Working with Actors, Consistency in Experiments, and Collaborating as Married Co-Authors

In the second episode, join Karen Winterich’s interview with Maura Scott and Martin Mende as they talk about transporting a 600-pound robot through the streets of New York City to make realistic stimuli for their 2019 JMR paper, “Service Robots Rising”. When their paper was first rejected at another journal, they took the reviewer feedback seriously and substantially revised the paper to increase the realism of their studies before submitting it to JMR, which was ultimately published and is currently the most well-cited JMR publication since 2018.