NEWS
A growing collection of my current and old news.
Attended the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2025) in Eindhoven, Netherlands and presented my paper “Can Robots Take Over Security? A Brief Review and Critique of Security Robot vs. Human Security Agent”. 🤖👮
Aug 29, 2025
I successfully passed my prelim milestone and officially advanced from PhD student to PhD candidate!
Aug 18, 2025
June 1, 2025
Attended the Midwest Robotics Workshop this week and present my work "Power in Security Robots: Exploring the Role of Social Power in Robot Acceptance and Trust" 🤖
Jan 10, 2025
My late breaking report 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!
Oct 10, 2024
My paper “A Human–Security Robot Interaction Literature Review” was accepted for ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction!
Aug 17, 2024
Attended the 30th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2024) in Salt Lake City, Utah and presented my paper “Gender and Security Robot Interactions: A Brief Review and Critique”. (Our paper got best paper nominee! 🎉)
Mar 15, 2024
Attended the 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) in Boulder, Colorado and presented my paper. (It's actually my first in-person conference! 😄)
Nov 22, 2023
My paper “Autonomy Acceptance Model (AAM): The Role of Autonomy and Risk in Security Robot Acceptance” was accepted for HRI 2024! 🤖️
Jun 10, 2023
My paper “Human Security Robot Interaction and Anthropomorphism: An Examination of Pepper, RAMSEE, and Knightscope Robots” was accepted for RO-MAN 2023!
April 27, 2023
Successfully defended my master's thesis and received my Master of Science degree in Information Science! 🎓
Feb 1, 2023