Papers
5
Total Citations
63
H-Index
5
About
Alwin de Rooij investigates the intersection of creativity, social robotics, and human-computer interaction, focusing on how robotic facilitators can enhance collaborative innovation. His major contributions center on designing robots that express synthetic moods and emotions to improve group dynamics, brainstorming productivity, and co-creation outcomes. In his highly cited work "Brainstorming With a Social Robot Facilitator" (2021, 20 citations), de Rooij demonstrated that robot facilitators can outperform human ones by reducing evaluation apprehension, a key barrier to creative ideation. His foundational paper "Abstract Expressions of Affect" (2013, 18 citations) pioneered minimal, non-anthropomorphic designs for conveying emotions, establishing principles for affective robotics. More recently, his 2024 study comparing Wizard-of-Oz control with GPT-4-driven autonomy (9 citations) advanced the field by showing LLMs can replace human operators in conversational HRI. His 2024 paper on robot mood contagion (8 citations) revealed that robot expressions can enhance collaboration, satisfaction, and performance, while his 2023 co-design study (8 citations) demonstrated how robot mood influences human group dynamics. De Rooij’s work uniquely bridges affective computing and creativity support, offering practical frameworks for deploying social robots in real-world innovation settings.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1
- 2Abstract Expressions of Affect18 citations · 2013
- 3
- 4
- 5