Hiroyuki Umemuro
Papers
16
Total Citations
212
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About
Hiroyuki Umemuro is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction, with particular expertise in trust, attitudes, and social dynamics between humans and robotic systems. His work spans both foundational measurement development and nuanced behavioral investigations, making him a significant voice in the field of social robotics. Umemuro's most influential contribution is his development of the Multi-dimensional Robot Attitude Scale (2015, 59 citations), a comprehensive instrument for assessing how people perceive and relate to domestic robots — work grounded in earlier foundational research on attitude dimensions from 2012. Building on this, he has extensively explored the formation and evolution of trust in social robots, producing a phased trust development model informed by interpersonal psychology (2019) and examining how factors such as listening behavior (2023, 25 citations), robot backstories, and speech errors shape user confidence and familiarity. His research also tackles subtler social phenomena, including personal space dynamics, self-disclosure among elderly users, and the design of guiding agents in public environments. Collectively, his publications — accumulating nearly 200 citations — illuminate how human social psychology can inform more intuitive, trustworthy, and emotionally resonant robot design, offering practical guidance for researchers and developers shaping the future of human-robot coexistence.
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- 2Factors and Development of Cognitive and Affective Trust on Social Robots43 citations · 2018
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- 10Dimensions of people's attitudes toward robots6 citations · 2012