Papers
32
Total Citations
697
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About
Johanna Seibt is a philosopher and interdisciplinary researcher whose work spans process ontology, social robotics, and human-robot interaction (HRI). Originally grounded in analytic philosophy — evidenced by her influential 2004 volume *Process Theories: Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories* (57 citations) — Seibt has become a leading theorist at the intersection of technology, ethics, and social cognition. She is perhaps best known for developing foundational conceptual frameworks for social robotics, including her pioneering notion of "Integrative Social Robotics" (ISR), a value-driven, transdisciplinary methodology for responsible robot design (40 citations), and her original concept of "sociomorphing" as an alternative to anthropomorphism (44 citations). Her scoping review critically interrogating anthropomorphism's methodological weaknesses in HRI research (32 citations) has further shaped how the field approaches its core assumptions. Seibt has also made significant empirical contributions, examining elderly citizens' attitudinal change toward robots (67 citations), robot-mediated job interviews, conflict mediation, and novel attitude assessment scales. Across more than 400 combined citations, her work consistently bridges rigorous philosophical analysis with pressing real-world questions about how humans experience and relate to increasingly sociable machines.
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- 2Process Theories: Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories57 citations · 2004
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- 5Integrative social robotics, value-driven design, and transdisciplinarity40 citations · 2020
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- 8Towards a new scale for assessing attitudes towards social robots30 citations · 2020
- 9Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations30 citations · 2014
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