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About
Elisabetta Zibetti is a cognitive scientist and human-robot interaction (HRI) researcher whose work bridges robotics, psychology, and education. Her research spans several interconnected domains: social robotics, personality and trust in HRI, swarm robotics communication, and educational robotics. Among her most influential contributions is her 2016 study on trust as an indicator of robot acceptance (196 citations), which demonstrated how users conform to robot responses—offering critical insights into the social dynamics between humans and machines. Alongside this, her work on individual factors such as extroversion and attitudes toward robots in shaping engagement behaviors (109 citations) has helped establish more personalized, psychologically grounded models of HRI. Zibetti has also advanced the field of swarm robotics by investigating how groups of robots can expressively and coherently convey information to human operators—addressing a crucial gap in human-swarm interaction. In educational contexts, her research on robotics kits and children's learning strategies has informed pedagogical approaches to STEM education across multiple countries. Through a body of work that is both experimentally rigorous and practically oriented, Zibetti has made lasting contributions to our understanding of how humans perceive, trust, and learn alongside robotic systems.
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- 4Learning Robotics, with Robotics, by Robotics32 citations · 2016
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- 6La robotique éducationnelle : état des lieux et perspectives21 citations · 2012
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