J. Hum.-Robot Interact.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3721297
Journal papers
2025
“Deception in HRI and its Implications: a Systematic Review“
“Assessment of Distraction and the Impact on Technology Acceptance of Robot Monitoring Behaviour in Older Adults Care”
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3539015
“Exploring the Role of Robot's Movements for a Transparent Affective Communication”
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 4364-4371
10.1109/LRA.2025.3548412
“BRILLO: Personalised HRI with a Bartender Robot”
Int J of Soc Robotics
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-025-01228-3
“What is behind the curtain? Increasing transparency in reinforcement learning with human preferences and explanations”
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 149
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2025.110520
“A Bayesian framework for learning proactive robot behaviour in assistive tasks”
User Model User-Adap Inter 35, 1
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-024-09421-1
“The Italian version of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology questionnaire: a pilot validation study”
Front. Robot. AI , Sec. Human-Robot Interaction
https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2025.1371583
2024
“Gesture recognition with a 2D low-resolution embedded camera to minimise intrusion in robot-led training of children with autism spectrum disorder”
Appl Intell
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-024-05477-z
“Personality-Based Adaptation of Robot Behaviour: Acceptability Results on Individuals with Cognitive Impairments”
International Journal of Social Robotics, 16
https://rdcu.be/dDzoP
“A Two-Tier GAN Architecture for Conditioned Expressions Synthesis on Categorical Emotions”
International journal of social robotics (2024)
https://rdcu.be/c7E9O
2023
“Human-Robot Interaction Video Sequencing Task (HRIVST) for Robot's Behavior Legibility”
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 53(6)
10.1109/THMS.2023.3327132
“Deep reinforcement learning for robotic approaching behavior influenced by user activity and disengagement”
International Journal of Social Robotics (7 September 2023)
https://rdcu.be/dDzpF
“An application of a runtime epistemic probabilistic event calculus to decision-making in e-health systems”
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 23(5)
Link
“Mind Perception in HRI: Exploring Users’ Attribution of Mental and Emotional States to Robots with Different Behavioural Styles”
International journal of social robotics (3 March 2023)
https://rdcu.be/c8tXC
“Personalized home-care support for the elderly: a field experience with a social robot at home”
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (33)
https://rdcu.be/dDzsN
2022
“Using social robot NAO for emotional support to children at a paediatric emergency department: a randomised clinical trial”
in Journal of Medical Internet Research 24(1):e29656
doi: 10.2196/29656
2021
“Head pose estimation using facial-landmarks classification for children rehabilitation games”
in Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 152, 2021, Pages 406-412, ISSN 0167-8655,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2021.11.002
“Don’t Get Distracted!: The Role of Social Robots’ Interaction Style on Users’ Cognitive Performance, Acceptance, and Non-Compliant Behavior”
Int J of Soc Robotics, 13
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00702-4
“Toward Robots’ Behavioral Transparency of Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning With a Human Teacher”
in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (2021),
doi: 10.1109/THMS.2021.3116119
“Combining CNN and LSTM for activity of daily living recognition with a 3D matrix skeleton representation”
Intel Serv Robotics (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-021-00358-7
“A Trade-Off Negotiation Strategy for Pareto-Optimal Service Composition with Additive QoS-constraints”
Group Decis Negot 30 pp. 119-141 (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-020-09709-8
“Multiple-source Data Collection and Processing into a Graph Database Supporting Cultural Heritage Applications.”
J. Comput. Cult. Herit. 14, 4, Article 55 (July 2021), 27 pages.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3465741
2020
“Emotion Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives”
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 7, (2020)
DOI=10.3389/frobt.2020.532279
“Where to Next? The Impact of COVID-19 on Human-Robot Interaction Research”
J. Hum.-Robot Interact. 10, 1, Article 1 (June 2020), 7 pages.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3405450
“An Enterprise Rights Management System for On-the-Field Maintenance Facilities”
IEEE Access, 8, 95987-95996
“The Secret Life of Robots: Perspectives and Challenges for Robot’s Behaviours During Non-interactive Tasks”
Int J of Soc Robotics (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00650-z
“Wearable Brain-Computer Interface instrumentation for robot-based rehabilitation by Augmented Reality”
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
doi: 10.1109/TIM.2020.2970846
“Emotional and Behavioural Distraction by a Social Robot for Children Anxiety Reduction During Vaccination”
Int J of Soc Robotics (2020)
doi:10.1007/s12369-019-00616-w
“The Role of Personality Factors and Empathy in the Acceptance and Performance of a Social Robot for Psychometric Evaluations”
Robotics. 2020; 9(2):39
“Working together: a DBN approach for individual and group activity recognition”
J Ambient Intell Human Comput (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-020-01851-0
2019
“Bach: Grand challenge on breast cancer histology images”
Medical image analysis, 56, 122-139
“Off-line enterprise rights management leveraging biometric key binding and secure hardware”
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 10(7), 2883-2894
“A deep learning approach for breast invasive ductal carcinoma detection and lymphoma multi-classification in histological images”
IEEE Access, 7, 44709-44720
“A hand-based biometric system in visible light for mobile environments”
Information Sciences, 479, 472-485
“Better Alone than in Bad Company: Effects of Incoherent Non-Verbal Emotional Cues for a Humanoid Robot”
InInteraction Studies 20(3) pp. 487-508 (2019), John Benjamins,
doi=doi.org/10.1075/is.18066.ros
“User Profiling and Behavioral Adaptation for HRI: A Survey”
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2017, issn:0167-8655,
doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2017.06.002.
2018
“Socially Assistive Robot for Providing Recommendations: Comparing a Humanoid Robot with a Mobile Application”
Int J of Soc Robotics 10(2): 265-278 (2018)
doi.org:10.1007/s12369-018-0469-4
“An Altruistic-Based Utility Function for Group Recommendation”
Trans. Computational Collective Intelligence (28) 25-47 (2018).
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78301-7_2
“A web-based multi-agent decision support system for a city-oriented management of cruise arrivals”
Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management,
issn:1099-1174, doi:10.1002/isaf.1406.
2017
“Special Issue on User Profiling and Behavior Adaptation for Human-Robot Interaction”
Pattern Recognition Letters 99(Supplement C), pp.1-2, 2017,
issn:0167-8655, doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2017.06.020.
“Recommendation in museums: paths, sequences, and group satisfaction maximization”
Multimedia Tools and Applications 76(24), Dec 2017, pp. 26031-26055,
issn:1573-7721, doi:10.1007/s11042-017-4869-5.
“A comparison of two preference elicitation approaches for museum recommendations”
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience29(11),
issn:1532-0634, doi:10.1002/cpe.4100, 2017
“Supervisory Control of Multiple Robots Through Group Communication”
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 9(1), pp. 56-67, ISSN: 2379-8920, doi:10.1109/TCDS.2016.2606562, March, 2017
2016
“Experimenting WNN support in object tracking systems”
Neurocomputing(183), pp. 79-89, ISSN: 0925-2312,
doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2015.09.117, 2016
2015
“Engineering Central Pattern Generated Behaviors for the Deployment of Robotic Systems”
Neurocomputing 170, pp. 98-112, ISSN: 0925-2312,
doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2015.03.094, 2015
“Agents and multi-agent systems: From objects to agents – Guest Editorial”
Intelligenza Artificiale 9(2), 129-130, ISSN: 1724-8035,
doi:10.3233/IA-150083, 2015
“QoS-aware task distribution to a team of robots: an healthcare case study”
Intelligenza Artificiale 9(2), 179-192, ISSN: 1724-8035,
doi:10.3233/IA-150087, 2015
“Dominance Weighted Social Choice Functions for Group Recommendations”
Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal 4(1), 65-79, ISSN: 2255-2863,
doi:10.14201/ADCAIJ2015416579, 2015
2014
“An Attentional Approach to Human-Robot Interactive Manipulation”
International Journal of Social Robotics 6(4), Springer Netherlands pp. 533-553, 2014,
doi: 10.1007/s12369-014-0236-0
“The Role of Intrinsic Motivations in Attention Allocation and Shifting”
Front. Psychol. 5(273), ISSN: 1664-1078,
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00273.
“Analyzing Negotiation Trends in a QoS-aware Market of Services”
SCS M&S Magazine, Vol. IV. Issue 3,
ISSN: 2168-703X, December 2014
2010
“An Adaptive Oscillatory Neural Architecture for Controlling Behavior Based Robotic Systems”
Neurocomputing 73(16-18), pp. 2829-2836 (2010)
“Periodic activations of behaviours and emotional adaptation in behaviour-based robotics”
Connection Science 22(3), pp. 197-213 (2010)