Muriel Mignerat
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Dr. Muriel Mignerat is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on child-robot interaction (CRI) and the design of socially assistive robots. Her work explores how children and families perceive, engage with, and form attitudes toward different robotic platforms in real-world settings. In her highly cited 2020 study, "A Comparison of NAO and Jibo in Child-Robot Interaction," Dr. Mignerat conducted a landmark field experiment at the Canada Science and Technology Museum with 121 child-parent pairs. This work revealed that children favor robots like NAO and Jibo roughly equally, but for distinctly different reasons—driven more by autonomous behavior and perceived personality than by physical form alone. Her findings have significant implications for the design of educational and therapeutic robots, helping shape how robots are introduced into homes, schools, and museums. With over 3 citations on this study alone, Dr. Mignerat’s research continues to influence the growing field of CRI, bridging engineering, psychology, and user experience to create more meaningful and effective human-robot relationships.
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- 1A Comparison of NAO and Jibo in Child-Robot Interaction3 citations · 2020