Gehan Premathilake Ethugala Pathiranage

Gehan Premathilake Ethugala Pathiranage is a Doctoral Researcher and Grant Holder at Tampere University's Faculty of Management and Business, Department of Information and Knowledge Management. His academic focus lies at the intersection of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), social robotics, and their applications in the hospitality sector. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Kelaniya (2018) and an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from Tampere University (2020).

His research explores user behavior and affordance actualization of social robots in hotel environments, leveraging methodologies like LDA topic modeling and stimulus-organism-response frameworks. Key themes include customer satisfaction enhancement through social robots, emotional impacts of robotic interactions, and trust dynamics influenced by anthropomorphic design features.

Recent work highlights empirical studies in hotel service contexts, analyzing utilitarian and hedonic affordances of social robots. His contributions bridge robotics technology with service management, advancing understanding of human-robot collaboration in hospitality. No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned, though his active research output includes peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings.

Gehan has no listed advisees but actively engages in grant-funded research. His work is disseminated through platforms like Scopus and Google Scholar, with an ORCID profile (0000-0001-5773-7327) and a personal research site detailing ongoing projects.