Rebekah Rousi
University of Vaasa, University of Jyväskylä, Tsinghua University
Papers
9
Total Citations
96
H-Index
4
About
Rebekah Rousi is a researcher at the intersection of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence ethics, and human-robot interaction, whose work interrogates the social, ethical, and psychological dimensions of our increasingly intimate relationships with intelligent machines. Her most-cited contribution, a 2025 quantitative survey analysis on trust and acceptance challenges in AI healthcare adoption (53 citations), demonstrates her ability to bridge theoretical inquiry with pressing real-world concerns, revealing how patient attitudes shape the trajectory of AI implementation in clinical settings. Rousi has also carved out a distinctive niche exploring the uncharted emotional and relational territory between humans and robots, including provocative investigations into technosexual culture, robot infidelity, and artificial emotion — work that challenges conventional boundaries in HRI scholarship. Her ethical frameworks, including a responsibility model for robot governance and analyses of multi-robot cooperation ethics, reflect a sustained commitment to ensuring that technological advancement proceeds with moral accountability. Spanning healthcare AI, domestic robotics, and public human-robot dynamics such as her 2025 RoboCup Soccer study, Rousi's portfolio reveals a scholar unafraid to ask uncomfortable questions about what it truly means to coexist with thinking machines.
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- 4Beauty in Interaction6 citations · 2021
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- 6Lying Cheating Robots – Robots and Infidelity3 citations · 2018
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