Edited Books
Edited Book Collection
Sound and Robotics
Subtitle: Sound in Human-Robot Interaction
In December 2023 my edited book Sound and Robotics was published. It brings together research on sound in human-robot interaction, covering spoken language, non-verbal audio communication, sonification, and robotic musicianship.
Sound in human-robot interaction currently encompasses a wide range of approaches and methodologies that is not easily classified, analyzed, or compared between projects. This edited book covers the state-of-the-art in sound and robotics aiming to collect existing approaches in a combined volume. Collecting chapters from world-leading academic and industry authors, the book also includes surveys of the existing work in sound and robotics.
The first set of chapters explores how robots use and listen to verbal communication, considering the merits and disadvantages of speech for human-robot interaction. The second section shifts to the roles of non-verbal communication in HRI, including a look at industry practice, consequential sound, sonification and audio cues. The third and final section describes current approaches to robotic musicianship, from improving trust, to technical and creative perspectives such as singing robots, and dancing to music.
Chapters and supplementary material are available at soundandrobotics.com.
Cultural Technologies
Subtitle: Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the Performing Arts
I have also co-edited Cultural Technologies: Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the Performing Arts with Yuji Sone. Published by Routledge in 2025, the volume examines how robotics and AI are reshaping music, theatre, and dance, with contributions from leading scholars and artists. It is organised around two themes: how cultural understandings of robots and AI shape performance, and how performing arts perspectives can critically reframe robotics and AI development.
Cultural Technologies: Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the Performing Arts
Handbook of AI-based Media Disruption
Subtitle: Emerging Technologies and Multidisciplinary Perspectives Across Sectors
Another edited volume, Handbook of AI-based Media Disruption: Emerging Technologies and Multidisciplinary Perspectives Across Sectors, is forthcoming from Springer (2026). The book explores how generative AI is transforming media creation, distribution, and consumption across sectors, bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of AI-driven disruption.