2 papers
cs.RO2025
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…
cs.RO2025
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…