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About
Philipp Graf is a researcher working at the intersection of human-robot interaction, care technology, and science and technology studies, with a particular focus on how robotic systems can be meaningfully integrated into gerontological and elderly care settings. His work critically examines the social dimensions of care robotics, questioning dominant assumptions about robot design and exploring how residents, staff, and care environments actively shape the meaning and function of technological actors. Graf's most influential contribution, "The Interactive Enactment of Care Technologies" (2020, 34 citations), established a foundational framework for understanding how care technologies are co-constructed through everyday practice rather than simply deployed as neutral tools. His research on zoomorphic robots — exploring how dementia patients respond to pet-like floor-washing machines (2022, 18 citations) — demonstrates a distinctive creative empiricism that blends ethnographic observation with design research. Graf has also pushed boundaries through speculative and narrative approaches, imagining dystopian futures of robotic care and proposing unconventional design concepts such as distributed robot agency and theatrical robot embodiment. Collectively, his work challenges researchers and designers to think more carefully about the ethical, social, and experiential dimensions of robots entering intimate care spaces.
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- 3Hospital Beds, Robot Priests and Huggables:12 citations · 2020
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