Sofiya Kobylyanskaya
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Sofiya Kobylyanskaya is a researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, conversational AI, and behavioral science. Her work explores how verbal nudges—indirect suggestions that influence decision-making—can be effectively deployed through conversational agents and social robots, particularly with children. In her pioneering study, "Nudges with Conversational Agents and Social Robots: A First Experiment with Children at a Primary School" (2020, 16 citations), she conducted one of the earliest experiments examining how robotic platforms can deliver subtle behavioral prompts to young users. Her follow-up work, "Children as Candidates to Verbal Nudging in a Human-robot Experiment" (2020, 7 citations), further investigates the unique susceptibility of children to verbal nudging from machines, laying groundwork for designing ethical, persuasive dialog systems. Kobylyanskaya’s long-term vision is to build fully autonomous conversational agents capable of strategic nudging—a goal with profound implications for education, health, and child-computer interaction. Her research is notable for bridging cognitive psychology and robotics, and for raising critical questions about the ethics of machine-led persuasion. With a growing citation footprint, Kobylyanskaya is shaping how we understand and design influence in human-machine communication.
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- 2Children as Candidates to Verbal Nudging in a Human-robot Experiment7 citations · 2020