Maria Papadopoulou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital
Papers
8
Total Citations
183
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About
Dr. Maria Papadopoulou is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of social robotics and special education, with a primary focus on developing robot-assisted interventions for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Specific Learning Disorders (SpLDs). Her landmark systematic review (2021, 100+ citations) established the foundational framework for integrating social robots into special education settings. Dr. Papadopoulou’s major contributions include creating multimodal machine learning methodologies to estimate children’s engagement during robot interactions (20+ citations) and demonstrating the efficacy of robot-assisted interventions in improving learning performance for elementary school children with SpLDs (17+ citations). Her work with the Pepper robot has been particularly influential, showing promise in teaching daily life skills to children with ASD and facilitating psychosocial interventions. Notably, she has pioneered the use of lattice computing techniques for behavioral data analysis and explored linguistic cues for developing empathetic robots in autism interventions. Her research, spanning from systematic reviews to empirical studies, has accumulated over 180 citations, establishing her as a leading voice in evidence-based robot-assisted special education.
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- 1Social Robots in Special Education: A Systematic Review100 citations · 2021
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