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Moderating Group Conversation Dynamics with Social Robots
Lucrezia Grassi, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa
This research investigates the impact of social robot participation in group conversations and assesses the effectiveness of various addressing policies. The study involved 300 par…
Enhancing LLM-Based Human-Robot Interaction with Nuances for Diversity Awareness
Lucrezia Grassi, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa
This paper presents a system for diversity-aware autonomous conversation leveraging the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). The system adapts to diverse populations and i…
Exploring the ethical sensitivity of Ph.D. students in robotics
Linda Battistuzzi, Lucrezia Grassi, Antonio Sgorbissa
Ethical sensitivity, generally defined as a person's ability to recognize ethical issues and attribute importance to them, is considered to be a crucial competency in the life of p…
Gestural and Touchscreen Interaction for Human-Robot Collaboration: a Comparative Study
Antonino Bongiovanni, Alessio De Luca, Luna Gava +8
Close human-robot interaction (HRI), especially in industrial scenarios, has been vastly investigated for the advantages of combining human and robot skills. For an effective HRI,…
Sustainable Cloud Services for Verbal Interaction with Embodied Agents
Lucrezia Grassi, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa
This article presents the design and the implementation of a cloud system for knowledge-based autonomous interaction devised for Social Robots and other conversational agents. The…
Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Flow Management for Social Robots and Conversational Agents
Lucrezia Grassi, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa
The article proposes a system for knowledge-based conversation designed for Social Robots and other conversational agents. The proposed system relies on an Ontology for the descrip…
Knowledge Triggering, Extraction and Storage via Human-Robot Verbal Interaction
Lucrezia Grassi, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa
This article describes a novel approach to expand in run-time the knowledge base of an Artificial Conversational Agent. A technique for automatic knowledge extraction from the user…