Director of New Forms of DataProfessor Frauke Zeller

Professor Frauke Zeller is Chair in Design Informatics at Edinburgh College of Art and co-director of the Institute for Design Informatics. Her expertise spans Human-Robot Interaction, AI, ethics, and digital methods. Previously an Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, she directed several research centres, including the Centre for Communicating Knowledge. Frauke has led multiple international research projects, securing major grants from SSHRC, NSERC, and the UK-Canada AI Research Programme. She co-created hitchBOT, Canada’s first hitchhiking robot, now part of a permanent museum exhibition. Frauke can be contacted at fzeller@ed.ac.uk.