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September 10, 2025 – 14:30 – 18:30, Room 6 – Floor 1°, Centro Direzionale, Isola C4 – ICSR WS09
14:30 Welcoming speech by organizers
Session 1: Robot companionship
14:35 Invited Speaker: Paolo Dario – The history and the future of robot companionship
15:05 Filippo Cavallo – Storytime with NAO: When the Kids Talk and the Robot Pays Attention
15:15 Alberto Pirni – Ethically Rethinking Human-Robot Interaction in the Framework of Elderly Society: the TRI-TECH PROJECT
15:25 Q&A
15:40 Coffée break
Session 2: The TRI-TECH Project
16:05 Diego Reforgiato, Daniele Riboni, Lorenzo Boi, Federica Casula and Silvia M. Massa – LLM-Powered Companion Robots in Elderly Care: Technical and Ethical Perspectives
16:15 Diego Reforgiato, Daniele Riboni, Lorenzo Boi, Federica Casula and Silvia M. Massa – Exploring Ethical and Technical Dimensions of Companion Robots in Elderly Society: The TRI-TECH Experience in Cagliari
16:25 Elena Ricci – Exploring Ethical and Technical Dimensions of Companion Robots in Elderly Society: The TRI-TECH Experience in Pisa
16:35 Q&A
Session 3: Contributed Papers
16:50 Triniti Armstrong, Ross Sowell, William D. Smart, and Naomi T. Fitter – Explaining Robots with Edutainment
17:00 Hesham M. Shehata and Mohsen Farid – Advancing Mental Health Support with AI Social Robots: Scenario-Driven Communication Using Large Language Models
17:10 Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock – Agents of Conversation: Grounding and Cognitive Architectures
17:20 Domenico Palmisano, Giuseppe Palestra, Berardina Nadja De Carolis – Enhancing Social Robots through Resilient AI
Session 4: Focus on multi-party interaction
17:30 Invited speaker: Giovanna Varni – All-human teams first: hints for Human-Robot Teaming
18:00 Panel session: Marlena R. Fraune, Giovanna Varni, Diego Reforgiato, Alberto Pirni – Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction in Vulnerable Contexts: Mental Models, Trust, and Ethics
18:30 Acknowledgements and closing remarks