Dag Sverre Syrdal
Papers
74
Total Citations
3,299
H-Index
31
About
Dag Sverre Syrdal is a prominent researcher in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), whose work has fundamentally shaped our understanding of how humans perceive, accept, and socially engage with robotic systems. Operating at the intersection of social robotics, proxemics, and assistive technology, Syrdal has made significant contributions to questions of robot design, personality consistency, and user attitudes. His 2007 paper on avoiding the uncanny valley — now cited over 435 times — remains a landmark study demonstrating how behavioral consistency and personality coherence influence human acceptance of robot companions. Alongside this, his empirical framework for human-robot proxemics (129 citations) and longitudinal habituation research (141 citations) have provided foundational tools for understanding how physical and social dynamics evolve over sustained human-robot interaction. Syrdal has also advanced practical applications, exploring end-user personalization of companion robots for elderly care and pioneering the use of the humanoid robot KASPAR in robot-mediated child interviews and therapeutic drumming games. His development and application of the Negative Attitudes Towards Robots Scale (189 citations) further underscores his methodological influence. Across more than a decade of research, Syrdal's work continues to inform the ethical, psychological, and design dimensions of socially assistive robotics.
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- 5“Teach Me–Show Me”—End-User Personalization of a Smart Home and Companion Robot130 citations · 2015
- 6An empirical framework for human-robot proxemics129 citations · 2009
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