PROGRAM 3

09:15 – 10:00, Auditorium – Floor -1
Physical AI
In today’s robot revolution a record 3.1 million robots are now working in factories, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machines impact our lives in countless other ways—improving the precision of surgeons, cleaning our homes, extending our reach to distant worlds—and we’re on the cusp of even more exciting opportunities. Future machines, enabled by recent advances in AI, will come in diverse forms and materials, embodying a new level of physical intelligence. Physical Intelligence is achieved when AI’s power to understand text, images, signals, and other information is used to make physical machines such as robots intelligent. However, a critical challenge remains: balancing AI’s capabilities with sustainable energy usage. To achieve effective physical intelligence, we need energy-efficient AI systems that can run reliably on robots, sensors, and other edge devices. In this talk I will discuss the energy challenges of foundational AI models, I will introduce several state space models and explain how they achieve energy efficiency, and I will talk about how state space models enable physical intelligence. 

During Coffee&Lunch breaks (3rd floor, Panels will be available from the 8:00. Poster can be attached at the beginning of the day and removed at the end of the day)

1- RoboTale: Leveraging Large Language Models for Generative Storytelling and Gestural Interaction on a Humanoid Robot for Children’s Hospitals
Barrera Valls, P., Øllgaard, J., Sudermann, T., Stoyanova Wolf, A., Kenn Rasmussen, R., Bodenhagen, L., Palinko, O.

2– Rethinking the Evaluation of Non-Stationary Dueling Bandits for Human-Robot Interaction
Schneider, S.

3- Cheerbot: a socially assistive robot for workplace wellbeing
Webb, H., Barnard, P., Caleb-Solly, P., Cameron, A., Craigon, P., Lancaster, K., McClaughlin, E.

4- Wearable Social Robots in Space
Siegmann, T., Bendel, O.

5- Attitudes Toward AI
Vänni, K., Tanhua-Piiroinen, E., Syvänen, A., Viteli, J.

6- Exploring Social Robots for Pediatric Asthma Education: A Pilot Study
Pasternak, K., Foronda, C., Downs, C., Visser, U.

7- Scaffolding Reflection, Not Generation: Exploring Non-Directive Social Robot Interaction in Early-Stage Ideation
Boribun, W., Heidmann, F.

8– Facilitating the Emergence of Assistive Robots to Support Frailty: Psychosocial and Environmental Realities
Higgins, A., Caleb-Solly, P., Potter, S., Dragone, M., Hawley, M., Amirabdollahian, F., Di Nuovo, A.

9- Examining the legibility of humanoid robot arm movements in a pointing task
Lúčny, A., Antonj, M., Mazzola, C., Hornackova, H., Faric, A., Vavrecka, M., Malinovska, K., Farkas, I.

10- AI Pedagogy: Dialogic Social Learning for Artificial Agents
Patania, S., Annese, L., Koyuturk, C., Ruggeri, A., Ognibene, D.

11- Beyond Detection – Orchestrating Human-Robot-Robot Assistance via an Internet of Robotic Things Paradigm
Hunt, J., Fujii, K., Magassouba, A., Caleb-Solly, P.

12- Towards Expert Human-Robot Interactions Using Knowledge Graphs
Wilcock, G., Jokinen, K., Thankachan, B., Turunen, M.

13- LLMs and Humanoid Robot Diversity: The Pose Generation Challenge
Catalini, R., Biagi, F., Salici, G., Borghi, G., Vezzani, R., Biagiotti, L.

14- Identifying Public Engagement with Autonomous Art Through Human Pose and Speed Detection
Wang, T., Camara, F., Woolley, R., Reed, D.

15- A Cognitive Social Robot in Manufacturing
Anastasiou, D., Gaffinet, B., Naudet, Y.

16- Pitch Training with Furhat. Exploring Perceptions and Effects of a Social Robot in Entrepreneurship Education
Buchem, I., Olteanu, Y., Bonga, G.

17- A Progressive Multimodal Robot System for Emotional Learning in Autistic Children
Wu, Y., Kaur, M., Yuan, F.

18- Breathe with Me: A Breathing Exercise Guided by the Robot NAO Reduces Stress
Buchem, I., Kuehne, K.

19- Come Closer: A Social Bench to study Children Robot Interaction
Cocchella, F., Mongile, S., Pusceddu, G., Andrighetto, L., Rea, F., Sciutti, A.

20- Conceptual Framework for Autonomous Coaching in Orthopaedic Rehabilitation with Socially Assistive Robots
Tamantini, C., Umbrico, A., Fabrizio, A., Carnevale, A., Schena, E., Longo, U., Orlandini, A.

21- HRI-based Interview Training using the FurHat Robot
Moore, R., Jones, A.

22- Exploring New Vitality Forms in Human-Robot Interaction
Carlesso, S., Abdul Kader, M., Di Cesare, G., Sciutti, A., Niewiadomski, R.

23- Impact of Gaze-Based Interaction and Augmentation on Human-Robot Collaboration in Critical Tasks
Jena, A., Reitmann, S., Anna Topp, E.

24- EMOROBCARE: A Low-Cost Social Robot for Supporting Children with Autism in Therapeutic Settings
Cooper, S., Pou, B., Mayoral-Macau, A., Redondo, A., Rios, D., Ros, R.

25- When a question isn’t fair: Grounding perceptions of nonhuman agents’ (un)fairness in a quiz game experience
Bäckström, A., Ekenberg, W., Kaptelinin, V.


26- Exploring Emotional Support through Interaction with a Social Robot for Individuals with a Visual and Cognitive Impairment: a Pilot Study
Hobbelink, V., Lischer, D., van Zeeland, M., Gevaert, R., van der Hout, V., Smakman, M.

27- A Path to Gradual Individual Experience and Recollection for Social Robots based on a Cognitive Architecture
Sievers, T., Russwinkel, N.

28- SitBot: A posture-mimicking robot to reduce slouching
Wang, C., Wikström, A., Pettersson, L., Sarker, A., De Cet, M., Diapoulis, G., Obaid, M., Torre, I.

10:30 – 11:30, Auditorium Floor -1
Emotionally Adaptive Conversational Models for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction Using Proximal Policy Optimization
Jair, P., Park, C.

Individual Differences in Social and Emotional Responses to Robotic Dining Companions: Toward Personalized Interaction Design
Fong, H., Soufargi, S., Li, Y., Mancini, M., Niewiadomski, R.

Affective Communication via Haptic Technology: A Usability Study of a Huggable Device for Older Adults
Nunez, E., Radosz-Knawa, Z., Kołbasa, A., Zguda, P., Kamińska, A., Kukier, T., Hirokawa, M., Suzuki, K., Indurkhya, B.

Multimodal Framework for Adaptive HRI via Dynamic Engagement and Affective Feedback
Girijadevi Radhakrishnan, G.

User Concerns Regarding Social Robots for Mood Regulation: A Case Study on the “Sunday Blues”
Peng, Z., Xu, J., Hu, J., Xue, H., Kolks, L., Desmet, P.

WS01 – Social Robotics Girl Becomes a Social Robot: A Hands-On Workshop to Design and Construct Physical Embodiments for the SRG Chatbot GPT
10:30 – 18:00, Room 2 – Floor 1°
Organizers: Oliver Bendel, Tamara Siegmann, Leo Angelo Cabibihan, John-John Cabibihan

WS02 – RAFFI-el: Workshop on Robotics and Arts for the Future of the Food Industry
10:30 – 18:00, Room 3 – Floor 1°
Organizers: Francesco Semeraro, Angelo Cangelosi, Tatiana Efremenko, Kosta Jovanović, Petia Radeva

WS03 – HYDROTHERABOTS: HYDROTHERApy using RoBOTS, AI, and VR Technologies for Physical Rehabilitation
14:30 – 18:00, Room 5 – Floor 1°
Organizers: Gokce Nur Yilmaz, Kutluk Bilge Arikan, John-John Cabibihan

WS04 – Human-Centered Robotics and Cognitive Abilities
10:30 – 14:30 Room 5 – Floor 1°
Organizers: Ganix Lasa, Maitane Mazmel, Nagore Osa

WS05 – Workshop on Social Robotics for Human-Centered Assistive and Rehabilitation AI (a Fit4MedRob event)
10:30 – 18:00, Room 4 – Floor 1°
Organizers: Andrea Orlandini, Christian Tamantini, Silvia Rossi, Luigi D’Arco

WS06 – FoMoSR: Foundation models for Social Robotics
10:30 – 14:30, Room 8 bis – Floor 1°
Organizers: Federico Tavella, Wenjie Huang, Angelo Cangelosi

WS07 – Cognitive Load and Engagement in Human-Robot Collaboration: From Robots in Hazardous Environments to Educational Applications
10:30 – 14:30, Room 7 – Floor 1°
Organizers: Adriana Tapus, Xiaoxuan HEI, Juan Jose Garcia Cardenas

WS08 – Beyond Words: The Role of Touch in Social Robotics
14:30 – 18:00, Room 7 – Floor 1°
Organizers: Adriana Tapus, Patrick Hénaff, Adnan Saood

WS09 – ASIMOV: Adaptive Social Interaction based on user’s Mental mOdels and behaVior in HRI
14:30 – 18:00, Room 6 – Floor 1°,
Organizers: Salvatore M. Anzalone, Giuseppe Palestra, Carlotta Bettencourt, Elena Ricci, Alberto Pirni, Maryam Alimardani, Mariacarla Staffa

WS10 – Social Robots Unboxed – What Do We Want from the Robots?
14:30 – 18:00, Room 8 bis – Floor 1°
Organizers: Minsu Jang, Ho Seok Ahn, Ross Mead, Yunsung Kim, Sonya Kwak

WS11 -SCOPE-HRI: Sensing and COgnitive Principles in Embodied HRI
10:30 – 14:30, Room 6 – Floor 1°
Organizers: Dimitra Anastasiou, Jauwairia Nasir, Ilaria Torre, Mohammad Obaid, Thomas Sievers, Nele Russwinkel

Plenary Meeting: 10:30, Lab Room INF. 1 – Floor 2°
@HOME: 10:30 – 18:00, Lab Room INF.1 – Floor 2° – Set up day
@HACKATON: 10:30 – 18:00, Lab Room INF.2 – Floor 2
10:30 – 14:30 Instructions on how to use the robots
14:30 – 18:00 Set Up Day

11:30 – 12:30, Auditorium Floor -1
Social Robot Assistive Intervention for Science Students to Prevent Laboratory Accidents
Hasnine, M., Wang, Y., Sato, Y., Indurkhya, B., Ahmed, M.

Remote vs. Presence Laboratories in Human-Robot Interaction with Social Robots: A Study on Task Performance
Peters, C., Blum, K., Al Krad, I., Moraes, P., Bedin Grando, R., Gerndt, R., Doernbach, T.

Do Social Robots Motivate Students Like Humans? Pande, A., Gosala, B., Gupta, M., Mishra, D.

More Than a Tool: A Multi-Method Exploration of Contextual Social Robot in German Secondary Schools
Jansen, N., Kubullek, A., Dogangün, A.

Children’s Questions to Robots as an Educational Opportunity – Design Implications
Wróbel, A., Zguda, P., Indurkhya, B.

13:30 – 14:30, Auditorium Floor -1
AwaR(e)obot: Towards Designing and Generating Context-Aware Companion Robot Behavior Using LLMs
Ahmed, E., Hamari, J., Buruk, O.

Message for You: Observing the Effects of a Social Robot’s Interruptions during an Office Task
Ganal, E., Steinhaeusser, S., Niebling, F., Lugrin, B.

“Who Ignores You Matters” – Asymmetrical Team Dynamics in Human–Robot Collaboration
Arlinghaus, C., Mambilla, K., Maier, G.

Exploring LLM-generated Culture-specific Affective Human-Robot Tactile Interaction
ren, Q., Belpaeme, T.

Knowledge-based design requirements for persuasive generative social robots in eldercare
Vonschallen, S., Zumthor, E., Simon, M., Schmiedel, T., Eyssel, F.

14:30 – 15:30, Auditorium Floor -1
A Learning Based Model Reference Adaptive Controller Implemented on a Prosthetic Hand Wrist
Sulaiman, S., Gohari, M., Schetter, F., Ficuciello, F.

Design and Optimization of a Sliding Mode Controller for a Modified EduExo Upper Limb Exoskeleton
Heidari, H., Gohari, M., Ficuciello, F.

Human–Robot Co-Design for Cleaning: Leveraging Vision Language Model and Multi-Objective Optimization for Adaptive Layouts
Samarakoon, S., Muthugala, M., Sachinthana, W., Elara, M.

Efficient Path Planner via Predator Dominance and Prey Approach for a Vector Surveillance Robot
Veerajagadheswar, P., Yaw Sang, A., Elara, M., Vu Le, A.

It’s the Way You Move: Efficient Movement Shapes Robot Perception Across Embodiments
Nikolovska, K., Pohl, J., Hommel, B., Kappas, A., Maurelli, F.

16:00 – 17:00, Auditorium Floor -1
Context is Cue-cial
Chowdhury, A., Carrasco, A., Müller, F., Ahtinen, A., Väänänen, K., Schmidt, A., Leusmann, J.

I Can See All of You: Supporting User Awareness with Augmented Field-of-View for Remote Collaborative Work
Suzuki, R., Takao, M., Shino, K., Kobayashi, Y., Iwata, K., Satoh, T., Satoh, Y., Uchida, N., Yamazaki, A., Yamazaki, K., Bergmann, F., Pitsch, K.

A Bayesian Neural Networks Approach for Spatial Relations Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration
McCarthy, M., Dao, M., Yan, F.

Social Robot Haru Imitating Human Gaze for Attention and Turn-taking Coordination in Multi-party Conversation
Tian, L., Chen, Y., Hu, M., Nichols, E., Gomez, R., Li, G.

Modeling Social Robot Navigation: From Human Observation to Proxemics-Based Scenario Simulation
Burdman, R., Nahum, E., Edan, Y., Oron-Gilad, T.

17:00 – 18:00, Auditorium Floor -1
Determinants of Attitudes Toward Social Robots – The Role of Contact, Ethical Concerns, and Beliefs in Human Uniqueness
Maj, K., Bekier, P., Łukasik, A.

Exploring Mentalising Tendencies Toward a Non-Humanoid Robot in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study
Larghi, S., Caldiroli, C., Lapomarda, L., Datteri, E.

Gender and Technology Knowledge Role on Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction
Maroto Gómez, M., Álvarez Arias, S., Carrasco Martínez, S., Rodríguez Huelves, J., Segura Bencomo, A., Castro González, Á.

When Robots Say No: Temporal Trust Recovery Through Explanation
Webb, N., Huang, Z., Milivojevic, S., Baber, C., Hunt, E.

09:15 – 10:00, Auditorium Floor -1
Visualizing the past: emotional and cognitive impacts of AI-Generated Images in Human-Robot Interaction
Amaro, I., Rossi, D., Della Greca, A., De Marco, F., Auriemma Citarella, A., Di Biasi, L., Tucci, C., Tortora, G.

When Robots Care: Elderly Reactions to Emotionally Intelligent Actroid-F
Huseynzade, S., Wieching, R., Ogawa, T.

A Multimodal Emotion Recognition Approach for Socially Assistive Robots
Tamantini, C., Fabrizi, M., Zollo, L., Cordella, F.

Empathy in child-robot interaction
Bruttin, M., Leisten, L., Cross, E.

Driven by Personality?
Bernotat, J., Jirak, D., Triglia, L., Rea, F., Sciutti, A.

9:15 – 12:30, Room 2 – Floor 1°
Engagement Estimation in Child-Robot Interaction via Transfer Learning from a Pre-trained Facial Emotion Recognition Model Garcia, G., Laycock, R., Perez, G., Amores, J., Álvarez-Benito, G., Castro, M., Gomez, R.
Toward Safe Child-Robot Interactions: Exploring Children’s and Parents’ Privacy Perceptions of Humanoid Social Robots Shin, J., Hamdi, A., Chen, A., Hu, Y., Zhang-Kennedy, L.
Investigating the Similarity-Attraction Effect on Personality in Human-Robot Interactions Nardelli, A., Corrao, F., Sgorbissa, A., Recchiuto, C.
Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction Through Nonverbal Communication and User Self-Efficacy Marmor, K., Leoste, J., Tolmos Rodríguez-Piñero, P.
Assessing Multimodal Context Awareness of a Social Robot in a Conversational Scenario Pallonetto, L., Esposito, R., Acampora, G., Russo, M., Trenti, F., Rossi, S.
Unfair game: how age and robot deception shape the attribution of mental states in virtual reality Misino, L., Parlangeli O., Lusuardi L., Innocenti A., Guidi S.
A Cognitive Architecture for Embodied AI based on LLM Common-sense knowledge Saladino, A., Brienza, M., Suriani, V., Bloisi, D., Iocchi, L.
Social Robots as Creative Partners: Comparing Large Language Models with Wizard-of-Oz in Human-Robot Brainstorming Pruss, E., Vrins, A., Ceccato, C., Prinsen, J., Alimardani, M., de Wit, J., de Rooij, A.
Towards Memory-Driven Agentic AI for Human Activity Recognition Shahabian alashti, M., Ghamati, K., Samani, H., zaraki, A.
Act-it-Out Method for Developing Robot Arm Actions and Semantic Commands Sanchez, L., Patil, S., Knight, H., Jain, C., He, B.
Who Sees What? Structured Thought-ActionSequences for Epistemic Reasoning in LLM Annese, L., Patania, S., Rossi, S., Foulsham, T., Serino, S., Ognibene, D., Ruggeri, A.
In the Comfort Zone: How Social Robots Learn to Adapt Mongile, S., Tanevska, A., Rea, F., Sciutti, A.

9:15 – 12:30, Room 3 – Floor 1°
Social Interaction with Autonomous Art: Combining Social Analysis and Computer Vision Reed, D., Camara, F., Wang, T.
Bringing robots on the stage: a co-designed multiplatform robot control system for theatrical performances Derri, A., Filacanapa, G., Magris, E., Anzalone, S.
Towards a Customizable dramaturgical System Peng, Y., Chen, J., Sun, S., Plassard, D.
First Encounter Dramaturgy with Multi-Robot Swarms (Without Mentioning Robots!) Walton, R., Vella, E., Williams, D., Đurić, G., Michalewicz, A., Green, J., Chapman, A.
Charting the Ecosystem of Trust in Cat Royale Benford, S., Barnard, P., Sharples, S., Webb, H., Mancini, C., Kucukyilmaz, A., Castle-Green, S., Schneiders, E., Ngo, V., Chamberlain, A., Fischer, J., Salimbeni, G., Tandavanitj, N., Adams, M., Row Farr, J.
Student’s acceptance of social robots: a study with Pepper on inclusive mathematics learning through storytelling Vitale, A., Dello Iacono, U., Carbonaro, B., Cordasco, G., Esposito, A.
The Spice of Surprise Lösel, G.
Robot design and inclusive practices: a pilot study on gender equity in STEM Cesaro, L., Menegatti, E.
Emotional Content in Robotic Dance Saviano, G., Villani, A., Prattichizzo, D.
“The Soul is a Verb, Not a Noun.”Bleeker, M.
OperaBot: A Performer Led Robot Theatre Collaboration Swaminathan, J., Alvarado, D., Knight, H.
Theatre in the Loop: A Rehearsal-Based, Collaborative Workflow for Expressive Robotic Behaviours Panagiotidis, P., Ngo, V., myatt, S., Patel, R., Ramchurn, R., Chamberlain, A., Kucukyilmaz, A.

@HOME: 10:30 – 18:00, Lab Room INF.1 – Floor 2°
10:30 -12:00 Set Up Day
13:30 – 14:00 Talk by Katarzyna Pasternak ( University of Miami) about Robocup
14:00 – 16:45 Demonstrantions
16:45 -17:00 Final comments and results

@HACKATON: 10:30 – 18:00 , Lab Room INF.2 – Floor 2°
10:30 – 12:30 Set Up Day
13:30 – 14:00 Talk by Kasia about RoboCup
14:00 – 16:45 Demonstrations 16:45 – Final comments and results

During Coffee&Lunch breaks (3rd floor, Panels will be available from the 8:00. Poster can be attached at the beginning of the day and removed at the end of the day)

1- A Social Robot Conductor for Public Buses: Promoting Safety and Reducing Driver
Burden Karatas, N., Jiang, L., Yoshihara, Y., Hirota, T., Fujita, R., Tanaka, T.

2- Evaluation of Conversation Continuity through Social Experiments Using LLM for Daily Text Chats with Virtual Robots
Kanbara, M.

3- The Interaction Blueprint: A Human-Centred Design Tool for Cognitive Human–Robot Interaction
Osa, N., Lasa, G., Mazmela, M., Apraiz, A., Escallada, O.

4- Acceptability and Expectations of Social Robots in Speech and Language Therapy – A Survey
Jouaiti, M., Casagrande, E., Azizi, N.

5- SRWToolkit: An Open Source Wizard of Oz Toolkit to Create Social Robotic Avatars
Nilgar, A., Van Laerhoven, K., Kinoti, A.

6- On the Influence of Social Robots During Ethical-Decision Making: A Preliminary Study
Matarese, M., Guerrieri, V., Kahya, R., Rea, F., Sciutti, A.

7- Towards Reconfigurability of Plan-based Controllers through Metacognition
Umbrico, A., Stock, S., Atzmueller, M., Cesta, A., Foderaro, E., Hertzberg, J., Lima, O., Saborío, J., Vinci, M., Pedrocchi, N., Orlandini, A.

8- Towards Perception through Planning and Epistemic Models of Actions
Beraldo, G., Oddi, A., Rasconi, R., Orlandini, A., Umbrico, A.

9- HAMI: A Robotic Assistant for Active Hand Rehabilitation
Caballa, S., Martinez, A., Elías, D.

10- Towards Emotion-Aware and Context-Sensitive Decision-Making in Social Robotics: Insights from MUSIC4D and MHARA
Seidita, V., Giambanco, A., Sciacchitano, A., Chella, A.

11- RoboPudica: Enhancing Awareness in Human – Plant Interaction via Biomimetic Interface
Liu, H., Samani, H., Akhond, S.

12- TactiCall: ML-Powered Haptic Wristband for Alerting Hearing-Impaired Users
Niu, H., Akhond, S., Samani, H.

13- Towards a Sustainable Role for Social Robots: A Conceptual Framework
Alfieri, I.

14- Affective Evaluation of Rehabilitation Tasks Demonstrated by a Service Robot in Joint and Operational Spaces
Scotto di Luzio, F., Tamantini, C., Lauretti, C., Candeloro, F., Zollo, L.

15- Designing AI Robots for the SLD Community: The Role of the Dual Pyramid Framework in Human-Centered Development
Mortezapour, A., Ingenito, M., Perillo, F., Mortezapour, A., Vitiello, G.

16- A Personal Social Robot to Support Physical Activity for Seniors at Home
De Carolis, B., Lofrese, D., Palestra, G., Toma, A., Gena, C.

17- Influence of Robot Role on Japanese Learners’ English Communication Learning
Hakiri, A., Kashihara, A.

18- Toward Human and Context-Aware Behavior Generation
Grimaldi, C., Rossi, S.

19- A Social Robot supporting Artistic Activities with Older Adults: a Pilot Study
Carrasco Martínez, S., Maroto Gómez, M., Alonso-Martín, F., Castro González, Á., Salichs, M.

20- Toward Human-Robot Co-Learning in Manufacturing
Pietras, E., Salcedo-Gil, R., Borzone, G., Rispens, S., Bodenhagen, L.

21- Grounding Natural Language Mission Requests in Robotic Skill Specifications via Large Language Models
Barbato, M., Grazioso, M., Mancini, A., Russo, V., Di Bratto, M.

22- The Cobra Effect in Trust Repair
Perkins, R., Robinette, P.

23- ARIS: A socially assistive robot with emotional monitoring and haptic feedback for prosthetic hand adaptation and hand rehabilitation
Caballa, S., Espinoza, A., Elías, D.

24- Role-Adaptive Communication Framework with Large Language Models for Multi-Robot Systems
Song, J., Lee, M., Back, J., Cheong, P., AHN, H.

25- Affected by soft robots: Insights into social relations with soft robots
Treusch, P., Jørgensen, J.

26- Human Motion Mimicking and Motion Translation for Different Social Robots
Tracey, F., MacDonald, B., AHN, H.

27- Multimodal Prediction of Valence and Arousal from Speech for Emotion-Aware Interaction System
Dhungana, S., Pinto-Bernal, M., Belpaeme, T.

28 – Adaptive Defense Against Socio-Emotional Exploitation in Social Robots: A Review of Physiologically-Informed Approaches
Greco, D., D’Errico, L.

29- Exploring Students’ Perceptions of an Educational Robot: the influence of Voice and Video Modalities
Sarno, M., Cuciniello, M., Amorese, T., Cordasco, G., d’agnese, V., Esposito, A.

30- Diffusion of responsibility in HRI: Reduction of human agency does not occur when sharing a task with a robotic arm.
Ciardo, F., Fava, A., Ricciardelli, P., Villani, V., Iani, C., Sabattini, L.

10:30 – 11:30, Auditorium Floor -1
EBO Robot in Elderly Care: Interaction Styles and Multimodal Engagement Through Serious Games in Care Centers
Blanco, A., Condón, A., Clavijo, Z., Rodríguez, T., Núñez, P.

Participatory Design for Human-Robot Interaction with Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Ashkenazi, S., Srour-Zreik, R., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., Foster, M.

Using the Pepper Robot to Support Sign Language Communication
Botta, G., Botta, M., Gena, C., Mazzei, A., Donini, M., Lillo, A.

Evaluating the Role of Robot Form and Intelligence in the Ultimatum Game
Armstrong, T., Sanchez, C., Fitter, N.

Designing User Experiences with Social Robots: A Field Study on Acceptance in Public Libraries
Lisetschko, A., Jansen, N., Dogangün, A.

11:30 – 12:30, Auditorium Floor -1

Connecting through shared memories. Episodic Memory for Social Robots Using Offline LLMs
Álvarez Arias, S., Maroto Gómez, M., Segura Bencomo, A., Rodríguez Huelves, J., Malfaz, M.

Intuitive Control of a Social Robot Using Natural Language with Large Language Model and Error Correction Capabilities
Biagi, F., Gasparini, P., Modena, M., Biagiotti, L.

Storytelling and self-other integration with robots: creation and validation of storytelling stimuli that induce social identification with the QT robot
Ciardo, F., Foini, F., Spitale, M.

Personalized Socially Assistive Robots With End-to-End Speech-Language Models For Well-Being Support
Fu, M., Shi, Z., Huang, M., Liu, S., Kian, M., Song, Y., Matarić, M.

Towards improving turn-taking in social robots using Visual-Only Voice Activity Detection in multimodal dialogue systems
Cano, A., Perez, G., Merino, L., Gomez, R.

13:30 – 14:30, Auditorium Floor -1

HaptiCam: Skin-drag Haptic Feedback for Real-time Communication of Camera Settings
Ha, M., Merritt, T.

Optimizing Prosthetic Wrist Movement: A Model Predictive Control Approach
Schetter, F., Sulaiman, S., George, S., De Risi, P., Ficuciello, F.


Slosh-Aware Trajectory Control in a Reconfigurable Staircase Service Robot
Veerajagadheswar, P., Hayat, A., Kalimuthu, M., Mohan Rayguru, M., Elara, M.

A Mixed Reality User-friendly Interface for Robot Teleoperation
Chemerys, M., Novoselov, M., Diniz Melo Santos, S., Aliotta, R., Cufino, F., Ruggiero, F.

13:30 – 15:30, Room 2 – Floor 1°
Service Robots in Elderly Care: A Systematic Review of ADL Coverage, Stakeholder Sentiment, and Deployment Readiness Chu, T., Cabibihan, J.
CaRE-BT: An Embodied Planning Framework for In-Home Assistive Robots Ghattas, O., Hussein, M., Alam, M., akash, M., Arthanat, S., LaRoche, D., begum, M.
LLM-driven Persuasive Strategies by a Social Assistive Robot for Healthier Snacking Ajibo, C., Rossi, A., Rossi, S.
Robots and Reflexes: Analyzing the Stroop Effect and Impulsiveness in Human-Robot Interaction Sorrentino, A., Pani, J., La Viola, C., Kim, J., Maselli, M., Iacopini, S., Fiorini, L., Cavallo, F.
An Agentic AI Architecture for Human-Robot Interaction: Enhancing Activity Recognition with Memory-Driven Reasoning Shahabian alashti, M., Ghamati, K., Samani, H., zaraki, A.
Designing Interactive Robots for Active Ageing Munoz, J., Saleh, S., Ramirez, N.
SoK: Systematic Review of Privacy Preserving Mechanisms and Security Architectures in Healthcare Robotics Grover, M., Das, S.

13:30 – 15:30, Room 3 – Floor 1°
Rethinking Learning from Demonstration through Enactive Cognitive Sciences Bacaro, M.
The Social Robotics gamble: Pathways to Sustainability Sequeira, J., Castro González, Á., Castillo, J., Alonso-Martín, F., Salichs, M.
Active Inference and Sustainable Robotics: Modeling Social Resource Management Raffa, M.
Sustainable Human-Robot Interaction: from current trends to future visions Torre, I., Parreira, M., Pelikan, H., Lagerstedt, E., Schömbs, S., Winkle, K., Ljungblad, S.

Eyes from Above: Co-Designing a Multi-Drone System for Enhanced Surveillance of Critical Infrastructure Bahodi, M., Hornbæk Kristensen, M., van Berkel, N., Skov, M., Brodersen Hansen, N., Merritt, T.

14:30 – 15:30, Auditorium Floor -1
Classification of User Satisfaction in HRI with Social Signals in the Wild
Schiffmann, M., Jeschke, S., Richert, A.

Bayesian goal inference engine for intent prediction in Human-Robot Collaboration
Pelosi, M., Helling, N., Maria Zanchettin, A., Rocco, P.

Pluri-perspectivism in Human-robot Co-creativity with Older Adults
Bossema, M., Saunders, R., Plaat, A., Ben Allouch, S.

Exploring Avoidance Strategies between Humans and Robots in Social Navigation
Moujahid, M., Dondrup, C., Hernandez Garcia, D., Romeo, M.

Improving Human-swarm Interaction Through Speech Control and Peer-to-peer Micro-agent Communication
De Gasperis, G., Di Ottavio, D., Facchini, S.

16:00 – 17:00, Auditorium Floor -1
Ethical and Societal Challenges Facing Social and Educational Robots – Insights from the KASPAR experience
Lakatos, G., Velmurugan, V., Menon, C., Wood, L., Robins, B., Amirabdollahian, F.

Bayesian Proximal Policy Optimization with Adaptive Learning and Episodic Memory for Social Robot Navigation
Resende Faria, D.

Automatic Assessment of Speaking Proficiency for Language Practice Robots
Verhelst, E., Lecompte, P., Janssens, R., De Wilde, V., Belpaeme, T.

Evaluating social impact of pedipulation with quadrupedal robot
Tabita, M., Recchiuto, C., Simetti, E., Sgorbissa, A.

Improving Engagement in Robot Lecture through Personality Expressed by Teacher Robot
Sasaki, S., Kashihara, A.

16:00 – 17:00, Room 2 – Floor 1°
Designing Authority and Service-Oriented Experiences in Librarian Robots Liberman-Pincu, E., Oron-Gilad, T.
Development and Preliminary Validation of an Empathetic and Explaining Robot Interface for Proactive Indoor Environment Control Omichi, M., Takahashi, H., Ban, M., Yoshikawa, Y., Ishiguro, H., Ishizuka, H., Horii, T., Kikuchi, T., Tomoda, M., Shimasaki, K., Toshima, Y.
Levels of explanation for error resolution in HRI Krakovski, M., Kumar, S., Edan, Y.
RAGGAE for HERBS: Testing the Explanatory Performance of Ontology-powered LLMs for Human Explanation of Robotic Behaviors Augello, A., Datteri, E., Lieto, A., Rausa, M., Zagni, N.

17:00 – 18:00, Auditorium Floor -1
Dynamic Trust Modeling in Robot Teleoperation Using a Bayesian Approach
García Cárdenas, J., Tapus, A.

Effects of Perceived Robot Autonomy and Personal Differences on Trust in Human-Robot Interactions
Fallahi, A., Holthaus, P., Amirabdollahian, F., Lakatos, G.

Multimodal Assessment of Human Trust and Cognitive Load in Legged Robot Interaction
García Cárdenas, J., Tian, C., Trahanias, P., Tapus, A.

Interactive Robotic-Assisted Cognitive Training for Run-Time Personalization: A Preliminary Study
De Benedictis, R., Di Napoli, C., Cortellessa, G., Fracasso, F., Galluccio, A.

Playing Smart: The Role of Embodiment and Strategy in Multi-Agent Competitive Card Game
Triglia, L., Rea, F., Barros, P., Sciutti, A.

17:00 – 18:00, Room 3 Floor 1

A Bayesian Neural Networks Approach for Spatial Relations Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration
McCarthy, M., Dao, M., Yan, F.

Violence Detection by a Social Robot
Nikoobayan, R., Taheri, A.

Children’s Acceptance of the TABAN Social Robot in LLM‑Powered Collaborative Visual Storytelling
Maryam Karimi Jafari, Taheri, A.

Vision based Hybrid IK Task Planning with Feedforward Neural Network for Collaborative Plant-Robot Interaction in Precision Farming
Roy Chowdhury, A., V.P., T.

09:15 – 10:00, Newton Hall
Emotivation by Design: The Mirokaï
Jérôme Monceaux’s keynote highlights the evolution of robotics toward more intuitive, inspiring, both useful and joyful interactions. From the iconic Nao and Pepper created by Aldebaran to the latest generation of social robots, The Mirokaï by Enchanted Tools, his radically innovative approach has reshaped design, mobility, and user experience. In his talk at ICSR, Jérôme will share his vision for humanoid robots designed specifically to assist and support people in their daily work and daily life. By combining bold engineering choices with endearing-characters design, thoughtful embodied A.I.s, and meaningful storytelling, Jerome and his team created an engaging hardware and software ecosystem that integrates naturally into users’ social contexts. This human-centered approach empowers individuals and fosters joyful interactions particularly valuable in caregiving environments such as senior assisted living communities and pediatric hospitals.

10:30 – 11:30, Newton Hall

11:30 – 12:30, Newton Hall
Small Talk with a Robot Reduces Stress and Improves Mood
Kühne, K., Klöffel, A., Bendel, O., Fischer, M.

Multimodal Dialogue for Empathetic Human-Robot Interaction
Rawal, N., Maharjan, R., Salici, G., Catalini, R., Romeo, M., Bigazzi, R., Baraldi, L., Vezzani, R., Cucchiara, R., Cangelosi, A.

Emotivation in Human-Robot Interaction for Affective Behavioral Adaptation
D’Errico, L., Esposito, R., Matarese, M., Mele, V., Mungari, A., Roscica, M., Staffa, M.

Robotic Ears as Social Cues: A First Analysis on Emotional Expressivity
Rossi, S., Rossi, A.

Simulating Feelings: LLM vs. Psychology-Based Models in Human-Robot Interaction
Corrao, F., Nardelli, A., Sgorbissa, A., Recchiuto, C.

13:30 – 14:30, Newton Hall

14:30 – 15:30, Newton Hall
14:30 – 14:42: Nicole Robinson
14:42 – 14:54: Jauwairia Nasir
14:54 – 15:06: Nicole Salomons
15:06 – 15:18: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
15:18 – 15:25: Q&A
15:25 – 15:30: Certificate ceremony for Rising Woman Stars

16:00 – 17:00, Newton Hall

Evaluating Children Engagement and Robot Perception Interacting with NAO Robot in Educational Context: A Feasibility Study
Fiorini, L., Pecini, C., Maselli, M., Pugi, L., Adelucci, E., Musca, H., Pani, J., Scatigna, S., Di Lieto, M., Del Lucchese, B., Sgandurra, G., Cavallo, F.

Human Hand Shape and Grasping Behavior Estimation Using a Humanoid Hand with a Tactile Interface
Saood, A., Tapus, A.

Wearable Social Robots for the Disabled and Impaired
Bendel O.

Nova: A Novel Approach for Game Narration
Cauás, N., Triglia, L., Honorato, L., Barros, P., Fernandes, B., Sciutti, A.

Culturally Sensitive Stand-Up Comedian Robot
Wong Kam, M., Samani, H., Akhond, S., Premachandra, C., Lalioti, V.

17:00 – 18:00, Newton Hall