Carole Adam

Université Grenoble Alpes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble

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Carole Adam is a leading researcher at the intersection of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and social robotics. Her work focuses on designing companion robots that can engage in meaningful, emotionally intelligent interactions with humans—particularly children. She is best known for developing a novel cognitive and affective architecture for social human-robot interaction (HRI), first introduced in her 2015 paper and expanded in her highly cited 2016 work (28 citations). This architecture moves beyond generic AI models to address the specific demands of social HRI, enabling robots to perceive, interpret, and respond to human emotions and social cues in real time. Adam’s research also explores the real-world acceptability of companion robots for children in daily life, as seen in her 2014 study (7 citations), and the use of storytelling as a bonding mechanism, demonstrated in her 2013 paper (6 citations). Her contributions are shaping how robots can serve as empathetic companions, particularly for vulnerable populations like children at home alone. With a growing body of work that bridges cognitive modeling and applied robotics, Carole Adam is helping to define the future of socially aware, emotionally intelligent machines.