Judit Casacuberta
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Judit Casacuberta is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on social robotics and child-robot relationships. Her work explores how people, especially children, perceive and engage with robotic agents in naturalistic settings. Her most cited paper, a field study with primary school children on the perception of social presence and interactive behavior with a pet robot (46 citations), is a seminal contribution to understanding the subjective and objective dimensions of human-robot bonding. In this study, she employed a mixed-methods approach to reveal how children’s perceptions of a pet robot are deeply intertwined with their interactive behaviors, offering key insights into the design of socially engaging robots. Casacuberta’s research has helped shape the field of social robotics by bridging psychological theory and robotic design, demonstrating that children can form meaningful social connections with non-human agents. Her work is widely cited by researchers in developmental robotics, human-robot interaction, and educational technology, and continues to influence how robots are designed for social and educational contexts.
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