Antonia Lina Krummheuer

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Antonia Lina Krummheuer’s research reshapes how we think about human-robot interaction (HRI), particularly in care settings. She challenges the field’s traditional dyadic focus—robot and one user—arguing instead for a distributed, socially situated understanding of robotic agency. Her work centers on co-designing social robots with cognitively impaired citizens and elderly users, moving beyond technical functionality to embrace the messy, collaborative realities of care. In her most cited paper (21 citations), she reports on a two-year project co-designing robots with cognitively impaired residents, highlighting both technical outcomes and methodological challenges. Her 2016 paper (13 citations) pioneered user-driven robot development in elder care, while her 2022 work (13 citations) critiques dyadic HRI as inappropriate for care contexts, where robotic agency is a mutual, situated construction. Krummheuer’s concept of “triadic HRI” (11 citations) explores distributed agency and memory in robot-assisted interactions, and she has developed culturally-aware personal robots based on local Danish healthcare practices (11 citations). Her 2025 paper (7 citations) exposes the invisible work robots create for human collaborators. By centering real-world practices over streamlined processes, Krummheuer offers a vital, sociologically-informed vision for designing robots that truly serve vulnerable populations.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Co-designing social robots with cognitively impaired citizens

   21 citations · 2018
2. 2
   From Social Practices to Social Robots – User-Driven Robot Development in Elder Care

   13 citations · 2016
3. 3
   Beyond dyadic HRI

   13 citations · 2022
4. 4
   Triadic Human-Robot Interaction. Distributed Agency and Memory in Robot Assisted Interactions

   11 citations · 2020
5. 5
   Developing a New Brand of Culturally-Aware Personal Robots Based on Local Cultural Practices in the Danish Health Care System

   11 citations · 2018
6. 6
   Who Am I? What Are You? Identity Construction in Encounters Between a Teleoperated Robot and People with Acquired Brain Injury

   8 citations · 2016
7. 7
   The Invisible Work of Human-Robot Collaboration: When Streamlined Processes Meet the Complexity of Real-World Practices

   7 citations · 2025
8. 8
   Zwischen den Welten

   6 citations · 2008
9. 9
   When a notification at the right time is not enough: the reminding process for socially assistive robots in institutional care

   5 citations · 2024
10. 10
    Re-Configuring Human-Robot Interaction

    5 citations · 2022

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