Thomas Meneweger
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Thomas Meneweger is a human-computer interaction researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, workplace technology, and human psychology. His scholarship has made meaningful contributions to our understanding of how workers perceive, adapt to, and ultimately collaborate with industrial robots in real-world production environments. Meneweger's most influential research, "Deploying Robots in a Production Environment" (2015, 42 citations), offers a rare longitudinal perspective on workers' evolving experiences with robotic colleagues, capturing both anticipatory attitudes and lived emotional responses as automation enters the workplace. Complementing this, his study on workers in a semiconductor factory (2015, 23 citations) employed narrative interviewing techniques to surface deeply personal accounts of human-robot coexistence on the factory floor — a methodologically distinctive approach that yielded rich qualitative insights. His more recent work, "Teaming with a Robot in Mixed Reality" (2024, 10 citations), signals an exciting evolution in his research agenda, incorporating mixed-reality environments to examine how information richness shapes trust, self-efficacy, and mental models during human-robot teaming. Together, Meneweger's body of work represents a sustained commitment to understanding the human side of automation, offering findings that are increasingly vital as robotics transforms modern workplaces.
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