Robert Homewood
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Robert Homewood is a leading researcher at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and developmental psychology, with a primary focus on Robot Enhanced Therapy (RET) for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). His most significant contribution is the creation of the DREAM Dataset, a landmark resource that captured behavioral data from 61 children with ASD across over 3,000 therapy sessions and more than 300 hours of interaction. This dataset, cited over 57 times, provides an unprecedented empirical foundation for data-driven studies of human-robot interaction in therapeutic contexts. Homewood’s work has been instrumental in demonstrating how socially assistive robots can be systematically evaluated and deployed to support social skill development, moving RET from small-scale pilots toward evidence-based clinical practice. His research not only advances the technical design of autonomous robotic systems but also establishes rigorous methodologies for measuring therapeutic outcomes. By making this rich dataset available to the broader scientific community, Homewood has enabled new lines of inquiry into personalized, data-driven interventions for ASD, positioning him as a pivotal figure in the growing field of socially assistive robotics.
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