no code implementations • 7 Dec 2023 • Marco Matarese, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti
There is an increasing consensus about the effectiveness of user-centred approaches in the explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) field.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2023 • Carlo Mazzola, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti
Addressee Estimation is the ability to understand to whom a person is talking, a skill essential for social robots to interact smoothly with humans.
1 code implementation • 21 Aug 2023 • Carlo Mazzola, Marta Romeo, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti, Angelo Cangelosi
Communicating shapes our social word.
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2022 • Doreen Jirak, Alessandra Sciutti, Pablo Barros, Francesco Rea
Human-robot interaction (HRI) benefits greatly from advances in the machine learning field as it allows researchers to employ high-performance models for perceptual tasks like detection and recognition.
no code implementations • 3 Aug 2022 • Linda Lastrico, Luca Garello, Francesco Rea, Nicoletta Noceti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Alessandra Sciutti, Alessandro Carfi
Humans have an extraordinary ability to communicate and read the properties of objects by simply watching them being carried by someone else.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2022 • Luca Garello, Linda Lastrico, Alessandra Sciutti, Nicoletta Noceti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Francesco Rea
Object manipulation is a natural activity we perform every day.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2021 • Marco Matarese, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti
The framework aims to provide a structure for interactive XAI solutions thought for non-expert users.
Explainable artificial intelligence Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2021 • Linda Lastrico, Alessandro Carfì, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
This study is a step towards endowing a humanoid robot with this last capability.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2021 • Luca Garello, Linda Lastrico, Francesco Rea, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Nicoletta Noceti, Alessandra Sciutti
When transporting an object, we unconsciously adapt our movement to its properties, for instance by slowing down when the item is fragile.
no code implementations • 16 Mar 2021 • Jonas Gonzalez-Billandon, Giulia Belgiovine, Alessandra Sciutti, Giulio Sandini, Francesco Rea
The ability to recognize human partners is an important social skill to build personalized and long-term human-robot interactions, especially in scenarios like education, care-giving, and rehabilitation.
no code implementations • 2 Mar 2021 • Linda Lastrico, Alessandro Carfì, Alessia Vignolo, Alessandra Sciutti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Francesco Rea
Our final goal is to enable a robot to autonomously infer the degree of care required in object handling and to discriminate whether the item is light or heavy, just by observing a human manipulation.
no code implementations • 12 Nov 2020 • Jonas Gonzalez-Billandon, Lukas Grasse, Matthew Tata, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea
In the future robots will interact more and more with humans and will have to communicate naturally and efficiently.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2020 • Vipul Nair, Paul Hemeren, Alessia Vignolo, Nicoletta Noceti, Elena Nicora, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea, Erik Billing, Francesca Odone, Giulio Sandini
The results show that both the model and human performance are highly accurate in an action similarity task based on kinematic-level features, which can provide an essential basis for classifying human actions.