Christina Clamp
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About
Christina Clamp is a researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction and special education, whose work explores how socially assistive robots can foster social skills in learners with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other special needs. Her key research areas include robot-assisted therapy, soft systems methodology, and human-robot collaboration in educational contexts. Clamp’s most notable contribution is her pioneering use of soft systems methodology as a structured framework to guide a pilot study in robot-assisted therapy. In an eight-month study with a nine-year-old ASD subject, she employed a teleoperated NAO robot to evolve therapeutic games aimed at improving prosocial and joint attention behaviors. Her findings demonstrated measurable behavioral improvements and validated the efficacy of this methodological approach. Her co-authored work, “Co-Robot Therapy to Foster Social Skills in Special Need Learners,” extends this impact across three pilot studies, further establishing her as a thoughtful innovator in therapeutic robotics. Though her citation counts are modest (7 and 4 respectively), her work represents an important early step in designing human-centered, methodologically rigorous interventions that use robots as empathetic tools for social development.
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