Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Study reveals that emotional support and practical assistance drive user relationships with mental health chatbots, with trust and satisfaction as outcomes rather than predictors.

Study examines how people with dementia and care partners want to use tracking technology, revealing needs for autonomy support, actionable insights, and relational understanding.

Study examines how AI robots combined with task-based learning affect motivation and problem-solving in preschool health education for ages 5-6.

Platform design for teleoperated social robots in classrooms, enabling safe child-robot interactions and iterative prototyping of educational robot applications.

Design-based study of a play-centered AI literacy curriculum for early childhood, examining teacher co-design, implementation feasibility, and emerging design principles for sustainable AI education.

Improvisational Participatory Storming integrates theatre-based methods with drama therapy for inclusive human-robot interaction design, enabling direct community participation while protecting.

Care ethics framework for designing social robots in acute cancer care, examining how robots can amplify compassion in emergency department settings through collaborative stakeholder research.

Neural transparency interface for LLM chatbot design enabling users to anticipate model behaviors through mechanistic interpretability visualization of behavioral trait vectors.