Rate My Professor Farshid Amirabdollahian

His career includes roles as Technical Director at THINKlab, University of Salford (2006-2008), where he was also part of the Centre for Rehabilitation and Human Performance Research; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering Studies, Newcastle University (2003-2006), contributing to the i-match project; and Research Associate at the School of Cybernetics, University of Reading (2000-2003), involved in the GENTLE/s neurorehabilitation robot development with a pan-European team. Earlier, from 1990 to 1999, he held progressive software and hardware engineering positions, advancing to senior system analyst. Key publications include 'Would You Trust a (Faulty) Robot? Effects of Error, Task Type and Personality on Human-Robot Cooperation and Trust' (2015), 'Upper Limb Robot Mediated Stroke Therapy—GENTLE/s Approach' (2003), 'Training Modalities in Robot-Mediated Upper Limb Rehabilitation in Stroke: A Framework for Classification Based on a Systematic Review' (2014), 'Using the Humanoid Robot KASPAR to Autonomously Play Triadic Games and Facilitate Collaborative Play Among Children with Autism' (2014), 'Kaspar Explains: An Educational Platform using Causal Explanations to Support Children with Autism with Visual Perspective Taking' (2026), and 'Assistive Robotics for Healthy Aging: A Foundational Phenomenological Co-Design Exercise' (2026). His research has over 5,000 citations on Google Scholar.