Papers
17
Total Citations
507
H-Index
11
About
Tamie Salter is a pioneering researcher in social robotics, with a focus on child-robot interaction and the application of autonomous robots in autism therapy. Her work is distinguished by a commitment to moving robots out of controlled laboratory settings and into the "wild"—real-world environments like schools and homes—where they can engage meaningfully with children. A key contribution is her development of methods for robots to recognize and categorize human interaction using only proprioceptive sensors, enabling them to distinguish human contact from environmental noise without relying on traditional audio or video channels. This work, with papers like "Going into the wild in child–robot interaction studies" (80 citations) and "Learning about natural human–robot interaction styles" (66 citations), has been foundational for the field. She was a core contributor to the Aurora Project, pioneering the use of robots in autism therapy, and later designed QueBall, a robotic device specifically for this purpose. Her research, which has garnered hundreds of citations, also includes a taxonomy to characterize the "wildness" of child-robot interaction studies, providing a crucial framework for future work in ecologically valid human-robot interaction.
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- 2Learning about natural human–robot interaction styles66 citations · 2006
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- 6Using proprioceptive sensors for categorizing human-robot interactions45 citations · 2007
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- 8Designing & developing QueBall, a robotic device for autism therapy34 citations · 2014
- 9Assistive Technologies and Children-Robot Interaction.31 citations · 2007
- 10Recognizing interaction from a robot~s perspective21 citations · 2006