Guy Hoffman

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
121 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Guy Hoffman is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Control and Systems Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Guy Hoffman has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Social Psychology, 38 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 34 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Guy Hoffman's work include Social Robot Interaction and HRI (63 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (24 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (14 papers). Guy Hoffman is often cited by papers focused on Social Robot Interaction and HRI (63 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (24 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (14 papers). Guy Hoffman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Portugal. Guy Hoffman's co-authors include Cynthia Breazeal, Andrea L. Thomaz, Cory D. Kidd, Oren Zuckerman, Wendy Ju, Gil Weinberg, M. Berlin, Andrea Lockerd, Michal Luria and Yuhan Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers in Human Behavior, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series.

In The Last Decade

Guy Hoffman

114 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Evaluating Fluency in Human–Robot Collaboration 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Evaluating Fluency in Human–Robot Collaboration
    2019 275 citations Guy Hoffman IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Guy Hoffman United States 36 2.4k 1.3k 1.1k 760 662 121 3.8k
Leila Takayama United States 31 1.8k 0.8× 930 0.7× 581 0.6× 1.3k 1.7× 511 0.8× 89 3.7k
Masahiro Shiomi Japan 29 2.3k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 834 0.8× 573 0.8× 386 0.6× 197 3.4k
Aaron Steinfeld United States 31 1.6k 0.7× 1.0k 0.8× 505 0.5× 729 1.0× 511 0.8× 146 3.7k
Holly A. Yanco United States 31 1.7k 0.7× 778 0.6× 896 0.8× 888 1.2× 594 0.9× 134 3.6k
Tony Belpaeme United Kingdom 32 2.5k 1.1× 2.0k 1.5× 852 0.8× 403 0.5× 814 1.2× 179 4.4k
Michael L. Walters United Kingdom 28 2.4k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 700 0.7× 486 0.6× 559 0.8× 66 3.1k
Selma Šabanović United States 31 2.3k 1.0× 1.3k 1.0× 405 0.4× 816 1.1× 538 0.8× 183 3.6k
Andrea L. Thomaz United States 34 1.4k 0.6× 2.1k 1.6× 1.6k 1.5× 323 0.4× 495 0.7× 132 3.7k
Maya Çakmak United States 34 1.3k 0.5× 1.9k 1.4× 1.7k 1.6× 564 0.7× 397 0.6× 132 4.3k
Bilge Mutlu United States 49 3.9k 1.7× 2.3k 1.7× 1.4k 1.3× 1.9k 2.5× 1.2k 1.8× 206 6.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guy Hoffman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guy Hoffman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Guy Hoffman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Guy Hoffman 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 Guy Hoffman. Guy Hoffman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hu, Yuhan, et al.. (2024). "I'm Not Touching You. It's The Robot!": Inclusion Through A Touch-Based Robot Among Mixed-Visual Ability Children. DiVA at Umeå University (Umeå University). 511–521. 3 indexed citations
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Hu, Yuhan, et al.. (2024). Designing Plant-Driven Actuators for Robots to Grow, Age, and Decay. Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 2481–2496. 7 indexed citations
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Hu, Yuhan, et al.. (2024). Conveying Emotions through Shape-changing to Children with and without Visual Impairment. DiVA at Umeå University (Umeå University). 1–16. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Siqi, et al.. (2024). Build Your Own Robot Friend: An Open-Source Learning Module for Accessible and Engaging AI Education. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(21). 23137–23145. 4 indexed citations
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Hu, Yuhan, et al.. (2023). Nudging or Waiting?. 603–611. 1 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy, et al.. (2023). Face2Gesture: Translating Facial Expressions into Robot Movements through Shared Latent Space Neural Networks. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. 13(3). 1–18. 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Yuhan & Guy Hoffman. (2022). What Can a Robot’s Skin Be? Designing Texture-changing Skin for Human–Robot Social Interaction. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. 12(2). 1–19. 16 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy, et al.. (2022). Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers. International Journal of Social Robotics. 14(4). 995–1012. 14 indexed citations
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Kress‐Gazit, Hadas, Kerstin Eder, Guy Hoffman, et al.. (2021). . Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 24 indexed citations
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Gutierrez, Reymundo A., et al.. (2019). Active Attention-Modified Policy Shaping: Socially Interactive Agents Track. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 728–736. 5 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy. (2019). Evaluating Fluency in Human–Robot Collaboration. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. 49(3). 209–218. 275 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alves‐Oliveira, Patrícia, Patrí­cia Arriaga, Guy Hoffman, & Ana Paiva. (2016). Boosting Children's Creativity through Creative Interactions with Social Robots. Human-Robot Interaction. 591–592. 6 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy. (2016). OpenWoZ: A Runtime-Configurable Wizard-of-Oz Framework for Human-Robot Interaction. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 12 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy, et al.. (2013). Effects of robotic companionship on music enjoyment and agent perception. Human-Robot Interaction. 317–324. 20 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy & Cynthia Breazeal. (2008). Anticipatory perceptual simulation for human-robot joint practice: theory and application study. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1357–1362. 16 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy. (2007). Effects of Anticipatory Action on Human-Robot Teamwork. Human-Robot Interaction. 1–8. 8 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy & Cynthia Breazeal. (2006). What Lies Ahead? Expectation Management in Human-Robot Collaboration.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1–7. 2 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Guy & Cynthia Breazeal. (2004). Robots that Work in Collaboration with People.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 25–30. 10 indexed citations

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