My postdoctoral research investigates robot ethics, from design, user advocacy, and socio-technical perspectives. It examines social robots for well-being and companionship, and the ethical speculative design of robot futures.

My PhD research investigates how robots could be ethically designed and deployed to be accessible tools to promote users’ mental well-being.

For my master’s thesis, I led the co-design and user research of a robotic tutor of assistive sign language for autistic children. Assistive sign language is an alternative communication form used by and with autistic people. Robots could help engage autistic children in sign language tutoring. This thesis examined the (ethical) co-design of such robots, and performed a pilot study. Children were found to sign accurately (at least once) with the robot, and a non-significant preference was found for the robot to use both verbal and image-based communication when explaining a signed concept.