Rob Saunders

540 total citations
33 papers, 289 citations indexed

About

Rob Saunders is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Saunders has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 289 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Rob Saunders's work include Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (8 papers), Design Education and Practice (6 papers) and Interactive and Immersive Displays (4 papers). Rob Saunders is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (8 papers), Design Education and Practice (6 papers) and Interactive and Immersive Displays (4 papers). Rob Saunders collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Netherlands and United States. Rob Saunders's co-authors include John S. Gero, Jane Burry, Tienfuan Kerh, Kazjon Grace, Mary Lou Maher, Kathryn Merrick, A. Baki Kocaballı, Somaya Ben Allouch, Michael Scott and Edward J. Powley and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Leonardo.

In The Last Decade

Rob Saunders

28 papers receiving 266 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rob Saunders Australia 8 90 85 49 49 32 33 289
Kyung Hoon Hyun South Korea 10 27 0.3× 65 0.8× 16 0.3× 73 1.5× 39 1.2× 42 291
Jules Moloney Australia 10 179 2.0× 56 0.7× 25 0.5× 51 1.0× 14 0.4× 40 365
Yang Ye United States 11 78 0.9× 52 0.6× 52 1.1× 27 0.6× 20 0.6× 29 328
Ramón Rubio Spain 7 97 1.1× 81 1.0× 13 0.3× 10 0.2× 18 0.6× 15 326
Herman Neuckermans Belgium 9 134 1.5× 130 1.5× 41 0.8× 22 0.4× 7 0.2× 62 319
Ludger Hovestadt Switzerland 8 71 0.8× 29 0.3× 19 0.4× 50 1.0× 16 0.5× 31 221
Luís Santos United States 11 249 2.8× 119 1.4× 15 0.3× 21 0.4× 50 1.6× 31 479
Dragana Nikolić United Kingdom 13 150 1.7× 51 0.6× 16 0.3× 174 3.6× 36 1.1× 39 432
Taysheng Jeng Taiwan 8 71 0.8× 30 0.4× 12 0.2× 46 0.9× 14 0.4× 35 220
Robert Aish United Kingdom 11 228 2.5× 215 2.5× 14 0.3× 73 1.5× 28 0.9× 33 539

Countries citing papers authored by Rob Saunders

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rob Saunders

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob Saunders

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

All Works

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Zhong, Kevin Xu, Amy M. Chan, Kristina M. Miller, Rob Saunders, & Curtis A. Suttle. (2025). Evolutionarily divergent nidovirus with an exceptionally large genome identified in Pacific oysters undergoing mass mortality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(33). e2426923122–e2426923122.
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Zhong, Kevin Xu, Amy M. Chan, Jan F. Finke, et al.. (2024). The prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbiome of Pacific oyster spat is shaped by ocean warming but not acidification. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(4). e0005224–e0005224. 6 indexed citations
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Saunders, Rob, et al.. (2021). Moving beyond the mirror: relational and performative meaning making in human–robot communication. AI & Society. 37(2). 549–563. 13 indexed citations
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Saunders, Rob, et al.. (2018). Performative Body Mapping for Designing Expressive Robots.. ICCC. 280–287. 2 indexed citations
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Saunders, Rob, et al.. (2015). Digital Stereotomy: The Rejuvenation of Stone Masonry. 1 indexed citations
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Grace, Kazjon, John S. Gero, & Rob Saunders. (2015). Interpretation-driven mapping: A framework for conducting search and rerepresentation in parallel for computational analogy in design. Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing. 29(2). 185–201. 7 indexed citations
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Kerh, Tienfuan, et al.. (2014). Shoreline Change Estimation From Survey Image Coordinates And Neural Network Approximation. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 8(4). 381–386. 5 indexed citations
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Grace, Kazjon, John S. Gero, & Rob Saunders. (2013). Learning how to reinterpret creative problems. ICCC. 113–117. 1 indexed citations
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Saunders, Rob, et al.. (2013). Creative Machine Performance: Computational Creativity and Robotic Art. ICCC. 215–219. 10 indexed citations
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Grace, Kazjon, John S. Gero, & Rob Saunders. (2012). Representational affordances and creativity in association-based systems.. ICCC. 195–202. 2 indexed citations
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Grace, Kazjon, Rob Saunders, & John S. Gero. (2011). Interpretation-driven Visual Association.. ICCC. 132–134. 6 indexed citations
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Kocaballı, A. Baki, et al.. (2010). Investigating The Potential For Shared Agency Using Enactive Interfaces. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 47–50. 2 indexed citations
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Kerh, Tienfuan, et al.. (2008). Evaluation of Seismic Design Values in the Taiwan Building Code by Using Artificial Neural Network. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences. 26(1). 1–12. 10 indexed citations
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Merrick, Kathryn, Mary Lou Maher, & Rob Saunders. (2008). Achieving adaptable behaviour in intelligent rooms using curious supervised learning agents. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. 185–192. 9 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Somwrita, John S. Gero, & Rob Saunders. (2007). Re-Thinking Optimization as a Computational Design Tool: A Situated Agent Based Approach. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. XX–XX.
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Saunders, Rob & John S. Gero. (2004). Curious agents and situated design evaluations. Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing. 18(2). 153–161. 40 indexed citations
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Saunders, Rob & John S. Gero. (2001). A Computational Model of Novelty-Seeking Behaviour in Design. 1 indexed citations
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Saunders, Rob & John S. Gero. (2001). Designing for Interest and Novelty Motivating Design Agents. 18 indexed citations

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