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most citedPreliminary results of a therapeutic lab for promoting autonomies in autistic children

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9 papers

cs.RO2025

The Impact of Adaptive Emotional Alignment on Mental State Attribution and User Empathy in HRI

Giorgia Buracchio, Ariele Callegari, Massimo Donini +8

The paper presents an experiment on the effects of adaptive emotional alignment between agents, considered a prerequisite for empathic communication, in Human-Robot Interaction (HR…

cs.RO2025

Social and Telepresence Robots for Accessibility and Inclusion in Small Museums

Nello Balossino, Rossana Damiano, Cristina Gena +6

There are still many museums that present accessibility barriers, particularly regarding perceptual, cultural, and cognitive aspects. This is especially evident in low-density popu…

cs.RO2025

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…

cs.RO2024

Investigating the relationship between empathy and attribution of mental states to robots

Alberto Lillo, Alessandro Saracco, Elena Siletto +2

This paper describes an experimental evaluation aimed at detecting the users' perception of the robot's empathic abilities during a conversation. The results have been then analyze…

cs.HC2024

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…

cs.HC2023

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…