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EunJeong Cheon is a researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI), value-sensitive design, and science and technology studies, whose work critically examines how robots and emerging technologies are shaped by — and in turn shape — human relationships, power, and society. Cheon's most influential contribution, "Futuristic Autobiographies" (2018, 73 citations), introduced an innovative design fiction-inspired method for surfacing participants' values and visions of technological futures. Her early work on Value Sensitive Design frameworks (2016, 36 citations) broke new ground by centering the often-overlooked values of roboticists themselves, complementing user-focused traditions. Through her analyses of how humans are "configured" in HRI research (2017, 30 citations; 2022, 30 citations) and her systematic review of non-dyadic interaction (2022, 51 citations), she has consistently pushed the field toward greater reflexivity about its assumptions and blind spots. Her more recent scholarship interrogates power dynamics in HRI (2024, 18 citations) and explores how collaborative robots reshape industrial workplaces and social life (2022, 20 citations). Across more than 280 cumulative citations, Cheon's research stands as a sustained, critical, and humanizing voice in an increasingly automated world.