Most recent publications
Anticipating the Use of Robots in Domestic Abuse: A Typology of Robot Facilitated Abuse to Support Risk Assessment and Mitigation in Human-Robot Interaction
HRI ‘24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
A Case for Diverse Social Robot Identity Performance in Education
HRI ‘24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Behavioural Observations as Objective Measures of Trust in Child-Robot Interaction: Mutual Gaze
HAI ‘23: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
Towards a Socio-Legal Robotics: A Theoretical Framework on Norms and Adaptive Technologies
International Journal of Social Robotics
(Counter-)stereotypical Gendering of Robots in Care: Impact on Needs Satisfaction and Gender Role Concepts in Men and Women Users
International Journal of Social Robotics
A case study in designing trustworthy interactions: implications for socially assistive robotics
Frontiers in Computer Science
Older publications
2023
Winkle, K., McMillan, D., Arnelid, M., Harrison, K., Balaam, M., Johnson, E., & Leite, I. (2023). Feminist human-robot interaction: Disentangling power, principles and practice for better, more ethical HRI. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 72-82).
Miranda, L., Castellano, G., & Winkle, K. (2023). Examining the State of Robot Identity. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 658-662).
Paulsson, T., Zhong, M., García Velázquez, I., & Castellano, G. (2023). Exploring Mothers’ Perspectives on Socially Assistive Robots in Peripartum Depression Screening. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 486-490).
Barros, P., Yalçın, Ö. N., Tanevska, A., & Sciutti, A. (2023). Incorporating rivalry in reinforcement learning for a competitive game. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(23), 16739-16752.
2022
Mongile, S., Tanevska, A., Rea, F., & Sciutti, A. (2022). Validating a Cortisol-Inspired Framework for Human-Robot Interaction with a Replication of the Still Face Paradigm. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (pp. 190-196). IEEE.
Galatolo, A., Melsión, G.I., Leite, I., & Winkle, K. (2022). The Right (Wo)Man for the Job? Exploring the Role of Gender when Challenging Gender Stereotypes with a Social Robot. Int J of Soc Robotics https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00938-2
Zhong, M., Van Zoest, V., Bilal, AM., Papadopoulos, FC., & Castellano, G. (2022). Unimodal vs. Multimodal Prediction of Antenatal Depression from Smartphone-based Survey Data in a Longitudinal Study. In International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’22).
Fraile, M., Lindblad, J., Fawcett, C., Sladoje, N., & Castellano, G. (2022). End-to-End Learning and Analysis of Infant Engagement During Guided Play: Prediction and Explainability. In International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’22).
Wallkötter, S., Chetouani, M., & Castellano, G. (2022). SLOT-V: Supervised Learning of Observer Models for Legible Robot Motion Planning in Manipulation, 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN’22).
Calvo-Barajas, N., & Castellano, G. (2022). Understanding Children’s Trust Development through Repeated Interactions with a Virtual Social Robot. In the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN’22).
Calvo-Barajas, N., & Castellano, G. (2022). “I have an idea!”. Enhancing Children’s Verbal Creativity through Repeated Interactions with a Virtual Robot. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA’22).
Mongile, S., Tanevska, A., Rea, F., & Sciutti, A. (2022). Are Robots That Assess Their Partner’s Attachment Style Better At Autonomous Adaptive Behaviour?. In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 922-926). IEEE.
Bilal, AM., Fransson, E., Bränn, E., Eriksson, A., Zhong, M., Gidén, K., Elofsson, U., Axfors, C., Skalkidou, A., & Papadopoulos, FC. Predicting perinatal health outcomes using smartphone-based digital phenotyping and machine learning in a prospective Swedish cohort (Mom2B): study protocol. BMJ Open. 2022 Apr 27;12(4):e059033. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059033. PMID: 35477874; PMCID: PMC9047888.
Elgarf, M., Calvo-Barajas, N., Alves-Oliveira, P., Perugia, G., Castellano, G., Peters, C., and Paiva, A. “And then what happens?” Promoting Children’s Verbal Creativity Using a Robot. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ‘22). IEEE Press, 71–79. https://doi.org/10.5555/3523760.3523774
Tanqueray, L., Paulsson, T., Zhong, M., Larsson, S., and Castellano, G. (2022). Gender Fairness in Social Robotics: Exploring a Future Care of Peripartum Depression. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ‘22). IEEE Press, 598-607.
2021
Ahlberg, S., Axelsson, A., Yu, P., Shaw Cortez, W., Gao, Y., Ghadirzadeh, A., Castellano, G., Kragic, D., Skantze, G., and Dimarogonas, D. V. (2021). Co-adaptive Human-Robot Cooperation: Summary and Challenges. Unmanned Systems 10(2)
Perugia, G., Paetzel, M., Hupont, I., Varni, G., Chetouani, M., Peters, C., and Castellano, G. (2021). Does the Goal Matter? Emotion Recognition Tasks Can Change the Social Value of Facial Mimicry towards Artificial Agents. Frontiers in Robotics & AI (2021).
Tanqueray, L., Castellano, G., and Larsson, S. (2021). A Preliminary Case Study on Gender Norms in Robot-Assisted Diagnosis of Perinatal Depression: A Socio-Legal HRI Perspective. GenR workshop, RO-MAN 2021.
Fraile, M., Lindblad, J., Fawcett, C., Sladoje, N., & Castellano, G. (2021). Automatic analysis of infant engagement during play: An end-to-end learning and Explainable AI pilot experiment. In Companion Publication of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461615.3485443
Zhong, M., Bilal, A. M., Papadopoulos, F. C., & Castellano, G. (2021, November). Psychiatrists’ Views on Robot-Assisted Diagnostics of Peripartum Depression. In International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 464-474). Springer, Cham.
Calvo-Barajas, N., Elgarf, M., Perugia, G., Paiva, A., Peters, C. E., & Castellano, G. (2021). Hurry up, we need to find the key! How Regulatory Focus Design Affects Children’s Trust in a Social Robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 197. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2021.652035
Calvo-Barajas, N., Perugia, G., and Castellano., G. 2021. The Effects of Motivational Strategies and Goal Attainment on Children’s Trust in a Virtual Social Robot: A Pilot Study. In Interaction Design and Children (IDC ‘21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 537–541. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3465202
Arnelid, M., Boman, M., Brännström, A., Campano, E., Castellano, G., Dignum, V., Harrison, K., Johnson, E., Lee, F., Lindgren, E., Nilsson, I., Ostrowska, A., García Velázquez, I., and Winkle, K. (2021). WASP-HS. Community Reference Meeting: Healthcare. Report. May 2021.
Wallkötter, S., Tulli, S., Castellano, G., Paiva, A., & Chetouani, M. (2021). Explainable embodied agents through social cues: a review. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 10(3), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3457188
Yang, F., Gao, Y., Ma, R., Zojaji, S., Castellano, G., & Peters, C. (2021). A dataset of human and robot approach behaviors into small free-standing conversational groups. PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247364
Perugia, G., Paetzel-Prüsmann, M., Madelene Alanenpää, & Castellano, G. (2021). I Can See it in Your Eyes: Gaze as an Implicit Cue of Uncanniness and Task Performance in Repeated Interactions with Robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.645956
Elgarf, M., Calvo-Barajas, N., Paiva, A., Castellano, G., and Peters, C. (2021). Reward Seeking or Loss Aversion? Impact of Regulatory Focus Theory on Emotional Induction in Children and Their Behavior Towards a Social Robot. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 587, 1–11. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445486
Stower, R., Ligthart, M., van Straten, C., Calvo-Barajas, N., Velner, E., and Beelen. (2021). Interdisciplinary Research Methods for Child-Robot Relationship Formation. In Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ‘21 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 700–702. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3444869
Paetzel-Prüsmann, M., Perugia, G., & Castellano, G. (2021). The Influence of Robot Personality on the Development of Uncanny Feelings. Computers in Human Behavior, 106756.
Stower, R., Calvo-Barajas, N., Castellano, G., & Kappas, A. (2021). A Meta-analysis on Children’s Trust in Social Robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, 1-23, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00736-8
2020
Perugia, G., Paetzel, M., & Castellano, G. (2020, November) On the Role of Personality and Empathy in Human-Human, Human-Agent, and Human-Robot Mimicry. In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), (accepted). Springer, Cham.
Perugia, G., Díaz-Boladeras, M., Català-Mallofré, A., Barakova, E. I., & Rauterberg, M. (2020). ENGAGE-DEM: A Model of Engagement of People with Dementia. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2020.2980275
Oertel, C., Castellano, G., Chetouani, M., Nasir, J., Obaid, M., Pelachaud, C., and Peters, C. (2020). Engagement in Human-Agent Interaction: An Overview. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Human-Robot Interaction section, 2020.
Calvo-Barajas, N., Perugia, G., & Castellano, G. (2020). The Effects of Robot’s Facial Expressions on Children’s First Impressions of Trustworthiness. In the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN 2020), 2020. DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN47096.2020.9223456
Paetzel, M., Karkada, D., Manuvinakurike, R. (2020). RDG-Map: A Multimodal Corpus of Pedagogical Human-Agent Spoken Interactions. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), 2020.
Paetzel, M., Perugia, G., Castellano, G. (2020). The Persistence of First Impressions: The Effect of Repeated Interactions on the Perception of a Social Robot. 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2020), 2020. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3319502.3374786
Wallkötter, S., Stower, R., Kappas, A., Castellano, G. (2020). A Robot by Any Other Frame: Framing and Behaviour Influence Mind Perception in Virtual but not Real-World Environments. 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2020), 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374800
Calvo-Barajas, N., El-Garf, M., Perugia, G., Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2020). Can a Social Robot Be Persuasive Without Losing Children’s Trust?. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2020), 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378272
2019
Gao, Y., Sibirtseva, E., Castellano, G., Kragic, D. (2019). Fast Adaptation with Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Trust Modelling in Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019), 2019.
Gao Y., Fangkai Y., Martin F., Daniel H., Christopher P., Ginevra C. (2019). Learning Socially Appropriate Robot Approaching Behavior Toward Groups using Deep Reinforcement Learning. The 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), 2019.
Paetzel, M., Castellano, G. (2019). Let Me Get To Know You Better - Can Interactions Help to Overcome Uncanny Feelings? 7th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI), 2019.
Paetzel, M., Manuvinakurike, R. (2019). “Can you say more about the location?” The Development of a Pedagogical Reference Resolution Agent. Dialog for Good - Workshop on Speech and Language Technology Serving Society (DiGo), 2019.
Hernandez D., Denamgana K., Gao Y., Y. Peter, Sam D., Samothrakis S. and Walker J. A. A Generalized Framework for Self-Play Training, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Games (CoG 2019), 2019
Alves Oliveira, P., Sequeira, P., Melo, F., Castellano, G., Paiva, A. (2019). Empathic Robot for Group Learning: A Field Study. ACM Transactions in Human-Robot Interaction, 8(1).
2018
Obaid, M., Aylett, R., Barendregt, W., Basedow, C. A., Corrigan, L. J., Hall, L., Jones, A., Kappas, A., Küster, D., Paiva, A., Papadopoulos, F., Serholt, S., & Castellano, G. (2018). Endowing a Robotic Tutor with Empathic Qualities: Exploring Children’s Learning and Perceptions. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 15(6).
Chengjie, L., Androulakaki, T., Gao, Y., Fangkai, Y., Saikia, H,. Peters, C., & Skantze, G. Effects of Posture and Embodiment on Social Distance in Human-Agent Interaction in Mixed Reality, 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2018.
Paetzel, M., Kennedy, J., Castellano, G., & Lehman, J. (2018). Incremental Acquisition and Reuse of Multimodal Affective Behaviors in a Conversational Agent. International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction 2018.
Jones, A., & Castellano, G. (2018). Adaptive Robotic Tutors that Support Self-Regulated Learning: A Longer-Term Investigation with Primary School Children. International Journal of Social Robotics, 10(3), 357-370.
Jones, A., Bull, S., & Castellano, G. (2018). “I Know That Now, I’m Going to Learn This Next” Promoting Self-regulated Learning with a Robotic Tutor. International Journal of Social Robotics, 10(4),439-454.
Johal, W., Castellano, G., Tanaka, F., & Okita, S. (2018). Robots for Learning. International Journal of Social Robotics, 10(3), 293–294.
Gao, Y., Barendregt, W., Obaid, M., & Castellano, G. (2018). When robot personalisation does not help: Insights from a robot-supported learning study. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018).
Gao, Y., Wallkötter, S., Obaid, M., & Castellano, G. (2018). Investigating Deep Learning Approaches for Human-Robot Proxemics. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), 2018.
Paetzel, M., Varni, G., Hupont, I., Chetouani, M., Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2018). The Attribution of Emotional State – How Embodiment Features and Social Traits Affect the Perception of an Artificial Agent. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), 2018.
2017
Castellano, G., Leite, I., & Paiva, A. (2017). Detecting perceived quality of interaction with a robot using contextual features. Autonomous Robots, 41(5), 1245–1261.
Beskow, J., Peters, C., Castellano, G., O’Sullivan, C., Leite, I., & Kopp, S. (2017). Intelligent Virtual Agents: 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, August 27-30, 2017, Proceedings. gs. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10498, Springer 2017.
Paetzel, M., Hupont, I., Varni, G., Chetouani, M., Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2017). Exploring the Link between Self-assessed Mimicry and Embodiment in HRI. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’17), Vienna, March 2017.
Paetzel, M., Varni, G., Hupont, I., Chetouani, M., Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2017). Investigating the Influence of Embodiment on Facial Mimicry in HRI Using Computer Vision-Based Measures. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2017), 2017.
Obaid, M. Yuan, G., Barendregt, W., & Castellano, G. (2017). Exploring Tangible Implicit Probes to Measure Human-Robot Engagement. 9th Intl. Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2017), Tsukuba, Japan, 2017.
Gao, Y., Barendregt, W., & Ginevra Castellano (2017). Personalised Human-Robot Co-Adaptation in Instructional Settings using Reinforcement Learning. In Workshop “Persuasive Embodied Agents for Behavior Change”, International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2017 (IVA 2017).
Hirsch, L., Björsell, A., Laaksoharju, M., & Obaid, M. (2017). Investigating Design Implications Towards a Social Robot as a Memory Trainer. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction (HAI ’17), ACM, 2017.
Obaid, M., Baykal, G.E., Yantaç, A.E., & Barendregt, W. (2017). Developing a Prototyping Method for Involving Children in the Design of Classroom Robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer, 2017.
2016
Papadopoulos, F. Küster, D. Corrigan, L. J., Kappas, A., & Castellano, G. (2016). Do relative positions and proxemics affect the engagement in a human-robot collaborative scenario? Interaction Studies, 17 (3).
Sequeira, P., Alves-Oliveira, P., Ribeiro, T., Di Tullio, E., Petisca., S., Melo, F. S., Castellano, G., & Paiva, A. (2016). Discovering Social Interaction Strategies for Robots from Restricted-Perception Wizard-of-Oz Studies. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016). Best paper award, Interaction Design category.
Corrigan, L. J., Peters, C., Kuster, D., & Castellano, G. (2016). Engagement Perception and Generation for Social Robots and Virtual Agents. In: Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Modeling Emotions”, Vol. 1, A. Esposito and L. Jain (eds.), Intelligent Systems Reference Library (ISRL) Springer Series.
Chetouani, M., Anzalone, S., Varni, G., Hupont Torres, I., Castellano, G., Lim, A., & Venture, G. (2016). International Workshop on Social Learning and Multimodal Interaction for Designing Artificial Agents (Workshop Summary). Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2016 (ICMI 2016). Tokyo, Japan, November 2016.
Paetzel, M., Peters, C., Nyström, I., & Castellano, G. (2016). Effects of multimodal cues on children’s perception of uncanniness in a social robot. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2016 (ICMI 2016). Tokyo, Japan, November 2016.
Paetzel, M., Peters, C., Nyström, I., & Castellano, G. (2016). Congruency matters - How ambiguous gender cues increase a robot’s uncanniness. In Proceedings of International Conference on Social Robotics 2016 (ICSR 2016). Kansas City, November 2016.
Paetzel, M., Peters, C., Nyström, I., & Castellano, G. (2016). Preliminary Results from Using a Back-Projected Robot Head in Uncanny Valley Research. In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016), New York, August 2016.
Deshmukh, A., Janarthanam, S., Hastie, H., Lim, M. Y., Aylett, R., & Castellano, G. (2016). How Expressiveness of a Robotic Tutor is Perceived by Children in a Learning Environment. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016).
Hall, L., Hume, C., Tazzyman, S., Deshmukh, A., Janarthanam, S., Hastie, H., Aylett, R., Castellano, G., Papadopoulos, F., Jones, A., Corrigan, L.G., Paiva, A., Alves Oliveira, P., Ribeiro, T., Barendregt, W., Serholt, W., & Kappas, A. (2016). Map Reading with and Empathic Robot Tutor. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Christchurch, New Zealand, Extended Abstracts, March 2016.
2015
Castellano, G., Gunes, H., Peters, C., & Schuller, B. (2015). Multimodal Affect Recognition for Naturalistic Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interactions. In Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing, R. A. Calvo, S. D’Mello, J. Gratch, A. Kappas (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2015.
Jones, A., Kuster, D., Basedow, C.A., Alves-Oliveira, P., Serholt S., Hastie, H., Corrigan, L.J., Barendregt, W., Kappas, A. Paiva, A., & Castellano, G. (2015). Empathic robotic tutors for personalized learning: a multidisciplinary approach. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics 2015, Paris, France, October 2015.
Jones, A., Bull, S., & Castellano, G. (2015). Personalising Robot Tutors’ Self-Regulated Learning Scaffolding with an Open Learner Model. In Proceedings of WONDER (International Workshop on Educational Robots) workshop, International Conference on Social Robotics 2015 (ICSR’15), Paris, France, October 2015.
Corrigan, L.J., Basedow, C., Kuster, D., Kappas, A., Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2015). Perception Matters! Engagement in Task Orientated Social Robotics. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2015), Kobe, Japan, 31 August-4 September 2015.
Jones, A., Bull, S., & Castellano, G. (2015). Teacher Scaffolding of a Student’s Self-regulated Learning using an Open Learner Mode. In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, 29 June-3 July 2015.
Deshmukh, A., Jones, A., Janarthanam, S., Hastie, H., Ribeiro, T., Aylett, R., Paiva, A., & Castellano, G. (2015). An Empathic Robotic Tutor in a Map Application. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS).
Ribeiro, T., Alves-Oliveira, P., Di Tullio, E., Petisca, S., Sequeira, P., Deshmukh, A., Janarthanam, S., Foster, M.-E., Jones, A., Corrigan, L. J., Papadopoulos, F., Hastie, H., Aylett, R., Castellano, G., & Paiva, A. (2015). The Empathic Robotic Tutor: Featuring the NAO Robot. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2015, Portland, USA.
Deshmukh, A., Jones, A., Janarthanam, S., Foster, M.-E., Ribeiro, T., Corrigan, L. J., Aylett, R., Paiva, A., Papadopoulos, F., & Castellano, G. (2015). Empathic Robotic Tutors: Map Guide. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2015, Portland, USA.
Jones, A., Bull, S., & Castellano, G. (2015). Open Learner Modelling with a Robotic Tutor. In Proceedings of the HRI Pioneers Workshop, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2015, Portland, USA.
2014
Castellano, G., Leite, I., Pereira, A., Martinho, C., Paiva, A., & McOwan, P. W. (2014). Context-Sensitive Affect Recognition for a Robotic Game Companion. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 4(2).
Leite, I., Castellano, G., Pereira, A., Martinho, C., & Paiva, A. (2014). Empathic Robots for Long-term Interaction: Evaluating Social Presence, Engagement and Perceived Support in Children. International Journal of Social Robotics, 6(3): 329-341.
Aylett, A., Barendregt, W., Castellano, G., Kappas, A., Menezes, N., & Paiva, A. (2014). An Embodied Empathic Tutor. AAAI Fall Symposia AI and HRI, AAAI Fall Symposium Series 2014.
Jones, A., Castellano, G., & Bull, S. (2014). Investigating the Effect of a Robotic Tutor on Learner Perception of Skill Based Feedback. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Robotics, Sydney, Australia, 27-29 October 2014.
Ribeiro, T., Di Tullio, E., Corrigan, L. J., Jones, A., Papadopoulos, F., Aylett, R., Castellano, G., & Paiva, A. (2014). Developing Interactive Embodied Characters Using the Thalamus Framework: A Collaborative Approach. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Boston, MA, USA, August 27-29, 2014.
Serholt, S., Barendregt, W., Leite, I., Hastie, H., Jones, A., Paiva, A., Vasalou, A., & Castellano, G. (2014). Teachers’ Views on the Use of Empathic Robotic Tutors in the Classroom. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN, 2014.
Jones, A., Castellano, G., & Bull, S. (2014). Open Learner Modelling with a Robotic Tutor for Children. In Proceedings of Child-Robot Interaction Workshop, International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC), 2014.
Mancini, M., Ermilov, A., Castellano, G., Liarokapis, F., Varni, G., & Peters, C. (2014). Effects of gender mapping on perception of emotion from upper body movement in virtual characters. Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Designing and Developing Virtual and Augmented Environments, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 8525, 2014, pp 263-273. 6th International Conference, VAMR 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part I.
Corrigan, L.J., Basedow, C., Küster, D., Kappas, A., Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2014). Mixing Implicit and Explicit Probes: Finding a Ground Truth for Engagement in Social Human-Robot Interactions. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’14), Bielefeld, Germany, March 2014. Best paper award nominee, late breaking reports.
2013
Castellano, G., Leite, I., Pereira, A., Martinho, C., Paiva, A, & McOwan, P. W. (2013). Multimodal Affect Modelling and Recognition for Empathic Robot Companions. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 10(1).
Corrigan, L., Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2013). Social-Task Engagement: Striking a Balance between the Robot and the Task. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Embodied Communication of Goals and Intentions, International Conference on Social Robotics, Bristol, United Kingdom, October 2013.
Serholt, S., Barendregt, W., Ribeiro, T., Castellano, G., Paiva, A., Kappas, A., Aylett, R., & Nabais, F. (2013). EMOTE: Embodied-Perceptive Tutors for Empathy-based Learning in a Game Environment. In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Games Based Learning, Porto, Portugal, October 2013.
Serban, O., Castellano, G., Pauchet, A., Rogozan, A., & Pecuchet, J.-P. (2013). Fusion of Smile, Valence and NGram Features for Automatic Affect Detection. Proceedings of the 5th Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII’13), Geneva, Switzerland, September 2013.
Papadopoulos, F., Corrigan, L., Jones, A., & Castellano, G. (2013). Learner Modelling and Automatic Engagement Recognition with Robotic Tutors. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE): Interacting with Affective Artefacts in the Wild, 5th Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII’13), Geneva, Switzerland, September 2013.
Corrigan, L., Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2013). Identifying Task Engagement: Towards Personalised Interactions with Educational Robots. Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of the 5th Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII’13), Geneva, Switzerland, September 2013.
Kappas, A., Castellano, G., Paiva, A., Barendregt, W., Aylett, R., Nabais, F., & Kuster, D. (2013). Affective Loops between Children and Artificial Embodied Tutors: The EMOTE Project. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE) Conference 2013, Berkeley, CA, USA, August 2013.
Bhargava, S., Janarthanam, S., Hastie, H., Deshmukh, A., Aylett, R., Corrigan, L., & Castellano, G (2013). Demonstration of the EmoteWizard of Oz Interface for Empathic Robotic Tutors. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL, August 2013, Metz, France.
Castellano, G., Paiva, A., Kappas, A., Aylett, R., Hastie, H., Barendregt, W., Nabais, F., & Bull, S. (2013). Towards Empathic Virtual and Robotic Tutors. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED’13), Memphis, USA, July 2013.
Jones, A., Bull., S., and Castellano, & G. (2013). Teacher Perspectives on the Potential for Scaffolding with an Open Learner Model and an Empathic Robot. Proceedings of the AIED 2013 Workshop: Scaffolding in Open-Ended Learning Environments, Memphis, USA, July 2013.
Deshmukh, A., Castellano, G., Kappas, A., Barendregt, W., Nabais, F., Paiva, A., Ribeiro, T., Leite, I., & Aylett, R. (2013). Towards Empathic Artificial Tutors. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’13), Tokyo, Japan, March 2013.
Castellano, G., Karpouzis, K., Morency, L.-P., Martin, J.-C., Peters, C., & Riek, L. (2013). 5th International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE): Interacting with Affective Artefacts in the Wild. Proceedings of the 5th Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII’13), Geneva, Switzerland, September 2013.
2012
Castellano, G., Mancini, M., Peters, C., & McOwan, P.W. (2012). Expressive Copying Behavior for Social Agents: A Perceptual Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A - Systems and Humans, 42(3), 776-783.
Castellano, G, Leite I, Paiva A, & McOwan P. W. (2012). Affective Teaching: Learning more Effectively from Empathic Robots. Awareness magazine: Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems - Interactive Robotics.
Castellano, G., Riek, L., Peters, C., Karpouzis, K., Martin, J.-C.. & Morency, L.-P. (2012). Introduction to the Special Issue on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2(1).
Leite, I., Pereira, A., Castellano, G., Mascarenhas, S., Martinho, C., & Paiva, A. (2012). Modelling Empathy in Social Robotic Companions. Advances in User Modeling: Selected Papers from UMAP 2011 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7138.
Leite, I., Castellano, G., Pereira, A., Martinho, C., & Paiva, A. (2012). Long-term Interactions with Empathic Robots: Evaluating Perceived Support in Children. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics. Chengdu, China. Best student paper award.
Castellano, G., Leite, I., Pereira, A., Martinho, C., Paiva, A., & McOwan, P.W. (2012). Detecting Engagement in HRI: An Exploration of Social and Task-based Context. Proceedings of the IEEE/ASE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom’12), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2012.
Leite, I., Castellano, G., Pereira, A., Martinho, C., & Paiva, A. (2012). Modelling Empathic Behaviour in a Robotic Game Companion for Children: An Ethnographic Study in Real-World Settings. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’12), Boston, MA, USA, March 2012.
2011
Aylett, R., Castellano, G., Raducanu, B., Paiva, A., & Hanheide, M. (2011). Long-Term Socially Perceptive and Interactive Robot Companions: Challenges and Future Perspectives. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’11), Alicante, Spain, November 2011.
Castellano, G., Mancini, M., & Peters, C. (2011). Emotion Communication via Copying Behaviour: A Case Study with the Greta Embodied Conversational Agent. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’11), Alicante, Spain, November 2011.
Mancini, M., Castellano, G., Peters, C. & McOwan, P.W. (2011). Evaluating the Communication of Emotion via Expressive Gesture Copying Behaviour in an Embodied Humanoid Agent. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2011), Memphis, Tennessee, October 2011.
Leite, I., Pereira, A., Castellano, G., Mascarenhas, S., Martinho, C. & Paiva, A. (2011). Social Robots in Learning Environments: a Case Study of an Empathic Chess Companion. Proceedings of The International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE), International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalizarion (UMAP 2011), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Girona, Spain, July 2011.
Sanghvi, J., Castellano, G., Leite, I., Pereira, A., McOwan, P. W., & Paiva, A. (2011). Automatic Analysis of Affective Postures and Body Motion to Detect Engagement with a Game Companion. Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2011
Peters, C., Castellano, G., Rehm, M., Andre, E., Volpe, G., Camurri, A., Raouzaiou, A., Rapantzikos, K., Karpouzis, K., & Vasalou, A. (2011). Agent Perception and Attention Modelling. In P. Petta, C. Pelachaud & R. Cowie (Eds.), Handbook of Emotion-Oriented Technologies. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
2010
Castellano, G., & Peters, C. (2010). Socially Perceptive Robots: Challenges and Concerns. Interaction Studies, 11(2), John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Castellano, G., Leite, I., Pereira, A., Martinho, C., Paiva, A, & McOwan, P. W. (2010). Affect Recognition for Interactive Companions: Challenges and Design in Real World Scenarios. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 3(1), 89-98, Springer. [PDF]
Kessous, L., Castellano, G., & Caridakis, G. (2010). Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Speech-based Interaction using Facial Expression, Body Gesture and Acoustic Analysis. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 3(1), 33-48, Springer.
Castellano, G., Karpouzis, K., Peters, C., & Martin, J.-C. (2010). Special Issue on Real-Time Affect Analysis and Interpretation: Closing the Affective Loop in Virtual Agents and Robots. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 3(1), 1-3, Springer.
Castellano, G., Karpouzis, K., Morency, L.-P., Martin, J.-C., Peters, C., & Riek, L. (2010). 3rd International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE). Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 2010.
Castellano, G., Caridakis, G., Camurri, A., Karpouzis, K., Volpe, G., & Kollias, S. (2010). Body Gesture and Facial Expression Analysis for Automatic Affect Recognition. In K. R. Scherer, T. Baenziger, & E. B. Roesch (Eds.), Blueprint for Affective Computing: A Sourcebook. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Castellano, G., Leite, I., Pereira, A., Martinho, C., Paiva, A., & McOwan, P. W. (2010). Inter-ACT: An Affective and Contextually Rich Multimodal Video Corpus for Studying Interaction with Robots. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 2010
Deshmukh, A., Castellano, G., Lim, M. Y., Aylett, R., & McOwan, P. W. (2010). Ubiquitous Social Perception Abilities for Interaction Initiation in Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Affect Interaction in Natural Environments, ACM Multimedia 2010, Florence, Italy, October 2010.
Leite, I., Pereira, A., Mascarenhas, S., Castellano, G., Martinho, C., Prada, R., & Paiva, A. (2010). Closing the Loop: from Affect Recognition to Empathic Interaction. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Affect Interaction in Natural Environments, ACM Multimedia 2010, Florence, Italy, October 2010.
2009
Castellano, G., Martin, J.-C., Murray, J., Karpouzis, K., and Peters, C. (2009). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Affective-Aware Virtual Agents and Social Robots. International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces/Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-MLMI’09), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2009.
Castellano, G., & Mancini, M. (2009). Analysis of Emotional Gestures for the Generation of Expressive Copying Behaviour in an Embodied Agent. In M. Sales Dias, S. Gibet, M. Wanderley, & R. Bastos (Eds.), Advances in Gesture-based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation: 7th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5085 (pp.193-198). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Camurri, A., Castellano, G., Glowinski, D., Varni, G., & Volpe, G. (2009). Il Gesto Espressivo nell’Interazione Uomo-Macchina. In C. Pelachaud, N. De Carolis, & F. De Rosis (Eds.), La Ricerca sui Sistemi Intelligenti in Italia. In Cognito - Quaderni Romanzi di Science Cognitive, 4(1-2).
Castellano, G., Pereira, A., Leite, I., Paiva, A., & McOwan, P. W. (2009). Detecting User Engagement with a Robot Companion Using Task and Social Interaction-Based Features. Proceedings of International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI’09) (pp. 119-126), Cambridge, MA. ACM, New York, NY
Peters., C., Castellano, G., & de Freitas, S. (2009). An Exploration of User Engagement in HCI. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Affect-Aware Virtual Agents and Social Robots (AFFINE’09), ICMI-MLMI’09, Cambridge, MA. ACM, New York, NY
Leite, I., Castellano, G., Pereira, A., Martinho, C, Paiva, A., & McOwan, P. W. (2009). Designing a Game Companion for Long-Term Social Interaction. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Affect-Aware Virtual Agents and Social Robots (AFFINE’09), ICMI-MLMI’09, Cambridge, MA. ACM, New York, NY
Castellano, G., Leite, I., Pereira, A., Martinho, C., Paiva, A., & McOwan, P. W. (2009). It’s All in the Game: Towards an Affect Sensitive and Context Aware Game Companion. Proceedings of the International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII’09), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. IEEE Press
Castellano, G., & McOwan, P. W. (2009). Analysis of Affective Cues in Human-Robot Interaction: A Multi-Level Approach. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (pp. 258-261), London, UK. IEEE Press.
Leite, I., Pereira, A., Martinho, C., Paiva, A., & Castellano, G. (2009). Towards an Empathic Chess Companion. Proceedings of Workshop on Empathic Agents, 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’09), Budapest, Hungary.
2008
Castellano, G. (2008). Movement Expressivity Analysis in Affective Computers: From Recognition to Expression of Emotion. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences, University of Genoa, Italy, February 2008.
Castellano, G., Mortillaro, M., Camurri, A., Volpe, G., & Scherer, K. R. (2008). Automated Analysis of Body Movement in Emotionally Expressive Piano Performances. Music Perception, 26(2), 103-119, University of California Press (Copyright 2008 University of California Press)
Castellano, G., Kessous, L., & Caridakis, G. (2008). Emotion Recognition Through Multiple Modalities: Face, Body Gesture, Speech. In C. Peter, & R. Beale (Eds.), Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4868, (pp.92-103). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Castellano, G., Aylett, R., Paiva, A., & McOwan, P. W. (2008). Affect Recognition for Interactive Companions. Proceedings of Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments: Real-Time Affect Analysis and Interpretation for Virtual Agents and Robots (AFFINE’08), ICMI’08, Chania, Crete, Greece
Castellano, G., Aylett, R., Dautenhahn, K., Paiva, A., McOwan, P. W., & Ho, S. (2008). Long-Term Affect Sensitive and Socially Interactive Companions. Proceedings of Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy
Castellano, G., & McOwan, P. W. (2008). Movement Expressivity for Affect Sensitive Long-Term Artificial Companions. Workshop “A Virtual Butler: Prerequisites to its Development”, Vienna, Austria.
2007
Castellano, G., Villalba, S. D., & Camurri, A. (2007). Recognising Human Emotions from Body Movement and Gesture Dynamics. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Lisbon, Portugal. In A. Paiva, R. Prada, & R. W. Picard (Eds.), Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4738, (pp. 71-82). Berlin: Springer-Verlag
Castellano, G., Bresin, R., Camurri, A., & Volpe, G. (2007). User-Centred Control of Audio and Visual Expressive Feedback by Full-Body Movements. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Lisbon, Portugal. In A. Paiva, R. Prada, & R. W. Picard (Eds.), Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4738, (pp. 501-510). Berlin: Springer-Verlag
Castellano, G., Kessous, L., & Caridakis, G. (2007). Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Expressive Faces, Body Gestures and Speech. Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of the 2nd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Lisbon, Portugal.
Mancini, M., & Castellano, G. (2007). Real-Time Analysis and Synthesis of Emotional Gesture Expressivity. Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of the 2nd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Lisbon, Portugal.
Castellano, G., Bresin, R., Camurri, A., & Volpe, G. (2007). Expressive Control of Music and Visual Media by Full-Body Movement. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME’07), New York, USA.
Castellano, G., & Mancini, M. (2007). Analysis of Emotional Gestures from Videos for the Generation of Expressive Behaviour in an ECA. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, Lisbon.
Camurri, A., Castellano, G., Cowie, R., Glowinski, D., Knapp., B., Krumhansl, C.L., Villon, O., & Volpe, G. (2007). The Premio Paganini Project: A Multimodal Gesture-Based Approach for Explaining Emotional Processes in Music Performances. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, Lisbon.
Castellano, G., Camurri, A., Mazzarino, B., & Volpe, G. (2007). A Mathematical Model to Analyse the Dynamics of Gesture Expressivity. Proceedings of the Symposium on Affective Smart Environments, AISB’07 Convention, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Mancini, M., Castellano, G., Bevacqua, E., & Peters, C. (2007). Copying Behaviour of Expressive Motion. Proceedings of the 3rd Mirage International Conference, Versailles, France. In A. Gagalowicz & W. Philips (Eds.), Computer Vision/Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4418 (pp. 180-191). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
2006
Camurri, A., Castellano, G., Ricchetti, M., & Volpe, G. (2006). Subject Interfaces: Measuring Bodily Activation During an Emotional Experience of Music. In S. Gibet, N. Courty, & J. F. Kamp (Eds.), Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation: 6th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2005, Berder Island, France, May 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3881 (pp. 268-279). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
2005
Castellano, G., & Camurri, A. (2005). Experiments, Analysis and Models of Motor Activation as a Component of an Emotional Process. Symposium on Alternatives to Verbal Reports Measures of Appraisal and Emotion: Facial and Vocal Expression, XIIIth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE), Bari, Italy, July 11-15, 2005.
Bornand, C., Camurri, A., Castellano, G., Catheline, S., Crevoisier, A., Roesch, E., Scherer, K. R., & Volpe, G. (2005). Usability Evaluation and Comparison of Prototypes of Tangible Acoustic Interfaces. Proceedings of the 2nd Enactive International Conference, Genoa, Italy.
Camurri, A., Castellano, G., Coletta, P., Massari, A., Mazzarino, B., Varni, G., & Volpe, G. (2005). Multimodal Interfaces for Expressive Interaction. Proceedings of HCItaly 2005, Italian Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction, Roma, Italy.
Camurri, A., Castellano, G., Ricchetti, M., & Volpe, G. (2005). Subject Interfaces: Measuring Bodily Activation During an Emotional Experience of Music. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, Berder Island, France, 2005.
2004
Camurri, A., Castellano, G., Mazzarino, B., Varni, G., & Volpe, G. (2004). Expressive Gesture Analysis and Expressive Gestural Control Strategies. Proceedings of Stockholm Music and Music Science Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden.