Heather Knight

825 total citations
46 papers, 507 citations indexed

About

Heather Knight is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Control and Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Knight has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 507 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Social Psychology, 19 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Heather Knight's work include Social Robot Interaction and HRI (35 papers), AI in Service Interactions (12 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (10 papers). Heather Knight is often cited by papers focused on Social Robot Interaction and HRI (35 papers), AI in Service Interactions (12 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (10 papers). Heather Knight collaborates with scholars based in United States and India. Heather Knight's co-authors include Reid Simmons, Walter Dan Stiehl, Cynthia Breazeal, Manuela Veloso, Wendy Ju, Timothy J. Lee, Jeff Lieberman, Sharon Purchase, Harry L. Hom and Yi Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Social Robotics, The Journal of Genetic Psychology and ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction.

In The Last Decade

Heather Knight

44 papers receiving 478 citations

Peers

Heather Knight
Rodolphe Gélin France
Paul Bremner United Kingdom
Akiko Yamazaki Japan
Naomi T. Fitter United States
Emmanuel Senft United Kingdom
Anders Green Sweden
Zenta Miyashita Japan
Helge Hüttenrauch Sweden
Karola Pitsch Germany
Michihiro Shimada Japan
Rodolphe Gélin France
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Countries citing papers authored by Heather Knight

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Knight

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Knight

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2024). DRAWBOT: Making Everyday Objects Interactive. 554–558.
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2024). Take it! Exploring Cartesian Features for Expressive Arm Motion. 703–710. 1 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2022). MoTiS Parameters for Expressive Multi-Robot Systems: Relative Motion, Timing, and Spacing. International Journal of Social Robotics. 14(9). 1965–1993.
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2022). How Service Robots Can Improve Workplace Experience: Camaraderie, Customization, and Humans-in-the-Loop. International Journal of Social Robotics. 14(7). 1605–1624. 7 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2022). SanitizerBot: How Human-in-the-Loop Social Robots Can Playfully Support Humans. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 8278–8285. 2 indexed citations
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Adams, Julie A., et al.. (2022). Integrating Robot Manufacturer Perspectives into Legible Factory Robot Light Communications. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. 12(1). 1–33. 2 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2021). Can Service Robots Help Best Practices for COVID?. 615–617. 2 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2020). Semi-Ethnographic Study on Human Responses to a Help-Seeker Robot. 640–640. 4 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2020). Distinguishing Robot Personality from Motion. 87–89. 9 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2019). Improv with Robots: Creativity, Inspiration, Co-Performance. 1–8. 12 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2019). Persuasive ChairBots: A (Mostly) Robot-Recruited Experiment. 1–7. 11 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2019). Persuasive ChairBots: A Robot Recruited Experiment. 700–702. 4 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather & Reid Simmons. (2017). An intelligent design interface for dancers to teach robots. 1344–1350. 5 indexed citations
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Sirkin, David, Nikolas Martelaro, Mishel Johns, et al.. (2016). Design skills for HRI. 581–582. 5 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather & Reid Simmons. (2016). Laban head-motions convey robot state: A call for robot body language. 2881–2888. 45 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather & Reid Simmons. (2013). Estimating human interest and attention via gaze analysis. 4350–4355. 10 indexed citations
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Knight, Heather, et al.. (2009). Real-time social touch gesture recognition for sensate robots. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 3715–3720. 21 indexed citations
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Hom, Harry L. & Heather Knight. (1996). Delay of Gratification: Mothers' Predictions About Four Attentional Techniques. The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 157(2). 180–190. 10 indexed citations

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