Papers
33
Total Citations
652
H-Index
15
About
Hiroko Kamide is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, social robotics, and cross-cultural psychology, whose work has fundamentally shaped how we understand and design robots for human wellbeing. Her scholarship spans two deeply connected domains: the psychological dimensions of how people perceive and relate to humanoid robots, and the development of culturally competent artificial intelligence for socially assistive applications. Early in her career, Kamide made foundational contributions by developing psychological measurement tools for evaluating humanoid robots, including scales assessing general impressions and the Japanese concept of *Anshin* — a nuanced sense of subjective well-being — garnering dozens of citations and establishing her as a rigorous empirical voice in the field. Her comparative studies of virtual and real humanoids further demonstrated her methodological creativity. Kamide's most impactful work emerged through the international CARESSES project, which produced the first randomised controlled trial evaluating culturally competent social robots in elder care homes, now cited over 100 times. This landmark study, alongside her influential position paper on culturally competent robots (62 citations), has helped establish cultural awareness as an essential design requirement in assistive robotics — a contribution with profound implications for ageing societies worldwide.
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- 2Paving the way for culturally competent robots: A position paper62 citations · 2017
- 3Development of a psychological scale for general impressions of humanoid46 citations · 2012
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- 5Perceived Comfortableness of Anthropomorphized Robots in U.S. and Japan38 citations · 2017
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- 9Psychological Anthropomorphism of Robots27 citations · 2013
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