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I am a professor of Human-Robot Interaction at the School of Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Hertfordshire. I am also a member of Adaptive Systems Research Group. Furthemore, I direct Robot House and Kaspar projects.
I am currently the University Theme Champion in Information and Security. I coordinated and completed the Accompany and SCRIPT projects funded by the framework 7 programme of the European Community.
My research is focused on human-robot interaction and is applied in the context of rehabilitation, assistive technology and more recently, over the past 7 years, takes an interest on deep learning and machine learning approaches for HRI.
I am a former member of the THINKlab, at University of Salford, UK, 2006-2008 where I held the position of Technical Director and was a member of Centre for Rehabilitation and Human Performance Research (CRHPR). Prior to that, I worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering Studies (CREST), Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where I was involved with the i-match project, working with Prof Garth Johnson, 2003-2006. From 2000 to 2003, I worked as a Research Associate at the school of Cybernetics, the University of Reading, UK, where I worked with Prof Harwin and a pan-European team of researchers in developing the GENTLE/s robot for neurorehabilitation. Prior to these, from 1990-1999, I have been involved in different software/hardware engineering capacities, varying from hardware technician (1990) to junior programmer, senior programmer, system analyst and senior system analyst(1999).
Research interests
My research focuses on human-robot interaction, with the objective of getting robots to adapt to humans’ interaction. An adaptive robot will have many applications, for example a therapy machine which can tune to each individual’s therapy needs, in terms of assisting and resisting forces, can be a very useful tool in the gym.
My research interests divide into: rehabilitation, assistive and assessment robotics; human performance assessment using engaging interactions; robots for enhancing personal interaction; artificial intelligence; and safe human computer interaction. I have keen interest in statistics and mathematics.
I am also interested in Robot Safety and Ethics. I am working as a member of ISO TC299, working on standad development around robots and robotic devices.
Teaching specialisms
I have taught Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to first, second and third year BSc students. I am also involved in Master and BSc final year projects.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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The Application of Knowledge Graphs for the Occupational Health Assessment Field
Amirabdollahian, F. (CoPI) & Sun, Y. (CoPI)
13/05/24 → 12/11/26
Project: Research
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SWAG: SOFT WEARABLE ASSISTIVE GARMENTS FOR HUMAN EMPOWERMENT
Amirabdollahian, F. (PI), Holthaus, P. (CoI), Lakatos, G. (CoI), Alingal-Meethal, S. (Researcher) & Shahabian Alashti, M. R. (Researcher)
4/03/24 → 1/03/27
Project: Research
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Hospital@home: Hospital at home, a virtual ward concept to bridge the health and social care gap
Amirabdollahian, F. (PI), Holthaus, P. (CoI), Lakatos, G. (CoI) & Dickinson, A. (CoI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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SWAG: SOFT WEARABLE ASSISTIVE GARMENTS FOR HUMAN EMPOWERMENT
Amirabdollahian, F. (PI), Holthaus, P. (CoI), Lakatos, G. (CoI), Resende Faria, D. (CoI) & Romero Moreno, F. (CoI)
1/11/23 → 31/10/27
Project: Research
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A feasibility study of using Kaspar, a humanoid robot for speech and language therapy for children with learning disabilities
Amirabdollahian, F. (PI), Robins, B. (CoI), Wood, L. (CoI) & Lakatos, G. (CoI)
1/02/22 → 31/07/22
Project: Research
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Effects of Perceived Robot Autonomy and Personal Differences on Trust in Human-Robot Interactions
Fallahi, A., Holthaus, P., Amirabdollahian, F. & Lakatos, G., 17 Jun 2025, (Accepted/In press) Social Robotics: Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Social Robotics.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Cognitive Agentic AI: Probabilistic Novelty Detection for Continual Adaptation in HRI
Ghamati, K., Amirabdollahian, F., Resende Faria, D. & Zaraki, A., 9 Jun 2025, (Accepted/In press) IEEE RO-MAN 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Hand Pose Detection Using YOLOv8-pose
Kadam, P., Fang, G., Amirabdollahian, F., Zou, J. J. & Holthaus, P., 12 Mar 2025, 2024 IEEE Conference on Engineering Informatics, ICEI 2024. Australia: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 6 p. (2024 IEEE Conference on Engineering Informatics, ICEI 2024).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Human Presence Detection to Support Contextual Awareness in Ambient Assisted Living Scenarios
Rafique, S., Amirabdollahian, F., Fang, G. & Holthaus, P., 24 Dec 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) 2024 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE). St Albans, United Kingdom: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1189-1194 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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ARI humanoid robot imitates human gaze behaviour using reinforcement learning in real-world environments
Ghamati, K., Zaraki, A. & Amirabdollahian, F., 3 Dec 2024, 2024 IEEE-RAS 23rd International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2024. France: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 653-660 8 p. (IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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