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08/25/2023
Asch Meets HRI: Human Conformity to Robot Groups
We present a research outline that aims at investigating group dynamics ...
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08/21/2023
To Whom are You Talking? A Deep Learning Model to Endow Social Robots with Addressee Estimation Skills
Communicating shapes our social word. For a robot to be considered socia...
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10/28/2022
I am Only Happy When There is Light: The Impact of Environmental Changes on Affective Facial Expressions Recognition
Human-robot interaction (HRI) benefits greatly from advances in the mach...
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10/24/2022
If You Are Careful, So Am I! How Robot Communicative Motions Can Influence Human Approach in a Joint Task
As humans, we have a remarkable capacity for reading the characteristics...
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09/04/2022
"iCub, We Forgive You!" Investigating Trust in a Game Scenario with Kids
This study presents novel strategies to investigate the mutual influence...
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08/10/2022
CIAO! A Contrastive Adaptation Mechanism for Non-Universal Facial Expression Recognition
Current facial expression recognition systems demand an expensive re-tra...
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08/03/2022
Robots with Different Embodiments Can Express and Influence Carefulness in Object Manipulation
Humans have an extraordinary ability to communicate and read the propert...
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07/14/2022
Shared perception is different from individual perception: a new look on context dependency
Human perception is based on unconscious inference, where sensory input ...
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04/07/2022
Validating a Cortisol-Inspired Framework for Human-Robot Interaction with a Replication of the Still Face Paradigm
When interacting with others in our everyday life, we prefer the company...
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03/29/2022
Synthesis and Execution of Communicative Robotic Movements with Generative Adversarial Networks
Object manipulation is a natural activity we perform every day. How huma...
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03/03/2022
The world seems different in a social context: a neural network analysis of human experimental data
Human perception and behavior are affected by the situational context, i...
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10/18/2021
Does human-robot trust need reciprocity?
Trust is one of the hallmarks of human-human and human-robot interaction...
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09/27/2021
A User-Centred Framework for Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Interaction
State of the art Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have reached an...
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09/01/2021
From Movement Kinematics to Object Properties: Online Recognition of Human Carefulness
When manipulating objects, humans finely adapt their motions to the char...
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06/28/2021
If you trust me, I will trust you: the role of reciprocity in human-robot trust
Trust is fundamental in human-human and human-robot interaction. Extensi...
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06/28/2021
Trust is not all about performance: trust biases in interaction with humans, robots and computers
Trust is essential for sustaining cooperation among humans. The same pri...
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06/08/2021
Property-Aware Robot Object Manipulation: a Generative Approach
When transporting an object, we unconsciously adapt our movement to its ...
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04/16/2021
I Only Have Eyes for You: The Impact of Masks On Convolutional-Based Facial Expression Recognition
The current COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that we are still facing unpr...
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03/16/2021
Cognitive architecture aided by working-memory for self-supervised multi-modal humans recognition
The ability to recognize human partners is an important social skill to ...
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03/02/2021
Careful with That! Observation of Human Movements to Estimate Objects Properties
Humans are very effective at interpreting subtle properties of the partn...
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11/12/2020
Self-supervised reinforcement learning for speaker localisation with the iCub humanoid robot
In the future robots will interact more and more with humans and will ha...
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11/02/2020
Incorporating Rivalry in Reinforcement Learning for a Competitive Game
Recent advances in reinforcement learning with social agents have allowe...
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10/04/2020
The FaceChannelS: Strike of the Sequences for the AffWild 2 Challenge
Predicting affective information from human faces became a popular task ...
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09/15/2020
The FaceChannel: A Fast Furious Deep Neural Network for Facial Expression Recognition
Current state-of-the-art models for automatic Facial Expression Recognit...
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08/30/2020
Action similarity judgment based on kinematic primitives
Understanding which features humans rely on – in visually recognizing ac...
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07/30/2020
Moody Learners – Explaining Competitive Behaviour of Reinforcement Learning Agents
Designing the decision-making processes of artificial agents that are in...
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07/12/2020
A Humanoid Social Agent Embodying Physical Assistance Enhances Motor Training Experience
Skilled motor behavior is critical in many human daily life activities a...
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05/12/2020
Towards Transparency of TD-RL Robotic Systems with a Human Teacher
The high request for autonomous and flexible HRI implies the necessity o...
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04/17/2020
The FaceChannel: A Light-weight Deep Neural Network for Facial Expression Recognition
Current state-of-the-art models for automatic FER are based on very deep...
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04/08/2020
Learning from Learners: Adapting Reinforcement Learning Agents to be Competitive in a Card Game
Learning how to adapt to complex and dynamic environments is one of the ...
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03/25/2020
A Socially Adaptable Framework for Human-Robot Interaction
In our everyday lives we are accustomed to partake in complex, personali...
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03/12/2020
The Chef's Hat Simulation Environment for Reinforcement-Learning-Based Agents
To achieve social interactions within Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) envi...
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02/25/2020
It's Food Fight! Introducing the Chef's Hat Card Game for Affective-Aware HRI
Emotional expressions and their changes during an interaction affect hea...
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08/02/2019
Towards Learning How to Properly Play UNO with the iCub Robot
While interacting with another person, our reactions and behavior are mu...
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06/10/2019
