Khiet P. Truong
University of Twente, Human Media, Radboud University Nijmegen
Papers
19
Total Citations
289
H-Index
9
About
Khiet P. Truong is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI), with a focus on social robotics, child-robot interaction, and affective computing. Her work explores how robots can engage children in collaborative tasks, examining the impact of a robot’s social character—such as acting as a peer versus a tutor—on task engagement (77 citations). Truong has also pioneered minimal robot movements, like social and deictic gaze, to enhance communication with children (36 citations), and studied social positioning dynamics in group-robot interactions (23 citations). Her contributions extend to trust repair, showing how a robot’s genuine apology can rebuild trust after errors (19 citations), and to health robotics, developing real-time pain detection from facial expressions (18 citations). Notable projects include the TERESA telepresence system for elderly care (21 citations) and analyses of public reactions to humanlike robots (21 citations). With over 280 citations across her top papers, Truong’s research is highly influential, advancing socially intelligent robots that are empathetic, engaging, and context-aware. Her work is essential for students and researchers interested in designing robots that effectively interact with humans in education, healthcare, and social settings.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
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- 2A Simple Nod of the Head36 citations · 2017
- 3Dynamics of social positioning patterns in group-robot interactions23 citations · 2015
- 4TERESA: a socially intelligent semi-autonomous telepresence system21 citations · 2015
- 5Uncanny, Sexy, and Threatening Robots21 citations · 2021
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- 7The Robot That Showed Remorse: Repairing Trust with a Genuine Apology19 citations · 2022
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- 9Real-time pain detection in facial expressions for health robotics18 citations · 2019
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