Alyssa M. Alcorn
University College London, Center for Autism and Related Disorders
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Total Citations
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About
Alyssa M. Alcorn is a leading researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, autism education, and assistive technology. Her work focuses on designing and evaluating social robots—particularly humanoid platforms—to support autistic learners, especially those who are minimally verbal or face challenges with emotional expression and social communication. Alcorn’s major contributions include pioneering studies on educator perspectives toward robot-assisted therapy (70 citations), developing novel datasets for automatic classification of autistic children’s vocalizations (38 citations), and designing dialogue systems for robot-based face-mirroring games to engage children with emotional expressions (24 citations). She has also advanced speech emotion recognition for autistic individuals (21 citations) and explored the critical role of predictability in robot behavior for sustaining child-robot engagement (18 citations). Her work on recognizing echolalic vocalizations using convolutional recurrent neural networks (16 citations) and her non-participatory user-centered design approach for teacher-teleoperated robots (13 citations) highlight her commitment to inclusive, accessible technology. Alcorn’s research has been published in top venues including the *Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders* and *International Journal of Social Robotics*, shaping both engineering and educational practice for autistic learners.
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- 8The near future of children's robotics7 citations · 2018
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