Jaeeun Shim

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Jaeeun Shim is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI), robot deception, and social robotics. Best known for establishing a foundational framework in robotic deception, Shim's landmark 2013 paper, "A Taxonomy of Robot Deception and Its Benefits in HRI," has garnered 78 citations and remains one of the most influential works in the field, systematically categorizing deceptive robot behaviors and articulating the conditions under which such behaviors can ethically benefit human users. Building on this, Shim developed biologically inspired algorithms for deceptive robot action generation and extended this work into practical domains including search-and-rescue operations and healthcare settings. A particularly notable contribution is Shim's development of an "intervening ethical governor" for robot mediators, designed to support Parkinson's patients whose emotional expressions are often misread by caregivers — a compassionate application of robotics to a deeply human problem. With work spanning child-robot interaction, self-disclosure dynamics, and other-oriented deception — where robots deceive strategically to benefit the very person being deceived — Shim's research consistently challenges conventional assumptions about honesty in social systems, offering a nuanced, ethically grounded vision for the future of socially intelligent robots.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A Taxonomy of Robot Deception and Its Benefits in HRI

   78 citations · 2013
2. 2
   Biologically-Inspired Deceptive Behavior for a Robot

   33 citations · 2012
3. 3
   An intervening ethical governor for a robot mediator in patient-caregiver relationship: Implementation and evaluation

   24 citations · 2017
4. 4
   An Intervening Ethical Governor for a Robot Mediator in Patient-Caregiver Relationships

   13 citations · 2017
5. 5
   Dance dance Pleo

   13 citations · 2011
6. 6
   Other-oriented robot deception: A computational approach for deceptive action generation to benefit the mark

   13 citations · 2014
7. 7
   Biologically-Inspired Deceptive Behavior for a Robot

   11 citations · 2012
8. 8
   Other-Oriented Robot Deception: How Can a Robot’s Deceptive Feedback Help Humans in HRI?

   9 citations · 2016
9. 9
   The influence of a peripheral social robot on self-disclosure

   9 citations · 2016
10. 10
    The benefits of robot deception in search and rescue: Computational approach for deceptive action selection via case-based reasoning

    7 citations · 2015

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