Publications

Peer-reviewed journal papers

  • Perugia, G., & Lisy, D. (2022). Robot’s Gendering Trouble: A Scoping Review of Gendering Humanoid Robots and its Effects on HRI. International Journal of Social Robotics (submitted). [IF 5.126 (2020)].
  • Feng, Y., Perugia, G., Suihuai, Y., Barakova, E., Hu, J., & Rauterberg, M. (2022). Context-Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction: Exploring the Role of System Interactivity and Multimodal Stimuli on the Engagement of People with Dementia. International Journal of Social Robotics, 1-20. [IF 5.126 (2020)].
  • Perugia, G., Paetzel-Prüsmann, M., Hupont, I., Varni, G., Chetouani, M., Peters, C. E., & Castellano, G. (2021). Does the Goal Matter? Emotion Recognition Tasks Can Change the Social Value of Facial Mimicry towards Artificial Agents. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 362.
  • Calvo-Barajas, N., Elgarf, M., Perugia, G., Paiva, A., Peters, C. E., & Castellano, G. (2021). Hurry up, we need to find the key! How Regulatory Focus Design Affects Children’s Trust in a Social Robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 197.
  • Perugia, G., Paetzel-Prüsmann, M., Alanenpää, M., & Castellano, G. (2021). I Can See it in Your Eyes: Gaze towards a Robot as an Implicit Cue of Uncanniness and Task Performance in Long-term Interactions. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 78.
  • Paetzel, M., Perugia, G., & Castellano, G. (2021). The Influence of Robot Personality on the Development of Uncanny Feelings towards a Social Robot. Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 120, 106756. [IF 6.829 (2020)]
  • Perugia, G., Díaz Boladeras, M., Català Mallofré, A., Barakova, E., & Rauterberg, M. (2020). ENGAGE-DEM: a Model of Engagement of People with Dementia. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. [IF 10.506 (2020)]
  • Perugia, G., van Berkel, R., Díaz-Boladeras, M., Català-Mallofré, A., Rauterberg, M., & Barakova, E. I. (2018). Understanding Engagement in Dementia through Behavior. The Ethographic and Laban-Inspired Coding System of Engagement (ELICSE) and the Evidence-Based Model of Engagement-related Behavior (EMODEB). Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 690. [IF 2.990 (2020)]
  • Perugia, G., Rodríguez-Martín, D., Boladeras, M. D., Mallofré, A. C., Barakova, E., & Rauterberg, M. (2017). Quantity of movement as a measure of engagement for dementia: the influence of motivational disorders. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias, 33(2), 112-121. [IF 2.035 (2020)].

Peer-reviewed conference papers

  • Harrison, K., Perugia, G., Somasundaram, K., Correia, F., van Waveren, S., Paiva, A., & Loufti, A. (2023, March). The Imperfectly Relatable Robot: An interdisciplinary workshop on the role of failure in HRI. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (accepted). ACM/IEEE.
  • Tanevska, A., Chandra, S., Barbareschi, G., Eguchi, A., Han, Z., Korpan, R., Ostrowski, A., Perugia, G., Ravindranath, S., Seaborn, K., & Winkle, K. (2023, March). Inclusive HRI II: Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (accepted). ACM/IEEE.
  • Perugia, G., Boor, L., van der Bij, L., Rikmenspoel, O., Foppen, R., & Guidi, S. (2023, March). Models of (Often) Ambivalent Robot Stereotypes: Content, Structure, and Predictors of Robots’ Age and Gender Stereotypes. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (accepted). ACM/IEEE.
  • Guidi, S., Boor, L., van der Bij, L., Foppen, R., Rikmenspoel, O., & Perugia, G. (2022, December) Ambivalent Stereotypes Towards Gendered Robots: The (Im)mutability of Bias Towards Female and Neutral Robots. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Social Robotics 2022. Springer, Cham. (accepted)
  • Knaapen, F., Chamilothori, K., & Perugia, G. (2022, December). Exploring the Potential of Light-Enhanced HRI to Promote Social Interactions in People with Dementia. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Social Robotics 2022. Springer, Cham. (accepted)
  • Perugia, G.,* Guidi, S.,* Bicchi, M., & Parlangeli, O. (2022, March). The Shape of Our Bias: Perceived Age and Gender in the Humanoid Robots of the ABOT Database. In Proceedings of the 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (110-119). ACM/IEEE. [*both authors contributed equally]
  • Elgarf, M.,* Calvo-Barajas, N.,* Alves-Oliveira, P., Perugia, G., Castellano, G., Peters, C., & Paiva, A. (2022, March). “And then what happens?” Promoting Children’s Verbal Creativity Using a Robot. In Proceedings of the 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (71-79). ACM/IEEE. [*both authors contributed equally]
  • de Graaf, M., Perugia, G., Fosch-Villaronga, E., Lim, A., Short, E., Broz, F. & . Neerincx, M. (March 2022) Inclusive HRI. Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (1247–1249). ACM/IEEE.
  • Perugia, G., Rossi, A., & Rossi, S. (2021, November). Gender Revealed: Evaluating the Genderedness of Furhat’s Faces. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Social Robotics 2021 (36-47). Springer, Cham.
  • Rossi, A., Perugia, G., & Rossi, S. (2021, November). Investigating Customers’ Perceived Sensitivity of Information Shared with a Robot Bartender. In In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Social Robotics 2021 (119-129). Springer, Cham.
  • Calvo-Barajas, N., Perugia, G., & Castellano, G. (2021, June). The Effects of Motivational Strategies and Goal Attainment on Children’s Trust in a Virtual Social Robot: A Pilot Study. In Interaction Design and Children 2021 (pp. 537-541). ACM.
  • Perugia, G., Paetzel, M., & Castellano, G. (2020, November). On the Role of Personality and Empathy in Human-Human, Human-Agent, and Human-Robot Mimicry. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Robotics 2020 (pp. 120-131). Springer, Cham.
  • Calvo-Barajas, N., Perugia, G., & Castellano, G.  (2020, September). The Effects of Robot’s Facial Expressions on Children’s First Impressions of Trustworthiness. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (pp. 165-171). IEEE. 
  • Calvo-Barajas, N., Elgarf, M., Perugia, G., Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2020, March). Can a Social Robot Be Persuasive Without Losing Children’s Trust?. In Proceedings of the Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 157-159). ACM/IEEE.
  • Paetzel, M., Perugia, G., & Castellano, G. (2020, March). The Persistence of First Impressions. The Effect of Repeated Interactions on the Perception of a Social Robot. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 73-82). ACM/IEEE. 
  • Perugia, G., Rodríguez-Martín, D., Díaz Boladeras, M., Català Mallofré, A., Barakova, E., & Rauterberg, M. (2017, August). Electrodermal Activity: Explorations in the Psychophysiology of Engagement with Social Robots in Dementia. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (pp. 1248-1254). IEEE. 
  • Perugia, G., Díaz Boladeras, M., Català Mallofré, A., Rauterberg, M., & Barakova, E. (2017, July). Modelling Engagement in Dementia through Behaviour. Contribution for Socially Interactive Robotics. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (pp. 1112-1117). IEEE.
  • Perugia, G., Díaz Boladeras, M., Barakova, E., Català Mallofré, A., & Rauterberg, M. (2017, March). Social HRI for People with Dementia: One Size Fits All?. In Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 257-258). ACM/IEEE. 

Other conference papers

  • Perugia, G., Díaz Boladeras, M., Català Mallofré, A., (2015, June). ENGAGE: an Evidence-based Model of Engagement for Dementia. In Actas de las XVII Jornadas de ARCA 2015.

Peer-reviewed workshop papers

  • de Graaf, M., & Perugia, G. (2022, August). Human Misconduct with Marginalized Robots. In RO-MAN 2022 GenR Workshop Gendering Robots: Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics.
  • Paetzel-Prüsmann, M. & Perugia, G. (2022, March). Investigating Implicit Gender Bias in Crowd-Authored Language for Social Robots. in DEI-HRI 2022 Workshop – Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community .
  • Bisconti Lucidi, P.,* & Perugia, G.* (2021, August). How Do We Gender Robots? Inquiring the Relationship Between Perceptual Cues and Context of Use. In RO-MAN 2021 GenR Workshop Gendering Robots: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics. [*both authors contributed equally]
  • Calvo-Barajas, N., Elgarf, M., Alves-Oliveira, P., Perugia, G., Paiva, A., Peters, C., & Castellano, G. (2020, November) Should a Robot Promote or Prevent? Regulatory Processes for Stimulating Creativity in Children. In ICSR Workshop on Creativity and Robotics 2020.
  • Calvo-Barajas, N., Perugia, G., & Castellano, G. (2019, November). Effects of Robot’s Facial Expressions on Children’s Perception of Trustworthiness in First Encounters. In the ICSR 2019 Workshop on Quality of Interaction in Socially Assistive Robots.

Academic theses

  • Perugia, G. (2018). ENGAGE-DEM: A Model of Engagement of People with Dementia (doctoral thesis). Technical University of Eindhoven: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  • Perugia, G. (2013). Robot Supporting Narratives: An Experimental Study with Elders Affected with Dementia and Cognitive-relational Disturbances (Master’s thesis). University of Siena: Siena, Italy.

Workshop & Special Session organization

Funding, Academic Honors & Awards

  • Award: Honorable Mention – User Studies (HRI 2022)
  • Award: Runner-up for Best Paper Award (HRI 2022)
  • Award: Runner-up for Best Paper Award (RO-MAN 2020)
  • Award: Runner-up for RSJ/KROS Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award (RO-MAN 2020)
  • Award: Winner of RSJ/KROS Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award (RO-MAN 2017)
  • Research Fellowship: Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) in Interactive and Cognitive Environments (ICE)
  • Summa cum Laude: MSc in Cognitive Sciences

Programme and Organizing committee

  • 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) // 18-21 October 2022 // Nara (Japan)
  • 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) // 5-8 December 2022 // Christchurch (New Zealand)
  • 13th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) // 10-13 November 2021 // Singapore
  • 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) // 14-16 November 2020 // Golden, Colorado (US)
  • Poster Chair of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) // Sidney (Australia)
  • 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) // 6-10 October 2019 // Kyoto (Japan)
  • 11th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) // 26-29 November 2019 // Madrid (Spain)

Editorial roles

  • Associate Editor International Journal of Social Robotics (2023 -ongoing).
  • Review Editor for Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2019 – ongoing)
  • Lead guest Editor Special Issue of the International Journal of Social Robotics. Gendering Robots: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics (2021-2022).
  • Guest Editor Special Issue of the International Journal of Social Robotics. Trust, Acceptance, and Social Cues in Robot Interaction (2019-2020)
  • Reviewer (Journals): Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Frontiers in Psychology, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, PLOS ONE, International Journal of Social Robotics, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction 
  • Reviewer (Conferences): IEEE/ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI), International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), NordiCHI, International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII).