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Alexandra Bremers is an emerging researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI), social robotics, and creative computing. Her work explores how robots can communicate, collaborate, and coexist more naturally with people in everyday settings. Bremers has made notable contributions to the design of expressive robotic behavior, most prominently through her series of studies on drawing and pen-plotting robots that play Tic-Tac-Toe with human participants — investigating how motion, mark-making, and timing can convey emotion and intentionality in machines. Her proposal for purposefully designed robot clothing, cited 10 times, challenges designers to move beyond human mimicry toward functional, context-aware robot apparel. A recurring theme in her research is robot error detection: her work on bystander social cues and the Bystander Affect Detection (BAD) dataset advances the field's understanding of how robots can recognize their own failures through implicit human reactions. Bremers has also taken her research into real-world urban environments, deploying service robots in public plazas to study naturalistic HRI. Collectively accumulating over 45 citations, her body of work positions her as a creative and methodologically adventurous voice in socially intelligent robotics.