Graduated from New Mexico State University (NMSU) in 2021 with a bachelor’s in Psychology. Currently, I am a graduate student at NMSU in the Psychology department. In my free time, I enjoy the outdoors, water activities, hiking, and camping. I’m also passionate about traveling and cooking and spend most of my time doing so with my husband and my Mini-Australian Shepard, Abby.
Research
Current
Teen Workshop: “Who Let the Robots Out”
My goal is to gather new ideas from kids about what they want in a robot (tasks, appearance). Evaluate how could a robot produce excitement and motivation surrounding the school.
Longitudinal Telepresence with Older Adults
To study mobile telepresence robots (MTR) in a natural setting and learn how older adults interact with this type of robot. Have a better understanding if after seven months older adults will accept this type of robot into their lives.
Past: “CAT”
Robots and technology are becoming part of our daily lives. We ran a study to determine a baseline on how people categorize machines socially and relationally. From this we will identify the stereotypes that people have about robots and how this affects their trust and ability. We will also examine how thinking about robots affects people’s categorization and self-stereotyping of themselves. The data gathered in this project will serve to provide us with a clearer picture on how the increasing presence of robots will affect our lives.
