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Publications

Peer-reviewed research in Human-Robot Interaction, social robotics, and robot perception.

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Conference & Journal Papers

Aug 2024

Are Emotions Important? A Study on Social Distances for Path Planning based on Emotions

33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024) · Pasadena, California

Vasilis Mizaridis*, Francesco Vigni*, Stratos Arampatzis, Silvia Rossi(*equal contribution)
Aug 2024

Too Close to You? A Study on Emotion-Adapted Proxemics Behaviours

33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024) · Pasadena, California

Francesco Vigni, Dimitri Maglietta, Silvia Rossi
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Jan 2024

A Rosbag Tool to Improve Dataset Reliability

Companion of 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) · Boulder, Colorado

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Aug 2023

Sweet Robot O’Mine - How a Cheerful Robot Boosts Users' Performance in a Game Scenario

32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023) · Busan, Korea

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Feb 2023

Exploring Non-Verbal Strategies for Initiating an HRI

14th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2022) · Florence, Italy

Francesco Vigni, Silvia Rossi
Feb 2023

On The Emotional Transparency of a Non-Humanoid Social Robot

14th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2022) · Florence, Italy

Francesco Vigni, Alessandra Rossi, Linda Miccio, Silvia Rossi
Aug 2022

Familiar Acoustic Cues for Legible Service Robots

31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) · Naples, Italy

Georgios Angelopoulos*, Francesco Vigni*, Alessandra Rossi, Giuseppina Russo, Mario Turco, Silvia Rossi(*equal contribution)
Jan 2019Best Paper Finalist Award — HRI Track

The Role of Closed-Loop Hand Control in Handshaking Interactions

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2019) · Montreal, Canada

Francesco Vigni, Espen Knoop, Domenico Prattichizzo, Monica Malvezzi
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Workshops, Theses & Other

Ph.D. ThesisFeb 2025

The Unscripted Encounter: Social Cues for Spontaneous Human-Robot Interactions

Ph.D. Thesis, University of Naples Federico II

Francesco Vigni
I-RIM 3DOct 2023

The impact of robot communication style on user task performance

5th Edition of 3D I-RIM Conference

WorkshopMar 2023

An Interaction-centric Approach to Metrics in Social HRI

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Francesco Vigni, Silvia Rossi
M.Sc. ThesisOct 2018

A Closed Loop Approach to Human-Robot Handshake

Universita degli Studi di Siena

Francesco Vigni, Domenico Prattichizzo, Monica Malvezzi, Espen Knoop
B.Sc. ThesisOct 2015

Analisi e confronti di strategie di trading basate sul trend following

Universita degli Studi di Siena

Francesco Vigni, Antonio Vicino