Thomas H. Weisswange
Honda (Germany), Honda (Japan), Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Papers
12
Total Citations
60
H-Index
5
About
Thomas H. Weisswange is a researcher whose work sits at the fascinating intersection of human-robot interaction, social robotics, and cognitive modeling. His research spans three interconnected domains: designing socially intelligent robots that understand and model human cognition, developing robots capable of mediating and improving group dynamics, and addressing the ethical dimensions of robot integration into everyday life. Weisswange's most influential contributions include pioneering work on privacy-appropriate robot behavior (11 citations) and online inference of human belief states for cooperative robots (10 citations), demonstrating his commitment to building machines that are both cognitively aware and socially responsible. His exploration of telerobots in informal care settings (9 citations) reveals a humanistic streak, pushing beyond imitative technologies toward genuinely novel forms of human connection. Earlier foundational work on reward-based multisensory integration (6 citations) reflects a rigorous grounding in probabilistic and machine learning approaches. More recently, Weisswange has carved out a distinctive niche in social mediation robotics, investigating how gesture-capable robots can facilitate group ideation, consensus-building, and interpersonal perception. His scoping reviews on group-facilitating robots signal a researcher increasingly shaping the theoretical frameworks of an emerging field, making his work essential reading for anyone interested in the future of human-robot collaboration.
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- 2Online inference of human belief for cooperative robots10 citations · 2018
- 3Meaningful Telerobots in Informal Care9 citations · 2022
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