One of the main challenges of social robots concerns the ability to guarantee robust,
contextualized and intelligent behavior capable of supporting continuous and personalized …

The synergic orchestration of the cognitive and psychological dimensions characterizes
human intelligence. Accordingly, carefully designing this mechanism in artificial intelligence …

A big challenge in human–robot interaction (HRI) is the design of autonomous robots that
collaborate effectively with humans, exposing behaviors similar to those exhibited by …

Robots show up frequently in new applications in our daily lives where they interact more
and more closely with the human user. Despite a long history of research, existing cognitive …

Socially assistive robotics aims at providing users with continuous support and personalized
assistance, through appropriate social interactions. The design of robots capable of …

Humans have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize surrounding entities and have
always been fascinated by the creation of machines endowed with human-inspired …

Recently, there has been a growing body of research that supports the effectiveness of using
non-pharmacological cognitive and social training interventions to reduce the decline of or …

The deployment of autonomous robots capable to both socially interact and proactively offer
support to human users in a common life scenario remains challenging despite the recent …

In this paper, we present CAIO, a Cognitive and Affective Interaction-Oriented architecture
for social human-robot interactions (HRI), allowing robots to reason on mental states …

The cooperation between humans and robots is becoming increasingly important in our
society. Consequently, there is a growing interest in the development of models that can …