investigating Human Shared PErception with Robots

The world seems different in a social context: A neural network analysis of human experimental data

Author(s): Tsfasman, Maria; Philippsen, Anja; Mazzola, Carlo; Thill, Serge; Sciutti, Alessandra; Nagai, Yukie
Published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273643

Incorporating rivalry in reinforcement learning for a competitive game

Author(s): Barros, Pablo; Yalcin, Ozge Nilay; Tanevska, Ana; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: Neural Computing and Applications, 2023, ISSN 0941-0643
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-022-07746-9

Communicative And Affective Components in Processing Auditory Vitality Forms: An fMRI Study

Author(s): G Di Cesare, V Cuccio, M Marchi, A Sciutti, G Rizzolatti
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, 2021, ISSN 1047-3211
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab255

How attitudes generated by humanoid robots shape human brain activity

Author(s): G. Di Cesare, F. Vannucci, F. Rea, A. Sciutti, G. Sandini
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-73728-3

The middle cingulate cortex and dorso-central insula: A mirror circuit encoding observation and execution of vitality forms

Author(s): Di Cesare, Giuseppe; Marchi, Massimo; Lombardi, Giada; Gerbella, Marzio; Sciutti, Alessandra; Rizzolatti, Giacomo
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111358118

Perception is Only Real When Shared: A Mathematical Model for Collaborative Shared Perception in Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s): Matarese, Marco; Rea, Francesco; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: Front. Robot. AI, 2022, ISSN 2296-9144
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2022.733954

Editorial: Affective shared perception

Author(s): Sciutti, Alessandra; Barros, Pablo; Castellano, Ginevra; Nagai, Yukie
Published in: Front. Integr. Neurosci., 2022, ISSN 1662-5145
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2022.1024267

Comfortability Analysis Under a Human–Robot Interaction Perspective

Author(s): Redondo, Maria Elena Lechuga; Niewiadomski, Radek; Rea, Francesco; Incao, Sara; Sandini, Giulio; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics, 2023, ISSN 1875-4791
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-023-01026-9

Dynamic modulation of social influence by indirect reciprocity

Author(s): Joshua Zonca, Anna Folsø, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11/1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-90656-y

Collaborative Robots with Cognitive Capabilities for Industry 4.0 and Beyond

Author(s): Giulio Sandini, Alessandra Sciutti, Pietro Morasso
Published in: AI, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) 1858-1869, ISSN 2673-2688
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ai5040092

Two distinct networks for encoding goals and forms of action: An effective connectivity study

Author(s): Giuseppe Di Cesare, Giada Lombardi, Peter Zeidman, Burcu A. Urgen, Alessandra Sciutti, Karl J. Friston, Giacomo Rizzolatti
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2402282121

The neural bases of tactile vitality forms and their modulation by social context

Author(s): G. Rizzolatti, A. D’Alessio, M. Marchi, G. Di Cesare
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11/1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87919-z

Detecting Lies is a Child (Robot)’s Play: Gaze-Based Lie Detection in HRI

Author(s): Dario Pasquali, Jonas Gonzalez-Billandon, Alexander Mois Aroyo, Giulio Sandini, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea
Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics, Issue 15, 2023, Page(s) 583-598, ISSN 1875-4791
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-021-00822-5

Artificial cognition vs. artificial intelligence for next-generation autonomous robotic agents

Author(s): Giulio Sandini, Alessandra Sciutti, Pietro Morasso
Published in: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 1662-5188
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2024.1349408

Affective Contagion: How Attitudes Expressed by Others Influence Our Perception of Actions

Author(s): Giuseppe Di Cesare, Annalisa Pelosi, Silvia Maria Aresta, Giada Lombardi, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Issue 15, 2021, ISSN 1662-5161
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.712550

The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset

Author(s): Linda Lastrico, Valerio Belcamino, Alessandro Carfì, Alessia Vignolo, Alessandra Sciutti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Francesco Rea
Published in: The International Journal of Robotics Research, Issue 43, 2025, Page(s) 98-109, ISSN 0278-3649
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/02783649231210965

Affect Recognition in Hand-Object Interaction Using Object-Sensed Tactile and Kinematic Data

Author(s): Niewiadomski, Radoslaw; Beyan, Cigdem; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2023, ISSN 1939-1412
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/toh.2022.3230643

Decoding communicative action vitality forms in social contexts

Author(s): Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Amrita Suresh, Alessandra Sciutti, Giuseppe Di Cesare
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1478875

Mental Rotation Skill Shapes Haptic Exploration Strategies

Author(s): Leo, Fabrizio; Sandini, Giulio; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2022, ISSN 1939-1412
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/toh.2022.3162321

You Were Always on My Mind: Introducing Chef’s Hat and COPPER for Personalized Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Pablo Barros, Anne C. Bloem, Inge M. Hootsmans, Lena M. Opheij, Romain H. A. Toebosch, Emilia Barakova, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Issue 8, 2021, ISSN 2296-9144
Publisher: Frontiers in Robotics and AI
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.669990

Shared Perception Is Different From Individual Perception: A New Look on Context Dependency

Author(s): Mazzola, Carlo; Rea, Francesco; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2023, ISSN 2379-8920
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/tcds.2022.3185100

Social Influence Under Uncertainty in Interaction with Peers, Robots and Computers

Author(s): Zonca, Joshua; Folso, Anna; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics, 2023, ISSN 1875-4791
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-022-00959-x

The impact of early aging on visual perception of space and time

Author(s): Incao, Sara; Mazzola, Carlo, Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022, ISSN 1662-5161
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.988644

Toward Robots’ Behavioral Transparency of Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning With a Human Teacher

Author(s): Marco Matarese, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea, Silvia Rossi
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 2021, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 2168-2291
Publisher: IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
DOI: 10.1109/thms.2021.3116119

All by Myself: Learning individualized competitive behavior with a contrastive reinforcement learning optimization

Author(s): Barros, Pablo; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: Neural Networks, 2022, ISSN 0893-6080
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2022.03.013

Investigating form and content of emotional and non-emotional laughing

Author(s): Lombardi, Giada; Gerbella, Marzio; Marchi, Massimo; Sciutti, Alessandra; RIzzolatti, Giacomo; Di Cesare, Giuseppe
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, 2023, ISSN 1047-3211
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac334

The influence of vitality forms on action perception and motor response

Author(s): Giada Lombardi, Jacopo Zenzeri, Giulia Belgiovine, Fabio Vannucci, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti, Giuseppe Di Cesare
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 22576, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01924-w

Kinematic primitives in action similarity judgments: A human-centered computational model

Author(s): Nair, Vipul; Hemeren, Paul; Vignolo, Alessia; Noceti, Nicoletta; Nicora, Elena; Sciutti, Alessandra; Rea, Francesco; Billing, Erik; Bhatt, Mehul; Odone, Francesca; Sandini, Giulio
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2023, ISSN 2379-8920
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/tcds.2023.3240302

A Socially Adaptable Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s): Ana Tanevska, Francesco Rea, Giulio Sandini, Lola Cañamero, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Issue 7, 2020, ISSN 2296-9144
Publisher: Frontiers in Robotics and AI
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2020.00121

Early blindness modulates haptic object recognition

Author(s): Leo, Fabrizio; Gori, Monica; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022, ISSN 1662-5161
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.941593

Humanoid Attitudes Influence Humans in Video and Live Interactions

Author(s): Fabio Vannucci, Giada Lombardi, Francesco Rea, Giulio Sandini, Giuseppe Di Cesare, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 118502-118509, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2024.3442863

The FaceChannel: A Fast and Furious Deep Neural Network for Facial Expression Recognition

Author(s): Pablo Barros, Nikhil Churamani, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: SN Computer Science, Issue 1/6, 2020, ISSN 2662-995X
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/s42979-020-00325-6

Can a Robot's Hand Bias Human Attention?

Author(s): Scorza Azzara, Giulia; Zonca, Joshua; Rea, Francesco; Song, Joo-Hyun; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3580074

The role of ego vision in view-invariant action recognition

Author(s): Goyal, Gaurvi; Noceti, Nicoletta; Odone, Francesca; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: 4th International Workshop on egocentric perception, interaction and computin, 2019
Publisher: EPIC@CVPR2019

Ex(plainable) Machina: how social-implicit XAI affects complex human-robot teaming tasks

Author(s): Matarese, Marco; Cocchella, Francesca; Rea, Francesco; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icra48891.2023.10160839

Like Robots, Like Humans: Pupil Dilation During Collaborative Object Manipulation

Author(s): Linda Lastrico, Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Alessandro Carfí, Francesco Rea, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, José Santos-Victor, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: 2023 21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2024, Page(s) 264-270
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icar58858.2023.10406706

Multimodal Emotion Recognition of Hand-Object Interaction

Author(s): Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2021, Page(s) 351-355, ISBN 9781450380171
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3397481.3450636

Biased Attention Near iCub's Hand After Collaborative HRI

Author(s): Giulia Scorza Azzarà, Joshua Zonca, Francesco Rea, Joo-Hyun Song, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024, Page(s) 970-974
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3640579

Learning from Learners: Adapting Reinforcement Learning Agents to be Competitive in a Card Game

Author(s): Pablo Barros, Ana Tanevska, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: 2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2021, Page(s) 2716-2723, ISBN 978-1-7281-8808-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icpr48806.2021.9412807

Magic iCub - A Humanoid Robot Autonomously Catching your Lies in a Card Game

Author(s): Dario Pasquali, Jonas Gonzalez-Billandon, Francesco Rea, Giulio Sandini, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021, Page(s) 293-302, ISBN 9781450382892
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3434073.3444682

A Controllable and Repeatable Method to Study Perceptual and Motor Adaptation in Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s): Antonj, Matilde; Zonca, Joshua; Rea, Francesco; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3580069

Eager to Learn vs. Quick to Complain? How a socially adaptive robot architecture performs with different robot personalities

Author(s): Ana Tanevska, Francesco Rea, Giulio Sandini, Lola Canamero, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2019, Page(s) 365-371, ISBN 978-1-7281-4569-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/smc.2019.8913903

Can Robots Impact Human Comfortability During a Live Interview?

Author(s): Maria Elena Lechuga Redondo, Alessandra Sciutti, Sara Incao, Francesco Rea, Radoslaw Niewiadomski
Published in: Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021, Page(s) 186-189, ISBN 9781450382908
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3434074.3447156

Moody Learners - Explaining Competitive Behaviour of Reinforcement Learning Agents

Author(s): Pablo Barros, Ana Tanevska, Francisco Cruz, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2020, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 978-1-7281-7306-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icdl-epirob48136.2020.9278125

Interacting with a Social Robot Affects Visual Perception of Space

Author(s): Carlo Mazzola, Alexander Mois Aroyo, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020, Page(s) 549-557, ISBN 9781450367462
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3319502.3374819

Cognitive Architecture for Joint Attentional Learning of word-object mapping with a Humanoid Robot

Author(s): Gonzalez-Billandon, J., Grasse, L., Sciutt,i A., Tata, M. & Rea, F
Published in: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019
Publisher: IEEE

It's Food Fight! Designing the Chef's Hat Card Game for Affective-Aware HRI

Author(s): Pablo Barros, Alessandra Sciutti, Anne C. Bloem, Inge M. Hootsmans, Lena M. Opheij, Romain H.A. Toebosch, Emilia Barakova
Published in: Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021, Page(s) 524-528, ISBN 9781450382908
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3434074.3447227

What if a Social Robot Excluded You?: Using a Conversational Game to Study Social Exclusion in Teen-robot Mixed Groups

Author(s): Mongile, Sara; Pusceddu, Giulia; Cocchella, Francesca; Lastrico, Linda; Begliovine, Giulia; Tanevska, Ana; Rea, Francesco; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023, ISBN 978-1-4503-9970-8
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3580073

The FaceChannel: A Light-weight Deep Neural Network for Facial Expression Recognition.

Author(s): Pablo Barros, Nikhil Churamani, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: 2020 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2020), 2020, Page(s) 652-656, ISBN 978-1-7281-3079-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/fg47880.2020.00070

HRI Framework for Continual Learning in Face Recognition

Author(s): Belgiovine, Giulia; Gonzalez-Billandon, Jonas; Sciutti, Alessandra; Sandini, Giulio; Rea, Francesco
Published in: 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9981671

HCI –Human Centered Interaction

Author(s): Sciutti, Alessandra; Sandini, Giulio
Published in: ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapterin collaboration withCINI AIIS (Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Lab), 2020
Publisher: ACM

Towards Effective Robot Tutoring for Skills Acquisition

Author(s): Giulia Belgiovine; Francesco Rea; Jacopo Zenzeri; Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: I-RIM Conference of Robotics and Intelligent Machines, 2020
Publisher: I-RIM

Diffusion-Based Unsupervised Pre-training for Automated Recognition of Vitality Forms

Author(s): Noemi Canovi, Federico Montagna, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Alessandra Sciutti, Giuseppe Di Cesare, Cigdem Beyan
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2024, Page(s) 1-9
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3656650.3656689

The role of reciprocity in human-robot social influence

Author(s): Joshua Zonca, Anna Folsø , Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: iScience, 2021
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103424

A Humanoid Social Agent Embodying Physical Assistance Enhances Motor Training Experience

Author(s): Giulia Belgiovine, Francesco Rea, Jacopo Zenzeri, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: 2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2020, Page(s) 553-560, ISBN 978-1-7281-6075-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man47096.2020.9223335

CIAO! A Contrastive Adaptation Mechanism for Non-Universal Facial Expression Recognition

Author(s): Barros, Pablo; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: 2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/acii55700.2022.9953863

The Importance of the Affective Component of Movement in Action Understanding

Author(s): Giuseppe Di Cesare
Published in: Modelling Human Motion - From Human Perception to Robot Design, 2020, Page(s) 103-116, ISBN 978-3-030-46731-9
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46732-6_6

Can Robots Elicit Different Comfortability Levels?

Author(s): Maria Elena Lechuga Redondo, Alessia Vignolo, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: Social Robotics - 12th International Conference, ICSR 2020, Golden, CO, USA, November 14–18, 2020, Proceedings, Issue 12483, 2020, Page(s) 664-675, ISBN 978-3-030-62055-4
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_55

Sensing the Partner: Toward Effective Robot Tutoring in Motor Skill Learning

Author(s): Giulia Belgiovine, Francesco Rea, Pablo Barros, Jacopo Zenzeri, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: Social Robotics - 12th International Conference, ICSR 2020, Golden, CO, USA, November 14–18, 2020, Proceedings, Issue 12483, 2020, Page(s) 296-307, ISBN 978-3-030-62055-4
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_25

Shared Perception in Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s): Carlo Mazzola
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Università degli Studi di Genova

Expressive handovers: neural and behavioral effects of different attitudes in humanoid actions

Author(s): Vannucci Fabio, Di Cesare Giuseppe, Rea Francesco, Sandini Giulio, Sciutti Alessandra
Published in: Workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Issue 2, 2020
Publisher: IEEE

The FaceChannel: Strike of the Sequences for the AffWild 2 Challenge

Author(s): Pablo Barros, Alessandra Sciutti
Published in: AffWild 2 Challenge, 2020
Publisher: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Towards Learning How to Properly Play UNO with the iCub Robot

Author(s): Barros, Pablo; Wermter, Stefan; Sciutti, Alessandra
Published in: Workshops on Naturalistic Non-Verbal and Affective Human-Robot Interactions, Issue 4, 2019
Publisher: ICDL-EPIROB

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