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Cognitive Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Social Cognition
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Biography

Carlo Mazzola is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction at the Cognitive Architectures for Collaborative Technologies unit (CONTACT) of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). During his Ph.D., he carried out his research in collaboration between IIT (Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences unit) and the University of Genova (Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems Engineering) about the study and development of Shared Perception in Human-Robot Interaction. During his Ph.D. he also visited the Cognitive Robotics Lab at the School of Computer Science of the University of Manchester. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Philosophy at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano (Italy) and graduated after a research period at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany) with a thesis about the role of imagination and empathy in human perception. In 2019, he was a Visiting Scientist at IIT to explore mechanisms of social perception in Human-Robot Interaction. Currently, his research area is the study and development of social skills for human-aware and trustworthy humanoid robots within the EU-funded twinning project TERAIS, where he also leads the Work Package about “Achievement of scientific excellence”.

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Employment (2)

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia: Genoa, IT

2022-11-01 to present | Postdoc (Cognitive Architectures for Collaborative Technologies)
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Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia: Genova, Liguria, IT

2019-03-01 to 2019-10-31 | Visiting Scientist (COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies )
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Education and qualifications (1)

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia: Genoa, Liguria, IT

2019-11 to 2022-10-31 | PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics (Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
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ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Cambridge, GB

2019 | Honorable Mention for the paper Interacting with a Social Robot Affects Visual Perception of Space
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Works (10)

A multi-modal explainability approach for human-aware robots in multi-party conversation

Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2025-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Iveta Bečková; Štefan Pócoš; Giulia Belgiovine; Marco Matarese; Omar Eldardeer; Alessandra Sciutti; Carlo Mazzola
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Sketch it for the Robot! How Child-Like Robots' Joint Attention Affects Humans' Drawing Strategies

2024-05-20 | Conference paper
Contributors: Carlo Mazzola; Lorenzo Morocutti; Hillary Pedrizzi; Xenia Daniela Poslon; Andrej Lucny; Sarah Marie Wingert; Yukie Nagai; Francesco Rea; Alessandra Sciutti
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Shared Perception Is Different From Individual Perception: A New Look on Context Dependency

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Carlo Mazzola; Francesco Rea; Alessandra Sciutti
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To Whom are You Talking? A Deep Learning Model to Endow Social Robots with Addressee Estimation Skills

2023-06-18 | Conference paper
Contributors: Carlo Mazzola; Marta Romeo; Francesco Rea; Alessandra Sciutti; Angelo Cangelosi
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A Hermeneutical Approach to Provide Robots with Socially Adaptive Perception

Social Robots in Social Institutions
2023-01-09 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781643683744
Part of ISBN: 9781643683751
Part of ISSN: 0922-6389
Part of ISSN: 1879-8314
Contributors: Carlo Mazzola; Sara Incao; Massimo Marassi; Francesco Rea; Alessandra Sciutti
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The impact of early aging on visual perception of space and time

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2022-11-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1662-5161
Contributors: Sara Incao; Carlo Mazzola; Alessandra Sciutti
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The world seems different in a social context: A neural network analysis of human experimental data

PLOS ONE
2022-08-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Tsfasman; Kiyoshi Nakahara; Anja Philippsen; Carlo Mazzola; Serge Thill; Alessandra Sciutti; Yukie Nagai
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Context dependency in a social rehabilitation scenario

IEEE ICDL 2021 Workshop Spatio-temporal Aspects of Embodied Predictive Processing
2021 | Conference abstract
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THE PARADOX OF VIRTUAL EMBODIMENT: THE BODY SCHEMA IN VIRTUAL REALITY AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia
2021-10-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Sara INCAO; Carlo MAZZOLA
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Interacting with a Social Robot Affects Visual Perception of Space

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
2020-03-09 | Conference paper
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Peer review (4 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for International journal of social robotics. (4)