Helena Lindgren

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Helena Lindgren investigates the critical intersection of human-robot interaction and cognitive aging, focusing on how people of different ages perceive and manage breakdown situations in dialogues with socially intelligent robots. Her work addresses fundamental challenges in creating robots that can maintain mutual understanding when conflicts arise from inconsistent knowledge, shifting attention, or conflicting intentions. Lindgren’s most cited paper (16 citations) establishes a framework for how older, middle-aged, and younger adults expect, understand, relate to, and interact with robots during communication failures. She has further explored how these age groups perceive roles, goals, and recovery strategies for managing such breakdowns, and has advanced theoretical understanding of how humans and robots form shared “We-intentions” during joint activities. Her research is notable for its practical implications—informing the design of home-assistive robots that can adapt to users’ cognitive and social expectations across the lifespan. By systematically analyzing how age influences perceptions of robot behavior and dialogue repair, Lindgren contributes essential knowledge to the development of socially intelligent systems that can maintain coherent, collaborative interactions with diverse human partners.

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1. 1
   Expecting, understanding, relating, and interacting-older, middle-aged and younger adults’ perspectives on breakdown situations in human–robot dialogues

   16 citations · 2022
2. 2
   Explaining Sympathetic Actions of Rational Agents

   9 citations · 2019
3. 3
   Younger and Older Adults’ Perceptions on Role, Behavior, Goal and Recovery Strategies for Managing Breakdown Situations in Human-Robot Dialogues

   9 citations · 2021
4. 4
   Forming We-intentions under breakdown situations in human-robot interactions

   4 citations · 2023

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