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Sara Khan is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI), service robotics, and medical robotics. Her work fundamentally reframes how we design social robots, moving beyond technical functionality to embrace user experience (UX) principles. In her highly influential 2018 paper, "Reframing HRI Design Opportunities for Social Robots," Khan draws on real-world service robotics case studies to demonstrate how UX methodologies can create more intuitive and socially acceptable robots—work that has garnered 31 citations and shaped contemporary HRI design thinking. She also bridges robotics with critical ethical questions, exploring roboethics in cultural heritage contexts and arguing for design expertise that balances human protection with enhancement. Demonstrating remarkable breadth, Khan extends her expertise into surgical robotics, where she assessed perioperative outcomes of robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy using the National Cancer Database, contributing vital evidence on whether this complex procedure is ready for widespread clinical adoption. Through her interdisciplinary approach—spanning service robotics, medical applications, and ethics—Khan is helping to ensure that as robots become more integrated into daily life, they are designed not only to be capable, but also to be trustworthy, ethical, and genuinely useful to humans.
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