Davide De Tommaso
Biographic Data
| ID | 4602884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davide De Tommaso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davide |
| FAMILY NAME | De Tommaso |
| SIGNATURE | DE TOMMASO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Italian Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2132-5261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Theta Frequency Band in the EEG Signal as Neurocognitive Indicator of Cognitive Load for Collaborative Tasks Involving Robot Teleoperation
The aim of the present study was to identify metrics of cognitive effort during robot teleoperation in a social context of joint collaborative task performed with another human user. Robotics teleoperation enables control of artificial systems in remote environments but is often cognitively challenging. Measuring human cognitive effort during teleoperation has largely relied on subjective measures like questionnaires. To evaluate the quality of t…
Minimal conditions for the emergence of a vicarious sense of agency toward artificial agents
A Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of being in control over own actions and their outcomes. However, people can also experience a "vicarious" SoA over the actions performed by other agents, including artificial agents. The present study aimed to understand the minimal conditions for vicarious SoA toward artificial agents. Specifically, we addressed whether vicarious SoA emerges when people have access only to the action effect (proximal and d…
Does perceived voluntariness of others’ actions induce vicarious sense of agency? Evidence from human-robot interaction
Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of control over one's actions and outcomes. People can experience "vicarious" SoA towards other agents, either other humans or artificial agents such as robots. A commonly used measure of implicit SoA is the Intentional Binding (IB) effect, which is stronger when the action is voluntary, relative to involuntary. However, it remains unclear whether this is true also for vicarious SoA. Thus, in three experiments…
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots
As social robots are being built with the aim of employing them in our social environments, it is crucial to understand whether we are inclined to include them in our social ingroups. Social inclusion might depend on various factors. To understand if people have the tendency to treat robots as their in-group members, we adapted a classical social psychology paradigm, namely the “Cyberball game”, to a 3-D experimental protocol involving an embodie…
The Influence of Robot Autonomy on Sense of Control and Trust Towards a Robot
Autonomous robots can make decisions that lead to outcomes that are better, equal to, or worse than those requested by a human. However, how the value of these outcomes shapes perceptions of robot autonomy remains underexplored. We conducted four online experiments examining how different forms of robot decision-making autonomy influence human–robot interaction. Participants played a game in which they selected a box for a robot avatar to collect…
Joint action with artificial agents
Human-Likeness of Feedback Gestures Affects Decision Processes and Subjective Trust
Trust is fundamental in building meaningful social interactions. With the advance of social robotics in collaborative settings, trust in Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) is gaining more and more scientific attention. Indeed, understanding how different factors may affect users’ trust toward robots is of utmost importance. In this study, we focused on two factors related to the robot’s behavior that could modulate trust. In a two-forced choice task w…
Attribution of intentional agency towards robots reduces one’s own sense of agency
In the presence of others, sense of agency (SoA), i.e. the perceived relationship between our own actions and external events, is reduced. The present study aimed at investigating whether the phenomenon of reduced SoA is observed in human-robot interaction, similarly to human-human interaction. To this end, we tested SoA when people interacted with a robot (Experiment 1), with a passive, non-agentic air pump (Experiment 2), or when they interacte…
Can I get your (robot) attention? Human sensitivity to subtle hints of human-likeness in a humanoid robot’s behavior
Designing artificial agents that can closely imitate human behavior, might influence humans in perceiving them as intentional agents. Nonetheless, the factors that are crucial for an artificial agent to be perceived as an animated and anthropomorphic being still need to be addressed. In the current study, we investigated some of the factors that might affect the perception of a robot's behavior as human-like or intentional. To meet this aim, seve…
Humans socially attune to their “follower” robot
In this study, we examined if humans adapt their performance to delays in robot’s actions in a leader-follower interaction scenario. Participants were asked to “teach” a sequence of musical tones to the iCub robot. The robot repeated the sequence with decreasing delay between its own taps and taps performed by the participants. We observed that mean period of participants’ tapping behavior was affected by the iCub’s performance. This suggests tha…
A Tangible Interface for Transferring Skills
Can I get your (robot) attention? Human sensitivity to subtle hints of human-likeness in a humanoid robot’s behavior
Designing artificial agents that can closely imitate human behavior, might influence humans in perceiving them as intentional agents. Nonetheless, the factors that are crucial for an artificial agent to be perceived as an animated and anthropomorphic being still need to be addressed. In the current study, we investigated some of the factors that might affect the perception of a robot's behavior as human-like or intentional. To meet this aim, seve…
A Tangible Interface for Transferring Skills
Humans socially attune to their “follower” robot
In this study, we examined if humans adapt their performance to delays in robot’s actions in a leader-follower interaction scenario. Participants were asked to “teach” a sequence of musical tones to the iCub robot. The robot repeated the sequence with decreasing delay between its own taps and taps performed by the participants. We observed that mean period of participants’ tapping behavior was affected by the iCub’s performance. This suggests tha…
Attribution of intentional agency towards robots reduces one’s own sense of agency
In the presence of others, sense of agency (SoA), i.e. the perceived relationship between our own actions and external events, is reduced. The present study aimed at investigating whether the phenomenon of reduced SoA is observed in human-robot interaction, similarly to human-human interaction. To this end, we tested SoA when people interacted with a robot (Experiment 1), with a passive, non-agentic air pump (Experiment 2), or when they interacte…
Can I get your (robot) attention? Human sensitivity to subtle hints of human-likeness in a humanoid robot’s behavior
Designing artificial agents that can closely imitate human behavior, might influence humans in perceiving them as intentional agents. Nonetheless, the factors that are crucial for an artificial agent to be perceived as an animated and anthropomorphic being still need to be addressed. In the current study, we investigated some of the factors that might affect the perception of a robot's behavior as human-like or intentional. To meet this aim, seve…
Joint action with artificial agents
Human-Likeness of Feedback Gestures Affects Decision Processes and Subjective Trust
Trust is fundamental in building meaningful social interactions. With the advance of social robotics in collaborative settings, trust in Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) is gaining more and more scientific attention. Indeed, understanding how different factors may affect users’ trust toward robots is of utmost importance. In this study, we focused on two factors related to the robot’s behavior that could modulate trust. In a two-forced choice task w…
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots
As social robots are being built with the aim of employing them in our social environments, it is crucial to understand whether we are inclined to include them in our social ingroups. Social inclusion might depend on various factors. To understand if people have the tendency to treat robots as their in-group members, we adapted a classical social psychology paradigm, namely the “Cyberball game”, to a 3-D experimental protocol involving an embodie…
The Influence of Robot Autonomy on Sense of Control and Trust Towards a Robot
Autonomous robots can make decisions that lead to outcomes that are better, equal to, or worse than those requested by a human. However, how the value of these outcomes shapes perceptions of robot autonomy remains underexplored. We conducted four online experiments examining how different forms of robot decision-making autonomy influence human–robot interaction. Participants played a game in which they selected a box for a robot avatar to collect…
Does perceived voluntariness of others’ actions induce vicarious sense of agency? Evidence from human-robot interaction
Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of control over one's actions and outcomes. People can experience "vicarious" SoA towards other agents, either other humans or artificial agents such as robots. A commonly used measure of implicit SoA is the Intentional Binding (IB) effect, which is stronger when the action is voluntary, relative to involuntary. However, it remains unclear whether this is true also for vicarious SoA. Thus, in three experiments…
Theta Frequency Band in the EEG Signal as Neurocognitive Indicator of Cognitive Load for Collaborative Tasks Involving Robot Teleoperation
The aim of the present study was to identify metrics of cognitive effort during robot teleoperation in a social context of joint collaborative task performed with another human user. Robotics teleoperation enables control of artificial systems in remote environments but is often cognitively challenging. Measuring human cognitive effort during teleoperation has largely relied on subjective measures like questionnaires. To evaluate the quality of t…
Minimal conditions for the emergence of a vicarious sense of agency toward artificial agents
A Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of being in control over own actions and their outcomes. However, people can also experience a "vicarious" SoA over the actions performed by other agents, including artificial agents. The present study aimed to understand the minimal conditions for vicarious SoA toward artificial agents. Specifically, we addressed whether vicarious SoA emerges when people have access only to the action effect (proximal and d…
Robot (9 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Human–computer interaction (6 works) · Social Robot Interaction and HRI (6 works) · Human–robot interaction (5 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)