4 papers
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 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…
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…