Caroline van Straten works as an Assistant Professor in Communication Science at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. She completed her PhD on the emergence of social relationships between children and robots at the same department in November 2021, after having obtained her BA (French) and MSc degrees (Artificial Intelligence; both cum laude) from Utrecht University. In her current position as Assistant Professor, she continues to investigate children’s social interactions and relationships with robots, while also studying human-machine communication more broadly.
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