Samuel Marcos-Pablos

About

Samuel Marcos-Pablos is a leading researcher at the intersection of social robotics, human-robot interaction, and emotional artificial intelligence. His pioneering work focuses on designing service robots that can engage naturally with humans, particularly through realistic facial expressions and nonverbal communication. His landmark study on a bellboy robot deployed in a hotel environment (2016, 161 citations) demonstrated how robot behavior influences user engagement and comfort over long-term interactions, setting a benchmark for service robotics in hospitality. Marcos-Pablos has also made foundational contributions to realistic facial animation for human-robot interfacing, developing a virtual head (2009, 44 citations) and a mechatronic head based on the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) (2013, 18 citations). More recently, he has expanded into healthcare robotics with a systematic review on robots as didactic tools for health sciences education (2022, 37 citations) and a scoping review on emotional intelligence in robotics (2021, 31 citations). His work on emotional AI in healthcare (2021, 11 citations) proposes architectures for merging emotion recognition tools, highlighting his commitment to creating empathetic, socially aware robots. With over 500 total citations, Marcos-Pablos continues to shape the future of socially intelligent robotics.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Long-term assessment of a service robot in a hotel environment

   161 citations · 2016
2. 2
   A bellboy robot: Study of the effects of robot behaviour on user engagement and comfort

   110 citations · 2015
3. 3
   Sacarino, a Service Robot in a Hotel Environment

   77 citations · 2013
4. 4
   A realistic, virtual head for human–computer interaction

   44 citations · 2009
5. 5
   More than surgical tools: a systematic review of robots as didactic tools for the education of professionals in health sciences

   37 citations · 2022
6. 6
   Emotional Intelligence in Robotics: A Scoping Review

   31 citations · 2021
7. 7
   A realistic facial animation suitable for human-robot interfacing

   19 citations · 2008
8. 8
   Application of the FACS in the design and construction of a mechatronic head with realistic appearance

   18 citations · 2013
9. 9
   Emotional AI in Healthcare: a pilot architecture proposal to merge emotion recognition tools

   11 citations · 2021
10. 10
    Nonverbal communication with a multimodal agent via facial expression recognition

    8 citations · 2011

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