Judeth Oden Choi

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Judeth Oden Choi is a design researcher whose work explores the social and cultural dimensions of human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on how autonomous agents inhabit shared spaces. Her most influential paper, "Robotic Futures" (2020, 24 citations), critically examines the design of voice-based agents like Amazon Echo, arguing that these technologies are often ill-equipped to navigate the complex social dynamics of domestic environments. By challenging the prevailing one-on-one interaction paradigm, Choi opens up a richer design space for agents that can respond to the fluid, multi-person activity of a home. In her more speculative work, "Medieval Robots" (2020, 2 citations), she takes a critical making approach to reconstruct historical automata, asking what imagined robots from the distant past can teach us about designing for the future. This interdisciplinary method—blending history, critical theory, and hands-on prototyping—marks Choi as a distinctive voice in HCI. Her contributions push the field to consider not just technical functionality, but the deeper cultural narratives that shape how we build and live with robots.