Wan Ching Ho
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About
Wan Ching Ho is a prominent researcher specializing in human-robot interaction (HRI), long-term companion robotics, and social robotics, with much of her work conducted at the University of Hertfordshire's Robot House. Her research has made significant contributions to understanding how robots can serve as meaningful, adaptive companions in everyday human environments. Ho's most influential work centers on developing memory models that allow robotic companions to remember significant interactions and migrate between virtual and physical platforms — a concept known as agent migration — enabling more personalized, context-aware relationships over time (42 citations). Her longitudinal studies, involving participants interacting with robots over multiple weeks in naturalistic home-like settings, have shaped methodologies for evaluating long-term HRI using scenario-based prototyping (23 and 13 citations). She has also explored robots as social mediators facilitating remote human-to-human communication (14 citations) and investigated how robot mobility influences user perception in domestic spaces (28 citations). Contributing to European Commission-funded projects such as LIREC, Ho has helped bridge the gap between theoretical HRI frameworks and real-world robotic deployment. Her work collectively advances the vision of robots as socially intelligent, adaptive companions capable of enhancing daily human life.
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