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How Age Influences the Interpretation of Emotional Body Language in Humanoid Robots -- long paper version
Ilaria Consoli, Claudio Mattutino, Cristina Gena +2
This paper presents an empirical study investigating how individuals across different age groups, children, young and older adults, interpret emotional body language expressed by t…
An empirical evaluation for defining a mid-air gesture dictionary for web-based interaction
Thomas Pasquale, Cristina Gena, Fabiana Vernero
This paper presents an empirical evaluation of mid-air gestures in a web setting. Fifty-six (56) subjects, all of them HCI students, were divided into 16 groups and involved as des…
A Robot Expressing Emotions Through Gestures: Everyone Outside of Italy Would Understand this?
Ilaria Consoli, Claudio Mattutino, Cristina Gena
In the context of our research activities on affective computing and human-robot interaction we are working on both the recognition of human's emotions and the expression of emotio…
Combining Multiple View Components for Exploratory Visualization
Vladimir Guchev, Paolo Buono, Cristina Gena
The analysis of structured complex data, such as clustered graph based datasets, usually applies a variety of visual representation techniques and formats. The majority of currentl…
Can empathy affect the attribution of mental states to robots?
Cristina Gena, Francesca Manini, Antonio Lieto +2
This paper presents an experimental study showing that the humanoid robot NAO, in a condition already validated with regards to its capacity to trigger situational empathy in human…
Using the power of memes: The Pepper Robot as a communicative facilitator for autistic children (cAESAR2023 workshop)
Linda Pigureddu, Cristina Gena
This article describes the preliminary qualitative results of a therapeutic laboratory involving the Pepper robot, as a facilitator, to promote autonomy and functional acquisition…
Behavioural analysis of interaction between individuals and a robot in the window (cAESAR2023 workshop)
Federica Bertel, Cristina Gena, Matteo Nazzario +1
The aim of the current research is to analyse and discover, in a real context, behaviours, reactions and modes of interaction of social actors (people) with the humanoid robot Pepp…
Novel BCI paradigm for ALS patients based on EEG and Pupillary Accommodative Response
Davide D'Adamo, Emiliano Robert, Cristina Gena +1
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are one of the few alternatives to enable locked-in syndrome (LIS) patients to communicate with the external world, while they are the only solutio…
The influence of user personality and rating scale features on rating behaviour: an empirical study
Alessia Aniceto, Cristina Gena, Fabiana Vernero
User ratings are widely used in web systems and applications to provide personalized interaction and to help other users make better choices. Previous research has shown that ratin…
From psychological traits to safety warnings: three studies on recommendations in a smart home environment
Federica Cena, Cristina Gena, Claudio Mattutino +2
In this paper, we report on three experiments we have carried out in the context of the EMPATHY project, with the aim of helping users make better configuration choices in a smart…
Preliminary results of a therapeutic lab for promoting autonomies in autistic children
Cristina Gena, Rossana Damiano, Claudio Mattutino +8
This extended abtract describes the preliminary qualitative results coming from a therapeutic laboratory focused on the use of the Pepper robot to promote autonomies and functional…
Employing Socially Assistive Robots in Elderly Care (longer version)
Daniel Macis, Sara Perilli, Cristina Gena
Recently, it has been considering robotics to face world population aging. According to the WHO, in 2050 there will be about 2.1 billion people over 60 years old worldwide causing…
A sensemaking system for grouping and suggesting stories from multiple affective viewpoints in museums
Antonio Lieto, Manuel Striani, Cristina Gena +4
This article presents an affective based sensemaking system for grouping and suggesting stories created by the users about the items of a museum. By relying on the TCL commonsense…
Mental state attribution to educational robots: an experience with children in primary school
Cristina Gena, Sara Capecchi
The work presented in this paper was carried out in the context of the project Girls and boys: one day at university promoted by the City of Turin together with the University of T…
Cloud-based user modeling for social robots: a first attempt
Marco Botta, Daniele Camilleri, Federica Cena +4
A social robot is an autonomous robot that interact with people by engaging in social emotive behaviors, skills, capacities, and rules attached to its collaborative role. In order…
Social Assistive Robotics for Autistic Children
Stefania Brighenti, Federico Buratto, Fernando Vito Falcone +3
This paper introduces the project Social Assistive Robotics for Autistic Children aimed at using robotic therapy for autism. The goal of the project is testing autistic children's…
Co-Design and implementation of an open-source 3D printed robot
Cristina Gena, Chiara Vaudano, Davide Cellie
During the 2017-18 academic year we carried out a series of coding activities, lasting about 3 months, in a third of the Giulia Falletti primary school in Barolo in Turin (Gena et…
Incorporating Personality Traits in User Modeling for EUD
Federica Cena, Cristina Gena, Claudio Mattutino +4
Personality traits such as Need for Cognition, Locus of Control, Mindset and Self-efficacy could impact the perception, acceptance and appreciation of recommendations provided to s…
A Model and Tool for Community Engagement Case Study: Community Engagement in the Bisotun World Heritage Site
Ahmad Nasrolahi, Vito Messina, Cristina Gena
Including local participation in cultural heritage management has always been a concern since the Venice Charter so far (1964). In addition, the Faro Convention (2005) shifted focu…
Visual and unplugged coding lessons with smart toys
Sara Capecchi, Cristina Gena, Ilaria Lombardi
Our Computer science k-12 education research group and the educational toy company Quercetti have been collaborating together to design and manufacture toys that help stimulate and…
An affective and adaptive educational robot
Cristina Gena, Alberto Lillo, Claudio Mattutino +1
In this paper we present an educational robot called Wolly, designed to engage children in an affective and social interaction. Indeed, we are now focusing on its role as an educat…
Sugar, Salt & Pepper -- Humanoid robotics for autism
Cristina Gena, Claudio Mattutino, Stefania Brighenti +9
This paper introduces an experimental trial that will take place from February to June 2021, and which will see the use of the Pepper robot in a therapeutic laboratory on autonomie…
Autistic Children's Mental Model of an Humanoid Robot
Cristina Gena, Claudio Mattutino, Andrea Maieli +4
This position paper introduces the results of an initial card sorting experiment based on the reactions and questions of a group of children with autism working with a humanoid rob…
An end-user coding-based environment for programming an educational affective robot
Cristina Gena, Claudio Mattutino, Enrico Mosca +1
In this paper we present an open source educational robot, designed both to engage children in an affective and social interaction, and to be programmable also in its social and af…