no code implementations • 12 Jul 2022 • Carmine Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa
The article introduces the concept of "diversity-aware" robotics and discusses the need to develop computational models to embed robots with diversity-awareness: that is, robots capable of adapting and re-configuring their behavior to recognize, respect, and value the uniqueness of the person they interact with to promote inclusion regardless of their age, race, gender, cognitive or physical capabilities, etc.
no code implementations • 5 Jan 2022 • Giulia Zaino, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa
The article introduces the concept of image "culturization," which we define as the process of altering the ``brushstroke of cultural features" that make objects perceived as belonging to a given culture while preserving their functionalities.
no code implementations • 22 Apr 2021 • Lucrezia Grassi, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa
This article describes a novel approach to expand in run-time the knowledge base of an Artificial Conversational Agent.
no code implementations • 22 Mar 2018 • Barbara Bruno, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Federico Pecora, Antonio Sgorbissa, Alessandro Saffiotti
Cultural adaptation, i. e., the matching of a robot's behaviours to the cultural norms and preferences of its user, is a well known key requirement for the success of any assistive application.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2018 • Roberto Menicatti, Barbara Bruno, Antonio Sgorbissa
Daily life activities, such as eating and sleeping, are deeply influenced by a person's culture, hence generating differences in the way a same activity is performed by individuals belonging to different cultures.
Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction Human Activity Recognition
no code implementations • 21 Aug 2017 • Barbara Bruno, Nak Young Chong, Hiroko Kamide, Sanjeev Kanoria, Jaeryoung Lee, Yuto Lim, Amit Kumar Pandey, Chris Papadopoulos, Irena Papadopoulos, Federico Pecora, Alessandro Saffiotti, Antonio Sgorbissa
The nursing literature shows that cultural competence is an important requirement for effective healthcare.