Ziquan Lan

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Ziquan Lan is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI) and social media, pioneering new ways to integrate robots into everyday domestic life. His key research area explores how existing social media platforms can be repurposed as intuitive interfaces for controlling and communicating with household robots. Lan’s major contribution is a novel conceptual framework that reimagines robots not as isolated machines, but as "buddies" on a user’s contact list. This approach, detailed in his most-cited work "Using Social Media Platforms for Human-Robot Interaction in Domestic Environment" (19 citations), leverages familiar social networking tools to lower the barrier for non-expert users. His earlier foundational paper, "Robots in my contact list" (9 citations), laid the groundwork for this vision by proposing a robot management system that uses complementary social media platforms. By bridging the gap between social networking and robotics, Lan has offered a practical, user-centered pathway for making domestic robots more accessible and socially integrated, a notable achievement in the field of HRI.