Verena V. Hafner

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Verena V. Hafner is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Verena V. Hafner has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 28 papers in Social Psychology and 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Verena V. Hafner's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (18 papers), Social Robot Interaction and HRI (15 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (13 papers). Verena V. Hafner is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (18 papers), Social Robot Interaction and HRI (15 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (13 papers). Verena V. Hafner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and Mexico. Verena V. Hafner's co-authors include Frédé́ric Kaplan, Pierre‐Yves Oudeyer, Guido Schillaci, Bruno Lara, Andrew Whyte, Christian Blum, Alan Winfield, Rolf Pfeifer, Hiroshi Yokoi and Max Lungarella and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Computers & Education.

In The Last Decade

Verena V. Hafner

77 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development

2007 588 citations Pierre‐Yves Oudeyer, Frédé́ric Kaplan et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Verena V. Hafner Germany	17	537	500	369	271	212	82	1.4k
Hideki Kozima Japan	19	446 0.8×	668 1.3×	704 1.9×	254 0.9×	186 0.9×	37	1.5k
Philippe Gaussier France	20	307 0.6×	690 1.4×	323 0.9×	195 0.7×	278 1.3×	95	1.2k
Christian Balkenius Sweden	20	371 0.7×	832 1.7×	221 0.6×	260 1.0×	146 0.7×	117	1.5k
Wolfram Erlhagen Portugal	20	274 0.5×	1.0k 2.0×	398 1.1×	344 1.3×	175 0.8×	80	1.7k
Iain Werry United Kingdom	12	422 0.8×	500 1.0×	866 2.3×	259 1.0×	156 0.7×	12	1.4k
John Hallam Denmark	24	880 1.6×	317 0.6×	190 0.5×	182 0.7×	317 1.5×	130	2.0k
Martin V. Butz Germany	30	1.7k 3.1×	788 1.6×	493 1.3×	175 0.6×	137 0.6×	172	2.9k
Yuichiro Yoshikawa Japan	25	786 1.5×	739 1.5×	1.0k 2.8×	451 1.7×	240 1.1×	193	2.3k
René te Boekhorst United Kingdom	18	672 1.3×	534 1.1×	1.2k 3.3×	382 1.4×	207 1.0×	39	1.9k
Takashi Minato Japan	19	382 0.7×	329 0.7×	870 2.4×	420 1.5×	229 1.1×	115	1.4k

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Chevalère, Johann, et al.. (2026). Multimodal perspectives on affective dynamics in an intelligent tutoring system. Learning and Instruction. 103. 102310–102310.

Kontogiorgos, Dimosthenis, et al.. (2024). Effects of Transparency in Humanoid Robots - A Pilot Study. OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin). 750–754. 1 indexed citations

Chevalère, Johann, et al.. (2023). A sequence of learning processes in an intelligent tutoring system from topic-related appraisals to learning gains. Learning and Instruction. 87. 101799–101799. 8 indexed citations

Bierbach, David, Juliane Lukas, Verena V. Hafner, et al.. (2022). Live fish learn to anticipate the movement of a fish-like robot ^*. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 17(6). 65007–65007. 4 indexed citations

Öztop, Erhan, et al.. (2022). Forming robot trust in heterogeneous agents during a multimodal interactive game. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1. 307–313. 2 indexed citations

Kayhan, Ezgi, et al.. (2021). Sensorimotor Representation Learning for an “Active Self” in Robots: A Model Survey. edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin). 13 indexed citations

Wudarczyk, Olga A., Doris Pischedda, Verena V. Hafner, et al.. (2021). Robots facilitate human language production. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 16737–16737. 7 indexed citations

Hafner, Verena V., et al.. (2020). Anticipation as a Mechanism for Complex Behavior in Artificial Agents. 157–159. 1 indexed citations

Wudarczyk, Olga A., Doris Pischedda, Anna K. Kuhlen, et al.. (2020). Modeling robot co-representation: state-of-the-art, open issues, and predictive learning as a possible framework. Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento). 1–8. 8 indexed citations

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Hafner, Verena V., et al.. (2020). Prerequisites for an Artificial Self. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 14. 18 indexed citations

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Hafner, Verena V., et al.. (2017). Social reinforcement in intrinsically motivated sensorimotor exploration for embodied agents with constraint awareness. 255–262. 4 indexed citations

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Schillaci, Guido, et al.. (2015). First steps towards the development of the sense of object permanence in robots. 283–284.

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Schillaci, Guido, et al.. (2014). Learning hand-eye coordination for a humanoid robot using SOMs. 192–193. 6 indexed citations

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Hafner, Verena V., et al.. (2013). Position-invariant, real-time gesture recognition based on dynamic time warping. Human-Robot Interaction. 87–88. 20 indexed citations

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Schillaci, Guido, Verena V. Hafner, Bruno Lara, & Marc Grosjean. (2013). Is that me?: sensorimotor learning and self-other distinction in robotics. Human-Robot Interaction. 223–224. 5 indexed citations

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Hafner, Verena V., et al.. (2010). An autonomous flying robot for testing bio-inspired navigation strategies. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

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Kaplan, Frédé́ric & Verena V. Hafner. (2006). The challenges of joint attention. Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems. 7(2). 135–169. 118 indexed citations

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Oudeyer, Pierre‐Yves, Verena V. Hafner, & Andrew Whyte. (2005). The Playground Experiment: Task-Independent Development of a Curious Robot. 47 indexed citations

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Hafner, Verena V. & R. Salomon. (2003). Evolving neural controllers for visual navigation. 1. 669–674. 3 indexed citations

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Hafner, Verena V.. (2001). Adaptive Homing—Robotic Exploration Tours. Adaptive Behavior. 9(3-4). 131–141. 19 indexed citations

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