Annika Boos
Papers
6
Total Citations
42
H-Index
5
About
Annika Boos is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI), specializing in the social and psychological dynamics that shape how people perceive and respond to autonomous robots. Her work centers on compliance, reactance, and proxemic behavior—exploring when and why humans follow a robot’s requests or resist them. Boos developed the influential Compliance–Reactance Framework, a novel model that integrates behavioral and affective processes to evaluate HRI, providing a structured lens for designing more socially acceptable robots. Her empirical studies, including those on polite request strategies and the foot-in-the-door effect, have shown that subtle social cues—like politeness or anthropomorphic design—can significantly increase human willingness to help robots. With over 40 citations across her most-cited papers, Boos’s research has practical implications for delivery robots, service robots, and other autonomous systems navigating shared spaces. Her use of virtual reality to study proxemics and task urgency further demonstrates her methodological innovation. Boos’s work is essential reading for anyone interested in making robots not just functional, but socially intelligent and trustworthy.
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- 1A Compliance–Reactance Framework for Evaluating Human-Robot Interaction12 citations · 2022
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