Their lecture will feature a research presentation of “What Makes A Good Interaction for Construction Robotics and AI?” and include an interactive workshop that engages the students to blend technology and work design in various use cases.

We are reaching out to AI companies that seek to establish themselves as leaders in promoting responsible AI. We aim to understand AI developers' design mindsets and the working condi­tions conducive to a proactive while also reflective approach to addressing AI's opportunities and challenges. Thereby, companies can be supported in gaining competitive advantage in ways that address both their technical and social responsibilities.

The article “Small-Scale Farmers as Experts: Mitigating Secondary Injustices by Co-Designing Technology-Enhanced Learning Through Critical Digital Pedagogy”by Arlette Danielle Román Almánzar, Rebecca Ruehle, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Carla Martin, Alyssa J. McDonald-Bärtl and Aniruddh Agarwal is now published in the Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ) special issue: Curated Cases on Social Justice and Digital Technologies.

The article “‘It wasn’t me’: the impact of social responsibility and social dominance attitudes on AI programmers’ moral imagination (intention to correct bias)" by the authors Arlette Danielle Román Almánzar, David J. Grüning, and Laura Marie Edinger-Schons has been published in the AI & Ethics Journal .

Ruri Takizawa led the research behind the article “Organizational Crisis in Spotlight Increases Preference for Female but Not Ethnic Minority Leaders: The Role of Signaling Theory for Glass Cliff Appointments”, examining why women and ethnic minorities are appointed as crisis leaders. It is now published in the Social Psychology Quarterly.

The article, “When a Precarious Position of Power is Perceived as a Glass Cliff: Reactions to Elisabeth Borne's Appointment as Prime Minister”, with Ruri Takizawa as the lead author, has been published in Psychologie Française. It explores interpretations of a precarious leadership appointment.

The article "Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Acountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users" by Gudela Grote, Sharon K. Parker and Kevin Crowston in the Academy of Management Review is now in press.  

The SNF news room is referring to the Swiss HR-Barometer, a project which is supported by the SNF, and to the article in HR Today about the latest results. Read article (in German only) here:

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The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems will take place 14 - 18 October 2024 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Our Chair will be represented with the contribution “Designing Workplace Robots: A Social Impact Assessment Tool for Automation and Augmentation in Construction” to the Late Breaking Results session by Sihui Wu, Kim Norgaard Helmersen, and Gudela Grote.

The thirteenth edition of the Swiss HR Barometer focusses on the topic of ‘Sense and nonsense at work’. The majority of the 2032 respondents in Switzerland feel that their work is important and meaningful, with this becoming increasingly im- portant from the age of 55. However, almost half feel alienated to some extent, and the perceived boredom has increased slightly compared to 10 years ago.