Suman Ojha

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Suman Ojha is a multidisciplinary researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction, artificial intelligence, and computational ethics. With a body of research spanning trust, privacy, emotion modeling, and robotic infrastructure, Ojha has made significant contributions to understanding how humans engage with and accept social robots in real-world environments. Among his most influential contributions are investigations into user trust toward robot recommender systems and the role of transparency in human-robot interaction, each garnering around 60 citations. His 2018 work demonstrated that preference elicitation and embodiment meaningfully shape user trust, while his transparency research showed that openness about data collection practices improves user attitudes toward robots. His persuasion research, examining how robots compare to humans and kiosks in recommendation contexts, further established his expertise in social robotics. Ojha has also advanced the technical foundations of robotics through his pioneering work on Fog Robotics — an architecture designed to overcome the bandwidth and security limitations of Cloud Robotics — and explored the ethical dimensions of robot emotion processing across multiple papers. His 2020 thematic review of computational emotion models (34 citations) reflects his sustained commitment to understanding machine affect. Together, his work has shaped conversations on responsible, human-centered robot design.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Do You Trust Me, Blindly? Factors Influencing Trust Towards a Robot Recommender System

   60 citations · 2018
2. 2
   Be More Transparent and Users Will Like You

   59 citations · 2018
3. 3
   Computational Emotion Models: A Thematic Review

   34 citations · 2020
4. 4
   Bon Appetit! Robot Persuasion for Food Recommendation

   31 citations · 2018
5. 5
   Embodiment, Privacy and Social Robots: May I Remember You?

   24 citations · 2017
6. 6
   Fog Robotics for Efficient, Fluent and Robust Human-Robot Interaction

   24 citations · 2018
7. 7
   The Essence of Ethical Reasoning in Robot-Emotion Processing

   20 citations · 2017
8. 8
   Fog Robotics: An Introduction

   18 citations · 2017
9. 9
   Ethically-Guided Emotional Responses for Social Robots: Should I Be Angry?

   14 citations · 2016
10. 10
    Privacy by design in machine learning data collection: A user experience experimentation

    8 citations · 2017

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