Antonio Sgorbissa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5118112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio Sgorbissa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | Sgorbissa |
| SIGNATURE | SGORBISSA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Genoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7789-4311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Diversity and Culture in Social Robotics
This review explores how cultural relativism affects the adoption and perception of robots, drawing conclusions that can be used to mitigate biases and design robots that incorporate cultural diversity. Indeed, several aspects (like religion, pragmatics, appearance, application areas) need to be considered and implemented to ensure a more pleasant interaction with humans. We show that culture is in itself a broad concept that covers various aspec…
Towards Intuitive Interaction
Strategies for Controlling the Conversation Dynamics in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction
This article tackles the research question of whether it is possible to control conversation dynamics in a multi-party scenario using easily implementable solutions on off-the-shelf robotic platforms. To this end, we expanded upon our previously developed cloud robotic architecture by incorporating policies aimed at managing conversation dynamics through selective addressing of individuals, with the ultimate goal of balancing or unbalancing users…
Towards Culture-Aware Co-Speech Gestures for Social Robots
Embedding social robots with the capability of accompanying their sentences with natural gestures may be the key to increasing their acceptability and their usage in real contexts. However, the definition of natural communicative gestures may not be trivial, since it strictly depends on the culture of the person interacting with the robot. The proposed work investigates the possibility of generating culture-dependent communicative gestures, by pr…
Ethical concerns in rescue robotics
Rescue operations taking place in disaster settings can be fraught with ethical challenges. Further ethical challenges will likely be introduced by the use of robots, which are expected to soon become commonplace in search and rescue missions and disaster recovery efforts. To help focus timely reflection on the ethical considerations associated with the deployment of rescue robots, we have conducted a scoping review exploring the relevant academi…
The Caresses Randomised Controlled Trial
This trial represents the final stage of the CARESSES project which aimed to develop and evaluate a culturally competent artificial intelligent system embedded into social robots to support older adult wellbeing. A parallel group, single-blind randomised controlled trial was conducted across older adult care homes in England and Japan. Participants randomly allocated to the Experimental Group or Control Group 1 received a Pepper robot for up 18 h…
Socially Assistive Robots, Older Adults and Research Ethics
Culture as a Sensor? A Novel Perspective on Human Activity Recognition
Knowledge Representation for Culturally Competent Personal Robots
Socially Assistive Robots, Older Adults and Research Ethics
The Caresses Randomised Controlled Trial
This trial represents the final stage of the CARESSES project which aimed to develop and evaluate a culturally competent artificial intelligent system embedded into social robots to support older adult wellbeing. A parallel group, single-blind randomised controlled trial was conducted across older adult care homes in England and Japan. Participants randomly allocated to the Experimental Group or Control Group 1 received a Pepper robot for up 18 h…
Culture as a Sensor? A Novel Perspective on Human Activity Recognition
Knowledge Representation for Culturally Competent Personal Robots
Socially Assistive Robots, Older Adults and Research Ethics
Ethical concerns in rescue robotics
Rescue operations taking place in disaster settings can be fraught with ethical challenges. Further ethical challenges will likely be introduced by the use of robots, which are expected to soon become commonplace in search and rescue missions and disaster recovery efforts. To help focus timely reflection on the ethical considerations associated with the deployment of rescue robots, we have conducted a scoping review exploring the relevant academi…
The Caresses Randomised Controlled Trial
This trial represents the final stage of the CARESSES project which aimed to develop and evaluate a culturally competent artificial intelligent system embedded into social robots to support older adult wellbeing. A parallel group, single-blind randomised controlled trial was conducted across older adult care homes in England and Japan. Participants randomly allocated to the Experimental Group or Control Group 1 received a Pepper robot for up 18 h…
Towards Culture-Aware Co-Speech Gestures for Social Robots
Embedding social robots with the capability of accompanying their sentences with natural gestures may be the key to increasing their acceptability and their usage in real contexts. However, the definition of natural communicative gestures may not be trivial, since it strictly depends on the culture of the person interacting with the robot. The proposed work investigates the possibility of generating culture-dependent communicative gestures, by pr…
Towards Intuitive Interaction
Strategies for Controlling the Conversation Dynamics in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction
This article tackles the research question of whether it is possible to control conversation dynamics in a multi-party scenario using easily implementable solutions on off-the-shelf robotic platforms. To this end, we expanded upon our previously developed cloud robotic architecture by incorporating policies aimed at managing conversation dynamics through selective addressing of individuals, with the ultimate goal of balancing or unbalancing users…
Diversity and Culture in Social Robotics
This review explores how cultural relativism affects the adoption and perception of robots, drawing conclusions that can be used to mitigate biases and design robots that incorporate cultural diversity. Indeed, several aspects (like religion, pragmatics, appearance, application areas) need to be considered and implemented to ensure a more pleasant interaction with humans. We show that culture is in itself a broad concept that covers various aspec…
Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Social Robot Interaction and HRI (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Robot (6 works) · Robotics (6 works) · Human–computer interaction (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Engineering ethics (3 works)