Eileen Roesler
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28
Total Citations
903
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About
Eileen Roesler is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI), with a particular focus on anthropomorphism, trust, and the design principles that shape how humans perceive and engage with robotic systems. Her work has garnered significant scholarly attention, accumulating over 800 citations across her most influential publications alone. Roesler's most celebrated contribution is her 2021 meta-analysis on anthropomorphism in HRI (245 citations), which provided the field's most comprehensive empirical synthesis of when and why human-like design features help — or hinder — effective human-robot collaboration. Complementing this, her 2020 taxonomy of HRI (220 citations) offered researchers a much-needed structural framework for understanding the vast diversity of robotic contexts and interaction scenarios. A consistent thread throughout her research is nuance: Roesler repeatedly demonstrates that anthropomorphism is not universally beneficial. Her studies reveal how application domain, failure type, robot embodiment, gender attribution, and framing all moderate user responses. Her investigations into trust dynamics further highlight how robot failures and human-like features interact in complex, context-dependent ways. Roesler's body of work has meaningfully advanced evidence-based robot design, making her an essential voice for researchers, engineers, and designers working at the frontier of human-robot collaboration.
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- 2A Taxonomy to Structure and Analyze Human–Robot Interaction220 citations · 2020
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