Brian Scassellati

16.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
195 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Brian Scassellati is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Scassellati has authored 195 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Social Psychology, 76 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 53 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Brian Scassellati's work include Social Robot Interaction and HRI (89 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (39 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (36 papers). Brian Scassellati is often cited by papers focused on Social Robot Interaction and HRI (89 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (39 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (36 papers). Brian Scassellati collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Brian Scassellati's co-authors include Cynthia Breazeal, Henny Admoni, Maja J. Matarić, Aditi Ramachandran, Frederick Shic, Elizabeth S. Kim, Tony Belpaeme, Fumihide Tanaka, James Kennedy and Justin Hart and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Brain Research.

In The Last Decade

Brian Scassellati

183 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

Social robots for education: A review 2012 2026 2016 2021 2018 2018 2012 2017 2018 250 500 750

Peers

Brian Scassellati
Comparison fields: 5 of 167
  • Social Psychology 5.1k
  • Artificial Intelligence 3.3k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 2.8k
  • Control and Systems Engineering 1.9k
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1.2k
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Countries citing papers authored by Brian Scassellati

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Scassellati

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Scassellati

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Scassellati. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Scassellati based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brian Scassellati. Brian Scassellati is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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The grand challenges of Science Robotics breakdown →
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An Exploration of Social Grouping in Robots: Effects of Behavioral Mimicry, Appearance, and Eye Gaze
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Asking for Help from a Gendered Robot
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Smart Human, Smarter Robot: How Cheating Affects Perceptions of Social Agency
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Nonverbal Behavior Modeling for Socially Assistive Robots.
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Dancing With Myself: The effect of majority group size on perceptions of majority and minority robot group members
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A Multi-Category Theory of Intention
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The Physical Presence of a Robot Tutor Increases Cognitive Learning Gains
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A Bayesian Robot That Distinguishes "Self" from "Other"
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A robot that uses existing vocabulary to infer non-visual word meanings from observation
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Audio Speech Segmentation Without Language-Specific Knowledge
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Swimming in the Underlying Stream: Computational Models of Gaze in a Comparative Behavioral Analysis of Autism
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