Jaeeun Shim
Papers
13
Total Citations
227
H-Index
9
About
Jaeeun Shim is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI), robot deception, and social robotics. Best known for establishing a foundational framework in robotic deception, Shim's landmark 2013 paper, "A Taxonomy of Robot Deception and Its Benefits in HRI," has garnered 78 citations and remains one of the most influential works in the field, systematically categorizing deceptive robot behaviors and articulating the conditions under which such behaviors can ethically benefit human users. Building on this, Shim developed biologically inspired algorithms for deceptive robot action generation and extended this work into practical domains including search-and-rescue operations and healthcare settings. A particularly notable contribution is Shim's development of an "intervening ethical governor" for robot mediators, designed to support Parkinson's patients whose emotional expressions are often misread by caregivers — a compassionate application of robotics to a deeply human problem. With work spanning child-robot interaction, self-disclosure dynamics, and other-oriented deception — where robots deceive strategically to benefit the very person being deceived — Shim's research consistently challenges conventional assumptions about honesty in social systems, offering a nuanced, ethically grounded vision for the future of socially intelligent robots.
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Top Papers
- 1A Taxonomy of Robot Deception and Its Benefits in HRI78 citations · 2013
- 2Biologically-Inspired Deceptive Behavior for a Robot33 citations · 2012
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- 5Dance dance Pleo13 citations · 2011
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- 7Biologically-Inspired Deceptive Behavior for a Robot11 citations · 2012
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- 9The influence of a peripheral social robot on self-disclosure9 citations · 2016
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