Loraine Navarro

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Loraine Navarro is a researcher at the forefront of human-robot interaction and affective computing, with a focus on endowing robots with emotionally intelligent behaviors. Her most cited work, "Imitating Human Emotions with a NAO Robot as Interviewer Playing the Role of Vocational Tutor" (2020), has garnered 9 citations and represents a significant contribution to socially assistive robotics. In this study, Navarro developed an intelligent system that enables a NAO robot to conduct vocational interviews by classifying and categorizing twenty distinct behaviors across five personality profiles, while simulating five basic emotions including anger, boredom, and interest. This work demonstrates her ability to bridge the gap between artificial emotional expression and practical educational applications. Her research has important implications for the development of more natural and effective human-robot interactions in tutoring, therapy, and vocational training contexts. By systematically mapping emotional behaviors onto robotic platforms, Navarro is helping to create robots that can better understand and respond to human emotional states, advancing the field toward more empathetic and socially capable artificial agents.