Alla Gubenko

Luxembourg Institute of Health, University of Luxembourg

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Alla Gubenko is a leading voice at the intersection of creativity, educational technology, and human-robot interaction. Her research critically examines how social robots can foster—or fail to foster—creative thinking in educational settings. In her highly cited 2021 work, *Educational Robotics and Robot Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue* (44 citations), she challenges the assumption that simply introducing robots into classrooms automatically boosts creativity, arguing instead for a deeper theoretical understanding of what creativity means in human-machine contexts. Gubenko further expands this framework in *Creativity in Humans, Robots, Humbots* (17 citations), where she delineates three distinct modes of creative interaction: robots as tools supporting human creativity, robots as autonomous creative agents, and the emerging hybrid space of “humbots.” Her contributions are notable for bridging cognitive science, education, and robotics, offering a nuanced critique that moves beyond techno-optimism. By foregrounding the mechanisms of creativity rather than just its outputs, Gubenko’s work provides essential guidance for designing meaningful, creativity-supportive learning environments with social robots.