5 papers
Deep Learning Techniques for Phoneme Recognition in Italian Children' s Speech
Nicola Barbaro, Cristina Gena, Francesco Petriglia +3
Speech therapists often face difficulties diagnosing impairments due to the lack of efficient tools for transcribing speech into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). This wor…
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…
How personality and memory of a robot can influence user modeling in Human-Robot Interaction
Benedetta Matcovich, Cristina Gena, Fabiana Vernero
In recent years, robotics has evolved, placing robots in social contexts, and giving rise to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). HRI aims to improve user satisfaction by designing auton…