Khaoula Youssef
Papers
9
Total Citations
37
H-Index
4
About
Khaoula Youssef’s research lies at the compelling intersection of human-robot interaction, social robotics, and educational technology, with a particular focus on how minimally designed robots can forge meaningful social bonds with humans. Her work explores the subtle dynamics of accompanying robots, investigating how inarticulate utterances, iconic gestures, and response modes influence the evolution of social bonds and positive human-robot relationships. Youssef’s pioneering contributions include the development of the Sociable Dining Table, a system that explores meaning acquisition through knock-based proto-communication and mutual adaptation, as well as the ROBOMO platform, an accompanying mobile robot designed to provide motivational support. In the educational domain, she has investigated how social robots can leverage cognitive dissonance as a teaching tool to overcome barriers in science learning, examining the effects of persuasive message timing and the social agency level of the persuasive source. Her work on the four social bonds—explored through minimally designed robots—offers foundational insights into companionate human-robot interaction. With a cumulative citation count approaching 40 across her most-cited papers, Youssef’s research continues to shape our understanding of how robots can become not just tools, but trusted companions in both social and educational contexts.
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Top Papers
- 1Concepts and Applications of Human-Dependent Robots8 citations · 2014
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- 3ROBOMO: Towards an Accompanying Mobile Robot5 citations · 2014
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