Carla Cirasa
Papers
6
Total Citations
135
H-Index
3
About
Carla Cirasa is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI) and developmental education, with a focus on how social robots can enhance learning and emotional understanding in young and special-needs children. Her most cited work, “Robot, tell me a tale!” (88 citations), demonstrates that humanoid robots can significantly improve story memorization in kindergarteners, establishing robots as effective, engaging educational tools. She further explored this in a comparative study (36 citations), showing that a robot’s expressive social behavior can rival human teachers in capturing preschool children’s attention and narrative recall. Cirasa has also broken new ground in inclusive HRI: her exploratory study “I See What You Feel” (2024) investigates how deaf children perceive and interpret robot emotions, revealing critical insights for designing accessible social robots. More recently, she has mapped the underexplored roles of trust and cultural dimensions in HRI (2025), providing a framework for global robot acceptance. With a growing body of work that bridges technology, psychology, and education, Cirasa is shaping how robots can become empathetic, culturally aware partners in learning—making her research essential for anyone interested in the future of child-robot interaction.
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- 1“Robot, tell me a tale!”88 citations · 2020
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