Haiyang Ma

Northeastern University

Papers

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8

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About

Haiyang Ma is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, cognitive neuroscience, and human factors engineering. Their work fundamentally explores how individual personality traits—particularly openness—modulate trust, performance, and neural engagement during interactions with autonomous systems. In their landmark 2024 study, Ma demonstrated that users’ openness interacts dynamically with robot reliability to shape not only subjective trust but also objective task performance, visual attention patterns, and cerebral activations. This multi-modal approach—integrating psychological surveys, behavioral metrics, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging—represents a significant methodological contribution, offering a holistic framework for understanding trust as a brain-body-environment phenomenon. With 8 citations already, this work is rapidly influencing the design of adaptive, user-centered robotics. Ma’s research has profound implications for developing robots that can calibrate their behavior to individual users, enhancing safety and collaboration in settings from manufacturing to healthcare. By bridging personality psychology with real-time neural and behavioral data, Haiyang Ma is shaping the future of trustworthy, personalized human-automation teamwork.

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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Interactive effects of users’ openness and robot reliability on trust: evidence from psychological intentions, task performance, visual behaviours, and cerebral activations
8 citations · 2024
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2024 (1 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 4
🏛 Institutions: Northeastern University

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