Athanasios K. Strolis

Technological Educational Institute of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

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Athanasios K. Strolis is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of social robotics and multi-criteria decision analysis, with a particular focus on educational technology. His groundbreaking work addresses the critical challenge of selecting appropriate social robots for learning environments—a problem he was the first to formally investigate. In his highly cited 2018 study (17 citations), Strolis introduced a novel framework that treats robot selection as a multi-criteria decision-making problem, employing the TOPSIS ranking method to evaluate and compare robotic platforms based on defined pedagogical criteria. This methodological contribution provides educators and institutions with a systematic, data-driven approach to choosing social robots that best align with specific educational goals and classroom dynamics. Strolis’s research bridges the gap between human-robot interaction theory and practical implementation, offering tangible tools for integrating robots into modern education. His work has laid the foundation for subsequent studies in adaptive learning technologies and continues to influence how researchers and practitioners approach the deployment of social robots in academic settings.