Valerio Sperati

25 papers B 3Misc 6Journal 8Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 — conf
A Proposal for a Multimodal Interactive Platform for Data Collection in Autism Play-Based Therapy Sessions.
UbiComp Companion
Giampiero Bartolomei, Giovanni Granato, Gianluca Baldassarre, Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati
2025 J jnl
A proposal for an AI-based toy to encourage and assess symbolic play in autistic children.
Behav. Inf. Technol.
Giampiero Bartolomei, Beste Özcan, Giovanni Granato, Gianluca Baldassarre, Valerio Sperati
2025 Misc conf
A tangible, toy-based platform to evaluate the child's social interaction in turn-taking games: promising preliminary results on neurodivergent twins.
IDC
Valerio Sperati, Beste Özcan, Federica Giovannone, Massimiliano Schembri, Giovanni Granato, Noemi Faedda, Carla Sogos, Vincenzo Guidetti, Gianluca Baldassarre
2025 B conf
Echo: an AI-based toy to encourage symbolic play in children with Autism Spectrum Conditions.
TEI
Giampiero Bartolomei, Beste Özcan, Giovanni Granato, Gianluca Baldassarre, Valerio Sperati
2025 B conf
Interactive Dynamics with Concepts Varying in Abstractness and Vagueness.
CogSci
Chiara De Livio, Claudia Mazzuca, Viola Chillura, Valerio Sperati, Anna M. Borghi
2024 Misc conf
A tangible, toy-based platform to evaluate the child's social interaction in turn-taking game: a prospective on monitoring neurodevelopmental disorders.
IDC
Valerio Sperati, Beste Özcan, Federica Giovannone, Massimiliano Schembri, Noemi Faedda, Carla Sogos, Vincenzo Guidetti, Gianluca Baldassarre
2024 Misc conf
The use of Transitional Wearable Companion toys to promote children's emotional intelligence: the Emotion-Lab program.
IDC
Clara Sardella, Claudia Di Marco, Martina Porcelli, Jasmine Miozzi, Valerio Sperati, Beste Özcan, Massimiliano De Luca, Alessandro Pecora, Massimiliano Schembri, Gianluca Baldassarre, Riccardo Santilli
2023 Misc conf
Co-designing play activities and monitoring tools with smart interactive toys to support early intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder and comparable neurodevelopmental conditions.
IDC
Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati, Flora Giocondo, Jônata Tyska Carvalho, Gianluca Baldassarre
2023 B conf
Multi-sensory Wearable Bio-feedback Pillow to Enhance Genuine Feeling of Intimate Connection.
TEI
Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati, Flora Giocondo, Massimiliano Schembri, Gianluca Baldassarre
2023 Misc conf
Supporting turn-taking activities: a pilot study using a smart toy with children with a diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders.
IDC
Flora Giocondo, Noemi Faedda, Gioia Cavalli, Massimiliano Schembri, Francesco Montedori, Federica Giovannone, Carla Sogos, Vincenzo Guidetti, Valerio Sperati, Beste Özcan, Gianluca Baldassarre
2022 — conf
A Novel System Based on a Smart Toy Responding to Child's Facial Expressions: Potential Use in Early Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders.
HCI (48)
Francesco Montedori, Francesca Romana Mattei, Beste Özcan, Massimiliano Schembri, Valerio Sperati, Gianluca Baldassarre
2022 Misc conf
Interactive soft toys to support social engagement through sensory-motor plays in early intervention of kids with special needs.
IDC
Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati, Flora Giocondo, Massimiliano Schembri, Gianluca Baldassarre
2022 — conf
Leveraging curiosity to encourage social interactions in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: preliminary results using the interactive toy PlusMe.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Flora Giocondo, Noemi Faedda, Gioia Cavalli, Valerio Sperati, Beste Özcan, Federica Giovannone, Carla Sogos, Vincenzo Guidetti, Gianluca Baldassarre
2021 — conf
"X-8": An Experimental Interactive Toy to Support Turn-Taking Games in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
HCI (37)
Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati, Flora Giocondo, Gianluca Baldassarre
2020 — conf
Lokahi: The Wearable Body Pillow to Foster an Intimate Interaction Between Two Users Through Their Heartbeat Awareness.
HCI (49)
Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati
2018 J jnl
Bio-Inspired Model Learning Visual Goals and Attention Skills Through Contingencies and Intrinsic Motivations.
IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst.
Valerio Sperati, Gianluca Baldassarre
2016 J jnl
Interplay of Rhythmic and Discrete Manipulation Movements During Development: A Policy-Search Reinforcement-Learning Robot Model.
IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst.
Valentina Cristina Meola, Daniele Caligiore, Valerio Sperati, Loredana Zollo, Anna Lisa Ciancio, Fabrizio Taffoni, Eugenio Guglielmelli, Gianluca Baldassarre
2016 J jnl
Transitional Wearable Companions: A Novel Concept of Soft Interactive Social Robots to Improve Social Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics
Beste Özcan, Daniele Caligiore, Valerio Sperati, Tania Moretta, Gianluca Baldassarre
2014 — conf
Learning where to look with movement-based intrinsic motivations: A bio-inspired model.
ICDL-EPIROB
Valerio Sperati, Gianluca Baldassarre
2014 J jnl
Modular and hierarchical brain organization to understand assimilation, accommodation and their relation to autism in reaching tasks: a developmental robotics hypothesis.
Adapt. Behav.
Daniele Caligiore, Paolo Tommasino, Valerio Sperati, Gianluca Baldassarre
2013 J jnl
Swarmanoid: A Novel Concept for the Study of Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.
Marco Dorigo, Dario Floreano, Luca Maria Gambardella, Francesco Mondada, Stefano Nolfi, Tarek Baaboura, Mauro Birattari, Michael Bonani, Manuele Brambilla, Arne Brutschy, Daniel Burnier, Alexandre Campo, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Antal Decugniere, Gianni Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, Eliseo Ferrante, Alexander Förster, Javier Martinez Gonzales, Jerome Guzzi, Valentin Longchamp, Stéphane Magnenat, Nithin Mathews, Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, Rehan O'Grady, Carlo Pinciroli, Giovanni Pini, Philippe Rétornaz, James F. Roberts, Valerio Sperati, Timothy S. Stirling, Alessandro Stranieri, Thomas Stützle, Vito Trianni, Elio Tuci, Ali Emre Turgut, Florian Vaussard
2012 — conf
A bio-inspired attention model of anticipation in gaze-contingency experiments with infants.
ICDL-EPIROB
Rodolfo Marraffa, Valerio Sperati, Daniele Caligiore, Jochen Triesch, Gianluca Baldassarre
2011 J jnl
Self-organised path formation in a swarm of robots.
Swarm Intell.
Valerio Sperati, Vito Trianni, Stefano Nolfi
2010 — conf
Evolution of Self-organised Path Formation in a Swarm of Robots.
ANTS Conference
Valerio Sperati, Vito Trianni, Stefano Nolfi
2008 J jnl
Evolving coordinated group behaviours through maximisation of mean mutual information.
Swarm Intell.
Valerio Sperati, Vito Trianni, Stefano Nolfi