Naoko Abe is a sociologist, specialising in social interaction and motion analysis, with a research focus in Robotics. She obtained a PhD in Sociology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and a teaching certificate of Kinetography Laban from Paris Conservatory. In 2015, Naoko Abe was a Postdoctoral Fellow within a humanoid robotics team at the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS-CNRS) in France. From 2018 to 2021 Abe was a Research Fellow at the Sydney Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the University of Sydney, leading the research theme ‘Robotics and Society’.