Projects

The projects I have been working on are focused on the effect of various technological systems on the self-confidence of the people they interact with, with the idea of ​​anticipating and limiting the negative aspects at the design stage of the systems, not after their ad hoc implementation. A similar line of research can be labelled robopsychonomics, because it attempts to reflect the essential internal dynamics of human perception of technical systems, which try to emulate social processes.

I am grateful to my colleague assistant professor Dr. Georgi Gachev from IMI-BAN, who suggested to call this research direction "Fourth Law of Robotics - the robot must be liked![1]".

The more important projects I have been involved in are the following:

Methodology for determining the functional parameters of a mobile collaborative service robot assistant in healthcare, No. KP-06-Н57/8 of 16.11.2021. with FNI (2021-2024), https://robomed.bg/. In it we are developing the idea of ​​the feasibility of the so-called "cyber-physical nurse", which is a technical system used not so much in a medical, as in a social, context to help "alleviate suffering through compassionate presence[2] (p. 6) - are robots capable of this? And how to predict their positive or negative effects on the people they interact with at the design stage of the systems, rather than after their ad hoc implementation?

[2] https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/school-of-nursing/program-pdfs/bsn-completion-program/UG-Student-Handbook-2024-25.pdf