Paulina Zguda
Papers
5
Total Citations
47
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5
About
Paulina Zguda is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction, with a focus on child-robot interaction (CRI) and social robotics for older adults. Her work explores how trust, expectations, and unexpected robot behaviors shape user perceptions and engagement in real-world settings. Through in-the-wild studies in kindergartens, museums, and care centers across Poland and Japan, she has demonstrated how a robot’s social faux pas or system errors influence children’s perseverance and attitudes, with key papers accumulating over 14 and 13 citations. Her participatory design study with the NAO robot at a care center in Krakow, involving 29 older adults, highlights her commitment to inclusive, user-centered robotics. Zguda’s research bridges developmental psychology and human-robot interaction, offering critical design implications for age-appropriate, trustworthy robots. Her notable achievement includes pioneering cross-cultural CRI studies that inform the ethical and practical deployment of social robots in everyday life.
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