Dr. Shane Saunderson

Assistant Professor

Department / Academic Area

Faculty, Information Systems

Available to Supervise PhD

Information Systems

Biography

Dr. Shane Saunderson is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems with the Degroote School of Business at McMaster University. He received a B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from McGill University in 2005, a MBA in technology and innovation from the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2011, and a PhD in robotics with a specialization in psychology from the University of Toronto in 2022. He is a former Vanier scholar and Junior Fellow with Massey College. Previously, Shane has spent time in industry running his own startups and consulting for Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Ford, Samsung, Eli Lilly, and many more. Shane’s research interests focus on the psychological influence and implications of interactions with social machines, such as AI agents and robots, with particular interests in topics such as trust, persuasion, and anthropomorphism.

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Journals

Hybrid Hierarchical Learning For Adaptive Persuasion In Human-robot Interaction

Shane Saunderson    Goldie Nejat

Journal     2022

Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters

Investigating Strategies For Robot Persuasion In Social Human–robot Interaction

Shane Saunderson    Goldie Nejat

Journal     2022

Ieee Transactions On Cybernetics

Robots Asking For Favors: The Effects Of Directness And Familiarity On Persuasive Hri

Shane Saunderson    Goldie Nejat

Journal     2021

Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters

Other

Environment Identification For A Running Robot Using Inertial And Actuator Cues

P Giguere    G Dudek    C Prahacs    Shane Saunderson

Conference    2006

Robotics: Science And Systems

A Visually Guided Swimming Robot

Gregory Dudek    Michael Jenkin    Chris Prahacs    Andrew Hogue    Junaed Sattar    Philippe Giguere    Andrew German    Hui Liu    Shane Saunderson    Arlene Ripsman    Saul Simhon    Luz-abril Torres    Evangelos Milios    Pifu Zhang    Ioannis Rekletis

2005

A Visually Guided Swimming Robot

G Dudek    M Jenkin    C Prahacs    A Hogue    J Sattar    P Giguere    A German    H Liu    Shane Saunderson    A Ripsman    S Simhon    La Torres    E Milios    P Zhang    L Rekletis

Conference    2005

2005 Ieee/rsj International Conference On Intelligent Robots And Systems, Vols 1-4