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Christos Katsanos is a prominent researcher specializing in human-robot interaction (HRI), robot teleoperation, and user interface design, with a particular focus on agricultural robotics. His work bridges the gap between advanced robotic systems and practical human usability, making him a significant contributor to both HRI and agricultural technology fields. Katsanos is perhaps best known for his foundational taxonomy of usability guidelines for robot teleoperation (2014, 105 citations), which synthesized design principles through rigorous methodologies including card sorting and focus groups, providing researchers and designers with a structured framework for developing more intuitive interfaces. This work complemented his practical contributions to agricultural robotics, most notably his involvement in designing a semi-autonomous vineyard sprayer (2017, 107 citations), which demonstrated how thoughtful human-centered design can transform general-purpose robotic platforms into specialized agricultural tools. His 2017 HRI usability evaluation study (90 citations) further solidified his expertise by empirically assessing interaction modes for teleoperated systems, directly informing best practices in the field. Across his body of work, Katsanos consistently argues that broader adoption of agricultural robotics hinges on accessible, well-designed user interfaces — a perspective that continues to shape research at the intersection of robotics, agriculture, and human factors engineering.