Irene Alcubilla Troughton (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Performance and Technology, teaching at the intersection of theatre and performance studies, media and technology studies, and cognitive studies. Her PhD dissertation 鈥淢oving Together: A Performing Arts Approach to Relational Human-Robot Interaction Design鈥� investigated the role of embodiment, contextuality, and performativity in relational movement-based HRI design, using the knowledge and expertise of the performing arts. She has published and participated in both robotics and performance conferences, journals, and venues (HRI, ROMAN, Performance Research鈥�). In her work, she closely collaborates with artists and designers in participatory workshops, looking at bottom-up and exploratory ways of conceptually and practically investigating the intersection between technology and art. Other interests of her lay on phenomenology, critical disability studies and queer studies.