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SUMMARY:הרצאת סמינר: ד״ר רואן זריק-סרור. מארח
 ת: ד"ר אריג' מואסי
DESCRIPTION:Lecturer:\n Location:\n Zoom: \n Design Thinking for Real-World
  Impact: From Autonomous Vehicle UX to Co-Creating a Social Robot with Syr
 ian Refugees\n\nRawan Srour Zreik\nThis seminar examines how design thinki
 ng and UX methodologies can tackle complex\, real-world challenges across 
 domains such as autonomous mobility and social integration. Drawing on my 
 research with older and younger drivers in the UK and Israel\, I demonstra
 te how participatory design and user-centred inquiry can uncover age-\, cu
 lture-\, and context-specific needs for Take-Over Request (TOR) interfaces
  in Level-3 autonomous vehicles. These studies yielded inclusive design ta
 xonomies\, empirically grounded interface concepts.\nIn parallel\, I prese
 nt a participatory project with Syrian refugees living in Scotland\, where
  Arabic-language focus groups revealed deep barriers related to trust\, in
 formation access\, and navigating local services. Through co-design\, part
 icipants helped shape the requirements for a multilingual social-support r
 obot aimed at improving autonomy\, emotional comfort\, and access to essen
 tial resources for newly arrived families.\nTogether\, these projects illu
 strate how human-centred\, iterative methodologies can translate diverse h
 uman needs into actionable technological solutions. The seminar concludes 
 by discussing how these same design and UX principles can be integrated in
 to learning and teaching practices\, enabling students and practitioners t
 o boost learning outcomes and collaborative class dynamics.\nRawan Srour-Z
 reik is is a Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) and User Experience (UX) d
 octoral researcher specializing in human–autonomous vehicle interaction\
 , heterogeneous ageing\, and inclusive design. She is in the final stages 
 of her PhD at the University of Glasgow as part of the prestigious UKRI-fu
 nded Social AI Centre for Doctoral Training\, where she led multi-country 
 studies on takeover performance in Level-3 autonomous cars and developed d
 esign frameworks for supporting older drivers. Her work combines experimen
 tal methods\, participatory design\, and cross-cultural research\, includi
 ng a notable co-design project with Syrian refugees in Scotland to create 
 multilingual\, trust-building robotic support tools. Rawan brings an inter
 disciplinary background spanning computing science\, psychology\, and desi
 gn thinking\, with a strong commitment to applying user-centred methodolog
 ies to real-world mobility and social integration challenges.\n 

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