3 papers
cs.RO2025
Would you let a humanoid play storytelling with your child? A usability study on LLM-powered narrative Human-Robot Interaction
Maria Lombardi, Carmela Calabrese, Davide Ghiglino +5
A key challenge in human-robot interaction research lies in developing robotic systems that can effectively perceive and interpret social cues, facilitating natural and adaptive in…
cs.RO2024
Gaze estimation learning architecture as support to affective, social and cognitive studies in natural human-robot interaction
Maria Lombardi, Elisa Maiettini, Agnieszka Wykowska +1
Gaze is a crucial social cue in any interacting scenario and drives many mechanisms of social cognition (joint and shared attention, predicting human intention, coordination tasks)…
cs.RO2024
iCub Detecting Gazed Objects: A Pipeline Estimating Human Attention
Shiva Hanifi, Elisa Maiettini, Maria Lombardi +1
This research report explores the role of eye gaze in human-robot interactions and proposes a learning system for detecting objects gazed at by humans using solely visual feedback.…