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Thomas Herman Johan Beelen is a Researcher at the Digital Society Institute and Human Media Interaction, specializing in child-robot interaction systems for information retrieval and cultural heritage applications. His work investigates how conversational robots assist children in search tasks while addressing trust formation and user experience challenges.
Beelen's research centers on Robotics, Child-Computer Interaction, and Information Retrieval, with strong emphases on Conversational Agents and Cultural Heritage contexts. He employs user studies and exploratory methodologies to analyze children's interaction styles with robots, focusing on multi-turn spoken dialogues, trust indicators in child-directed robot speech, and accessibility of multimedia archives. His approach integrates technical NLP advancements with child-centered design principles.
Analysis of his 2023-2025 publications reveals consistent investigation into children's search behaviors with robots, particularly examining how conversational suggestions impact information discovery, trust calibration in robot-provided information, and cultural heritage exploration. Key trends include the shift from single-shot to multi-turn search interactions and the role of uncertainty indicators in child-robot speech.
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Beelen operates within the Human Media Interaction research ecosystem at the Digital Society Institute, evidenced by his 2021 organization of the 'Interdisciplinary Research Methods for Child-Robot Relationship Formation' workshop and participation in computational linguistics conferences (CLIN 2020, Spoken Dialog Systems Workshop 2020). His collaborative network includes Ordelman, Truong, Evers, and Huibers.
