Johan Penttinen
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Johan Penttinen is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction, sociophonetics, and applied linguistics, with a particular focus on how voice and accent shape trust and communication in care settings. His most cited study, a 2023 Finland-Swedish case study on robot accents in dental care simulation, explores how dental professionals and care clients experience and expect robot speech. This pioneering work reveals that accent perception—specifically the use of standard Sweden-Swedish by a robot in a Finland-Swedish context—can influence user comfort, authority, and perceived competence. Though early in his career, Penttinen’s research has already garnered attention for its novel integration of phonetic variation into social robotics, contributing to the design of more culturally and linguistically sensitive assistive technologies. His findings have implications for healthcare robotics, language ideology, and human-robot trust, marking him as an emerging voice in the study of how robots can be made to sound not just intelligible, but socially appropriate.
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