Federico Cau

According to our database, Federico Cau authored at least 24 papers between 2017 and 2026.

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2026

Specializing LLMs to Low-Documented Domains with RAG: An Analysis Across Models and Retrieval Depths.

Jacopo Mereu, Alessandro Carcangiu, Valentino Artizzu, Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano

SN Comput. Sci., April, 2026

Exploring the impact of explainable AI and cognitive capabilities on users' decisions.

Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano

User Model. User Adapt. Interact., March, 2026

ReSHAPe: A redundancy-reduced SHAP-based feature selection pipeline for interpretable radiomics in biomedical image analysis.

Alessandra Perniciano, Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano, Cecilia Di Ruberto, Andrea Loddo

Neurocomputing, 2026

When Life Gives You AI, Will You Turn It Into A Market for Lemons? Understanding How Information Asymmetries About AI System Capabilities Affect Market Outcomes and Adoption.

Alexander Erlei, Federico Maria Cau, Radoslav Georgiev, Sagar Chethan Kumar, Kilian Bizer, Ujwal Gadiraju

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

2025

Beyond Awareness: Investigating How AI and Psychological Factors Shape Human Self-Confidence Calibration.

Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano

CoRR, November, 2025

Can Large Language Models Improve Phishing Defense? A Large-Scale Controlled Experiment on Warning Dialogue Explanations.

Federico Maria Cau, Giuseppe Desolda, Francesco Greco, Lucio Davide Spano, Luca Viganò

CoRR, July, 2025

The Influence of Curiosity Traits and On-Demand Explanations in AI-Assisted Decision-Making.

Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano

Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2025

Leveraging EUD and Generative AI for Ethical Phishing Campaigns.

Bernardo Breve, Paolo Buono, Loredana Caruccio, Federico Maria Cau, Gaetano Cimino, Giuseppe Desolda, Vincenzo Deufemia, Rosa Lanzilotti, Lucio Davide Spano, Cesare Tucci

Proceedings of the End-User Development - 10th International Symposium, 2025

The Explanation Scope Does not Fit all: Local, Model-Centric and the Role of Cognitive Traits.

Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano

Proceedings of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, 2025

2024

A Preliminary Study of the Impact of Personality on Satisfaction in Group Contexts.

Francesco Barile, Federico Maria Cau, Nava Tintarev

Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, 2024

A Preliminary Analysis on Self and Peer Evaluation of Personality Models for Recommender Systems.

Francesco Barile, Federico Maria Cau, Nava Tintarev

Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, 2024

Navigating the Thin Line: Examining User Behavior in Search to Detect Engagement and Backfire Effects.

Federico Maria Cau, Nava Tintarev

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024

Mitigating Human Errors and Cognitive Bias for Human-AI Synergy in Cybersecurity.

Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Detection And Mitigation Of Cyber attacks that exploit human vuLnerabilitiES (DAMOCLES 2024) co-located with 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2024), 2024

2023

Effects of AI and Logic-Style Explanations on Users' Decisions Under Different Levels of Uncertainty.

Federico Maria Cau, Hanna Hauptmann, Lucio Davide Spano, Nava Tintarev

ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., December, 2023

Effects of Logic-Style Explanations and Uncertainty on Users' Decisions.

Federico Maria Cau

PhD thesis, 2023

Explaining Search Result Stances to Opinionated People.

Zhangyi Wu, Tim Draws, Federico Cau, Francesco Barile, Alisa Rieger, Nava Tintarev

Proceedings of the Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2023

Supporting High-Uncertainty Decisions through AI and Logic-Style Explanations.

Federico Maria Cau, Hanna Hauptmann, Lucio Davide Spano, Nava Tintarev

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2023

Explaining Through the Right Reasoning Style: Lessons Learnt.

Lucio Davide Spano, Federico Maria Cau

Proceedings of the Engineering Interactive Computer Systems. EICS 2023 International Workshops and Doctoral Consortium, 2023

2020

Explaining Black Box Models Through Twin Systems.

Federico Maria Cau

Proceedings of the IUI '20: 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2020

Inspecting Data Using Natural Language Queries.

Franscesca Bacci, Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano

Proceedings of the Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2020, 2020

Considerations for Applying Logical Reasoning to Explain Neural Network Outputs.

Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano, Nava Tintarev

Proceedings of the Italian Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence co-located with 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2020

2019

An interface for explaining the automatic classification of runners' trainings.

Federico Maria Cau, Mattia Samuel Mancosu, Fabrizio Mulas, Paolo Pilloni, Lucio Davide Spano

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces: Companion, 2019

An intelligent interface for supporting coaches in providing running feedback.

Federico Maria Cau, Mattia Samuel Mancosu, Fabrizio Mulas, Paolo Pilloni, Lucio Davide Spano

Proceedings of the 13th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter: Designing the next interaction, 2019

2017

SnAIR Drum: A Gesture Interface for Rhythm Practice.

Federico Cau, Alessandro Carcangiu, Fabio Sorrentino, Lucio Davide Spano

Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium, 2017