Research
Our projects are varied, often interdisciplinary, and range from developing robot behaviours for young children to companion robots for older adults.
Investigating "robophobia" as a cultural phenomenon on TikTok, where users express fear and hostility toward robots through humorous skits — and what these attitudes mean for designing culturally sensitive human–robot interactions.
A domestic social robot that helps children learn emotion regulation skills by interactively caring for a robot companion.
Exploring how informed consent can be meaningfully obtained in HRI. Includes development of the RoboConsent Framework, now being applied in empirical settings to support user-centered, transparent, and ethically robust consent.
Exploring whether supportive conversations with a child-friendly robot can foster self-reflection and improve children's mental health and emotional well-being over time.
Exploring whether targeted robot errors, in a learning-by-demonstration scenario, can improve children's learning.
Expanding our knowledge of human–robot interaction research for space applications.
The development and testing of a socially appropriate robot navigation algorithm.
We partner with industry and funding organizations to take human–robot interaction research from the lab into the real world.
