News
A growing collection of my current and old news.
Dec. 22, 2025
My paper "The Roles of Fairness and Effectiveness in Promoting Legitimacy and Cooperation with Security Robotic Authority" has been accepted as a full paper at HRI 2026 (23% acceptance rate)! đđ
Oct. 13, 2025
Attended the 69th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 2025) in Chicago, IL and presented my paper "Rewarding Trust: How Reward Power Shapes Security Robot Acceptance".
Aug. 29, 2025
Attended the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025) in Eindhoven, Netherlands and presented my paper "Can Robots Take Over Security? A Brief Review and Critique of Security Robot vs. Human Security Agent". đ¤đŽ
Aug. 18, 2025
I successfully passed my prelim milestone and officially advanced from Ph.D. student to Ph.D. candidate!
Jun. 1, 2025
Attended the Midwest Robotics Workshop this week and presented my work "Power in Security Robots: Exploring the Role of Social Power in Robot Acceptance and Trust". đ¤
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 (HRI 2025)! Our paper got đď¸ 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! đ)
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! đ)
Nov. 22, 2023
My paper "Autonomy Acceptance Model (AAM): The Role of Autonomy and Risk in Security Robot Acceptance" was accepted for HRI 2024! đ¤ď¸
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!
Apr. 27, 2023
Successfully defended my master's thesis and received my Master of Science degree in Information Science! đ
Feb. 1, 2023