Jasmin Kajopoulos
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Jasmin Kajopoulos is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of cognitive science, human-robot interaction, and clinical therapy. Her work fundamentally explores how humans perceive and attribute intentionality to artificial agents, with a specific focus on the perceptual mechanisms that distinguish agents from non-agents. Kajopoulos’s landmark study, "Humans are Well Tuned to Detecting Agents Among Non-agents" (59 citations), demonstrates that humans possess an innate sensitivity to behavioral cues of intentional systems, a finding with profound implications for robotics and AI design. She has made transformative contributions to autism therapy through her highly cited work "Robot-Assisted Training of Joint Attention Skills in Children Diagnosed with Autism" (51 citations), which systematically examined the cognitive mechanisms affected by robot-assisted interventions—a field previously lacking rigorous empirical study. Her research on "Autistic traits and sensitivity to human-like features of robot behavior" (38 citations) further reveals how individual differences in autistic traits modulate perception of robot social cues, using a novel non-verbal Turing test paradigm. Kajopoulos’s work bridges fundamental cognitive science and applied clinical robotics, establishing her as a leading voice in understanding how humans—both neurotypical and neurodivergent—engage with artificial social agents.
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- 3Autistic traits and sensitivity to human-like features of robot behavior38 citations · 2015