RICE lab’s primary objective is scientific research. Over the last year, individuals associated with the RICE lab made significant contributions to various scientific publications, even before the lab’s official establishment in 2022. Presented here is a partial list of these scientific publications. Should you desire further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Books
Papadopoulos, I., Koulouglioti, C., Papadopoulos, C., Sgorbissa, A. Transcultural Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Health and Social Care, Elsevier, 2021/2022, Vincitore del Prose Award dell’Association of American Publishers, sezione NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH.
Selected articles in International Journals (from 2017)
Grassi, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A., Sustainable Cloud Services for Verbal Interaction with Embodied Agents (2023) Intelligent Service Robotics, (2023) Intelligent Service Robotics, 16 (5), pp. 599-618.
Grassi, L., Ciranni, M., Baglietto, P., Recchiuto, C.T., Maresca, M., Sgorbissa, A. Emergency management through information crowdsourcing (2023) Information Processing and Management, 60 (4).
Morando, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Calla, J., Scuteri, P., Sgorbissa, A. Thermal and Visual Tracking of Photovoltaic Plants for Autonomous UAV Inspection, (2022) Drones, 6 (11).
Grillo, A., Carpin, S., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Trust as a metric for auction-based task assignment in a cooperative team of robots with heterogeneous capabilities (2022) Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 157.
Gjaci, A., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Towards Culture-Aware Co-Speech Gestures for Social Robots (2022) International Journal of Social Robotics, 14 (6), pp. 1493-1506.
Grassi, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Flow Management for Social Robots and Conversational Agents (2022) International Journal of Social Robotics, 14 (5), pp. 1273-1293.
Bisio, I.-S., Morando, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Social Drone Sharing to Increase UAV Patrolling Autonomy in Pre- and Post-Emergency Scenarios (2022) Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9
Grassi, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Knowledge triggering, extraction and storage via human–robot verbal interaction (2022) Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 148.
Papadopoulos, C., Castro, N., Nigath, A., Davidson, R., Faulkes, N., Menicatti, R., Khaliq, A.A., Recchiuto, C., Battistuzzi, L., Randhawa, G., Merton, L., Kanoria, S., Chong, N.-Y., Kamide, H., Hewson, D., Sgorbissa, A. The CARESSES Randomised Controlled Trial: Exploring the Health-Related Impact of Culturally Competent Artificial Intelligence Embedded Into Socially Assistive Robots and Tested in Older Adult Care Homes (2022) International Journal of Social Robotics, 14 (1), pp. 245-256.
Battistuzzi, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Ethical concerns in rescue robotics: a scoping review (2021) Ethics and Information Technology, 23 (4), pp. 863-875.
Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A., A Feasibility Study of Culture-Aware Cloud Services for Conversational Robots (2020) IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5 (4), pp. 6559-6566.
Papadopoulos, C., Hill, T., Battistuzzi, L., Castro, N., Nigath, A., Randhawa, G., Merton, L., Kanoria, S., Kamide, H., Chong, N.-Y., Hewson, D., Davidson, R., Sgorbissa, A. The CARESSES study protocol: Testing and evaluating culturally competent socially assistive robots among older adults residing in long-term care homes through a controlled experimental trial (2020) Archives of Public Health, 78 (1).
Battistuzzi, L., Papadopoulos, C., Hill, T., Castro, N., Bruno, B. & Sgorbissa, A. (2019). Socially assistive robots, older adults and research ethics: The case for case-based ethics training. International Journal of Social Robotics, online, pp. 1-13.
Chiang, T.-C., Bruno, B., Menicatti, R., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Culture as a Sensor? A Novel Perspective on Human Activity Recognition (2019) International Journal of Social Robotics, 11(5), pp. 797-814.
Bruno, B., Recchiuto, C.T., Papadopoulos, I., Saffiotti, A., Koulouglioti, C., Menicatti, R., Mastrogiovanni, F., Zaccaria, R., Sgorbissa, A., Knowledge Representation for Culturally Competent Personal Robots: Requirements, Design Principles, Implementation, and Assessment (2019) International Journal of Social Robotics, 11 (3), pp. 515-538.
Sgorbissa, A., Integrated robot planning, path following, and obstacle avoidance in two and three dimensions: Wheeled robots, underwater vehicles, and multicopters (2019) International Journal of Robotics Research, 38 (7), pp. 853-876.
Tanveer, M.H., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A., Analysis of path following and obstacle avoidance for multiple wheeled robots in a shared workspace (2019) Robotica, 37 (1), pp. 80-108.
Pham, V.C., Lim, Y., Sgorbissa, A., Tan, Y. An ontology-driven echonet lite adaptation layer for smart homes (2019) Journal of Information Processing, 27, pp. 360-368.
Iacono, M., Sgorbissa, A. Path following and obstacle avoidance for an autonomous UAV using a depth camera (2018) Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 106, pp. 38-46.
Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Post-disaster assessment with unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey on practical implementations and research approaches (2018) Journal of Field Robotics, 35 (4), pp. 459-490.
Nguyen, P.D.H., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Real-Time Path Generation and Obstacle Avoidance for Multirotors: A Novel Approach (2018) Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications, 89 (1-2), pp. 27-49.
Papadopoulos, I., Sgorbissa, A., Koulouglioti, C. (2017). Caring robots are here to help: Nurse researchers and scientists developing culturally sensitive care robots say there is nothing to fear – in fact there’s much to be gained – from this technology. Nursing Standard. 31. 18-20.
Recchiuto, C.T., Scalmato, A., Sgorbissa, A., A dataset for human localization and mapping with wearable sensors, Robotics and Autonomous Systems 97, pp. 136-143, 2017.
Selected chapters of edited books (from 2017)
Porta, F., Recchiuto, C.T., Casadio, M., Sgorbissa, A. Towards a Framework for the Whole-Body Teleoperation of a Humanoid Robot in Healthcare Settings (2022) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13818 LNAI, pp. 288-298.
Grassi, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Knowledge-Driven Conversation for Social Robots: Exploring Crowdsourcing Mechanisms for Improving the System Capabilities (2021) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12414 LNAI, pp. 249-259.
Pham, V.C., Lim, Y., Bui, H.-D., Tan, Y., Chong, N.Y., Sgorbissa, A. An Experimental Study on Culturally Competent Robot for Smart Home Environment. In: Leonard Barolli, Flora Amato, Francesco Moscato, Tomoya Enokido, Makoto Takizawa (eds) “Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2020), Caserta, Italy, 15-17 Aprile 2020”, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1151, pp. 369-380. ISBN: 978-3-030-44041-1
Tanveer M.H., Sgorbissa A., Thomas A., An IPM Approach to Multi-robot Cooperative Localization: Pepper Humanoid and Wheeled Robots in a Shared Space. In: Gusikhin O., Madani K. (eds) “Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 15th International Conference, ICINCO 2018, Porto, Portugal, July 29-31, 2018, Revised Selected Papers”, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 613, Springer, Cham, pp 429-447. ISBN: 978-3-030-31993-9
Bruno, B., Chong, N.Y., Kamide, H., Kanoria, S., Lee, J., Lim, Y., Pandey, A.K., Papadopoulos, C., Papadopoulos, I., Pecora, F., Saffiotti, A., Sgorbissa, A., The CARESSES EU-Japan Project: Making Assistive Robots Culturally Competent, In: Niccolò Casiddu, Claudia Porfirione, Andrea Monteriù, Filippo Cavallo (eds) “Ambient Assisted Living, Italian Forum 2017, Proc. 8th Italian Forum on Ambient Assisted Living, ForitAAL 2017”, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 540, pp. 151-169. ISBN: 978-3-030-04672-9
Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A., The project PRISMA: Post-Disaster assessment with UAVs (2017) In: Weidong Chen, Koh Hosoda, Emanuele Menegatti, Masahiro Shimizu, Hesheng Wang (eds) “Intelligent Autonomous Systems 14, Proc. of the 14th International Conference IAS-14, Shanghai, China, 3 – 7 July 2017”, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 531, Volume 531, 2017, pp. 199-211. ISBN: 978-3-319-48036-7
Selected articles on Conference Proceedings (from 2017)
Sani, E., Sgorbissa, A., Carpin, S. Improving the ROS 2 Navigation Stack with Real-Time Local Costmap Updates for Agricultural Applications (2024) Proceedings – IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 17701-17707, May 13-17, 2024 Yokohama, Japan.
Nardelli, A., Sgorbissa, A., Recchiuto, C.T. Personality- and Memory-Based Software Framework for Human-Robot Interaction (2024) Proceedings – IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 17388-17394, May 13-17, 2024 Yokohama, Japan.
Grassi, L., Hong, Z., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Grounding Conversational Robots on Vision Through Dense Captioning and Large Language Models (2024) Proceedings – IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5492-5498, May 13-17, 2024 Yokohama, Japan.
Joy, J., Bartolini, A., Milella, M., Sgorbissa, A., Recchiuto, C.T. Social Robotics and Intercultural Pedagogy (2024) 2024 32nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2024, pp. 292-297, June 11 – 14, Chania, Crete, Greece.
Beaune, C., Hery, E., Fremont, V., Sgorbissa, A., Recchiuto, C. Collaborative Navigation Strategies Based on Vehicles Features in Connected Environments (2023) Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, SOLI 2023, 11-13 December, Singapore.
Grassi L., Recchiuto C. T., Sgorbissa A., Robot-Induced Group Conversation Dynamics: A Model to Balance Participation and Unify Communities, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 1-5 2023, Detroit, USA, accepted for publication.
D’Angelo, I., Morocutti, L., Giunchiglia, E., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Nice and Nasty Theory of Mind for Social and Antisocial Robots, 32nd IEEE Int. Conf. on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE Ro-Man, August 28-31, Busan, Korea.
Grassi, L., Canepa, D., Bellitto, A., Casadio, M., Massone, A., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A., Diversity-Aware Verbal Interaction Between a Robot and People With Spinal Cord Injury, 32nd IEEE Int. Conf. on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE Ro-Man, August 28-31, Busan, Korea.
Nardelli, A., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A., A Software Framework to Encode the Psychological Dimensions of an Artificial Agent, IEEE Ro-Man, August 28-31, Busan, Korea.
Betta, A., Paneri, S., Gaudino, A., Benini, A., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A., Multi-floor danger and responsiveness assessment with autonomous legged robots in catastrophic scenarios, IEEE Ro-Man, August 28-31, Busan, Korea.
Gjaci, A., Oneto, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Culture Awareness in Intelligent Systems (2023) AIRO 2022 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3417, pp. 25-30.
Demutti, M., D’Amato, V., Recchiuto, C.T., Oneto, L., Sgorbissa, A. A Cloud Architecture for Emotion Recognition Based on the Appraisal Theory (2023) AIRO 2022 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3417, pp. 19-24.
Grassi, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Multiparty Verbal Interaction between Humans and Artificial Agents (2023) AIRO 2022 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3417, pp. 31-37.
Demutti, M., D’Amato, V., Recchiuto, C., Oneto, L., Sgorbissa, A. Assessing Emotions in Human-Robot Interaction Based on the Appraisal Theory (2022) RO-MAN 2022 – 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Social, Asocial, and Antisocial Robots, pp. 1435-1442.
L. Battistuzzi, L. Grassi, C. Recchiuto, and A. Sgorbissa, “Design and usability testing of a text-based simulation for ethics training in disaster robotics,” in Building and Evaluating Ethical Robotic Systems – IROS Workshop, Oct. 2021.
Gjaci, A., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. A GAN-based Approach for Generating Culture-Aware Co-Speech Gestures (2022), The 8th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics – AIRO 2021 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3162, pp. 27-33.
Grassi, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Cloud Services for Social Robots and Artificial Agents (2022), The 8th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics – AIRO 2021 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3162, pp. 21-26.
Grillo, A., Recchiuto, C.T., Carpin, S., Sgorbissa, A. Trust Metrics for Task Assignment in Cooperative Teams of Robots (2022), The 8th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics – AIRO 2021 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3162, pp. 15-20.
Grassi, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A., Knowledge-driven conversation for social robots: Exploring crowdsourcing mechanisms for improving the system capabilities, (2021), eds: Finzi A., Castellini A., Buoncompagni L., Anzalone S., The 7th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics – AIRO 2020, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2806, pp. 12-16.
Battistuzzi, L., Grassi, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Towards Ethics Training in Disaster Robotics: Design and Usability Testing of a Text-Based Simulation (2021) 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, SSRR 2021, pp. 104-109.
Lanza, D., Menicatti, R., Sgorbissa, A. Abductive recognition of context-dependent utterances in human-robot interaction (2020) 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2020, Las Vegas, United States; 24 October 2020 – 24 January 2021.
Morando, L., Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. Social Drone Sharing to Increase the UAV Patrolling Autonomy in Emergency Scenarios (2020) 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020, Virtual, Naples, Italy, 31 August 2020 – 4 September 2020, pp. 539-546.
Speranza, S., Recchiuto, C.T., Bruno, B., Sgorbissa, A. A Model for the Representation of the Extraversion-Introversion Personality Traits in the Communication Style of a Social Robot (2020) 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020, Virtual, Naples, Italy, 31 August 2020 – 4 September 2020, pp. 75-81,
Gava, L., Grassi, L., Lagomarsino, M., Recchiuto, C., Sgorbissa, A. Physical Embodiment of Conversational Social Robots (2020) 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020, Virtual, Naples, Italy, 31 August 2020 – 4 September 2020, pp. 456-463.
Peng, H., Recchiuto, C. T., Sgorbissa, A. Collaboration and Interventions on Urban Environment Mapping with Graph-based SLAM Algorithm (2020) 2020 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, UR 2020, Virtual, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 447-454.
Garello, L., Grella, F., Castagnetta, S., Bruno, B., Recchiuto, C. T., Sgorbissa, A. Robot Agreeableness and User Engagement in Verbal Human-Robot Interaction (2020) 2020 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, UR 2020, Virtual, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 256-263.
Recchiuto, C., Gava, L., Grassi, L., Grillo, A., Lagomarsino, M., Lanza, D., Liu, Z., Papadopoulos, C., Papadopoulos, I., Scalmato, A., Sgorbissa, A. Cloud Services for Culture Aware Conversation: Socially Assistive Robots and Virtual Assistants (2020) 2020 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, UR 2020, Virtual, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 270-277.
Recchiuto, C.T., Papadopoulos, C., Hill, T., Castro, N., Bruno, B., Papadopoulos, I., Sgorbissa, A., Designing an Experimental and a Reference Robot to Test and Evaluate the Impact of Cultural Competence in Socially Assistive Robotics, The 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, IROS2019, 14 – 18 Oct. 2019, Le Meridien, Windsor Place, New Delhi, India
Sgorbissa, A., Saffiotti, A., Chong, N. Y., Battistuzzi, L., Menicatti, R., Pecora, F., Papadopoulos, I., Pandey, A. K., Kamide, H., Koulouglioti, C., Kanoria, S., Mastrolonardo, R., Papadopoulos, C., Merton, L., Lee, J., Randhawa, G., Lim, Y. CARESSES: The Flower that Taught Robots about Culture (2019) ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI, 11-14 Marzo 2019, Daegu, Korea, p. 371.
Menicatti, R., Recchiuto, C. T., Bruno, B., Zaccaria, R., Khaliq, A. A., Kockemann, U., Pecora, F., Saffiotti, A., Bui, H.-D., Chong, N.Y., Lim, Y., Pham, V. C., Tuyen, N. T. V., Melo, N., Lee, J., Busy, M., Lagrue, E., Montanier, J., Pandey, A. K., Sgorbissa, A. Collaborative Development Within a Social Robotic, Multi-Disciplinary Effort: The CARESSES Case Study (2019) Proc. IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO, 2018-September, Genova, pp. 117-124.
Battistuzzi, L., Sgorbissa, A., Papadopoulos, C., Papadopoulos, I., Koulouglioti, C. Embedding Ethics in the Design of Culturally Competent Socially Assistive Robots (2018) IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain, 1-5 Ottobre 2018, pp. 1996-2001.
Sgorbissa, A., Papadopoulos, I., Bruno, B., Koulouglioti, C., Recchiuto, C. Encoding Guidelines for a Culturally Competent Robot for Elderly Care (2018) IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain, 1-5 Ottobre 2018, pp. 1988-1995.
Khaliq, A.A., Kockemann, U., Pecora, F., Saffiotti, A., Bruno, B., Recchiuto, C. T., Sgorbissa, A., Bui, H.-D., Chong, N.Y., Culturally aware Planning and Execution of Robot Actions (2018) IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain, 1-5 Ottobre 2018, pp. 326-332.
Bruno, B., Menicatti, R., Recchiuto, C.T., Lagrue, E., Pandey, A.K., Sgorbissa, A. Culturally-Competent Human-Robot Verbal Interaction (2018) 2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, UR 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA, pp. 388-395.
Tanveer, M.H., Sgorbissa, A. An inverse perspective mapping approach using the monocular camera of pepper humanoid robot to determine the position of other moving robot in a plane (2018) ICINCO 2018 – Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 2, Porto, Portugal, pp. 219-225.
Sarsembayev, A., Sgorbissa, A. Semantics in human localization and mapping (2018) Proc. of the 4th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, A workshop of the XVI International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2017), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2054, Bari, Italy, November 14-15, 2017, pp. 5-9.
Menicatti, R., Sgorbissa, A. A Cloud-Based Scene Recognition Framework for In-Home Assistive Robot, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN2017, Lisbon, Portugal, 28-31 August 2017.
Tanveer M.H., Sgorbissa A., Recchiuto C. T. Collision-free navigation of multiple unicycle mobile robots, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, 28-31 August 2017.
Bruno B., Chong N. H., Kamide H., Kanoria S., Lee J., Lim Y., Pandey A. K., Papadopoulos C., Papadopoulos I., Pecora F., Saffiotti A., Sgorbissa A. Paving the Way for Culturally Competent Robots: a Position Paper, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN2017, Lisbon, Portugal, 28-31 August 2017.
Bruno B., Mastrogiovanni F., Pecora F., Sgorbissa A., and Saffiotti A. A Framework for Culture-aware Robots based on Fuzzy Logic, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2017, Naples, Italy, July 9-12.
Bruno B., Menicatti R., Sgorbissa A. Modelling the Influence of Cultural Information on Vision-Based Human Home Activity Recognition, International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI2017, Maison Glad Jeju, Jeju, Korea June 28-July 2017.