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Georgios Patsis is a leading researcher in the field of social robotics, with a primary focus on child-robot interaction (CRI). His work centers on developing autonomous systems that can engage young users over extended periods, a critical challenge for real-world applications in education and therapy. Patsis’s most influential contribution is his 2015 paper, “Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction,” which has garnered over 100 citations. In this work, he introduced a multi-activity switching framework to sustain children’s engagement, demonstrating how robots can adapt their behavior to maintain interest across multiple sessions. His research also explores the dynamics of behavioral accommodation, showing how children naturally adjust their movements to synchronize with a dance-tutoring robot, as well as real-time emotion recognition from bodily expressions—a key step toward responsive, empathetic machines. Patsis has further innovated in experimental methodology, developing voice modification techniques for Wizard-of-Oz studies to better simulate natural robot-child dialogue. By bridging technical advances in sensing and interaction design, his work lays the groundwork for robots that can serve as patient, adaptive companions in learning and developmental contexts.