Sakari Taipale
Papers
7
Total Citations
374
H-Index
6
About
Sakari Taipale is a leading social scientist whose research sits at the intersection of robotics, aging, and welfare services, with a particular focus on how societies integrate social and care robots into human-centered environments. He is perhaps best known for developing the Robot Acceptance Model for Care (RAM-care), a principled theoretical framework examining the conditions under which people intend to use care robots — a paper that has garnered over 130 citations and become a key reference in the field. Taipale's early edited volume, *Social Robots from a Human Perspective* (2015), helped establish the scholarly conversation around human-robot relations, attracting nearly 80 citations alongside companion pieces exploring robots' broader societal shift from industrial to social reproductive roles. His empirical work is equally influential: studies examining Finnish elder-care workers' psychological readiness for robotization and tracking how their attitudes evolved over time demonstrate both methodological rigor and real-world policy relevance. Collectively, his scholarship has shaped how researchers and policymakers understand workforce acceptance, ethical integration, and the humanistic dimensions of robotic technologies in welfare and care settings — making him an essential voice in the sociology of emerging technologies.
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- 2Social Robots from a Human Perspective77 citations · 2015
- 3Robot Shift from Industrial Production to Social Reproduction56 citations · 2015
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- 5Positive Turn in Elder-Care Workers’ Views Toward Telecare Robots37 citations · 2021
- 6Introduction: Situating the Human in Social Robots17 citations · 2015
- 7Robotization of Mobile Communication2 citations · 2020