Kohei Okuoka
Papers
7
Total Citations
27
H-Index
3
About
Kohei Okuoka is a researcher at the forefront of human-robot interaction, specializing in trust dynamics, semi-autonomous systems, and socially assistive robotics. His work addresses a critical challenge in automation: designing autonomous agents that can seamlessly collaborate with humans across multiple devices and contexts. Okuoka’s most influential paper, “Multi-device trust transfer” (2022, 9 citations), explores whether trust can be transferred among multiple autonomous systems—a foundational question for ecosystems of robots, self-driving cars, and smart devices. He has made significant contributions to telepresence robotics, developing semi-autonomous architectures that balance voluntary and involuntary movements (2020, 8 citations) and adaptively switch between human control and automation using inhibition/disinhibition mechanisms (2018, 4 citations). His recent work pushes into emotionally intelligent interaction, including “Semantic Babbling” (2025), which uses large language models to create more natural, consistent responses in therapeutic robots for older adults. Okuoka’s research on episodic control for adaptive agents and route guidance with landmarks further demonstrates his commitment to making autonomous systems both trustworthy and socially appropriate.
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- 4Adaptive Semi-autonomous Agents via Episodic Control3 citations · 2018
- 5RoDiL: Giving Route Directions with Landmarks by Robots1 citations · 2025
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- 7Conversational Robot System for Travel Memoir Generation1 citations · 2025