Wisanu Jutharee
Papers
7
Total Citations
47
H-Index
4
About
Wisanu Jutharee is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics and autism therapy, whose work has fundamentally reshaped how assistive technologies can support neurodiverse children. His primary research areas include human-robot interaction, assistive robotics for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and socially assistive robot design. Jutharee’s most significant contribution is the development of the BLISS robot platform, a mobile robot with a non-threatening facial design specifically engineered to mediate therapeutic activities. His landmark 2016 paper on BLISS (11 citations) demonstrated how robots can move beyond dyadic interaction to foster genuine social skills, while his 2019 study on storytelling robots (13 citations) broke new ground by supporting Theory of Mind development in autistic children. Jutharee also developed an attention detection model (7 citations) that enables robots to adapt to child behavior in real-time, and created daily routine games (7 citations) to help children with special needs build personal-social skills. His earlier work on bartender robot trajectory generation (4 citations) and gesture reconfiguration under joint failure (3 citations) showcases his broader expertise in robot motion planning. With a cumulative impact of over 40 citations, Jutharee’s research is notable for its direct clinical applicability, addressing the critical shortage of autism specialists by empowering parents and caregivers with robot-assisted personalized learning tools.
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Top Papers
- 1Using Storytelling Robot for Supporting Autistic Children in Theory of Mind13 citations · 2019
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- 5Trajectory generation based on human attention for a bartender robot4 citations · 2013
- 6Gesture reconfiguration from joint failure using genetic algorithm3 citations · 2016
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