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Maarten H. Lamers is a researcher whose work bridges artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and computational creativity. His key research areas include affective computing, social robotics, and the design of synthetic emotional expressions. Lamers has made significant contributions to understanding how robots can express and elicit affect without relying on human-like forms, as demonstrated in his highly cited paper "Abstract Expressions of Affect" (2013, 18 citations), which explores how emotions like happiness and disgust can be represented through abstract, non-anthropomorphic designs. His work on "Human-Robot Personal Relationships" (2011, 22 citations) examines the dynamics of trust and social bonding between humans and machines, while "Trust Me on This One: Conforming to Conversational Assistants" (2021, 16 citations) investigates how people conform to AI-driven conversational agents. Lamers also delves into the philosophy of artificiality in "Understanding the Artificial" (2011, 6 citations), and applies machine learning to art analysis in "Exploring the Exactitudes Portrait Series with Restricted Boltzmann Machines" (2017, 2 citations). His interdisciplinary approach has shaped how we think about non-humanoid affective systems and the social implications of AI.