Gabriella Santangelo
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About
Gabriella Santangelo is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of neuropsychology, social robotics, and technology acceptance, with a particular focus on cognitive assessment and aging populations. She has made pioneering contributions to the emerging field of robotic psychometric evaluation, investigating how social robots can serve as reliable and accessible tools for screening cognitive function in elderly individuals. Her highly cited 2018 and 2020 studies — accumulating 60 and 66 citations respectively — demonstrated that personality factors and empathy significantly influence older adults' acceptance of robotic assessment tools, establishing a psychological framework for human-robot interaction in clinical settings. Santangelo has extended this work to examine how robot behavior can be adapted to individual personality profiles, including those with cognitive impairments, helping pave the way for more personalized assistive technologies. Her research also spans clinical neuropsychology, as evidenced by her longitudinal investigation into COVID-19's impact on non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease patients. More recently, she has contributed to psychometric instrument development, including Italian validation of technology acceptance scales. Her body of work positions her as a thoughtful bridge-builder between humanistic clinical psychology and cutting-edge assistive technology.
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