Papers
15
Total Citations
143
H-Index
7
About
Christian Kroos is a researcher working at the fascinating intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and interactive art, with a particular focus on human-robot interaction and embodied conversational agents. His most influential contributions center on the *Articulated Head*, a provocative robotic art installation that mounts a virtual human face on an industrial robot arm, exploring how machines can project intentionality, attention, and agency to human observers. This work, documented across multiple highly cited papers, challenges assumptions about body-mind dualism in robotic systems and examines how users adapt their behavior in response to robots that simulate attentiveness — as captured in his widely noted study *"C'Mon dude!": Users adapt their behaviour to a robotic agent with an attention model* (21 citations). Kroos has also contributed meaningfully to the *Thinking Head* project, a multidisciplinary human-centred robotics initiative, and has explored practical questions around robot realism in talking-head systems since the early 2000s. His edited volume *Robots and Art* (27 citations) stands as a significant scholarly resource bridging engineering and creative practice. With nearly 130 cumulative citations, Kroos's work invites researchers and students alike to reconsider where technology, perception, and art productively collide.
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- 2Robots and Art27 citations · 2016
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- 4Task constraints on robot realism: the case of talking heads12 citations · 2002
- 5Thinking head: Towards human centred robotics10 citations · 2010
- 6The articulated head pays attention9 citations · 2010
- 7Adopt-a-robot: A story of attachment (Or the lack thereof)9 citations · 2013
- 8From Robot Arm to Intentional Agent: the Articulated Head7 citations · 2011
- 9The Articulated Head pays attention5 citations · 2010
- 10The Art in the Machine3 citations · 2016