Susanna E. Martin
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About
Susanna E. Martin is a human-centred researcher at the intersection of social robotics, child and adolescent mental health, and aging-in-place technologies. Her work is distinguished by a deep commitment to participatory design, ensuring that the voices of end-users—particularly those often marginalized in technology development—shape the very technologies meant to support them. Her most cited paper, “A Safe Space for Sharing Feelings,” directly engaged children with lived experiences of anxiety in co-designing social robots, revealing critical insights into desired emotional functionalities and safe interaction spaces. This work, which has garnered 14 citations, exemplifies her approach of placing lived experience at the centre of innovation. Martin has also pioneered methods for involving older adults in assistive technology research, as seen in her 2024 paper on their perspectives, and has extended this ethos to policy design, advocating for user-centered policy frameworks for social robotics in aging and dementia care. By bridging rigorous qualitative research with tangible technology development, Martin is redefining how we build empathetic, responsive robots—not just for users, but with them.
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