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About
Leigh Levinson is a researcher at the forefront of child-robot interaction (CRI) and the ethical deployment of social robots in family and pediatric contexts. Their work spans human-robot interaction, children's rights in AI, and privacy-sensitive design, with a particular focus on understanding how children, adolescents, and parents navigate life alongside social robots in real-world settings. Levinson's contributions are notable for their ecological validity — conducting studies in homes, schools, and summer camps rather than controlled lab environments, as seen in works like "Child-Robot Conversation in the Wild Wild Home" and the Haru4Kids cohabitation studies. A recurring thread in their research is centering the voices of children and families in shaping robot design and policy, examining how concepts like fairness, inclusion, and privacy are understood from a child's perspective under frameworks such as UNICEF's AI rights guidelines. Their investigations into adolescent and family privacy concerns with domestic robots have garnered particular attention, accumulating over 70 citations across their most prominent works. Levinson's interdisciplinary approach — blending qualitative workshops, physiological sensing, and value-sensitive design — positions them as an important emerging voice in ethical, child-centered robotics research.
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- 1Learning in Summer Camp with Social Robots: A Morphological Study17 citations · 2020
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