Te-Yi Hsieh
Papers
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Total Citations
87
H-Index
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About
Te-Yi Hsieh is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction, focusing on the social and psychological dynamics that shape cooperation between people and machines. Their work centers on how humans engage with robots in economic games—particularly the prisoner’s dilemma—revealing that people exhibit strong reciprocity but conditional prosociality toward robotic partners. Hsieh’s studies have shown that while individuals cooperate with robots, their willingness is influenced by game incentives and intergroup biases, not by robots’ emotional displays. Notably, their 2020 paper on human-robot cooperation in prisoner’s dilemma games (20 citations) and their 2021 exploration of empathy and schadenfreude in human–robot teams (19 citations) have been foundational in understanding how ingroup/outgroup dynamics extend to human-robot interactions. Hsieh also investigates emotion recognition and contagion with robots like Cozmo, linking empathic traits to how people perceive robot emotions. Their research has practical implications for designing robots in social settings, from teamwork to competition, and has garnered over 80 citations, establishing Hsieh as a key voice in the ethics and psychology of human-robot cooperation.
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Top Papers
- 1Human-Robot Cooperation in Prisoner Dilemma Games20 citations · 2020
- 2Empathy and Schadenfreude in Human–Robot Teams19 citations · 2021
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