Andrea Rezzani

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Andrea Rezzani is an emerging researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI), social behavior, and technology ethics. Their scholarship focuses on a particularly provocative and underexplored dimension of HRI: user aggression and robot abuse — examining how and why humans direct aggressive or abusive behaviors toward robotic systems. Rezzani's most notable contributions include developing foundational theoretical frameworks in this nascent field. Their 2023 paper, "The Space of User Aggression in Human-Robot Interaction," addresses a critical gap by working toward the operationalization and definition of aggressive behavior in technology contexts, building on prior Human-Computer Interaction literature while extending it meaningfully into robotics. Their 2025 follow-up, "What is Robot Abuse? A Sociotechnical Definition," further consolidates this work by proposing a rigorous, sociotechnical conceptualization of robot abuse — an important step toward enabling systematic empirical research. Together, these papers have accumulated 11 citations, signaling growing scholarly interest in this area. Though early in their career, Rezzani is carving out a distinctive intellectual niche, tackling ethically complex questions about human behavior, social norms, and our evolving relationships with intelligent machines — work that will likely grow in relevance as robots become increasingly embedded in everyday life.