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20202026
most citedCan empathy affect the attribution of mental states to robots?

2 citations · 4 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CL2026

The Ghost Annotator: a Framework to Explore Human Label Variation in Content Moderation through Conformal Prediction

Mirko Lai, Alessandra Urbinati, Simona Frenda +2

Current research primarily focuses on model performance, while comparatively less attention has been devoted to uncertainty estimation, particularly in settings where LLMs are incr…

cs.RO2024

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…

cs.HC2024

An empirical evaluation for defining a mid-air gesture dictionary for web-based interaction

Thomas Pasquale, Cristina Gena, Fabiana Vernero

This paper presents an empirical evaluation of mid-air gestures in a web setting. Fifty-six (56) subjects, all of them HCI students, were divided into 16 groups and involved as des…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

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…

cs.HC2023★ 1 cited

The influence of user personality and rating scale features on rating behaviour: an empirical study

Alessia Aniceto, Cristina Gena, Fabiana Vernero

User ratings are widely used in web systems and applications to provide personalized interaction and to help other users make better choices. Previous research has shown that ratin…

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…