Nazerke Rakhymbayeva
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About
Nazerke Rakhymbayeva is a researcher specializing in human-robot interaction (HRI), social robotics, and robot-assisted therapy for children with neurodevelopmental conditions, particularly Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and ADHD. Her work sits at the intersection of robotics, clinical intervention, and child psychology, exploring how social robots can serve as effective therapeutic mediators. Rakhymbayeva's most influential contribution is her comprehensive scoping review of a decade of human-NAO robot interaction research, which has garnered 99 citations and synthesized findings from approximately 300 studies. She has conducted one of the field's most rigorous long-term robot-assisted autism therapy (RAAT) studies, involving 34 children across multiple sessions — work that has collectively accumulated over 160 citations. Her research has advanced understanding of how individual differences among children with ASD influence therapeutic outcomes, how parental involvement shapes therapy effectiveness, and how multi-purposeful robot activities can address heterogeneous clinical needs. Particularly notable is her commitment to large-scale, longitudinal methodology in a field often dominated by short-term studies. Through automatic engagement recognition systems and quantitative case-by-case analyses, Rakhymbayeva is helping build evidence-based frameworks for personalized, robot-mediated interventions that could meaningfully improve therapeutic outcomes for vulnerable children.
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- 110 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review99 citations · 2021
- 2A Long-Term Engagement with a Social Robot for Autism Therapy85 citations · 2021
- 3Effects of Parental Involvement in Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy28 citations · 2022
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- 7Multi-Purposeful Activities for Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy11 citations · 2023
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