Tamsin Ford
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About
Tamsin Ford is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of child-robot interaction, mental health technology, and socially assistive robotics. Her work addresses a critical global challenge: the insufficient availability of mental health services for children, as highlighted by the World Health Organization. Ford's research explores whether Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) can serve as effective tools for evaluating and supporting children's mental wellbeing, a largely uncharted territory when she began her empirical investigations. Her most influential contribution, a 2022 empirical study with children aged 8–13 (37 citations), demonstrated that robots show genuine promise in therapeutic and clinical assessment contexts. Building on this foundation, Ford has pursued multimodal analysis of children's responses, computational audio modelling, and the rigorous validation of psychometric tools within child-robot interactions — ensuring that clinical safety standards are preserved. Notably, she has also expanded accessibility by investigating online robot-assisted assessments, broadening potential reach to underserved populations. With over 60 cumulative citations across her core publications, Ford's interdisciplinary work bridges robotics, psychology, and paediatric health, making her an increasingly important voice in designing ethical, effective technological interventions for children's mental wellbeing.
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