LAST POSTERS

• Cocchella et al. Cognitive Processing of Humanoid Robots’ Faces: Detecting Anthropomorphism through Scrambled Face Decision Tasks. EASP 2023

• Lastrico et al. Toward implicit communication of object properties for human-robot interaction. GNB 2023

• Lombardi et. al, Humanoid facial expressions: a tool to study human behaviour. AIP 2023 / SIPF 2023 

• Matarese et al. Ex(plainable) Machina: how social-implicit XAI affects complex human-robot teaming tasks. ICRA 2023

• Mongile et al.  Validating a cortisol-inspired framework for human-robot interaction with a replication of the still face paradigm. ICDL 2023

• Mongile et al. What if a social robot escluded you? HRI 2023. 

Appendix

• Cocchella et al., 2023 

• Matarese et al., 2023 

• journal article

  Sandini G., Sciutti A., Morasso P. Artificial cognition vs artificial intelligence for next-generation autonomous robotic agents, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Lombardi G., Sciutti A., Rea F., Vannucci F., Di Cesare G., Humanoid facial expressions as a tool to study human behaviour, Scientific Reports

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Antonj M., Zonca J., Rea F., Sciutti A. A Controllable and Repeatable Method to Study Perceptual and Motor Adaptation in Human-Robot Interaction. 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

• conference paper

  Mongile S., Pusceddu G., Cocchella F., Lastrico L., Belgovine G., Tanevska A., Rea F., Sciutti A. What if a Social Robot Exluded You? Using a Conversational Game to Study Social Exclusion in Teen-robot Mixed Groups. 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

• conference paper

  Matarese M., Cocchella F., Rea F. and Sciutti A. Ex(plainable) Machina: how social-implicit XAI affects complex human-robot teaming tasks. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Bernotat, J., Jirak, D., Sandoval, E., Cruz, F., Sciutti, A. Asch meets HRI: Asch Meets HRI: Human Conformity to Robot Groups. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Communication (ROMAN)

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Tonelli A., Mazzola C., Sciutti A., Gori M. Context-dependency mechanisms in auditory distance estimation: the effect of blindness. 2023 European Conference of Visual Perception

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Zonca J., Folso A., Sciutti A.Social Influence Under Uncertainty in Interaction with Peers, Robots and Computers. International Journal of Social Robotics

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Scorza Azzarà G., Zonca J., Rea F., Song JH, Sciutti A. Can a Robot's Hand Bias Human Attention? 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Lechuga M.E, Niewiadomski R., Rea F., Incao S., Sandini G., Sciutti A. Comfortability Analysis Under a Human–Robot Interaction Perspective. International Journal of Social Robotics

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Barros P., Yalcin O.N. , Tanevska A., Sciutti A. Incorporating rivalry in reinforcement learning for a competitive game. Neural Computing and Applications

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Mongile S., Tanevska A., Rea F., Sciutti A. Validating a Cortisol-Inspired Framework for Human-Robot Interaction with a Replication of the Still Face Paradigm. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL).

• conference paper

  Lastrico L., Garello L., Rea F., Noceti N., Mastrogiovanni F., Sciutti A., Carfi A. Robots with different embodiments can express and influence carefulness in object manipulation. 2022 IEEE International Conference in Development and Learning (ICDL)

• journal article

  Tsfasman M., Philippsen A., Mazzola C., Thill S., Sciutti A., Nagai Y. The world seems different in social context: a neural network analysis of human experimental data. Plos One. 2022

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Mazzola C., Rea F., Sciutti A. Shared perception is different from individual perception: a new look on context dependency. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 2022

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Pusceddu G., Cocchella F., Bogliolo M., Belgiovine G., Lastrico L., Casadio M., Rea F., Sciutti A. Training School Teachers to Use Robots as an Educational Tool: the Impact on Robotics Perception. ICSR 2022

• journal article

  Incao S., Mazzola C., Sciutti A. The impact of early aging on visual perception of space and time. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2022.

• Journal article

  Lombardi G., Gerbella M., Marchi M., Sciutti A., Rizzolatti G., Di Cesare G., Investigating form and content of emotional and non-emotional laughing. Cerebral Cortex 2022

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Matarese M., Rea F., Sciutti A., Perception is Only Real When Shared:A Mathematical Model forCollaborative Shared Perception inHuman-Robot Interaction. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2022

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Leo, Sandini, Sciutti "Mental Rotation Skill Shapes Haptic Exploration Strategies", IEEE Transactions on Haptics

• conference paper

  Mongile S., Tanevska A., Rea F., Sciutti A. Are Robots That Assess Their Partner's Attachment Style Better At Autonomous Adaptive Behaviour?  Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

• CONFERENCE Paper

  Garello L., Rea F., Noceti N., Sciutti A. Towards Third-Person Visual Imitation Learning Using Generative Adversarial Networks. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Barros P. and Sciutti A. Ciao! A contrastive adaptation mechanism for non-universal facial expression recognition. 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII).

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Leo F., Gori M., Sciutti A. Early Blindness modulates haptic object recognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Belgiovine G., Gonzlez-Billandon J., Sciutti A., Sandini G., Rea F. HRI Framework for Continual Learning in Face Recognition. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Niewiadomski R., Beyan C., Sciutti A. Affect Recognition in Hand-Object Interaction Using Object-Sensed Tactile and Kinematic Data. IEEE Transactions on Haptics.

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Nair V., Hemeren P., Vignolo A., Noceti N., Nicora E., Sciutti A., Rea F., Billing E., Bhatt M., Odone F., Sandini G. Kinematic primitives in action similarity judgements: A human-centered computational model. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Sciutti A., Barros P., Castellano G., Nagai Y. Affective Shared Perception. Front. Integr. Neurosci 

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Pasquali D., Rea F., Sciutti A. Detecting Lies in the Wild: Creativity and Learning. Maker Faire Rome

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Lechuga Redondo M.E., Sciutti A., Rea F., Niewiadomski R. Comfortability Recognition from Visual Non-verbal Cues. 24th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Garello L., Lastrico L., Sciutti A., Noceti N., Mastrogiovanni F., Rea F. Synthesis and Execution of Communicative Robotic Movements with Generative Adversial Networks. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS). 

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Barros P., Sciutti A. All by myself: learning individualized competitive bahevior with a contrastive reinforcement learning optimization. Neural Networks

• CONFERENCE PAPER

  Barros P., Sciutti A. Across the Universe: Biasing Facial Representations Toward Non-Universal Emotions With the Face-STN, IEEE Access

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Zonca J., Folso A., Sciutti A. The role of reciprocity in human-robot social influence. iScience

• conference paper

  Matarese M., Rea F., Sciutti A. A user-centred framework for explainable article artificial intelligence in human-robot interaction. IEEE Transactions on human-machine systems.

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Matarese M., Sciutti A., Rea F., Rossi S. Toward Robots’ Behavioral Transparency of Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning With a Human TeacherIEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. 

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Lombardi G., Zenzeri J., Belgiovine G., Vannucci F., Rea F., Sciutti A., Di Cesare G., The infuence of vitality forms on action perception and motor response, Sci Rep 

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Di Cesare G., Marchi M., Lombardi G., Gerbella M., Sciutti A., Rizzolatti G., The middle cingulate cortex and dorso-central insula: A mirror circuit encoding observation and execution of vitality forms. PNAS

• CONFERENCE PAPER
  Garello L., Lastrico L., Rea F., Matrogiovanni L., Noceti N., Sciutti A., Property-Aware Robot Object Manipulation:a Generative Approach, IEEE ICDL 2021
• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Di Cesare G., Pelosi A., Aresta S., Lombardi G., Sciutti A., Affective Contagion: How Attitudes Expressed by Others Influence Our Perception of Actions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

• JOURNAL ARTICLE

  Di Cesare G., Cuccio V., Marchi M., Sciutti A., Rizzolatti G., Communicative and affective components in processing auditory vitality forms: An fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex 

• Journal Article
  Rizzolatti G., D'Alessio A., Marchi M., Di Cesare G. The neural bases of tactile vitality forms and their modulation by social context

  Scientific Reports 
• Journal Article
  Zonca J., Folso A., Sciutti A., Dynamic modulation of social influence by indirect reciprocity. Scientific Reports
• Conference PapeR

  Niewiadomski R., Sciutti A., Multimodal Emotion Recognition of Hand-Object Interaction; International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

• Conference Paper

  Redondo M E. L., Sciutti A., Incao S., Rea F., Niewiadomski R., Can Robots Impact Human Comfortability During a Live Interview? HRI '21 Companion: Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

• Conference Paper

  Pasquali P., Gonzalez-Billandon J., Rea F.,  Sandini G., Sciutti A., Magic iCub: a humanoid robot autonomously catching your lies in a card game, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

• Workshop Paper

  Barros P., Tanevska A., Sciutti A., Affect-Aware Learning for Social Robots; CAESAR workshop at Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

• Workshop Paper

  Barros P., Sciutti A., I Only Have Eyes for You: The Impact of Masks On Convolutional-Based Facial Expression Recognition; LXCV Workshop at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021)

• Workshop Paper

  Incao S., Rea F., Sciutti A., A Self for robots: core elements and ascription by humans; HRI 2021 Workshop

• conference paper

  Antonj M., Zonca J., Lastrico L., Casadio M., Sciutti A. A pilot towards the implementation of perceptual and motor adaptation in robots. 3rd Italian Conference in Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM)

• Workshop Paper

  Vannucci F., Di Cesare G., Rea F., Sandini G., Sciutti A., Expressive handovers: neural and behavioral effects of different attitudes in humanoid actions; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

• Conference Paper

  Redondo M. E. L., Vignolo A., Niewiadomski R., Rea F., Sciutti A., Can Robots Elicit Different Comfortability Levels? . ICSR 2020 International Conference on Social Robotics

• Conference Paper

  Mazzola C., Aroyo A., Rea F., Sciutti A., Interacting with a Social Robot Affects Visual Perception of Space; Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

• Journal Article

  Barros, P., Churamani, N. & Sciutti, A. The FaceChannel: A Fast and Furious Deep Neural Network for Facial Expression Recognition; SN Computer Science

• Conference Paper

  Barros P., Tanevska A., Cruz F., Sciutti A., Moody Learners - Explaining CompetitiveBehaviour of Reinforcement Learning Agents; Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob)

• Conference Paper

  Barros P., Tanevska A., Sciutti A., Learning from Learners: Adapting Reinforcement Learning Agents to be Competitive in a Card Game. ICPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition 

• Conference Paper

  Barros P., Churamani N., Sciutti A., The FaceChannel: A Light-Weight Deep Neural Network for Facial Expression Recognition; 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

• Journal Article

  Di Cesare G., Vannucci F., Rea F., Sciutti A., Sandini G., How attitudes generated by humanoid robots shape human brain activity; Scientific Reports

• Book Chapter

  Di Cesare G., The Importance of the Affective Component of Movement in Action Understanding; chapter from Modelling Human Motion- From Human Perception to Robot Design

• Conference Paper

  Belgiovine G., Rea F., Zenzeri J., Sciutti A., A Humanoid Social Agent Embodying Physical Assistance EnhancesMotor Training Experience. ROMAN 2020 International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2020 

• Conference Paper

  Belgiovine G., Rea F., Barros P., Zenzeri J., Sciutti A., Sensing the partner: toward effective robot tutoring in motor skill learning; International Conference of Social Robotics (ICSR)

• Workshop Paper

  Barros P., Sciutti A, Bloem A. C., Hootsmans I. M., Opheij L. M., Toebosch R. H. A., Barakova E., It’s Food Fight! Introducing the Chef’s Hat Card Game for Affective-Aware HRI; Workshop on Exploring Creative Content in Social Robotics at HRI2020

• Conference Paper

  Sciutti A., Sandini G., HCI –Human Centered Interaction; SIGCHI Italy -ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapterin collaboration withCINI AIIS (Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Lab)

• Journal Article

  Taveska A., Rea F., Sandini G., Cañamero L., Sciutti A.; A Socially Adaptable Framework for Human-Robot Interaction; Frontiers in Robotics and AI

• Conference Paper

  Belgiovine G., Rea F., Zenzeri J., Sciutti A., Towards Effective Robot Tutoring for Skills; I-RIM Conference of Robotics and Intelligent Machines

• Other

  Barros P., Sciutti A., The FaceChannel: Strike of the Sequences for the AffWild 2 Challenge; AffWild 2 Challenge

• Workshop Paper

  Barros P., Tanevska A., Yalcin O., Sciutti A., Incorporating Rivalry in Reinforcement Learning for a Competitive Game; Workshop at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

• Conference Paper

  Goyal G., Noceti N., Odone F., Sciutti A.; The role of ego vision in view-invariant action recognition; 4th International Workshop on egocentric perception, interaction and computing at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

• Conference Paper

  Tanevska A., Rea F., Sandini G., Canamero L., Sciutti A., Eager to Learn vs. Quick to Complain? How a socially adaptive robot architecture performs with different robot personalities; IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)

• Workshop Paper

  Barros P., Wermter S., Sciutti A., Towards Learning How to Properly Play UNO with the iCub Robot; Workshop on Naturalistic Non-Verbal and Affective Human-Robot Interactions co-located with ICDL-EPIROB

• Conference Paper

  Gonzalez-Billandon J., Grasse L., Sciutti A., Tata M.,  Rea F., Cognitive Architecturefor Joint Attentional Learning of word-object mapping with a Humanoid Robot; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Workshop on Deep Probabilistic Generative Models for Cognitive Architecture in Robotics

Talks

• Invited speaker (Virtual) at the 2022 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots in Okinawa, Japan on November 28, 2022.  

• Keynote speaker at the SCIAR workshop (Social and Cognitive Interactions for Assistive Robotics); IROS Kyoto 27 October 2022; Title: "Robots that understand us"

• Speaker at IROS Workshop Artificial Intelligence for Social Robots Interacting with Humans in the Real World [intellect4hri]; Kyoto 27 October 2022; title: "Can a robot be intelligent without being social?"

• Invited Speaker at the NeuroEngineering School. Talk Title: “The sensorimotor bases of interaction with the world and with others”. Villa Cambiaso, Genoa, Italy, 18th-22nd July 2022

• Invited Speaker at the Winter School PERSEO on Ethics and Interdisciplinary Research Methods for Personalized Robotics. Talk Title: “Adaptation in Cognitive Robotics: To Whom and To What Extent”. Virtual, 23rd March 2022

• Invited Speaker at the Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS) Talk Series at Plymouth University. Talk Title: “Cognitive robots for more humane interactions”. Virtual, 2nd February 2022

• Invited speaker at University Campinas, Brazil. Talk Title: “A social perspective on cognitive Architectures”. Virtual. 13th January 2022.

• Invited talk at the event “Sulle note del futuro: comunicare le nuove sfide dalla robotica allo spazio” organized by the National Association of Scientific Journalists. Talk title: “An (Italian) robot as a friend” (in Italian). Piacenza, 4th December 2021

• Keynote Speaker at the ANIMATAS Symposium  2021. Talk Title: “Sharing perception with a robot”, Virtual, 14 October 2021

• Invited Speaker at Rotary Club Chiavari-Tigullio, Chiavari, Italy, 1 October 2021

• Invited Panelist to the event “Do you know AI?” organized by Bosch, Virtual, 7 October 2021

• Invited Speaker to the Round Table “Robot revolution: will they replace us?” organized by PHYD, Adecco digital venture within the Phygital Week, Milan, Italy (Virtual), 5 October 2021

• Invited Speaker at the Workshop Poeticon-reloaded within the iCog initiative, Virtual, 22 September 2021

• Invited Speaker at the Robotics & Ergonomics Workshop organized by Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Societa’ Italiana di Ergonomia, Genoa, 21 September 2021

• Invited Speaker at the Workshop on Human-aligned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents and Robots at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning 2021, Virtual, 27 August 2021

• Invited Speaker at the Trust, Acceptanc e and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction Workshop (SCRITA), Virtual, 12 August 2021

• Invited Panelist at the event “To Leave and Come Back” (in Italian) organized by Federmana ger Liguria, Virtual, 12 May 2021

• Invited Speaker at the Women in Tech Ignite session of MATLAB EXPO, Virtual, 4 May 2021

• Invited speaker and panelist at the Cognitive Architecture for Robot Agents Workshop (TransAIR 2021), Virtual, 28 March 2021

• Invited Speaker at the E-Workshop "Enacting Meaningful Worlds: Perspectives and Methods", Virtual, 9 March 2021 

• Invited talk at the HRI 2021 Workshop "Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI)", online, 8 March 2021.
  

• Invited talk at the ROMAN2020 Workshop, Online, 1 September 2020. Title: “Towards social intelligence"

• Invited talk at the round table “Verso l’era dei robot umanoidi” (Toward the age of humanoid robots), 17 July 2020, with Markus Krienke and Michele Focchi at the festival “Le parole della Montagna”, Smerillo (FM).

• Invited talk at the VisLab, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Online, 14th July 2020. Title: “Shared Perception between Humans and Robots”

• Invited talk at the ExperienceLabTalks Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 3 July 2020, Online, on human-robot interaction and UX in robotics.
  

• Invited lesson within the series Science and Future: from consequences to applications (ITA) 23 April 2020, Online, organized by Fondazione Golinelli and DeAgostini. Title: “Challenges and opportunities of today’s robotics”

• Invited talk at the workshop Robotics and AI for health and social care, Buchs, Switzerland, 3-4 December 2019. Title: “Shared perception with robots”

• Invited talk at the 1st Workshop Göttinger HCI Gespräche at ZESS, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, 14 November 2019. Title: “Cognitive Robotics for more Humane Machines"

• Invited talk at the Cutting Edge Forum "Cognitive architectures for humanoids: where are we in our quest to achieve human-level AI in robotics?" at IROS 2019 Macau, China, 6 November 2019. Title: “Cognitive architecture dynamics: how can a cognitive robot develop?"

• Keynote at the 20th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Trento, Italy, 13 Sept 2019. Title: "Cognitive Vision for Human Robot Interaction".

• Invited talk at the workshop Testing Embodied Cognition: The Embodied Mind in a Cognitive Universal Body, Göttingen, Germany, 5 Sept 2019. Title: "The iCub project and the quest for cognition"

• Invited talk at Universita' Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 15 April 2019. Title: “Cognitive Robotics for better human understanding and more friendly robots”

• Invited talk at the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience - Ben Gurion University - Beer Sheva, Israel, 10 April 2019. Title:” Joint action and perception with humans and robots”.

• Invited talk at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Formal DCC Lecture - Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 26 March 2019. Title: “Cognitive Robotics and Interaction” 

• Keynote at the AIR project kick-out meeting - Skӧvde, Sweden, 19-20 March 2019. Title: “Robot & Humans: from mutual understanding to interaction and trust”

• Keynote at the Cognitive Science Arena 2019 - Bressanone, Italy, 15-16 February 2019. Title: “Future challenges in cognitive science: The new frontier of human robot interaction”

• Invited talk at The 1st International Symposium on Symbiotic Intelligent Ststems (SISReC) - Osaka, Japan, 25 January 2019. Title:"Intutitive understanding between humans and robots".

• Invited talk at the series of events "Disegni, Invenzioni e Macchine"  ("Drawings, Inventions and Machines") at Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, 16th January 2019. Title: "Robots that help humans...to understand themselves" (Robot che aiutano… a comprendere l'uomo, in Italian).

• Presentation "wHiSPER - Investigating Human Shared Perception with Robots" to the ISCIT (Istituto Superiore di Studi in Tecnologie dell'Informazione e della Comunicazione) students, Genoa, Italy, December 7, 2018.

• Invited talk at the Festival Dell’Eccellenza al Femminile – Genoa, Italy, 20 November 2018. Title: “Communication in the robot era” (“Comunicazione al tempo dei robot”, in Italian).

• Invited talk at the SICSA Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems – Edinburgh, UK, 16 November 2018. Title: “Mutual understanding for better human-robot interaction”.

• Keynote at the World Usability Day – Turin, Italy, 8 November 2018. Title: “More Humane Robots” (“Robot piu’ umani”, in Italian).

• Invited Talk at Skövde University, Skövde, Sweden - October 23, 2018. Title: “Action and Perception in HRI”.

• Keynote at the workshop BODIS: The utility of body, interaction and self learning at IROS 2018 - Madrid, Spain, October 2018.