Ayanna M. Howard
Psychology · The Ohio State University
Publications
94
Citations
1,515
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
25
Publishing since 2001
Ayanna M. Howard's research examines how people interact with and trust robots, including how robot appearance, voice, and behavior influence human perception, emotion recognition, and trust during collaborative tasks. Her work also applies robotics to healthcare and therapy contexts, such as early detection of cerebral palsy in infants, motor rehabilitation, and robot-assisted interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder and dementia patients. Much of this work combines engineering approaches (motion capture, computer vision, sensor-based systems) with psychological and social questions about human-robot relationships.
Publication output was higher earlier in the decade (2017-2019) and has slowed substantially in recent years, averaging about one publication per year over the last five years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Multisensory Robotic Therapy through Motion Capture and Imitation for Children with ASD
2025
- Engaging Engineering Students in Experiential Learning through Robot Droids and K-12 Outreach
2025
- The Effects of Robot Voices and Appearances on Users’ Emotion Recognition and Subjective Perception
International Journal of Humanoid Robotics · 2023
- Teaching a Robot Where to Park: A Scalable Crowdsourcing Approach
2023
- Effects of Human and Robot Feedback on Shaping Human Movement Behaviors during Reaching Tasks
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction · 2022
- The Effect of Conceptual Embodiment on Human-Robot Trust During a Youth Emotion Classification Task
2021
- Why Should We Gender?
2020
- Robot Gendering: Influences on Trust, Occupational Competency, and Preference of Robot Over Human
2020
- Robotic System to Motivate Spontaneous Infant Kicking for Studies in Early Detection of Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Study
2020
- Learning in Motion: Dynamic Interactions for Increased Trust in Human-Robot Interaction Games
2020
- A Comparative Analysis of Emotion-Detecting AI Systems with Respect to Algorithm Performance and Dataset Diversity
2019
- Human Trust After Robot Mistakes: Study of the Effects of Different Forms of Robot Communication
2019
- Humanoid Therapy Robot for Encouraging Exercise in Dementia Patients
2019
- Design of a Robotic Crib Mobile to Support Studies in the Early Detection of Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Study
2019
- An Interactive Robotic Framework to Facilitate Sensory Experiences for Children with ASD
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019
- arXiv (Cornell University)×3
- IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine×1
- International Journal of Humanoid Robotics×1
- Developmental Neurorehabilitation×1
- International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction×1
- Waki Kamino
Psychology · Indiana University
- Selma Šabanović
Psychology · Indiana University
- Natasha Randall
Psychology · Indiana University
- Čedomir Stanojević
Psychology · Indiana University
- Leigh Levinson
Psychology · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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