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New Zealand
2026

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Computer Science

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51
Citations
13885
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5247
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Christoph Bartneck is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Their research spans multiple fields, with significant contributions to psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience. Within these main fields, their work notably includes social psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The primary topics of their research involve social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, AI in service interactions, death anxiety and social exclusion, language, metaphor and cognition, and action observation and synchronization.

Bartneck has been a frequent contributor to several publication venues. These include:

  • International Journal of Social Robotics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics

Their recent papers include:

  • "The morality of abusing a robot" (2020), published in Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics
  • "Robot Likeability and Reciprocity in Human Robot Interaction: Using Ultimatum Game to determinate Reciprocal Likeable Robot Strategies" (2020), International Journal of Social Robotics
  • "The Doors of Social Robot Perception: The Influence of Implicit Self-theories" (2021), International Journal of Social Robotics
  • "Detecting the corruption of online questionnaires by artificial intelligence" (2024), Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • "What's to bullying a bot?" (2021), Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems

Bartneck has several frequent co-authors, indicating collaborative work with researchers including Friederike Eyssel, Merel Keijsers, Tony Belpaeme, Takayuki Kanda, and Selma Šabanović.

In addition to articles, Bartneck has contributed to academic books published by notable presses. These include:

  • Two editions of "Human-Robot Interaction" (2020 and 2024) published by Cambridge University Press
  • "An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI" (2020) published by Springer International Publishing
  • "Robots in Education: An Introduction to High-Tech Social Agents, Intelligent Tutors, and Curricular Tools" (2021) published by Ghent University

Best Publications

  • Measurement instruments for the anthropomorphism, animacy, likeability, perceived intelligence, and perceived safety of robots

    Christoph Bartneck;Dana Kulic;Elizabeth A. Croft;Susana Zoghbi

  • A design-centred framework for social human-robot interaction

    C. Bartneck;J. Forlizzi

  • Anthropomorphism: Opportunities and Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction

    Jakub Złotowski;Diane Proudfoot;Kumar Yogeeswaran;Christoph Bartneck

  • Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor

    Martin Saerbeck;Tom Schut;Christoph Bartneck;Maddy D. Janse

  • Can we control it? Autonomous robots threaten human identity, uniqueness, safety, and resources

    Jakub Złotowski;Kumar Yogeeswaran;Christoph Bartneck

  • Comparing the similarity of responses received from studies in Amazon's Mechanical Turk to studies conducted online and with direct recruitment.

    Christoph Bartneck;Andreas Duenser;Elena Moltchanova;Karolina Zawieska

  • Detecting h-index manipulation through self-citation analysis

    Christoph Bartneck;Servaas Kokkelmans

  • Is The Uncanny Valley An Uncanny Cliff

    C. Bartneck;T. Kanda;H. Ishiguro;N. Hagita

  • Integrating the OCC model of emotions in embodied characters

    Christoph Bartneck

  • Does the Design of a Robot Influence Its Animacy and Perceived Intelligence

    Christoph Bartneck;Takayuki Kanda;Omar Mubin;Abdullah Al Mahmud

  • My robotic doppelgänger - a critical look at the Uncanny Valley

    Christoph Bartneck;Takayuki Kanda;Hiroshi Ishiguro;Norihiro Hagita

  • Perception of affect elicited by robot motion

    Martin Saerbeck;Christoph Bartneck

  • An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI

    Christoph Bartneck;Christoph Lütge;Alan Wagner;Sean Welsh

  • Measuring the anthropomorphism, animacy, likeability, perceived intelligence, and perceived safety of robots

    Christoph Bartneck;Dana Kulic;Elizabeth Croft

  • Interacting with an embodied emotional character

    Christoph Bartneck

  • Meta analysis of the usage of the Godspeed Questionnaire Series

    Astrid Weiss;Christoph Bartneck

  • Reciprocity in Human-Robot Interaction: A Quantitative Approach Through the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Ultimatum Game

    Eduardo Benítez Sandoval;Jürgen Brandstetter;Mohammad Obaid;Christoph Bartneck

  • The interactive effects of robot anthropomorphism and robot ability on perceived threat and support for robotics research

    Kumar Yogeeswaran;Jakub Złotowski;Megan Livingstone;Christoph Bartneck

  • "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do!": switching off a robot

    Christoph Bartneck;Michel van der Hoek;Omar Mubin;Abdullah Al Mahmud

  • To kill a mockingbird robot

    Christoph Bartneck;Marcel Verbunt;Omar Mubin;Abdullah Al Mahmud

  • Human-Robot Interaction: An Introduction

    Christoph Bartneck;Tony Belpaeme;Friederike Eyssel;Takayuki Kanda

  • How Convincing is Mr. Data's Smile: Affective Expressions of Machines

    Christoph Bartneck

Frequent Co-Authors

Takayuki Kanda
Takayuki Kanda Kyoto University
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Hiroshi Ishiguro Osaka University
Mark Billinghurst
Mark Billinghurst University of South Australia
Matthias Rauterberg
Matthias Rauterberg Eindhoven University of Technology
Tony Belpaeme
Tony Belpaeme Ghent University
Tim B. F. Woodfield
Tim B. F. Woodfield University of Otago
Gun A. Lee
Gun A. Lee University of South Australia
Norihiro Hagita
Norihiro Hagita Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
John C. Dalrymple-Alford
John C. Dalrymple-Alford University of Canterbury
Dana Kulic
Dana Kulic Monash University

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