Evolving coordinated group behaviours through maximisation of mean mutual information. - Valerio Sperati; Vito Trianni; Stefano Nolfi (Swarm Intell., 2008)

Evolution of Self-organised Path Formation in a Swarm of Robots. - Valerio Sperati; Vito Trianni; Stefano Nolfi (ANTS Conference, 2010)

Self-organised path formation in a swarm of robots. - Valerio Sperati; Vito Trianni; Stefano Nolfi (Swarm Intell., 2011)

A bio-inspired attention model of anticipation in gaze-contingency experiments with infants. - Rodolfo Marraffa; Valerio Sperati; Daniele Caligiore; Jochen Triesch; Gianluca Baldassarre (ICDL-EPIROB, 2012)

Swarmanoid: A Novel Concept for the Study of Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms. - 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; et al. (IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2013)

Learning where to look with movement-based intrinsic motivations: A bio-inspired model. - Valerio Sperati; Gianluca Baldassarre (ICDL-EPIROB, 2014)

Modular and hierarchical brain organization to understand assimilation, accommodation and their relation to autism in reaching tasks: a developmental robotics hypothesis. - Daniele Caligiore; Paolo Tommasino; Valerio Sperati; Gianluca Baldassarre (Adapt. Behav., 2014)

Transitional Wearable Companions: A Novel Concept of Soft Interactive Social Robots to Improve Social Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. - Beste Özcan; Daniele Caligiore; Valerio Sperati; Tania Moretta; Gianluca Baldassarre (Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2016)

Interplay of Rhythmic and Discrete Manipulation Movements During Development: A Policy-Search Reinforcement-Learning Robot Model. - Valentina Cristina Meola; Daniele Caligiore; Valerio Sperati; Loredana Zollo; Anna Lisa Ciancio; Fabrizio Taffoni; Eugenio Guglielmelli; Gianluca Baldassarre (IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst., 2016)

Bio-Inspired Model Learning Visual Goals and Attention Skills Through Contingencies and Intrinsic Motivations. - Valerio Sperati; Gianluca Baldassarre (IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst., 2018)

Lokahi: The Wearable Body Pillow to Foster an Intimate Interaction Between Two Users Through Their Heartbeat Awareness. - Beste Özcan; Valerio Sperati (HCI (49), 2020)

"X-8": An Experimental Interactive Toy to Support Turn-Taking Games in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. - Beste Özcan; Valerio Sperati; Flora Giocondo; Gianluca Baldassarre (HCI (37), 2021)

Interactive soft toys to support social engagement through sensory-motor plays in early intervention of kids with special needs. - Beste Özcan; Valerio Sperati; Flora Giocondo; Massimiliano Schembri; Gianluca Baldassarre (IDC, 2022)

Leveraging curiosity to encourage social interactions in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: preliminary results using the interactive toy PlusMe. - Flora Giocondo; Noemi Faedda; Gioia Cavalli; Valerio Sperati; Beste Özcan; Federica Giovannone; Carla Sogos; Vincenzo Guidetti; Gianluca Baldassarre (CHI Extended Abstracts, 2022)

A Novel System Based on a Smart Toy Responding to Child's Facial Expressions: Potential Use in Early Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders. - Francesco Montedori; Francesca Romana Mattei; Beste Özcan; Massimiliano Schembri; Valerio Sperati; Gianluca Baldassarre (HCI (48), 2022)

Supporting turn-taking activities: a pilot study using a smart toy with children with a diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders. - Flora Giocondo; Noemi Faedda; Gioia Cavalli; Massimiliano Schembri; Francesco Montedori; Federica Giovannone; Carla Sogos; Vincenzo Guidetti; Valerio Sperati; Beste Özcan; Gianluca Baldassarre (IDC, 2023)

Co-designing play activities and monitoring tools with smart interactive toys to support early intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder and comparable neurodevelopmental conditions. - Beste Özcan; Valerio Sperati; Flora Giocondo; Jônata Tyska Carvalho; Gianluca Baldassarre (IDC, 2023)

Multi-sensory Wearable Bio-feedback Pillow to Enhance Genuine Feeling of Intimate Connection. - Beste Özcan; Valerio Sperati; Flora Giocondo; Massimiliano Schembri; Gianluca Baldassarre (TEI, 2023)

The use of Transitional Wearable Companion toys to promote children's emotional intelligence: the Emotion-Lab program. - Clara Sardella; Claudia Di Marco; Martina Porcelli; Jasmine Miozzi; Valerio Sperati; Beste Özcan; Massimiliano De Luca; Alessandro Pecora; Massimiliano Schembri; Gianluca Baldassarre; Riccardo Santilli (IDC, 2024)

A tangible, toy-based platform to evaluate the child's social interaction in turn-taking game: a prospective on monitoring neurodevelopmental disorders. - Valerio Sperati; Beste Özcan; Federica Giovannone; Massimiliano Schembri; Noemi Faedda; Carla Sogos; Vincenzo Guidetti; Gianluca Baldassarre (IDC, 2024)

A tangible, toy-based platform to evaluate the child's social interaction in turn-taking games: promising preliminary results on neurodivergent twins. - Valerio Sperati; Beste Özcan; Federica Giovannone; Massimiliano Schembri; Giovanni Granato; Noemi Faedda; Carla Sogos; Vincenzo Guidetti; Gianluca Baldassarre (IDC, 2025)

Echo: an AI-based toy to encourage symbolic play in children with Autism Spectrum Conditions. - Giampiero Bartolomei; Beste Özcan; Giovanni Granato; Gianluca Baldassarre; Valerio Sperati (TEI, 2025)