Socially-acceptable Extended Reality Models and Systems

Información del proyecto

SERMAS

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 101070351

DOI

10.3030/101070351

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 20 Junio 2022

Fecha de inicio 1 Octubre 2022

Fecha de finalización 31 Octubre 2025

Financiado con arreglo a

• Digital, Industry and Space

Coste total

€ 4 444 228,75

Aportación de la UE

€ 4 444 228,75

Coordinado por

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA
Italy

CORDIS proporciona enlaces a los documentos públicos y las publicaciones de los proyectos de los programas marco HORIZONTE.

Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Resultado final

Documents, reports (18)

Third-party projects results

Third-party projects results (report on third-party projects activities, achieved results and the impacts (within and beyond SERMAS))

Tutorials and Documentation for the SERMAS toolkit
Periodic progress report for Year 1

Periodic progress report for Year 1.This deliverable will include a section detailing the ethical and legal framework and current compliance of project activities.

Characterization of human mechanisms in interaction processes
Project presentation

Project presentation (includes logo and website, which will be updated regularly)

Analysis of in-lab validation results
Methodologies and tools for user-adapted interaction
Final release of the completed dialogue system
Specification of nonverbal communication software interface
Validation of dialogue system via automatic and human metrics
Security assessement of the SERMAS XR Agent modular architecture
Final project report

Final project report.This deliverable will include a section detailing the ethical and legal framework and current compliance of project activities.

Results of environment digitalization
Periodic progress report for Year 2

Periodic progress report for Year 2.This deliverable will include a section detailing the ethical and legal framework and current compliance of project activities.

Description of the modular architecture of the SERMAS XR Agent and design of its modules

Description of the modular architecture of the SERMAS XR Agent and design of its modules; first release at M6, to be updated at M12 once the detailed description of case studies is available

The SERMAS Methodology
Proof-of-Concept Reports

Proof-of-Concept Reports (updated at months 24 and 36)

Exploitation: lessons learned and best-practices

Data Management Plan (1)

Data management plan

Data management plan (updated regularly)

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Proof-of-Concept Plans

Proof-of-Concept Plans (updated at each iteration, at months 21 and 32)

Other (5)

Second interim release of the nonverbal communication software module
Dialogue system capable of handling natural language inputs and outputs
Next generation dialogue system that also incoroporates non-verbal information
Final release of the validated nonverbal communication software module

Final release of the validated nonverbal communication software module.The Type is actually R&O.

First interim release of the nonverbal communication software module

Data sets, microdata, etc (1)

Datasets suitable for training, validation, and testing of modules, along with infrastructure to support data collection/processing

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

SERMAS website

The SERMAS website will be updated regularly, until the end of the project (M36)

Publicaciones

Conference proceedings (29)

Dior-CVAE: Pre-trained Language Models and Diffusion Priors for Variational Dialog Generation

Autores: Tianyu Yang, Thy Tran, Iryna Gurevych
Publicado en: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2023.FINDINGS-EMNLP.313

The KCL-SAIR team's entry to the GENEA Challenge 2023 Exploring Role-based Gesture Generation in Dyadic Interactions: Listener vs. Speaker

Autores: Viktor Schmuck, Nguyen Tan Viet Tuyen, Oya Celiktutan
Publicado en: International Cconference on Multimodal Interaction, 2025
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3610661.3616555

An LLM-based Architecture for Socially Intelligent Robot Navigation based on Social Cues

Autores: Andrea Ruo1, Jonathan Cacace2, Mag´ı Dalmau-Moreno2, Lorenzo Sabattini1 and Valeria Villani
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15648910

A Mixed Reality System for Interaction with Heterogeneous Robotic Systems

Autores: Valeria Villani, Beatrice Capelli, Lorenzo Sabattini
Publicado en: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SMC53992.2023.10394172

User Identification Procedures with Human Mutations: Formal Analysis and Pilot Study

Autores: Quamara, Megha; Viganò, Luca
Publicado en: 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), 2025
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15168197

Towards More Expressive Human-Robot Interactions: Combining Latent Representations and Diffusion Models for Co-Speech Gesture Generation

Autores: Filippo Favali, Viktor Schmuck2, Valeria Villani1, and Oya Celiktutan
Editor: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14406640

MASSXR 2025: The 3^rd Workshop on Multi-modal Affective and Social Behavior Analysis and Synthesis in Extended Reality (Affiliated with IEEE VR 2025)

Autores: Megha Quamara, Oya Celiktutan, Luca Viganò, Aniket Bera, Pablo Cesar, Funda Durupinar, Aline Normoyle, Chirag Raman, Zerrin Yumak
Publicado en: 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2025
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/VRW66409.2025.00066

Exploring the most significant features for EEG ErrP detection through statistical analysis

Autores: Alessandra Fava, Valeria Villani, Lorenzo Sabattini
Publicado en: 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731260

Follow me: an architecture for user identification and social navigation with a mobile robot

Autores: ndrea Ruo, Lorenzo Sabattini, and Valeria Villani
Editor: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14246876

Robust CBF-based STL motion planning for socially responsible robot navigation in the presence of measurement noise

Autores: Andrea Ruo, Lorenzo Sabattini and Valeria Villani
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15648843

Predicting the Intention to Interact with a Service Robot: the Role of Gaze Cues

Autores: Simone Arreghini, Gabriele Abbate, Alessandro Giusti, Antonio Paolillo
Publicado en: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610289

User Identification Procedures with Human Mutations: Formal Analysis and Pilot Study

Autores: Quamara, Megha,Viganò, Luca
Editor: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15168198

A Large Language Model-Based Motion Planning for Human-Robot Interaction: An Experimental Case Study

Autores: Andrea Coppari1, Silvia Proia2, Andrea Ruo2, Filippo Favali2, Lorenzo Sabattini2, Cristian Secchi2, Valeria Villani2, Marco Piazzola1, and Luca Capra
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14259597

CBF-Based Motion Planning for Socially Responsible Robot Navigation Guaranteeing STL Specification^*

Autores: Andrea Ruo, Lorenzo Sabattini, Valeria Villani
Publicado en: 2024 European Control Conference (ECC), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/ECC64448.2024.10591282

Systematic analysis of requirements for socially acceptable service robots

Autores: Ruo, Andrea, Arreghini, Simone, Capra, Luca, De Chiara, Rosario, Di Pasquale, Valeria, Giusti, Alessandro, Iani, Cristina, Paolillo, Antonio, Petrak, Dominic, Plaum, Alexander, Quamara, Megha, Sabattini, Lorenzo, Schmuck, Viktor, Servillo, Paolo, Zurolo,
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14258531

Challenges in Detecting and Analyzing EEG Error-Related Potentials: Lessons from a Case Study in HRI

Autores: Alessandra Fava, Adriana Lucchese, Roberto Meattini, Gianluca Palli, Valeria Villani, Lorenzo Sabattini
Publicado en: 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731468

Towards a Modular Architecture for eXtended Reality Systems

Autores: Quamara, Megha, Capra, Luca, Villani, Valeria, Carlevaro, Cristiano, Celiktutan, Oya, Peretti, Alessandro, Piazzola, Marco, RUO, ANDREA, Sabattini, Lorenzo, Schmuck, Viktor, Viganò, Luca,
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14276277

The Devil is in the Details: On Models and Training Regimes for Few-Shot Intent Classification

Autores: Mohsen Mesgar, Thy Thy Tran, Goran Glavaš, Iryna Gurevych
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2023.EACL-MAIN.135

Learning from Implicit User Feedback, Emotions and Demographic Information in Task-Oriented and Document-Grounded Dialogues

Autores: Dominic Petrak, Thy Thy Tran, Iryna Gurevych
Publicado en: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2024.FINDINGS-EMNLP.264

Learning From Free-Text Human Feedback – Collect New Datasets Or Extend Existing Ones?

Autores: Dominic Petrak, Nafise Moosavi, Ye Tian, Nikolai Rozanov, Iryna Gurevych
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2023.EMNLP-MAIN.1011

Con Instruction: Universal Jailbreaking of Multimodal Large Language Models via Non-Textual Modalities

Autores: Jiahui Geng, Thy Thy Tran, Preslav Nakov, Iryna Gurevych
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.ACL-LONG.146

CBF-Based STL Motion Planning for Social Navigation in Crowded Environment

Autores: Ruo, Andrea, Sabattini, Lorenzo, Villani, Valeria
Editor: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14246898

A Service Robot in the Wild: Analysis of Users Intentions, Robot Behaviors, and Their Impact on the Interaction

Autores: Simone Arreghini, Gabriele Abbate, Alessandro Giusti, Antonio Paolillo
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.03287

AGV Traffic Management in Automated Industrial Plants: An Enhanced Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding Approach

Autores: Alessandro Bonetti, Silvia Proia, Simone Guidetti, Lorenzo Sabattini
Publicado en: 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2024
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CASE59546.2024.10711842

Hearing the Robot’s Mind: Sonification for Explicit Feedback in Human-Robot Interaction

Autores: Simone Arreghini, Antonio Paolillo, Gabriele Abbate, Alessandro Giusti
Publicado en: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, Human-Friendly Robotics 2024, 2025
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81688-8_4

A Wearable Stereo Vision-Based Obstacle Detection System for Visually Impaired Individuals

Autores: Andrea Ruo, Dario Napolitano, Valeria Villani
Publicado en: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy, 2025
Editor: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-08049-3_3

Evaluating Social Acceptance of eXtended Reality (XR) Agent Technology: A User Study

Autores: Quamara, Megha, Schmuck, Viktor, Iani, CristinaPrimavesi, Axel, Plaum, Alexander, Viganò, Luca
Editor: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.16882793

A Long-Range Mutual Gaze Detector for HRI

Autores: Simone Arreghini, Gabriele Abbate, Alessandro Giusti, Antonio Paolillo
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3610977.3637470

A Mixed Reality Interface for Human-Swarm Interaction

Autores: Villani, Valeria,Capelli, Beatrice, Sabattini, Lorenzo
Editor: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14246842

Peer reviewed articles (3)

TAG2G: A Diffusion-Based Approach to Interlocutor-Aware Co-Speech Gesture Generation

Autores: Filippo Favali, Viktor Schmuck, Valeria Villani, Oya Celiktutan
Publicado en: Electronics, Edición 13, 2025, ISSN 2079-9292
Editor: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS13173364

Self-supervised prediction of the intention to interact with a service robot

Autores: Gabriele Abbate, Alessandro Giusti, Viktor Schmuck, Oya Celiktutan, Antonio Paolillo
Publicado en: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Edición 171, 2025, ISSN 0921-8890
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ROBOT.2023.104568

Imitation learning-based Direct Visual Servoing using the large projection formulation

Autores: Sayantan Auddy, Antonio Paolillo, Justus Piater, Matteo Saveriano
Publicado en: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Edición 190, 2025, ISSN 0921-8890
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ROBOT.2025.104971