Gnanathusharan Rajendran

Professor, School of Social Sciences
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Psychology

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5370-3656

EmailT.Rajendran@hw.ac.uk

EH14 4AS
United Kingdom

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Research interests

I am interested in how new technologies might influence the social and cognitive development of children, especially children with developmental disorders like autism.

Biography

I graduated with undergraduate and masters degrees in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, followed by a PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of Nottingham. I was an ESRC Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, before becoming a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and then a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde. I joined Heriot-Watt University in 2012 as a Reader and was promoted to Professor in 2020.

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Research Output

24 Article
10 Conference contribution
3 Paper
1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
5 More

An architecture for emotional facial expressions as social signals

Aylett, R., Ritter, C., Lim, M. Y., Broz, F., McKenna, P., Keller, I. & Rajendran, G., 19 Mar 2019, In : IEEE Transactions on Affecticve Computing.

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Identifying Embodied Metaphors for Computing Education

Manches, A., McKenna, P. E., Rajendran, G. & Robertson, J., 31 Jan 2019, In : Computers in Human Behavior. 105859.

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2 Citations (Scopus)

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"Sorry to Disturb You": Autism and Robot Interruptions

McKenna, P. E., Keller, I., Part, J. L., Lim, M. Y., Aylett, R., Broz, F. & Rajendran, G., 29 Nov 2019, (Accepted/In press) HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 360-362 3 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Blending human and artificial intelligence to support autistic children's social communication skills

Porayska-Pomsta, K., Alcorn, A. M., Avramides, K., Beale, S., Bernardini, S., Foster, M. E., Frauenberger, C., Good, J., Guldberg, K., Keay-Bright, W., Kossyvaki, L., Lemon, O., Mademtzi, M., Menzies, R., Pain, H., Rajendran, G., Waller, A., Wass, S. & Smith, T. J., 20 Dec 2018, In : ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 25, 6, 35.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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