09:30-10:30 Keynote #1: Josie Hughes. "Designing Robots for Human Interaction".
11:00-12:15 Oral Session #1: Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration. Chair: Alessandro Giusti.
11:00 Samuele Dell'Oca, Davide Matteri, Elias Montini, Vincenzo Cutrona, Zeki Mert Barut and Andrea Bettoni. "Improving Collaborative Robotics: Insights On The Impact of Human Intention Prediction".
11:15 Andrea Ruo, Simone Arreghini, Luca Capra, Rosario De Chiara, Valeria Di Pasquale, Alessandro Giusti, Cristina Iani, Antonio Paolillo, Dominic Petrak, Alexander Plaum, Megha Quamara, Lorenzo Sabattini, Viktor Schmuck, Paolo Servillo, Francesco Zurolo and Valeria Villani. "Systematic analysis of requirements for socially acceptable service robots".
11:30 Filippo Favali, Viktor Schmuck, Valeria Villani and Oya Celiktutan. "Towards More Expressive Human-Robot Interactions: Combining Latent Representations and Diffusion Models for Co-Speech Gesture Generation".
11:45 Simone Arreghini, Antonio Paolillo, Gabriele Abbate and Alessandro Giusti. "Hearing the Robot’s Mind: Sonification for Explicit Feedback in Human-Robot Interaction".
12:00 Fatima Ayoub, Aphra Kerr and Rudi Villing. "An Exploration of Trust in Human-Robot Interaction: From Measurement to Repair Strategies and Design Principles".
12:15-12:30 Technical Talk #1: PAL Robotics. Lorenzo Ferrini. "ROS for social robotics".
13:30-14:30 Keynote #2: Abderrahmane Kheddar. "Are Humanoids Ready to Assist Persons in Need?".
14:30-15:30 Oral Session #2: Planning and Control of Robots with Humans. Chair: Edoardo Lamon.
14:30 Paola Carboni, Giulia Nardini, Elisa Santini, Giovanbattista Gravina, Tommaso Belvedere, Michele Cipriano, Francesco D'Orazio and Giuseppe Oriolo. "A Vision-Based Control Scheme for Safe Navigation in a Crowd".
14:45 Tom van Eemeren, Koen de Vos, Pieter Pauwels and Elena Torta. "Semantic-aware motion planning based on deep reinforcement learning and building digital twins".
15:00 Andrea Coppari, Silvia Proia, Andrea Ruo, Filippo Favali, Lorenzo Sabattini, Cristian Secchi, Valeria Villani, Marco Piazzola and Luca Capra. "A Large Language Model-Based Motion Planning for Human-Robot Interaction: An Experimental Case Study".
15:15 Hui-Ting Hong, Chu-Yin Chen and Abderrahmane Kheddar. "Integrating Transformer-Based AI-Generated Dance Movements into HRP-4 for Human-Robot Artistic Collaboration".
15:30-15:45 Technical Talk #2: Franka Robotics. Marius Winkelmeier. "The Dual Role of Robots as Input Device and Embodiment for Human Skills".
16:30-18:00 Poster Session #1.
P1 Elena Govi, Daniele Bernardini, Lukas Dirnberger, Pietro Orlandi, Giorgia Franchini, Cristina Piazza, Marko Bertogna and Marco Caccamo. "Stereo Hierarchical Attention for End to End 6D Pose Detection".
P2 Arturo Maiani, Mirko Nava, Johannes Roser, Lukas Dirnberger, Daniele Bernardini, Alessandro Giusti and Antonio Paolillo. "6D Pose Refinement via Uncertainty-Aware Self-Supervised Learning".
P3 Simone Arreghini, Nicholas Carlotti, Mirko Nava, Alessandro Giusti, and Antonio Paolillo. "Now I See You: Self-Supervised Learning of Omnidirectional Human Motion Estimation".
P4 Leandro Soares Guedes and Monica Landoni. "Integrating Dancing Robots in Intellectual Disability Support: Balancing Technology and Human Interaction".
P5 John Bateman, Andy Tyrrell and Jihong Zhu. "Learning Robot Motion from Subotimal Demonstrations".
P6 Francesco Missiroli, Enrica Tricomi and Lorenzo Masia. "Enhancing Grasping Function via Force Myography-Controlled Exoglove".
P7 Enrica Tricomi, Xiaohui Zhang, Francesco Missiroli and Lorenzo Masia. "Enhancing Walking Efficiency in Older Adults with a Soft Wearable Hip Exosuit".
P8 Boris Abramovic. "Personalized Social Robots: the Ethical Issues and Risks".
P9 Alessandra Bernardini, Roberto Meattini, Alex Pasquali, Gianluca Palli and Claudio Melchiorri. "Hidden Markov Models Based Encoding of Tactile Sensors Data For Fine Grip Force Regulation In sEMG-Driven Robot Hand Control: A Pilot Study".
P10 Enrico Saccon, Edoardo Lamon, Daniele Fontanelli, Matteo Saveriano, Marco Roveri and Luigi Palopoli. "Knowledge Management for Robotic Applications via Probabilistic Logic Languages".
P11 Luca Beber, Edoardo Lamon, Davide Nardi, Daniele Fontanelli, Matteo Saveriano and Luigi Palopoli. "Safe Ultrasound through Passive Variable Impedance Control based on Soft Body Viscoelastic Estimation".
P12 Francesco Huber, Simone Arreghini, Alessandro Giusti and Antonio Paolillo. "Social Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments using Reinforcement Learning".
09:00-10:00 Keynote #3: Cosimo Della Santina.
10:30-11:45 Oral Session #3: AI and Machine Learning for Human-Friendly Robotics. Chair: Cristina Piazza.
10:30 Gabriele Abbate, Alessandro Giusti, Luca Randazzo and Antonio Paolillo. "Learning Hand State Estimation for a Light Exoskeleton".
10:45 Daniele Bernardini, Patricia Capsi-Morales, Lukas Dirnberger, Oscar Amo Grau, Marco Caccamo and Cristina Piazza. "Exploring Deep Learning Grasping Models with Soft Anthropomorphic Robotic Hands".
11:00 Nana Obayashi, Yi-Shiun Wu and Josie Hughes. "Improving the Fluency of Robot-Human Interaction through Embodied Expression of Emotion via Foundation Models".
11:15 Rita Molle, Christian Tamantini, Alessia Paglialonga, Davide Simeone, Leonardo Fu, Matteo Tortora, Clemente Lauretti, Giulio Iannello, Paolo Soda, Rosa Sicilia, Fabrizio Dabbene and Loredana Zollo. "AI-CARE: Artificial Intelligence for Customized Adaptive Robot-aided Rehabilitation".
11:30 Semih Orhan, Elena Torta and Ömür Arslan. "3D Oriented Human Bounding Box Estimation via Monocular Vision and Auto-Labeling by Large Learning Models".
11:45-12:00 Technical Talk #3: Enchanted Tools. Brieuc Colas and Davide Zappetti. "Enchant your HRI research: the Mirokai introduction".
13:00-14:00 Keynote #4: Silvia Rossi. "Towards Personalization and Adaptation in Socially Assistive Robotics".
14:00-15:15 Oral Session #4: Insights from the PERSEO project. Chair: Alessandra Rossi.
14:00 Mehdi Hellou, Samuele Vinanzi and Angelo Cangelosi. "A Review of Theory of Mind and Robotics: Mind Reading in Human-Robot Interaction for Proactive Social Robots".
14:15 Camille Vindolet, Aulia Djamal, J. Rogelio Guadarrama and Gordon Cheng. "Factors influencing human trust towards robots: a scoping review".
14:30 Muhammad Aitsam, Dimitri Lacroix, Gaurvi Goyal, Chiara Bartolozzi and Alessandro Di Nuovo. "Measuring Cognitive Load Through Event Camera Based Human-Pose Estimation".
14:45 Niyati Rawal, Rahul Singh Maharjan, Marta Romeo, Roberto Bigazzi, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara and Angelo Cangelosi. "Intelligent Multimodal Artificial Agents that Talk and Express Emotions".
15:00 Imene Tarakli and Alessandro Di Nuovo. "Personalised Interactive Reinforcement Learning with Multi-Task Pre-training".
16:00-17:30 Poster Session #2.
P1 Francesco Vigni and Silvia Rossi. "The pursuit of socially competent robots".
P2 Andriy Sorokin. "World Model of the Robotic Environment from Sequence Reconstruction".
P3 Georgios Angelopoulos, Alessandra Rossi and Silvia Rossi. "Unmasking the Robot's Behavior: Strategies for Enhancing the Transparency of Robots in Human-Robot Interaction".
P4 Lorenzo Ferrini, Jozsef Palmieri, Alessandro Marino and Séverin Lemaignan. "reMap: Spatially-grounded and Queryable Semantics for Interactive Robots".
P5 Esteve Valls Mascaro and Dongheui Lee. "Know your limits! Optimize the behavior of bipedal robots through self-awareness".
P6 Rocco Limongelli. "Balancing Innovation and Regulation: Social Robots and the AI Act’s Prohibition".
P7 Dimitri Lacroix, Ricarda Wullenkord and Friederike Eyssel. "Measuring trust in HRI: A call to action for the development and validation of new instruments".
P8 Vasileios Mizaridis, Stratos Arampatzis and Silvia Rossi. "Semantic Exploration for Service Robots".
Congratulations to
P. Carboni, G. Nardini, E. Santini, G. Gravina,
T. Belvedere, M. Cipriano, F. D'Orazio, and G. Oriolo
for winning the Best Paper Award for their paper entitled
"Vision-Based Control Scheme for Safe Navigation in a Crowd"
The 19 regular papers are published in the book series Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR, volume 35). You can find the proceedings at the following link.