Christina Vestergaard
Aarhus University, Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts
Papers
13
Total Citations
325
H-Index
10
About
Christina Vestergaard is a prominent researcher specializing in human-robot interaction (HRI), social robotics, and the psychological and ethical dimensions of human-technology relationships. Her work has made significant contributions to understanding how people perceive, interact with, and develop attitudes toward social robots, accumulating over 300 citations across her key publications. Vestergaard's most influential contribution, cited 67 times, examines how elderly citizens' attitudes toward social robots shift through experience, linking personality traits and functional beliefs to technology acceptance — a finding with important implications for assistive robotics in aging populations. She is also a leading voice in theoretical innovation within HRI, co-developing the framework of "Integrative Social Robotics" (ISR), a transdisciplinary, value-driven design methodology aimed at making social robotics culturally sustainable and ethically responsible. Her concept of "sociomorphing" — challenging the dominant paradigm of anthropomorphism — offers a nuanced typology for understanding how humans experience sociality with robots. Vestergaard has additionally pioneered practical applications, including "Fair Proxy Communication," which uses robots to mitigate implicit bias in decision-making contexts. A consistent advocate for methodological rigor, she has championed mixed-methods approaches in HRI research, arguing that the complexity of human social interaction demands more than quantitative methods alone.
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- 3Integrative social robotics, value-driven design, and transdisciplinarity40 citations · 2020
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- 5Towards a new scale for assessing attitudes towards social robots30 citations · 2020
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- 9Five Principles of Integrative Social Robotics15 citations · 2018
- 10The Complexity of Human Social Interactions Calls for Mixed Methods in HRI14 citations · 2021