Roger Andre Søraa

Associate professor

Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture

roger.soraa@ntnu.no

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Roger A. Søraa is an Associate professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (KULT), with a PhD in Studies of Technology and Society (STS). His research focus is on automation, robotization, and the digitalization of society – how humans and technology relate to each other. Dr. Søraa is especially interested in the social domestication of technology, see e.g. his research on hospital robots and gerontechnologies of the home. He's also affiliated with Department of Neuroscience, where he works on the project LIFEBOTS.

Research Interests:

Robotization of health care
Automation of work and practices
Japan, Korea, and Asian digitalization

Current projects:

Robotics4EU (2020-2023)
AUTOWORK (2019-2024)
LIFEBOTS (2019-2023)
LIFEBOTS Exchange Extended (2019-2021)

Past projects:

SmaT (2018-2022)
DRIVERS (2018-2022)
Energy-SHIFT (2019-2021)
eWare (2017 -2021)
Crafting Climate transitions from below (2014 -2018)
RoboCare (2016)
SHAPE energy (2017-2019)
My Robot Friend (2018-2020)

Lectures:

Lecturer KULT1101
Lecturer KULT2201
Lecturer KULT8860
Lecturer MH2000
PhD research school DIGIT

Supervision:

Supervises students on all levels, please send requests by email.

Courses

Scientific, academic and artistic work

Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database

Journal publications

Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; Poulsen, A; Søraa, Roger Andre; Custers, B.H.M.. (2021) A little bird told me your gender: Gender inferences in social media. Information Processing & Management. vol. 58 (3).
Søraa, Roger Andre; Fostervold, Marianne Eidem. (2021) The secret lives of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) at a Norwegian hospital. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. vol. 152 (102627).
Søraa, Roger Andre; Nyvoll, Pernille; Tøndel, Gunhild; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; Serrano, Artur. (2021) The social dimension of domesticating technology: Interactions between older adults, caregivers, and robots in the home. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. vol. 167.
Nyvoll, Pernille; Søraa, Roger Andre; Sørgaard, Jon; Serrano, Artur. (2020) Gerontechnologies of the home as socio-technical assemblages of trust. Gerontechnology. vol. 19.
Poulsen, Adam; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2020) Queering Machines. Nature Machine Intelligence.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Anfinsen, Martin; Foulds, Chris; Korsnes, Marius; Lagesen, Vivian Anette; Robinson, Rosie; Ryghaug, Marianne. (2020) Diversifying diversity: Inclusive engagement, intersectionality, and gender identity in a European Social Sciences and Humanities Energy research project. Energy Research & Social Science. vol. 62.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard. (2020) Exoskeletons for all: The interplay between exoskeletons, inclusion, gender and intersectionality. Paladyn - Journal of Behavioral Robotics. vol. 11 (1).
Søraa, Roger Andre; Manzi, Federico; Kharas, Mark William; Marchetti, Antonella; Massaro, Davide; Riva, Giuseppe; Serrano, Artur. (2020) Othering and Deprioritizing Older Adults’ Lives: Ageist Discourses During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Europe's Journal of Psychology. vol. 16 (4).
Søraa, Roger Andre; Nyvoll, Pernille Søderholm; Grønvik, Karoline Blix; Serrano, Artur. (2020) Children’s perceptions of social robots: a study of the robots Pepper, AV1 and Tessa at Norwegian research fairs. AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence.
Fyhn, Håkon; Søraa, Roger Andre; Solli, Jøran. (2018) Why energy retrofitting in private dwellings is difficult in Norway: Coordinating the framing practices of government, craftspeople and homeowners. Energy Research & Social Science. vol. 49.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Fyhn, Håkon; Solli, Jøran. (2018) Energy consultants calculating sustainability for residential buildings. Facilities.
Fyhn, Håkon; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) Craftsmanship in the machine: sustainability through new roles in building craft at the technologized building site. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies. vol. 5 (2).
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) Mechanical genders: how do humans gender robots?. Gender, Technology and Development.

Part of book/report

Søraa, Roger Andre; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; Quintas, Joao; Dias, Jorge; Tøndel, Gunhild; Sørgaard, Jon; Nyvoll, Pernille; Nap, Henk Herman; Serrano, Artur. (2020) Mitigating isolation and loneliness with technology through emotional care by social robots in remote. Mobile Technologies for Delivering Healthcare in Remote, Rural or Developing Regions.
Fyhn, Håkon; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) Teknologisk produksjon av nærhet og avstand; Klimakrisa, virkemiddelapparatet og de tusen hjem. Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) Mecha-Media: How Are Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots Presented and Received Through the Media?. Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society.

Report/dissertation

Søraa, Roger Andre. (2020) GENDEREDINNOVATIONS 2: How Inclusive Analysis Contributes to Research and Innovation. European Commission. 2020. ISBN 978-92-76-16416-6.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Solli, Jøran; Fyhn, Håkon; Aune, Margrethe. (2018) Crafting practices in the framing of sustainable buildings. 2018.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Østby, Per; Kvaal, Stig. (2014) Konnichiwa robot, sayonara human?. 2014.

Others

Cheng, Yu; Moratti, Sofia; Kharas, Mark William; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2022) Health-tech-care in the year 2050: Workshop on the future of technologized care | ROBOTICS4EU. Robotics4EU Project Workshop . Robotics4EU-NTNU; Trondheim. 2022-05-24.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2021) Gender and Intersectional perspectives on robots and AI. GE Academy - Gender Equality - Webinar . GE Academy - Gender Equality; Online. 2021-04-15.
Kleiven-Jørgensen, Erlend; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2020) Implementering av velferdsteknoloIgi i norske kommuner. Helsetjenesteforskningskonferansen 2020 . Folkehelseinstituttet; Oslo. 2020-03-10 - 2020-03-10.
Serrano, Artur; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2020) The Future of Robotic Platforms for Gait Rehabilitation. Adaptive behavioral models of robotic systems based on braininspired AI cognitive architectures (APHRODITE) . IEEE RO-MAN; Virtual. 2020-08-31 - 2020-08-31.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2019) Halve sannheten (Half the truth about gender and technology). Altså [Tidsskrift]. 2019-06-15.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2019) Nordic sociotechnical transitions in mobility, roundtable. AESOP 2019 ; 2019-07-08 - 2019-07-13.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Vik, Jostein. (2019) Digital fences for goats in Norwegian agriculture sessions. XXVIII European Society for Rural Sociology Congress "Rural futures in a complex world" . Ruralis; Trondheim. 2019-06-25 - 2019-06-28.
Korsnes, Marius; Ryghaug, Marianne; Søraa, Roger Andre; Anfinsen, Martin; Næss, Robert; Solli, Jøran. (2018) Workshop SHAPE Energy «Avkarbonisering av Trondheims transportsektor». SHAPE Energy . NTNU og Trondheim Kommune; Trondheim kommune. 2018-02-15 - 2018-02-15.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2018) A sustainable robot future: living together or terminated?. UN Students Trondheim . UN Students; Trondheim. 2018-01-29 - 2018-01-29.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2018) Det føles som om samfunnet glemmer oss. Aftenposten morgen [Avis]. 2018-03-13.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2018) Mener roboter kan hindre uførhet. nrk.no [Internett]. 2018-01-24.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2018) Utfordringer og muligheter med robotisering i militæret. Luftkrigsskolen seminarrekke ; 2018-03-13 - 2018-03-13.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) Asker biblioteks teknologiuke: Roboter i samfunnet. Teknologiuke . Asker bibliotek; Asker. 2017-11-02 - 2017-11-02.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) DN Talent: Fremtidens elite i arbeidslivet. Dagens Næringsliv [Avis]. 2017-09-15.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) NRK P1 God ettermiddag Trøndelag på forskningsdagene. Intervju om sosiale roboter. nrk p1 [Radio]. 2017-09-22.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) Robotene kommer!. Dagens Næringsliv [Avis]. 2017-01-11.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) Robotenes hotell: Skygging av teknologier i Japan. KULT seminar ; 2017-07-08 - 2017-07-08.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) Roboter i helsesektoren: Erfaringer fra Japan. Norsk Forening for Automatisering Helse og Medisinsk Teknologi 2017 ; 2017-09-26 - 2017-09-27.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2017) Sci fi-roboten er tilbake, intervju DagensNæringsliv.no. null [Internett]. 2017-01-11.
Lie, Merete; Ravn, Malin Noem; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2016) RoboCare. networks of technology, health and culture. Workshop 2. RoboCare. Networks of technology, health and culture. Workshop 2 . RoboCare. KULT; Trondheim. 2016-04-25 - 2016-04-25.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2016) “Cool” Japanese robots as cultural power vessels and boundary objects. Communicating with Cool Japan ICA16 Preconference ; Tokyo. 2016-06-08 - 2016-06-08.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2016) Robots Projecting and Negotiating Power and Gender in the Media. The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2016 . IAFOR; Kobe. 2016-06-02 - 2016-06-05.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2016) Robots and gender – guest lecture at ICU. Gender and Social Structure class . ICU – International Christian University; Tokyo. 2016-06-15.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2016) Sustainable Transitions to an Automation and Green-Worker Synchronicity?. The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2016 ; Kobe. 2016-06-09 - 2016-06-12.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2016) TV2 nyhetene intervju om japanske roboter. TV2 nyhetene [TV]. 2016-11-15.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Fyhn, Håkon. (2016) Crafting Cultural Sustainability in the Transition to a Sustainable Environment?. ACSEE 2016 The Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment, . IAFOR; Kobe. 2016-06-09 - 2016-06-12.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Fyhn, Håkon. (2016) Energy-Calculators in Action: Realizing Sustainability Potentials in Existing Buildings Through Energy-Consultations. Minder Symposium at Living Lab . Minder network; Trondheim. 2016-12-04 - 2016-12-06.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Fyhn, Håkon. (2016) Social learning and information transfer in the transition to greener energy-workers. ISS 2016 International Conference on Information and Social Science ; Sapporo. 2016-06-24 - 2016-06-26.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Fyhn, Håkon; Solli, Jøran. (2016) 21st century green‐collar workers. 4S/EASST Conference ; Barcelona. 2016-08-31 - 2016-09-03.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Østby, Per; Kvaal, Stig. (2016) Japanese Robots as Boundary Objects between Continuity and Change. The International Conference on Japan and Japan Studies 2016 . IAFOR; Kobe. 2016-06-02 - 2016-06-05.
Lie, Merete; Ravn, Malin Noem; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2015) RoboCare. Networks of technology, health and culture. Workshop 1. RoboCare. Networks of technology, health and culture. Workshop 1 . RoboCare KULT; Trondheim. 2015-12-02 - 2015-12-02.
Lie, Merete; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2015) 4S Making and Doing: "The Good, the True and the Beautiful". 4S conference . The Society for the Social Studies of Science; Denver. 2015-11-11 - 2015-11-14.
Næss, Robert; Solli, Jøran; Fyhn, Håkon; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2015) Tverrfaglige synergier. Workshop . Sør-Trøndelag fylkeskommune; Charlottenlund videregående skole. 2015-04-29 - 2015-04-29.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2015) Denne roboten kan du kose og snakke med. iTromsø [Internett]. 2015-01-27.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2015) Hva er det med japanere og roboter?. forskning.no [Internett]. 2015-01-22.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2015) Psykisk Helse: En ny japansk robot kan lese følelser og muntre oss opp i hverdagen. Psykisk helse nummer 4/2015 [Fagblad]. 2015-09-17.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2015) Radiointervju om japanske roboter. P1+ [Radio]. 2015-01-28.
Søraa, Roger Andre. (2015) Why grandpa doesn’t want a smart phone. sciencenordic.com [Internett]. 2015-02-03.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Fyhn, Håkon; Solli, Jøran. (2015) New energy transition laborers? Framing craftspeople as energy advisors. 4S conference . The Society for the Social Studies of Science; Denver. 2015-11-11 - 2015-11-14.
Søraa, Roger Andre; Østby, Per. (2015) Hug a robot with your grandchild’s voice. http://geminiresearchnews.com/ [Internett]. 2015-02-04.

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