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Jongchan Park is a robotics researcher whose work centers on human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on emotional expression and social behavior in service robots. His most significant contribution lies in developing systems that allow robots to communicate and respond to human emotions in natural, believable ways — work that challenges the perception of robots as purely mechanical tools. His 2007 paper, "Emotion Interaction System for a Service Robot," which has garnered 46 citations, laid important groundwork by integrating emotion recognition and expression into service robots designed for home environments. Building on this foundation, Park explored more nuanced aspects of robotic personality and affect, including a hybrid emotion generation model that allows designers to fine-tune emotional parameters, and the EEEX robot head — a purpose-built platform for exaggerated emotional expression. His later research extended into behavior generation driven by sentence types and personality modifiers, pushing toward more dynamic, context-sensitive robot communication. Across his body of work, Park has consistently addressed a central challenge in social robotics: making human-robot interaction feel intuitive and emotionally resonant, contributing meaningfully to a field with growing relevance in healthcare, eldercare, and domestic assistance.