Palestrante: Gabriele Trovato

Abstract : Human-robot interaction poses several challenges as interaction is not always comfortable. Some important factors such as physical appearance, culturally adaptive behaviour, comprehensibility and perceived intelligence concur to robot acceptance. Through careful design of head, body and behaviour, robot can be seen as more familiar. In this presentation, experiments done inseveral countries with humanoid robots shed light on the matter.

Bio:
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Gabriele Trovato is currently JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
He received his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2008, and Ph.D. degree in Biorobotics in Waseda University, in 2014. Within the relations between the two countries, Gabriele Trovato has been chair of the local organising committee and presenter of Italy-Japan Workshops since 2012.
He has been Visiting Researcher in: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany); Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (Alexandria, Egypt); Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA); Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands); CTI Archer (Campinas, Brazil); Imperial College London (UK). He has been lecturer of Human-Robot Interaction in UNICAMP and in the University of São Paulo (Brazil).
Gabriele Trovato has worked in the video game industry, being involved in the development of the world-wide notorious game "Sid Meier's Civilization" and having created popular innovative mods for the game.
His main research interests include Human-Robot Interaction, with focus on culture related aspects, artificial emotions in humanoids, robot design, Human-Computer Interaction, Procedural Content Generation, and machine learning.