Giuseppe Palestra

According to our database, Giuseppe Palestra authored at least 58 papers between 2014 and 2026.

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2026

Analyzing Emotions and Engagement During Cognitive Stimulation Group Training With the Pepper Robot.

Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Nicola Macchiarulo, Giuseppe Palestra, Olimpia Pino

IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput., 2026

RAISE-FER: a massive cross-dataset augmented facial expression dataset.

Giuseppe Palestra, Domenico Palmisano, Berardina Nadja De Carolis

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2026

Personalized Human-Robot Interaction through Ontology-Based Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models.

Aurora Toma, Davide Lofrese, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2026

2025

Enhancing Social Robots through Resilient AI.

Domenico Palmisano, Giuseppe Palestra, Berardina Nadja De Carolis

CoRR, October, 2025

How Age Influences the Interpretation of Emotional Body Language in Humanoid Robots - long paper version.

Ilaria Consoli, Claudio Mattutino, Cristina Gena, Berardina De Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra

CoRR, July, 2025

Enhancing Digital Narrative Medicine through Emotion Analysis in Conversational Agents.

Maria Grazia Miccoli, Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra, Aurora Toma

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2025

6th Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR).

Francesca Cocchella, Alberto Lillo, Giuseppe Palestra, Luca Raggioli, Giulia Scorza Azzarà, Cristina Gena

Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, 2025

Quantum-Enhanced Social Robotics: The QUADRI Project.

Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Corrado Loglisci, Maria Grazia Miccoli, Giuseppe Palestra, Sergio Violante

Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, 2025

A Personal Social Robot to Support Physical Activity for Seniors at Home.

Berardina De Carolis, Davide Lofrese, Giuseppe Palestra, Aurora Toma, Cristina Gena

Proceedings of the Social Robotics + AI - 17th International Conference, 2025

Towards Personal Robotics: An Analysis of the State of the Art (short paper).

Aurora Toma, Davide Lofrese, Giuseppe Palestra, Berardina De Carolis

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2025 Workshops co-located with the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2025), 2025

XFERa: Xplainable Emotion Recognition for improving transparency and trust (short paper).

Nicola Macchiarulo, Berardina De Carolis, Corrado Loglisci, Vito Nicola Losavio, Maria Grazia Miccoli, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2025 Workshops co-located with the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2025), 2025

SISTER: social robots to support biopsychosocial frailty.

Vincenzo Solfrizzi, Claudia Chiapparino, Giovanna Castellano, Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Davide Lofrese, Giuseppe Palestra, Aurora Toma, Loredana Perla, Stefania Massaro, Maria Teresa Santacroce, Giuseppe De Simone, Alessia Saggese, Mario Vento

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the Thematic Workshops at Ital-IA 2025 colocated with the 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025

Pixie: a Personal Robot for Elderly Assistance.

Davide Lofrese, Aurora Toma, Giuseppe Palestra, Berardina Nadja De Carolis

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

How Age Influences the Interpretation of Emotional BodyLanguage in Humanoid Robots.

Ilaria Consoli, Giuseppe Palestra, Claudio Mattutino, Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Cristina Gena

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

Toward Quantum Social Robotics: A Hybrid Architecture for Emotion and Coping Management (Short Paper).

Barbara Castrignano, Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Andrea Fiore, Maria Grazia Miccoli, Marco Romei Longhena, Vito Nicola Losavio, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on AI for Quantum and Quantum for AI (AIQxQIA 2025) co-located with the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025), 2025

2024

Exploring the Role of Empathy in Designing Social Robots for Elderly People.

Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra, Giovanna Castellano

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

Alpha Mini Social Robot as a Fitness Trainer at Home.

Berardina De Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra, Mario A. Bochicchio, Stefano Mazzoleni

Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2024

A Social Robot as a Meal-Time Companion for Elderly People.

Berardina De Carolis, Davide Di Pierro, Stefano Ferilli, Davide Lofrese, Corrado Loglisci, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the Sixth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop co-located with 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024), 2024

Can an AI-driven VTuber engage People? The KawAIi Case Study (short paper).

Natale Amato, Berardina De Carolis, Francesco de Gioia, Mario Nicola Venezia, Giuseppe Palestra, Corrado Loglisci

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2024 Workshops co-located with the 29th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2024), 2024

Investigating Nao's Impact on Promoting Motor Skills in Young Children with ASD (short paper).

Ilenia Amati, Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Stefania Massaro, Maria Grazia Miccoli, Giuseppe Palestra, Loredana Perla, Aurora Toma

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced AI Methods and Interfaces for Human-Centered Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics 2024 co-located with 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2024), 2024

Towards Social Robot-based Inclusive Museum Experiences for Children with ASD.

Giovanna Castellano, Berardina De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli, Stefania Massaro, Giuseppe Palestra, Loredana Perla, Maria Teresa Santacroce

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces and Interactions in Cultural Heritage (AVICH 2024) co-located with 17th ACM Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2024), 2024

Social Robots vs. Chatbots: Evaluating the Effect as a Persuasive Technology for Children in the Healthy Eating Domain.

Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra, Edoardo Oranger

Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2024

2023

Assessing student engagement from facial behavior in on-line learning.

Paolo Buono, Berardina De Carolis, Francesca D'Errico, Nicola Macchiarulo, Giuseppe Palestra

Multim. Tools Appl., April, 2023

Engaging Older Adults at Meal-Time Through AI-Empowered Socially Assistive Robots.

Berardina De Carolis, Corrado Loglisci, Nicola Macchiarulo, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2023

FERMOUTH: Facial Emotion Recognition from the MOUTH Region.

Berardina De Carolis, Nicola Macchiarulo, Giuseppe Palestra, Alberto Pio De Matteis, Andrea Lippolis

Proceedings of the Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2023, 2023

2021

Socially Inclusive Robots: Learning Culture-Related Gestures by Playing with Pepper.

Berardina De Carolis, Francesca D'Errico, Nicola Macchiarulo, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2021 Workshops co-located with 26th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2021), 2021

Social Robots to Support Gestural Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Berardina De Carolis, Nicola Macchiarulo, Francesca D'Errico, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the ICMI '21 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 18, 2021

2020

Technology for Assisting During the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Process: The ASSESSTRONIC Project.

Giuseppe Palestra, Consuelo Granata, Isabelle Hupont, Mohamed Chetouani

Proceedings of the Advances in Robotics Research: From Lab to Market, 2020

Detecting emotions during a memory training assisted by a social robot for individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).

Giuseppe Palestra, Olimpia Pino

Multim. Tools Appl., 2020

The Humanoid Robot NAO as Trainer in a Memory Program for Elderly People with Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Olimpia Pino, Giuseppe Palestra, Rosalinda Trevino, Berardina De Carolis

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2020

Recognizing Cognitive Emotions in E-Learning Environment.

Berardina De Carolis, Francesca D'Errico, Nicola Macchiarulo, Marinella Paciello, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the Bridges and Mediation in Higher Distance Education, 2020

Social Robots in Cognitive Interventions. Advances, Problems and Perspectives.

Olimpia Pino, Giuseppe Palestra, Berardina De Carolis, Valeria Carofiglio, Nicola Macchiarulo

Proceedings of the Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society 2020 co-located with 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2020), 2020

2019

Evaluation of a Rehabilitation System for the Elderly in a Day Care Center.

Giuseppe Palestra, Mohamed Rebiai, Estelle Courtial, Dimitrios D. Koutsouris

Inf., 2019

"Engaged Faces": Measuring and Monitoring Student Engagement from Face and Gaze Behavior.

Berardina De Carolis, Francesca D'Errico, Nicola Macchiarulo, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2019

Facial expression recognition from nao robot within a memory training program for individuals with mild cognitive impairment.

Berardina De Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra, Olimpia Pino

Proceedings of the Workshop Socio-Affective Technologies: an interdisciplinary approach co-located with IEEE SMC 2019 (Systems, 2019

Cognitive Emotions Recognition in e-Learning: Exploring the Role of Age Differences and Personality Traits.

Berardina De Carolis, Francesca D'Errico, Marinella Paciello, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 2019

Soft Biometrics for Social Adaptive Robots.

Berardina De Carolis, Nicola Macchiarulo, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence. From Theory to Practice, 2019

2018

A Comparative Study on Soft Biometric Approaches to Be Used in Retail Stores.

Berardina De Carolis, Nicola Macchiarulo, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the Foundations of Intelligent Systems - 24th International Symposium, 2018

2017

Recognizing users feedback from non-verbal communicative acts in conversational recommender systems.

Berardina De Carolis, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Giuseppe Palestra

Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2017

Simulating empathic behavior in a social assistive robot.

Berardina De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli, Giuseppe Palestra

Multim. Tools Appl., 2017

Assistive Robot, RGB-D Sensor and Graphical User Interface to Encourage Communication Skills in ASD Population.

Giuseppe Palestra, Dario Cazzato, Francesco Adamo, Ilaria Bortone, Cosimo Distante

J. Medical Robotics Res., 2017

A Multimodal Interface for Robot-Children Interaction in Autism Treatment.

Giuseppe Palestra, Floriana Esposito, Berardina De Carolis

Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium, 2017

Evaluating Natural Interaction with a Shop Window.

Berardina De Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter, 2017

A Fall Prevention System for the Elderly: Preliminary Results.

Giuseppe Palestra, Mohamed Rebiai, Estelle Courtial, Kostas Giokas, Dimitrios D. Koutsouris

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2017

A Tailored Serious Game for Preventing Falls of the Elderly.

Estelle Courtial, Giuseppe Palestra, Mohamed Rebiai

Proceedings of the Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics, 2017

RescueRobot: Modeling Complex Robots Behaviors in Emergency Situations.

Giuseppe Palestra, Andrea Pazienza, Stefano Ferilli, Berardina De Carolis, Floriana Esposito

Proceedings 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), 2017

Artificial Intelligence for Robot-Assisted Treatment of Autism.

Giuseppe Palestra, Berardina De Carolis, Floriana Esposito

Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Application in Health co-located with the 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2017), 2017

2016

A multimodal and multilevel system for robotics treatment of autism in children.

Giuseppe Palestra, Giovanna Varni, Mohamed Chetouani, Floriana Esposito

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Social Learning and Multimodal Interaction for Designing Artificial Agents, 2016

Gaze-based Interaction with a Shop Window.

Berardina De Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2016

Emotion-Recognition from Speech-based Interaction in AAL Environment.

Berardina De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli, Giuseppe Palestra, Domenico Redavid

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence for Ambient Assisted Living 2016 co-located with 15th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2016), 2016

2015

The PoSE Project: the Potential of Technological Learning for Postural Education in Schoolchildren.

Ilaria Bortone, Nadia Agnello, Alberto Argentiero, Valentina Denetto, Cosimo Neglia, Giuseppe Palestra, Marco Benvenuto

EAI Endorsed Trans. e Learn., 2015

Improving Speech-Based Human Robot Interaction with Emotion Recognition.

Berardina De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the Foundations of Intelligent Systems - 22nd International Symposium, 2015

Improved Performance in Facial Expression Recognition Using 32 Geometric Features.

Giuseppe Palestra, Adriana Pettinicchio, Marco Del Coco, Pierluigi Carcagnì, Marco Leo, Cosimo Distante

Proceedings of the Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2015, 2015

Analysis of HOG Suitability for Facial Traits Description in FER Problems.

Marco Del Coco, Pierluigi Carcagnì, Giuseppe Palestra, Marco Leo, Cosimo Distante

Proceedings of the Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2015, 2015

Automatic Emotion Recognition in Robot-Children Interaction for ASD Treatment.

Marco Leo, Marco Del Coco, Pierluigi Carcagnì, Cosimo Distante, Giuseppe Massimo Bernava, Giovanni Pioggia, Giuseppe Palestra

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, 2015

Modeling and Simulating Empathic Behavior in Social Assistive Robots.

Berardina De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli, Giuseppe Palestra, Valeria Carofiglio

Proceedings of the 11th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter, 2015

Towards an Empathic Social Robot for Ambient Assisted Living.

Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli, Giuseppe Palestra, Valeria Carofiglio

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media: Opportunities and Challenges for Emotion-aware Multiagent Systems co-located with 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2015), 2015

2014

Social Robots in Postural Education: A New Approach to Address Body Consciousness in ASD Children.

Giuseppe Palestra, Ilaria Bortone, Dario Cazzato, Francesco Adamo, Alberto Argentiero, Nadia Agnello, Cosimo Distante

Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 6th International Conference, 2014