Meruyert Omarova
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Meruyert Omarova is a researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, educational technology, and sociolinguistic transitions. Her work focuses on leveraging social robots to support language learning, particularly in the context of Kazakhstan’s ongoing shift from Cyrillic to a Latin script. Her most cited paper, "CoWriting Kazakh: Transitioning to a New Latin Script using Social Robots" (2019), introduces an autonomous robotic system designed to assist children in learning to write the new alphabet. This pioneering study, with 5 citations, demonstrates how socially assistive robots can scaffold literacy acquisition during large-scale orthographic reform. Omarova’s contributions are notable for combining computational interaction design with real-world educational challenges, offering a scalable, engaging approach to teaching an entire population a new script. Her work has implications for child-robot collaboration, script transition policies, and culturally situated human-robot interaction. As a researcher, she bridges robotics, education, and language policy, making her a key voice in the development of adaptive, socially aware learning technologies for linguistically evolving societies.
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