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Alessandra Sciutti

Tenure Track Researcher, head of the CONTACT Unit
Researcher Tenure Track - Principal Investigator
COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Phone
+39 010 2897 327
Address
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – Center for Human Technologies Via Enrico Melen 83, Building B 16152 Genova, Italy
Research center
CHT@Erzelli
About

Alessandra Sciutti is Tenure Track Researcher, head of the CONTACT (COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies) Unit of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). She received her B.S and M.S. degrees in Bioengineering and the Ph.D. in Humanoid Technologies from the University of Genova in 2010. After two research periods in USA and Japan, in 2018 she has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant wHiSPER (www.whisperproject.eu), focused on the investigation of joint perception between humans and robots. She published more than 80 papers and abstracts in international journals and conferences and participated in the coordination of the CODEFROR European IRSES project (https://www.codefror.eu/). She is currently Associate Editor for several journals, among which the International Journal of Social Robotics, the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems and Cognitive System Research. She is an ELLIS scholar and the corresponding co-chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics. The scientific aim of her research is to investigate the sensory and motor mechanisms underlying mutual understanding in human-human and human-robot interaction. For more details on her research, as well as the full list of publications please check the Contact Unit website or her Google Scholar profile.

Education

Title: Master's Degree in Neuroengineering
Institute: University of Genoa
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2004 To: 2006

Title: Bachelor's Degree in Bioengineering
Institute: University of Genoa
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2001 To: 2004

Title: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Humanoid Technologies
Institute: University of Genoa - IIT
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2007 To: 2010

Title: Master
Institute: ISICT - Institute of advanced studies in information and communication technologies
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2004 To: 2006

Experience External

Title: Assistant Professor
Institute: University of Genoa
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2018 To: 2018

Title: Visiting Researcher
Institute: Osaka University
Location: Osaka
Country: Japan
From: 2014 To: 2015

Title: Visiting Researcher
Institute: Rehabilitation Insitute of Chicago
Location: Chicago, IL
Country: USA
From: 2011 To: 2012

All Publications
2024
De Carolis B.N., Gena C., Lieto A., Rossi S., Sciutti A.
5th Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR)
UMAP 2024 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, pp. 201-204
DOI 10.1145/3631700.3658525
Conference Paper Conference
2024
Incao S., Mazzola C., Belgiovine G., Sciutti A.
A Roadmap for Embodied and Social Grounding in LLMs
Robophilosophy Conference
Conference Paper Conference
2024
Pasquali D., Miceli C., Belgiovine G., Rea F., Mastrogiovanni F., Sandini G., Sciutti A.
Artificial Cognition, from the Ground Up
40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40)
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.12770885
Abstract Report Conference
2024
Sandini G., Sciutti A., Morasso P.
Artificial cognition vs. artificial intelligence for next-generation autonomous robotic agents
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, vol. 18
DOI 10.3389/fncom.2024.1349408
Article Journal
2024
Azzara G.S., Zonca J., Rea F., Song J.-H., Sciutti A.
Biased Atention Near iCub's Hand Afer Collaborative HRI
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 970-974
DOI 10.1145/3610978.3640579
Conference Paper Conference
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Dissemination
2024
Sciutti A.
Da Bella Baxter a ChatGPT:i Robot, l’Umano e il Nostro Futuro
Interview and debate with Rick Du Fer on his youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81N4N5OKs08
Media
2024
Sciutti A.
Intervento su ricerca in robotica
“SHE-STEM ” Evento organizzato dall'Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per il Piemonte, Virtuale,16 February 2024
Outreach
2024
Sciutti A.
Interview on Research in Cognitive Robotics
Radio Program "Io, Chiara e il green", ISORADIO
Media
2024
Sciutti A.
Introduzione alla robotica cognitiva
Webinar for Elementary Schools - 8th March 2024
Outreach
2024
Sciutti A.
Robotica dello sviluppo - Robotica per lo sviluppo
AIxWOMEN Intelligenza Artificiale, Donne e Inclusione, Innovation Village, 9th May 2024 Naples, Italy
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Scientific Talks
2024
Sciutti A.
Cognitive Robotics for Effective Human Robot Interaction
EASE Symposium on Knowledge Representation for Interaction-engaging Robots 2024, Univeristy of Bremen, 26 March 2024, Bremen, Germany
Workshop/Symposium
2024
Sciutti A.
Influence and Trust in Human-Technology Interaction
Course on Cognitive Warfare in the new international competition: an emerging challenge for EU organized by the Italian Centre for Higher Defence Studies (CASD) - 22nd May 2024 - Rome
School (Summer school, ...)
2024
Sciutti A.
Keynote: A developmental perspective on cognitive robotics for interaction
MEi:CogSci Conference 2024 with joint presentation at the Trustworthy Human-Robot Interaction Summer School organized by the TERAIS EU project. 13th June 2024, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Conference
2024
Sciutti A.
The sensori-motor bases of human (and robot) interaction
Queen Mary University of London, 9th April 2024
Institute
2024
Sciutti A.
Uomini e Robot, è possibile una comprensione reciproca?
Empatia per il non umano, 7th May 2024, Napels, Italy
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Oral presentations
2019
Sciutti A., Tinelli F., Gori M.
Context Dependency in Space Perception in Children with Movement Disorder
Child Vision Research Society (CVRS) 2019
Conference
2019
Sciutti A., Sandini G.
The role of object motion in visuo-haptic exploration during development
2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL-EpiRob 2019, pp. 123-128
Conference
2019
Nicora E., Noceti N., Sciutti A., Rea F.
Why High-performance computing is important in robotics?
BMVA technical meeting: Computer Vision + High performance Computing
Conference
2018
Sciutti A.
Bi-directional intuitive communication in HRI
Neuroscience 4 HRI workshop in conjunction with HRI 2018 (5 March)
Conference
2018
Sciutti A., Melchiori C., Lombardi G., Sandini G.
The development of visuo-haptic exploration strategies in school-aged children
European Conference on Visual Perception
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Awards and Achievements
2024
Sciutti A.
Member of the Jury
2024
Sciutti A.
Member of the Jury
2024
Sciutti A.
Member of the Jury
2024
Sciutti A.
Member of the Jury
2024
Sciutti A.
Member of the Scientific Committee of Festival Della Scienza
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Editorships
2024-2024
Sciutti A.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2024-2024
Sciutti A.
Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics
2023-2023
Sciutti A.
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics
2023-2023
Sciutti A.
5a conferenza di Robotica e Macchine Intelligenti
2023
Sciutti A.
Cognitive Development and Symbol Emergence Section of Advanced Robotics
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Organized Events
2024
Gena C., De Carolis B., Lieto A., Rossi S., Sciutti A.
International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR)
2023
Staffa M., Rossi S., Sciutti A., Winkle K.
7th Workshop on Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics (BAILAR)
2023
Lieto A., Sciutti A., Syrbe J.
9th workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition
2023
De Carolis B., Gena C., Lieto A., Rossi S., Sciutti A.
Fourth International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR)
2023
Mongile S., Pusceddu G., Cocchella F., Lastrico L., Belgiovine G., Sciutti A.
Il Robot Che Vorrei
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Colleagues of COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Anastasia Bruzzone Administrative Supervisor Electronic Design Laboratory Computational Statistics and Machine Learning Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Jasmin Bernotat Post Doc Unit for Visually Impaired People COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Gabriele Russo Guest Student COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Carmine Miceli Guest Student COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Francesca Cocchella PhD Student COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
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