Publications
Peer-reviewed research in Human-Robot Interaction, social robotics, and robot perception.
Conference & Journal Papers
Aug 2024
Are Emotions Important? A Study on Social Distances for Path Planning based on Emotions
33rd IEEE 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 RO-MAN 2024 · Pasadena, California
Francesco Vigni, Dimitri Maglietta, Silvia Rossi
Jan 2024
A Rosbag Tool to Improve Dataset Reliability
19th ACM/IEEE HRI 2024 · Boulder, Colorado
Francesco Vigni, Antonio Andriella, Silvia Rossi
Watch video →Aug 2023
Sweet Robot O'Mine — How a Cheerful Robot Boosts Users' Performance in a Game Scenario
32nd IEEE RO-MAN 2023 · Busan, Korea
Francesco Vigni, Antonio Andriella, Silvia Rossi
Watch video →Feb 2023
Exploring Non-Verbal Strategies for Initiating an HRI
14th ICSR 2022 · Florence, Italy
Francesco Vigni, Silvia Rossi
Feb 2023
On The Emotional Transparency of a Non-Humanoid Social Robot
14th ICSR 2022 · Florence, Italy
Francesco Vigni, Alessandra Rossi, Linda Miccio, Silvia Rossi
Aug 2022
Familiar Acoustic Cues for Legible Service Robots
31st IEEE 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 ICRA 2019 · Montreal, Canada
Francesco Vigni, Espen Knoop, Domenico Prattichizzo, Monica Malvezzi
Watch video →Workshops, Theses & Other
I-RIM 3DOct 2023
The impact of robot communication style on user task performance
5th I-RIM 3D Conference
Francesco Vigni, Antonio Andriella, Silvia Rossi
WorkshopMar 2023
An Interaction-centric Approach to Metrics in Social HRI
CONCATENATE Workshop @ ACM/IEEE HRI 2023
Francesco Vigni, Silvia Rossi
Ph.D. ThesisFeb 2025
The Unscripted Encounter: Social Cues for Spontaneous Human-Robot Interactions
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Naples Federico II
Francesco Vigni
M.Sc. ThesisOct 2018
A Closed Loop Approach to Human-Robot Handshake
Università 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
Università degli Studi di Siena
Francesco Vigni, Antonio Vicino