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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…
Kids Computer Interaction with a Focus on Story Telling and Educational Robotics
Cristina Gena
In the invited talk at KDAH 2018 workshop (CIKM 2018 conference) I have presented two projects carried out in our HCI lab and target to child: the first one is related to the evalu…
UX Personas for defining robot's character and personality
Rossana Damiano, Cristina Gena, Andrea Maieli +4
This paper describes the use of UX Personas for defining a stable character for the Pepper robot. This approach generated from the first analysis of the social interactions that oc…