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Jun 17, 2025 Our paper “Exploring LLM-generated Culture-specific Affective Human-Robot Tactile Interaction” was accepted by the ICSR 2025.
Jun 09, 2025 Our paper “Situated Haptic Interaction: Exploring the Role of Context in Affective Perception of Robotic Touch” was accepted by the IEEE RO-MAN 2025.
Apr 01, 2025 I’m thrilled to share that I’ve started a new journey as a Visiting PhD Researcher at Cognitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies of the Italian Institute of Technology.
Jan 06, 2025 Our paper “Touched by ChatGPT: Using an LLM to Drive Affective Tactile Interaction”, was accepted as a late-breaking report at ACM/IEEE HRI 2025.
Dec 18, 2024 Our paper was accepted by ICASSP 2025.
Dec 04, 2024 Our paper “Tactile interaction with social robots influences attitudes and behaviour” was accepted by the International Journal of Social Robotics.
Oct 25, 2024 Our paper wins the best paper award at the International Conference on Social Robotics 2024 🏆