Xin (Eva) Ye 叶欣

Ph.D. Student

School of Information, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Hello and Welcome! I am Xin Ye, a PhD student passionate about research in human-robot interaction, security robots, autonomous vehicles, and trust.

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More about my research

Jun 26, 2025

My paper “Rewarding Trust: How Reward Power Shapes Security Robot Acceptance” was accepted for the 69th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HEFS 2025).

Jan 10, 2025

My paper “Security Robot Power and Acceptance: Exploring French and Raven’s Five Forms of Power” was accepted for the 20th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2025). Our paper got 🎖️best late breaking report honorable mention!

A Human–Security Robot Interaction Literature Review

Xin Ye, Lionel Peter Robert

ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

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Autonomy Acceptance Model (AAM): The Role of Autonomy and Risk in Security Robot Acceptance

Xin Ye, Wonse Jo, Arsha Ali, Samia C. Bhatti, Connor Esterwood, Hana A. Kassie, Lionel P. Robert

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24)

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Human Security Robot Interaction and Anthropomorphism: An Examination of Pepper, RAMSEE, and Knightscope Robots

Xin Ye, Lionel P. Robert Jr.

IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023) 

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