Rainer Hasenauer

Papers

Total Citations

H-Index

About

Rainer Hasenauer is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of technology adoption, social robotics, and complex systems modeling. His work primarily focuses on understanding how emerging technologies, particularly socially assistive robots, diffuse within sensitive care environments such as elderly care facilities. Hasenauer’s major contribution lies in his innovative use of agent-based modeling and cellular automata to simulate the pre-adoption phase of socially assistive robots, offering a novel, data-driven perspective on how individual behavioral patterns emerge within complex social systems. His most cited paper, “Socially Assistive Robots Diffusion in Elderly Care: A Pre-Adoption Study through Agent-Based Modeling” (2018), has garnered 3 citations and is notable for its methodological rigor, combining data science with computational social science to predict technology acceptance among dependent-living seniors. This work provides critical insights for policymakers and care providers, bridging the gap between technological innovation and human-centered care. Hasenauer’s research is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the socio-technical dynamics of aging populations, human-robot interaction, and the application of complex systems theory to real-world challenges.