Greet Van de Perre
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709
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About
Greet Van de Perre is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the compelling intersection of social robotics, autonomous systems, and assistive technology, with a particular focus on improving the lives of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She has made foundational contributions to Robot-Assisted Therapy (RAT), most notably through her involvement in the EU FP7-funded DREAM project, which sought to develop supervised autonomous robotic systems capable of supporting therapeutic interventions without constant human control. Her 2017 paper on building autonomous systems for robot-enhanced therapy has garnered 138 citations, establishing her as a leading voice in moving beyond Wizard of Oz paradigms toward genuinely intelligent therapeutic robots. Beyond clinical applications, Van de Perre has advanced the field of expressive robot behavior, developing platform-independent methods for generating emotional gestures and affective movements across different robot platforms — work that has proven widely applicable in human-robot interaction research. Her studies involving social robots like Probo and NAO have shed light on joint attention mechanisms in both ASD and typically developing children. Collectively, her body of work, spanning behavior control architectures, personalized therapy systems, and assembly learning through reinforcement learning, reflects a researcher dedicated to making robots more capable, adaptable, and genuinely beneficial in real-world human contexts.
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- 10Studying Design Aspects for Social Robots Using a Generic Gesture Method18 citations · 2019