Ramona Simut
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Babeș-Bolyai University, Lifespan
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Total Citations
1,017
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About
Ramona Simut is a pioneering researcher in human-robot interaction, with a specific focus on using social robots to support children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Her work centers on robot-assisted therapy, exploring how robots like Probo and NAO can enhance social communication, emotional recognition, and joint attention in children with ASD. Her most cited paper (207 citations) examines ethical acceptability, trust, and sociability in robot-assisted therapy, setting foundational guidelines for the field. Simut’s landmark study using Probo as a social storytelling agent (193 citations) demonstrated that robots can effectively deliver social stories to improve social abilities. She further showed that children with ASD can successfully complete complex tasks, like making a fruit salad with Probo (107 citations), and that robots can help identify situation-based emotions (93 citations). Her comparative studies (73 citations) revealed that social robots outperform computer displays in delivering therapeutic content. Simut also contributed to ethical frameworks for robot-enhanced therapy (60 citations) and developed personalized, platform-independent behavior control systems for social robots (36 citations). Her work has garnered over 900 citations, establishing her as a key figure in socially assistive robotics for pediatric therapy.
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