Jenny Burke

Boeing (United States), University of South Florida

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Total Citations

145

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About

Jenny Burke is a pioneering researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI), with a particular focus on trust dynamics and collaborative systems in industrial settings. Her most influential work, "Modeling and Control of Trust in Human-Robot Collaborative Manufacturing" (2016, 86 citations), established foundational frameworks for understanding how trust evolves between human workers and robotic teammates in high-stakes manufacturing environments—a critical contribution as automation reshapes the modern workplace. Burke's research also broke new ground in remote collaboration through her RSVP (Remote Shared Visual Presence) concept (2007, 27 citations), demonstrating how mobile robots could serve as embodied proxies to enhance communication among distributed teams by providing shared visual access to remote workspaces. As an early advocate for HRI as a formal discipline, she contributed to the field's foundational literature on human-robot factors in the workplace (2006) and developed classification systems for robot simulators (2007) that improved experimental rigor. Burke also played a key role in community-building, organizing the first Young Researchers in HRI Workshop (2006), which helped establish the next generation of scholars in this rapidly evolving field.