Anna Dobrosovestnova
TU Wien, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Papers
16
Total Citations
138
H-Index
6
About
Anna Dobrosovestnova is a human-robot interaction (HRI) researcher whose work sits at the intersection of social science, labor theory, and robotics. Her scholarship critically examines how commercially deployed service robots integrate into public spaces and workplaces, drawing on sociological, feminist, and ethnographic frameworks that are relatively rare in HRI. Her most-cited work, "With a Little Help of Humans" (2022, 37 citations), investigates real-world bystander assistance to delivery robots stuck in snow, moving beyond laboratory prototypes to study authentic human-robot encounters. Her influential piece on affective labor (2021, 27 citations) interrogates the implications of robots performing socio-emotional work previously reserved for humans, raising important questions about labor displacement and precarity. Dobrosovestnova has also contributed to understanding robot personality beyond trait models, care robotics design, workplace identity disruption, and the ethical complexities of helping commercial robots in public spaces. Her recurring use of ethnographic methods, foregrounded in her 2024 methodological contribution to HRI, underscores her commitment to studying robots as they truly exist — messy, embedded, and deeply social. With over 125 citations across a decade of work, she represents a vital critical voice in contemporary robotics research.
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- 2Service robots for affective labor: a sociology of labor perspective27 citations · 2021
- 3Teachers' Disappointment23 citations · 2020
- 4Towards an Integrative Framework for Robot Personality Research7 citations · 2024
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- 10Ethnography in HRI: Embodied, Embedded, Messy and Everyday4 citations · 2024