Jacquelyn L. Schreck
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Jacquelyn L. Schreck is a leading voice in the emerging field of human-robot interaction, with a specialized focus on the cognitive mechanisms that shape how we perceive and engage with artificial agents. Her research sits at the intersection of social cognition and robotics, exploring how individual differences in theory of mind—our ability to infer the mental states of others—influence our attributions of intention and emotion to robots. In her highly influential 2019 study, "Reading the Mind in Robots," Schreck demonstrated that people with stronger theory of mind abilities are more likely to attribute mental states to a robot during a collaborative hallway navigation task. By manipulating the robot’s display and proxemic behavior, she revealed that our innate social wiring directly colors our interpretation of machine actions. This foundational work, which has garnered 9 citations and growing, has profound implications for designing more intuitive and socially-aware robotic systems. Schreck’s contributions are critical for engineers and cognitive scientists alike, offering a rigorous framework for understanding the human side of the human-robot partnership.
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