Papers
44
Total Citations
2,538
H-Index
20
About
Maartje M.A. de Graaf is a pioneering researcher in human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on social robot acceptance, long-term human-robot relationships, and the psychological dimensions of living alongside intelligent machines. Her work has fundamentally shaped how scholars and designers understand why people welcome — or reject — robots in their everyday lives. Her early landmark study on influencing variables for social robot acceptance (2013, 480 citations) established a foundational framework that continues to guide the field, while her subsequent domestic acceptance model (2017, 244 citations) integrated a broad range of behavioral and attitudinal factors into a cohesive theoretical structure. De Graaf's longitudinal research, including a six-month in-home deployment study with 70 robots (2016, 156 citations), brought rare real-world rigor to a field often confined to laboratory settings. She has also made significant contributions to the ethics of human-robot relationships (2016, 180 citations) and to understanding how people intuitively attribute mental states to robots (2022, 132 citations). Collectively, her body of work — spanning over 1,700 citations — offers students and researchers an indispensable lens through which to understand the complex, evolving relationship between humans and social robots.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Exploring influencing variables for the acceptance of social robots480 citations · 2013
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- 3Why Would I Use This in My Home? A Model of Domestic Social Robot Acceptance244 citations · 2017
- 4An Ethical Evaluation of Human–Robot Relationships180 citations · 2016
- 5Why Do They Refuse to Use My Robot?160 citations · 2017
- 6Long-term evaluation of a social robot in real homes156 citations · 2016
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- 8How People Explain Action (and Autonomous Intelligent Systems Should Too).110 citations · 2017
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