Monika Lohani
Papers
9
Total Citations
345
H-Index
7
About
Monika Lohani is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, social-emotional learning, and artificial intelligence. Her work focuses on how robots can serve as effective social and educational partners, with particular emphasis on emotional intelligence, trust, and child development. Lohani has made significant contributions to understanding how socially assistive robots can support emotional storytelling and narrative comprehension in classroom settings, with her landmark 2015 paper accumulating over 100 citations. She has systematically explored how human perceptions of emotional intelligence translate to robotic agents, examining critical variables such as gender dynamics and interaction context across both individual and small-group settings. Her research on human-robot trust reveals that meaningful social interaction can strengthen the trust-reliance relationship while simultaneously improving stress coping — findings with profound implications for robot deployment in high-stakes environments. With over 300 cumulative citations, Lohani's scholarship bridges developmental psychology, affective computing, and robotics engineering. Her investigations into physiological sensing and engagement monitoring further demonstrate her commitment to creating robots that respond intelligently and humanely to the complex social and emotional needs of their users.
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Top Papers
- 1Emotional Storytelling in the Classroom101 citations · 2015
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- 8The Impact of Non-Technical skills on Trust and Stress6 citations · 2017
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