Artificial intelligence and robotics will play an increasingly important role in supporting our lives. Currently, AI and robotics remain crude – confined to our smartphones, sat-navs, or tasked to build our cars. To fit more seamlessly into our daily lives they will have to learn to successfully reflect our emotions – the embarrassment for example. Embarrassed Robots project proposes an investigation into how through material, form and function a robot can come to express emotion, without aping and alienating us.

• Park, Soomi. 2019. Embarrassed Robots. In: "Future Cross Boundaries", Taiwan Design Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China, 22 January - 14 April 2019. [Show/Exhibition]
• Park, Soomi; Healey, Patrick G. T. and Kaniadakis, Antonios. 2021. 'Should Robots Blush?'. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21). Yokohama, Japan 8 - 13 May 2021. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Park, Soomi and Wells, Owen. 2020. Between Dreamy and Dreary: Fiction in Design. In: "Between Dreamy and Dreary: Fiction in Design", Celine Park Gallery, Korea, Republic of, 21 Aug – 21 Nov 2020. [Show/Exhibition]
• Park, Soomi. 2018. Embarrassed Robots (Film). In: "Support Systems: Objects of Desire", Design Museum, United Kingdom, 10 March 2018. [Show/Exhibition]
• Mallet, Élodie and Park, Soomi. 2019. Jeunes Talents: Les robots sensible de Soomi Park. Intramuros, Paris. [Other]
• Beckett, Kathleen; Park, Soomi; Hildrey, Chris; Danmole, Yinka; Ayaskan, Bike and Ayaskan, Begum. 2017. Playing with the future. The New York Times, New York. [Other]
• Park, Soomi. 2018. Embarrassed Robots. In: "Digital Design Weekend", V&A, London, United Kingdom, 22 - 23 September 2018. [Show/Exhibition]
• Park, Soomi. 2017. Embarrassed Robots: Robot Prototype. [Design]
• Park, Soomi. 2024. Should Robots Blush?. Doctoral thesis, Queen Mary University of London [Thesis]
• Park, Soomi; Britton Newell, Laurie; Lie, Ruth and Davies, Karen. 2021. SPACE studio/ London Creative Network: Artists Final Presentation (Invited review panel). [Professional Activity]
• Yunes, Nour Diab and Park, Soomi. 2023. The Art in STEAM (Femmes Designers Podcasts): Design Fiction, robotics, and Speculating about the future (episode 4). [Audio]
• Stratford, Oli; Park, Soomi; Lebeau, Laura; Schladow, Zoe and van de Poel, Bas. 2023. Disegno Podcasts: Conversations with Map Project Office. Episode 5: Where Next? Should we make friends with tech?. [Audio]
• Park, Soomi. 2024. 'HCI Research Group Presentation: Dr. Soomi Park - Should Robots Blush?'. In: HCI Research Group seminar. Brunel University London, United Kingdom 29 May 2024. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Zheng, Caroline Yan; Park, Soomi; Gao, Chang; Robins, Ben; Wairagkar, Maitreyee and Ashford, Rain. 2021. 'How do you give form to sentimental machines?: An Affective Future Round Table'. In: Research Biennale 2021. Royal College of Art, United Kingdom 22 February - 1 March 2021. [Conference or Workshop Item]

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33657