Honson Ling
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3
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59
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About
Honson Ling is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction and adolescent mental health. His work fundamentally explores how social robots can serve as non-judgmental confidants for stress disclosure, particularly among young people. Ling’s most cited paper, “Sharing Stress With a Robot: What Would a Robot Say?” (31 citations), experimentally demonstrates that the type of robot disclosure—emotional, technical, or by-proxy—significantly shapes human perception and willingness to share. His mixed-methods study on adolescent-to-robot stress disclosure (16 citations) provides deep qualitative and quantitative insights into how teenagers experience and benefit from robot-mediated emotional expression. Ling further investigates design preferences, asking what embodiment adolescents prefer for a stress-sharing robot prototype (12 citations). Collectively, his work has laid critical groundwork for designing empathetic, developmentally appropriate robotic systems that can support mental health interventions. By combining rigorous experimental design with user-centered exploration, Ling has established himself as a key voice in the emerging field of robot-assisted psychological support, showing that machines, when thoughtfully designed, can help humans cope with the very human experience of stress.
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- 1Sharing Stress With a Robot: What Would a Robot Say?31 citations · 2020
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