Micol Spitale

87 papers A* 10B 12Misc 1Journal 38Unranked 25
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Concerns and Values in Human-Robot Interactions: A Focus on Social Robotics.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics
Giulio Antonio Abbo, Tony Belpaeme, Micol Spitale
2026 J jnl
Inclusive AI for Group Interactions: Predicting Gaze-Direction Behaviors in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
CoRR
Giulia Huang, Maristella Matera, Micol Spitale
2026 — conf
Roboticist's Guide to Working with Children: A Playful by Design Workshop.
HRI Companion
Leigh M. Levinson, Bengisu Cagiltay, Vicky Charisi, Elena Malnatsky, Mike E. U. Ligthart, Micol Spitale
2025 A* conf
"Can You be my Mum?": Manipulating Social Robots in the Large Language Models Era.
HRI
Giulio Antonio Abbo, Gloria Desideri, Tony Belpaeme, Micol Spitale
2025 J jnl
"Can you be my mum?": Manipulating Social Robots in the Large Language Models Era.
CoRR
Giulio Antonio Abbo, Gloria Desideri, Tony Belpaeme, Micol Spitale
2025 J jnl
Concerns and Values in Human-Robot Interactions: A Focus on Social Robotics.
CoRR
Giulio Antonio Abbo, Tony Belpaeme, Micol Spitale
2025 J jnl
Critical Insights about Robots for Mental Wellbeing.
CoRR
Guy Laban, Micol Spitale, Minja Axelsson, Nida Itrat Abbasi, Hatice Gunes
2025 A* conf
ERR@HRI 2.0 Challenge: Multimodal Detection of Errors and Failures in Human-Robot Conversations.
ACM Multimedia
Shiye Cao, Maia Stiber, Amama Mahmood, Maria Teresa Parreira, Wendy Ju, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes, Chien-Ming Huang
2025 J jnl
ERR@HRI 2.0 Challenge: Multimodal Detection of Errors and Failures in Human-Robot Conversations.
CoRR
Shiye Cao, Maia Stiber, Amama Mahmood, Maria Teresa Parreira, Wendy Ju, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes, Chien-Ming Huang
2025 B conf
Exploring Causality for HRI: A Case Study on Robotic Mental Well-being Coaching.
RO-MAN
Micol Spitale, Srikar Babu, Serhan Cakmak, Jiaee Cheong, Hatice Gunes
2025 J jnl
Exploring Causality for HRI: A Case Study on Robotic Mental Well-being Coaching.
CoRR
Micol Spitale, Srikar Babu, Serhan Cakmak, Jiaee Cheong, Hatice Gunes
2025 B conf
Exploring the Use of Social Robots to Prepare Children for Radiological Procedures: A Focus Group Study.
RO-MAN
Massimiliano Nigro, Andrea Righini, Micol Spitale
2025 J jnl
Exploring the Use of Social Robots to Prepare Children for Radiological Procedures: A Focus Group Study.
CoRR
Massimiliano Nigro, Andrea Righini, Micol Spitale
2025 A* conf
REACT 2025: the Third Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge.
ACM Multimedia
Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Xiangyu Kong, Hengde Zhu, Cheng Luo, Cristina Palmero, Germán Barquero, Sergio Escalera, Michel F. Valstar, Mohamed Daoudi, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Andrew Howes, Elisabeth André, Hatice Gunes
2025 J jnl
REACT 2025: the Third Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge.
CoRR
Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Xiangyu Kong, Hengde Zhu, Cheng Luo, Cristina Palmero, Germán Barquero, Sergio Escalera, Michel F. Valstar, Mohamed Daoudi, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Andrew Howes, Elisabeth André, Hatice Gunes
2025 J jnl
ReactFace: Online Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Cheng Luo, Siyang Song, Wei-Cheng Xie, Micol Spitale, Zongyuan Ge, Linlin Shen, Hatice Gunes
2025 A* conf
Social Group Human-Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Computational Challenges.
HRI
Massimiliano Nigro, Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons, Micol Spitale
2025 — conf
Storytelling and Self-other Integration with Robots: Creation and Validation of Storytelling Stimuli that Induce Social Identification with the QT Robot.
ICSR+AI (2)
Francesca Ciardo, Francesca Foini, Micol Spitale
2025 J jnl
VITA: A Multi-Modal LLM-Based System for Longitudinal, Autonomous and Adaptive Robotic Mental Well-Being Coaching.
ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact.
Micol Spitale, Minja Axelsson, Hatice Gunes
2024 A* conf
"Oh, Sorry, I Think I Interrupted You": Designing Repair Strategies for Robotic Longitudinal Well-being Coaching.
HRI
Minja Axelsson, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
"Oh, Sorry, I Think I Interrupted You": Designing Repair Strategies for Robotic Longitudinal Well-being Coaching.
CoRR
Minja Axelsson, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
Analysing Children's Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Micol Spitale, Joanna Anderson, Tamsin Ford, Peter B. Jones, Hatice Gunes
2024 B conf
Appropriateness of LLM-equipped Robotic Well-being Coach Language in the Workplace: A Qualitative Evaluation.
RO-MAN
Micol Spitale, Minja Axelsson, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
Appropriateness of LLM-equipped Robotic Well-being Coach Language in the Workplace: A Qualitative Evaluation.
CoRR
Micol Spitale, Minja Axelsson, Hatice Gunes
2024 B conf
ERR@HRI 2024 Challenge: Multimodal Detection of Errors and Failures in Human-Robot Interactions.
ICMI
Micol Spitale, Maria Teresa Parreira, Maia Stiber, Minja Axelsson, Neval Kara, Garima Kankariya, Chien-Ming Huang, Malte F. Jung, Wendy Ju, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
ERR@HRI 2024 Challenge: Multimodal Detection of Errors and Failures in Human-Robot Interactions.
CoRR
Micol Spitale, Maria Teresa Parreira, Maia Stiber, Minja Axelsson, Neval Kara, Garima Kankariya, Chien-Ming Huang, Malte F. Jung, Wendy Ju, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Embodied Agents for Wellbeing.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics
Micol Spitale, Katie Winkle, Emilia I. Barakova, Hatice Gunes
2024 B conf
HRI Wasn't Built In a Day: A Call To Action For Responsible HRI Research.
RO-MAN
Micol Spitale, Rebecca Stower, Maria Teresa Parreira, Elmira Yadollahi, Iolanda Leite, Hatice Gunes
2024 — conf
Multimodal Gender Fairness in Depression Prediction: Insights on Data from the USA & China.
ACII (Workshops and Demos)
Joseph Cameron, Jiaee Cheong, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
Multimodal Gender Fairness in Depression Prediction: Insights on Data from the USA & China.
CoRR
Joseph Cameron, Jiaee Cheong, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
Past, Present, and Future: A Survey of The Evolution of Affective Robotics For Well-being.
CoRR
Micol Spitale, Minja Axelsson, Sooyeon Jeong, Paige Tuttosi, Caitlin A. Stamatis, Guy Laban, Angelica Lim, Hatice Gunes
2024 B conf
REACT 2024: the Second Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge.
FG
Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Cheng Luo, Cristina Palmero, Germán Barquero, Hengde Zhu, Sergio Escalera, Michel F. Valstar, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Elisabeth André, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
REACT 2024: the Second Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge.
CoRR
Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Cheng Luo, Cristina Palmero, Germán Barquero, Hengde Zhu, Sergio Escalera, Michel F. Valstar, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Elisabeth André, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
Robots as Mental Well-being Coaches: Design and Ethical Recommendations.
ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact.
Minja Axelsson, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
Small but Fair! Fairness for Multimodal Human-Human and Robot-Human Mental Wellbeing Coaching.
CoRR
Jiaee Cheong, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2024 J jnl
Social Group Human-Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Computational Challenges.
CoRR
Massimiliano Nigro, Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons, Micol Spitale
2024 — conf
Social Signal Modeling in Human-Robot Interaction.
HRI (Companion)
Maia Stiber, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes, Chien-Ming Huang
2024 J jnl
Underneath the Numbers: Quantitative and Qualitative Gender Fairness in LLMs for Depression Prediction.
CoRR
Micol Spitale, Jiaee Cheong, Hatice Gunes
2024 B conf
Understanding Non-Verbal Irony Markers: Machine Learning Insights Versus Human Judgment.
ICMI
Micol Spitale, Fabio Catania, Francesca Panzeri
2023 B conf
"It's not Fair!" - Fairness for a Small Dataset of Multi-modal Dyadic Mental Well-being Coaching.
ACII
Jiaee Cheong, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2023 J jnl
A Systematic Review on Reproducibility in Child-Robot Interaction.
CoRR
Micol Spitale, Rebecca Stower, Elmira Yadollahi, Maria Teresa Parreira, Nida Itrat Abbasi, Iolanda Leite, Hatice Gunes
2023 — conf
Adaptive Robotic Mental Well-being Coaches.
HRI (Companion)
Minja Axelsson, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2023 J jnl
Affective Robotics For Wellbeing: A Scoping Review.
CoRR
Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2023 — conf
CRITTER: Child-Robot Interaction and Interdisciplinary Research.
HRI (Companion)
Rebecca Stower, Mike E. U. Ligthart, Micol Spitale, Natalia Calvo-Barajas, Simone M. de Droog
2023 J jnl
Conversational Agents in Therapeutic Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Survey.
ACM Comput. Surv.
Fabio Catania, Micol Spitale, Franca Garzotto
2023 B conf
Humanoid Robots for Wellbeing Assessment in Children: How Does Anxiety towards the Robot Affect Perceptions of Robot Role, Behaviour and Capabilities?
RO-MAN
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Micol Spitale, Joanna Anderson, Tamsin Ford, Peter B. Jones, Hatice Gunes
2023 B conf
Longitudinal Evolution of Coachees' Behavioural Responses to Interaction Ruptures in Robotic Positive Psychology Coaching.
RO-MAN
Micol Spitale, Minja Axelsson, Neval Kara, Hatice Gunes
2023 J jnl
Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interaction Settings: What, Why and How?
CoRR
Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Yiming Luo, Batuhan Bal, Hatice Gunes
2023 A* conf
REACT2023: The First Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge.
ACM Multimedia
Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Cheng Luo, Germán Barquero, Cristina Palmero, Sergio Escalera, Michel F. Valstar, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Elisabeth André, Hatice Gunes
2023 J jnl
REACT2023: the first Multi-modal Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge.
CoRR
Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Cheng Luo, Germán Barquero, Cristina Palmero, Sergio Escalera, Michel F. Valstar, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Elisabeth André, Hatice Gunes
2023 J jnl
ReactFace: Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions.
CoRR
Cheng Luo, Siyang Song, Weicheng Xie, Micol Spitale, Linlin Shen, Hatice Gunes
2023 J jnl
Reversible Graph Neural Network-based Reaction Distribution Learning for Multiple Appropriate Facial Reactions Generation.
CoRR
Tong Xu, Micol Spitale, Hao Tang, Lu Liu, Hatice Gunes, Siyang Song
2023 — conf
Robotic Coaches Delivering Group Mindfulness Practice at a Public Cafe.
HRI (Companion)
Minja Axelsson, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2023 A* conf
Robotic Mental Well-being Coaches for the Workplace: An In-the-Wild Study on Form.
HRI
Micol Spitale, Minja Axelsson, Hatice Gunes
2023 J jnl
Using Socially Assistive Robots in Speech-Language Therapy for Children with Language Impairments.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics
Micol Spitale, Silvia Silleresi, Franca Garzotto, Maja J. Mataric
2023 J jnl
VITA: A Multi-modal LLM-based System for Longitudinal, Autonomous, and Adaptive Robotic Mental Well-being Coaching.
CoRR
Micol Spitale, Minja Axelsson, Hatice Gunes
2022 A* conf
"How Would You Communicate With a Robot?": People with Neourodevelopmental Disorder's Perspective.
HRI
Corrado Pacelli, Tharushi Kinkini De Silva Pallimulla Hewa Geeganage, Micol Spitale, Eleonora Beccaluva, Franca Garzotto
2022 — conf
Affective Robotics For Wellbeing: A Scoping Review.
ACIIW
Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2022 B conf
Can Robots Help in the Evaluation of Mental Wellbeing in Children? An Empirical Study.
RO-MAN
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Micol Spitale, Joanna Anderson, Tamsin Ford, Peter B. Jones, Hatice Gunes
2022 — conf
Computational Audio Modelling for Robot-Assisted Assessment of Children's Mental Wellbeing.
ICSR (2)
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Micol Spitale, Joanna Anderson, Tamsin Ford, Peter B. Jones, Hatice Gunes
2022 J jnl
Robots as Mental Well-being Coaches: Design and Ethical Recommendations.
CoRR
Minja Axelsson, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
2022 J jnl
Socially Assistive Robots as Storytellers that Elicit Empathy.
ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact.
Micol Spitale, Sarah Okamoto, Mahima Gupta, Hao Xi, Maja J. Mataric
2022 A* conf
Socially Assistive Robots in Smart Homes: Design Factors that Influence the User Perception.
HRI
Eleonora Toscano, Micol Spitale, Franca Garzotto
2021 A* conf
Composing HARMONI: An Open-source Tool for Human and Robot Modular OpeN Interaction.
ICRA
Micol Spitale, Chris Birmingham, R. Michael Swan, Maja J. Mataric
2021 J jnl
Conversational Agents in Therapeutic Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Survey.
CoRR
Fabio Catania, Micol Spitale, Franca Garzotto
2021 — —
Conversational agents for children with language impairments: design and technology.
Micol Spitale
2021 — conf
Design Patterns of Technology-based Therapeutic Activities for Children with Language Impairments: A Psycholinguistic-Driven Approach.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Micol Spitale, Silvia Silleresi, Giulia Leonardi, Fabrizio Arosio, Beatrice Giustolisi, Maria Teresa Guasti, Franca Garzotto
2021 B conf
Modeling User Empathy Elicited by a Robot Storyteller.
ACII
Leena Mathur, Micol Spitale, Hao Xi, Jieyun Li, Maja J. Mataric
2021 J jnl
Modeling User Empathy Elicited by a Robot Storyteller.
CoRR
Leena Mathur, Micol Spitale, Hao Xi, Jieyun Li, Maja J. Mataric
2021 J jnl
Phygital interfaces for people with intellectual disability: an exploratory study at a social care center.
Multim. Tools Appl.
Mirko Gelsomini, Micol Spitale, Franca Garzotto
2021 J jnl
Toward Automated Generation of Affective Gestures from Text: A Theory-Driven Approach.
CoRR
Micol Spitale, Maja J. Mataric
2021 — conf
Toward the Introduction of Google Assistant in Therapy for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: An Exploratory Study.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Fabio Catania, Micol Spitale, Franca Garzotto
2020 Misc conf
"Whom would you like to talk with?": exploring conversational agents for children's linguistic assessment.
IDC
Micol Spitale, Silvia Silleresi, Giulia Cosentino, Francesca Panzeri, Franca Garzotto
2020 — conf
Conversational Agents to Promote Children's Verbal Communication Skills.
CONVERSATIONS
Fabio Catania, Micol Spitale, Giulia Cosentino, Franca Garzotto
2020 — conf
Ecological Momentary Assessment Tools: Lessons Learned from an HCI Perspective.
HCI (1)
Pietro Crovari, Fabio Catania, Micol Spitale, Franca Garzotto
2020 — conf
Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Conversational Agents for Children with Autism.
HICSS
Micol Spitale, Fabio Catania, Pietro Crovari, Franca Garzotto
2020 — conf
Smemo: a Multi-modal Interface Promoting Children's Creation of Personal Conversational Agents.
CIU
Claudia Maria Cutrupi, Salvatore Fadda, Giovanni Valcarenghi, Giulia Cosentino, Fabio Catania, Micol Spitale, Franca Garzotto
2020 — conf
Towards Empathic Conversational Interaction.
CIU
Micol Spitale, Franca Garzotto
2020 — conf
What is the Best Action for Children to "Wake Up" and "Put to Sleep" a Conversational Agent?: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach.
CIU
Fabio Catania, Micol Spitale, Giulia Cosentino, Franca Garzotto
2019 — conf
CORK: A COnversational agent framewoRK exploiting both rational and emotional intelligence.
IUI Workshops
Fabio Catania, Micol Spitale, Davide Fisicaro
2019 — conf
Emotify: emotional game for children with autism spectrum disorder based-on machine learning.
IUI Companion
Amirreza Rouhi, Micol Spitale, Fabio Catania, Giulia Cosentino, Mirko Gelsomini, Franca Garzotto
2019 — conf
GENIEL: an auto-generative intelligent interface to empower learning in a multi-sensory environment.
IUI Companion
Giulia Cosentino, Giulia Leonardi, Mirko Gelsomini, Micol Spitale, Mattia Gianotti, Franca Garzotto, Venanzio Arquilla
2019 — conf
Magika, a Multisensory Environment for Play, Education and Inclusion.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Mirko Gelsomini, Giulia Cosentino, Micol Spitale, Mattia Gianotti, Davide Fisicaro, Giulia Leonardi, Fabiano Riccardi, Agnese Piselli, Eleonora Beccaluva, Barbara Bonadies, Lucia Di Terlizzi, Martino Zinzone, Shanti Alberti, Christelle Rebourg, Marina Carulli, Franca Garzotto, Venanzio Arquilla, Mario Bisson, Barbara Del Curto, Monica Bordegoni
2019 — conf
Meeting the needs of people with neuro-developmental disorder through a phygital approach.
CHItaly
Micol Spitale, Mirko Gelsomini, Eleonora Beccaluva, Leonardo Viola, Franca Garzotto
2019 — conf
Reflex: adaptive learning beyond the screen.
IUI Companion
Mirko Gelsomini, Micol Spitale, Eleonora Beccaluva, Leonardo Viola, Franca Garzotto
2019 — conf
Training self-sufficiency and social skills with embodied conversational agent for children with autism.
IUI Companion
Micol Spitale
2019 — conf
WIYE: building a corpus of children's audio and video recordings with a story-based app.
IUI Companion
Micol Spitale, Fabio Catania, Giulia Cosentino, Mirko Gelsomini, Franca Garzotto