Publications

A complete list of my published articles, conference papers, and workshop contributions.

Of Dogs and Robots: More Than Human Interactions at Play?

Correia, Filipa and Gena, Cristina and Lillo, Alberto and Lossi, Laura and Mattutino, Claudio and Nisi, Valentina and Pigureddu, Linda and Vernero, Fabiana
Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
•2026

Robots adapting to dogs: a new frontier?

Paloka, Angelo and Lillo, Alberto and Vernero, Fabiana and Correia, Filipa and Nisi, Valentina and Lossi, Laura and Gena, Cristina
Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
•2025

6th Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR)

Cocchella, Francesca and Lillo, Alberto and Palestra, Giuseppe and Raggioli, Luca and Scorza Azzar\`{a}, Giulia and Gena, Cristina
Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
•2025

vNAO: Virtual NAO as a Cognitive Companion for the Elderly

Lillo, Alberto and Mattutino, Claudio and Gena, Cristina
Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
•2025

Emotion Alignment in Human-Robot Interaction: Effects on Communication Styles and Persuasion

Buracchio, Giorgia and Callegari, Ariele and Donini, Massimo and Gena, Cristina and Lieto, Antonio and Lillo, Alberto and Mattutino, Claudio and Mazzei, Alessandro and Pigureddu, Linda and Striani, Manuel and others
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
•2025

Social and Telepresence Robots for Accessibility and Inclusion in Small Museums

Balossino, Nello and Damiano, Rossana and Gena, Cristina and Lillo, Alberto and Marras, Anna Maria and Mattutino, Claudio and Pizzo, Antonio and Prin, Alessia and Vernero, Fabiana
arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.05946
•2025

Using the Pepper Robot to Support Sign Language Communication

Botta, Giulia and Botta, Marco and Gena, Cristina and Mazzei, Alessandro and Donini, Massimo and Lillo, Alberto
arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09889
•2025

The Impact of Adaptive Emotional Alignment on Mental State Attribution and User Empathy in HRI

Buracchio, Giorgia and Callegari, Ariele and Donini, Massimo and Gena, Cristina and Lieto, Antonio and Lillo, Alberto and Mattutino, Claudio and Mazzei, Alessandro and Pigureddu, Linda and Striani, Manuel and Vernero, Fabiana
2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
•2025

Human Robot Interaction through an ontology-based dialogue engine

Saracco, Alessandro and Lillo, Alberto and Stranisci, Marco and Gena, Cristina
Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
•2024

Investigating the relationship between empathy and attribution of mental states to robots

Lillo, Alberto and Saracco, Alessandro and Siletto, Elena and Mattutino, Claudio and Gena, Cristina
arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.01019
•2024

Empathy and Emotion in Social Robots

Lillo, Alberto
CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
•2023

Can empathy affect the attribution of mental states to robots?

Gena, Cristina and Manini, Francesca and Lieto, Antonio and Lillo, Alberto and Vernero, Fabiana
Proceedings of the 25th international conference on multimodal interaction
•2023

An end-user coding-based environment for programming an educational affective robot

Gena, Cristina and Mattutino, Claudio and Mosca, Enrico and Lillo, Alberto
arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.06439
•2022

An affective and adaptive educational robot

Gena, Cristina and Lillo, Alberto and Mattutino, Claudio and Mosca, Enrico
arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.10222
•2022

Wolly: an affective and adaptive educational robot

Gena, Cristina and Lillo, Alberto and Mattutino, Claudio and Mosca, Enrico
Adjunct Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
•2022