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About
Arianna Margaritini is an emerging researcher specializing in social assistive robotics, healthy aging, and human-technology interaction, with a particular focus on supporting older adults and caregivers through innovative digital solutions. Her work sits at the intersection of gerontechnology, dementia care, and user-centered design, addressing one of healthcare's most pressing challenges: enabling older individuals to maintain independence and quality of life at home. Margaritini has made significant contributions through landmark projects including GUARDIAN, eWare, SI-Robotics, and engAGE, developing and evaluating socially assistive robot (SAR) ecosystems tailored to older users and their informal caregivers. Her research spans clinical feasibility studies, acceptance assessment tools — notably the Robot Era Inventory — and therapeutic applications such as dance-based interventions for Parkinson's disease. Her accumulated citations, exceeding 120 across her most-cited works alone, reflect growing recognition of her contributions to the field. Particularly noteworthy is her consistent emphasis on personalization, usability, and real-world deployment of SARs, bridging the gap between technological development and genuine human needs. Through randomized controlled trials and field studies, Margaritini is helping establish the evidence base necessary to bring socially assistive robotics into mainstream healthcare practice.
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