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Using the Pepper Robot to Support Sign Language Communication
Giulia Botta, Marco Botta, Cristina Gena +3
Social robots are increasingly experimented in public and assistive settings, but their accessibility for Deaf users remains quite underexplored. Italian Sign Language (LIS) is a f…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…