Chiraz BenAbdelkader
New York Institute of Technology, United Arab Emirates University, Manouba University
Papers
6
Total Citations
78
H-Index
5
About
Chiraz BenAbdelkader is a researcher whose work sits at the compelling intersection of human-robot interaction, face recognition, and online social networking. She is best known for her pioneering FaceBots project, an innovative line of research that sought to address one of the fundamental challenges in social robotics: sustaining meaningful long-term relationships between humans and robots. By equipping mobile robots with face recognition capabilities, natural language dialogue systems, and integration with online social platforms like Facebook, BenAbdelkader's work pushed the boundaries of what autonomous robots could achieve in everyday social environments. Her research demonstrated that leveraging publicly available social information could significantly enrich robot-human encounters, making interactions more personalized and enduring. The FaceBots series of publications, accumulating over 60 citations across multiple venues, established her as a notable voice in the social robotics community. More recently, her work has expanded into smart building environments and human-machine cloud frameworks, exploring how distributed cognitive systems can be deployed at scale. Her career reflects a consistent drive to make machines more socially intelligent, contextually aware, and genuinely useful in human-centered settings.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1FaceBots26 citations · 2009
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- 3Smart buildings and the human-machine cloud13 citations · 2015
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- 5FaceBots7 citations · 2009
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