Lena Pareto
Papers
8
Total Citations
215
H-Index
7
About
Lena Pareto is a researcher whose work spans two compelling and increasingly interconnected domains: technology-enhanced education and workplace learning for industrial transformation. Her contributions have shaped how scholars and practitioners think about social robots in learning environments and the reskilling challenges posed by Industry 4.0. Pareto's most-cited work (65 citations) examines how small manufacturing plants can support staff reskilling through work-integrated learning during Industry 4.0 transitions — a timely and practical contribution to vocational and professional education. However, she is perhaps best known for her pioneering research on social robots in primary school classrooms. Her studies explore robots functioning as tutees rather than tutors, leveraging the "learning-by-teaching" mechanism to benefit child learners — a distinctive and innovative angle in educational robotics that she helped establish as early as 2016. With papers accumulating over 50 citations on the dual roles of humanoid robots as both didactic tools and social actors, and nuanced studies examining interaction breakdowns and repair in child-robot dynamics, Pareto brings both theoretical depth and authentic classroom observation to her field. Her co-design work with children further demonstrates a commitment to participatory, ethically grounded research that centers student voice in technology development.
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