Tomoharu Yamaguchi
Papers
7
Total Citations
100
H-Index
4
About
Tomoharu Yamaguchi is a pioneering researcher in social robotics, with a focus on developing assistive technologies for elderly care and human-robot interaction. His key research areas include multimodal interaction design, embodied entrainment control, and healthcare robotics. Yamaguchi’s most significant contribution is the creation of Matilda, an interactive multimodal social robot designed to improve the quality of care for elderly residents in Australian nursing homes. His 2012 paper on this system, with 40 citations, demonstrates how Matilda uses voice, gestures, emotion, touch panels, and dance to engage technology-adverse seniors in both group and one-on-one interactions. A related 2012 work (30 citations) addresses the looming healthcare crisis by embodying care in robotic agents to mitigate workforce shortages. Yamaguchi also explored adaptive embodied entrainment control in a 2009 study (4 citations), where his robotic introducer agent reduces stress during first-time meetings by promoting natural communication. His work on motivating elderly people through robot-guided interaction (2011, 17 citations) further highlights his impact. With a total of over 100 citations across his most-cited papers, Yamaguchi’s research is shaping the future of socially assistive robotics, offering scalable solutions for aging populations while advancing the science of human-robot entrainment and adaptive interaction design.
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- 2Embodying care in Matilda30 citations · 2012
- 3An Experiment for Motivating Elderly People with Robot Guided Interaction17 citations · 2011
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