Hugues Ali Mehenni
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Saclay
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Hugues Ali Mehenni is a researcher at the frontier of human-robot interaction and persuasive technology, with a specific focus on how conversational agents and social robots can influence behavior through subtle, non-coercive cues. His primary research area centers on the concept of "nudging"—indirect suggestions that guide decision-making—within the context of child-robot interaction. In his most cited work, "Nudges with Conversational Agents and Social Robots: A First Experiment with Children at a Primary School" (2020, 16 citations), Mehenni conducted pioneering experiments demonstrating that young children are receptive to verbal nudges delivered by robots. His follow-up study, "Children as Candidates to Verbal Nudging in a Human-robot Experiment" (2020, 7 citations), further established the feasibility of using robotic agents to influence children's choices. A long-term ambition of this work is to develop fully autonomous dialog systems capable of delivering tailored nudges. By bridging developmental psychology, human-robot interaction, and behavioral economics, Mehenni's contributions lay essential groundwork for designing educational and assistive technologies that ethically and effectively support child development.
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- 2Children as Candidates to Verbal Nudging in a Human-robot Experiment7 citations · 2020