Lamia Elloumi

Lamia Elloumi is a Lecturer/Researcher in Digital Life with a PhD. Her work focuses on integrating social robotics, virtual communities, and health informatics to enhance educational and health outcomes. Key research areas include child-robot educational interactions, social robot design for math tutoring, and physical activity support systems.

Education: PhD (specific institution not specified in text).

Research Interests:

• Virtual communities for health behavior change
• Human-robot interaction in educational settings
• Social robotics in primary education
• Health informatics for elderly care

Recent publications emphasize sustaining long-term child-robot interactions, designing social robot math tutors, and exploring requirements for robotics in primary education. Earlier work includes virtual communities for physical activity and medication optimization in elderly care.

Received the Best Studies Paper Award (Runner-up) in 2023 for work on social robot math tutors. Active in academic outreach, including an invited talk at the ROC studiedag workshop in 2023.