Konrad Maj
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About
Konrad Maj is a pioneering researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI), with a focus on how people—especially children—perceive and respond to social robots. His work spans child-robot interaction, robot assertiveness, and the psychological dynamics of human-robot first encounters. Maj’s most-cited paper (2024, 8 citations) explores how children anthropomorphize humanoid robots and react to assertive robot behavior, offering critical insights for designing socially adept robots. Another influential study (2024, 7 citations) examines public acceptance and fears of robots in the labor market, revealing gender and occupational differences in a large Polish sample. He also proposed an integrated theoretical model of human-robot first contact (2019, 5 citations), drawing on social psychology to explain how people form cognitive categories for social robots. Notably, Maj adapted the classic Milgram obedience paradigm to study obedience to a humanoid robot (2023, 3 citations), a bold contribution that questions whether robots can become authorities. His work on touch and physiological arousal in HRI (2023, 2 citations) further advances understanding of anthropomorphic framing. With a growing citation impact and a focus on psychologically grounded HRI, Maj is shaping how we design robots that interact naturally and ethically with humans.
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