Nikolaos Katzakis
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Nikolaos Katzakis is a researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, mixed reality, and proxemics—the study of how people use and perceive space during social encounters. His most cited work, "Evaluation of Proxemics in Dynamic Interaction with a Mixed Reality Avatar Robot," introduces an innovative avatar arm swing technique that subtly communicates a robot’s velocity to nearby humans. Through carefully designed studies, Katzakis demonstrates how this non-verbal cue shapes interpersonal distance and comfort, offering a new method for making robot motion more legible and socially acceptable. While his citation count is still building, this paper marks a foundational contribution to designing intuitive, co-present robotic systems. Katzakis’s research is particularly valuable for students and engineers working on social robots, telepresence, and augmented reality interfaces, as it bridges technical motion control with human spatial psychology. His work underscores a key insight: effective human-robot collaboration depends not only on what robots do, but on how clearly they signal their intentions in shared physical space.
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