Elliott Hauser

Elliott Hauser (he/him/his) studies the ways information systems shape social reality using empirical, sociotechnical, and theoretical methods. His research focuses on sites and situations where information shapes human and non-human agency, such as community-embedded robotics deployments. He is Co-PI and Informatics Lead of the transdisciplinary Living and Working with Robotics project, in which he leads studies of human-robot encounters, transdisciplinary research methods, and the dynamics of human and robot agency. This research is supported by funders including the National Science Foundation and Good Systems, a UT Grand Challenge. Other research areas include computational timekeeping, the production of scientific facts, system-dependent truth, and onto-epistemic injustice in the archive. Elliott holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently Assistant Professor of Ethical AI at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information.