Peer reviewed journal articles
The latest updates are always available on my Google Scholar page.
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Social Robot Behaviors
Policy
G. Nejat, A. Zehavi, C. Getson and H. Shoef, "Adoption of assistive technologies in long-term care homes: What the pandemic has taught us," Healthcare Management Forum, 37(6):418 - 422, 2024 (PDF).
Autonomous Health Screening Robots
C. Getson and G. Nejat, “Human-Robot Interactions with an Autonomous Health-Screening Robot in Long-Term Care Settings,” Advanced Robotics, 37:24, 1576 – 1590, 2023 (PDF).
C. Getson and G. Nejat, “The Robot Screener Will See You Now: A Socially Assistive Robot for COVID-19 Screening in Long-Term Care Homes,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Napoli, Italy, pp. 672 – 677 (PDF).
C. Getson and G. Nejat, “The Adoption of Socially Assistive Robots for Long-Term Care: During the Pandemic and in a Post-COVID-19 Society,” Healthcare Management Forum Special Edition on Aging, Technology and Health in a Post-COVID World, Vol. 35(5) 301 – 309, 2022 (PDF).
Socially Assistive Robots (review)
C. Getson and G. Nejat, “Socially Assistive Robots Helping Older Adults through the Pandemic and Life after COVID-19,” Robotics, 10(3), 106, 2021. (PDF).
Presentations
"Human-Robot Interactions with Vulnerable Populations," Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society Panel: Making Artificial Intelligence Real, presented at HEC Paris special session, March 2025.
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"Investigating Persuasive Socially Assistive Social Robot Behavior Strategies for Sustained Engagement in Long-Term Care," HRI4WellBeing workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interaction (RO-MAN), August 2024.
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“Social Robots as Assistants: Assistive Persuasive Behaviours for Social Robots,” 2023 AGE-WELL Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, October 2023.
“The Design and Development of a Social Robot for COVID-19 Screening,” 2023 Toronto Robotics Conference, University of Toronto Robotics Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 2023.
“How Tech is Helping Canadians Living with Dementia,” The New Reality, Global News segment, Canada, May 2023.
“The Adoption of Socially Assistive Robots for Long-Term Care,” 2022 AGE-WELL Annual Conference, Regina, SK, Canada, October 2022. (poster)
“Robots Making Life Easier for Businesses Large and Small,” 2022 Supply AI Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, October 2022. (panel discussion)
“The adoption of socially assistive robots in long-term, private, and hospital care,” Revive and Thrive panel session for the Canadian College of Health Leaders, September 2022.
“The Robot Screener Will See You Now: A Socially Assistive Robot for COVID-19 Screening in Long-Term Care Homes,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Napoli, Italy, August 2022.
“A Robot Screener in Long-Term Care Homes,” 2022 AdvantAge Ontario Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, April 2022.
RoboEthics competition, IEEE RO-MAN 2021 (winner), ICRA 2022 (honourable mention)