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”.
Research center
CHT@Erzelli
Interests
Human-Robot Interaction
Shared Perception
Cognitive Robotics
Interaction Design
About
Education
Title: PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics
Institute: Università di Genova - DIBRIS
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2019 To: 2023
Title: Master in Philosophy
Institute: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Location: Milano
Country: Italy
From: 2016 To: 2018
Title: Bachelor in Philosophy
Institute: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Location: Milano
Country: Italy
From: 2014 To: 2016
All Publications
2024
Incao S., Mazzola C., Belgiovine G., Sciutti A.
A Roadmap for Embodied and Social Grounding in LLMs
Robophilosophy Conference
Conference Paper
Conference
2024
Ali H., Allgeuer P., Mazzola C., Belgiovine G., Kaplan B. C., Wermter S.
Robots Can Multitask Too: Integrating a Memory Architecture and LLMs for Enhanced Cross-Task Robot Action Generation
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
2024
Mazzola C., Morocutti L., Pedrizzi H., Poslon X.D., Lucny A., Wingert S.M., Nagai Y., Rea F., Sciutti A.
Sketch it for the robot! How child-like robots’ joint attention affects humans’ drawing strategies
IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning
2024
Wingert S.M., Poslon X.D., Mazzola C., Lucny A.
Teaching a Robot to Draw
Proceedings of the MEi:CogSci Conference, vol. 18, (no. 1)
Conference Paper
Conference
2023
Mazzola C., Incao S., Marassi M., Rea F., Sciutti A.
A Hermeneutical Approach to Provide Robots with Socially Adaptive Perception
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 366, pp. 344-352
Dissemination
2024
Mazzola C.
Corpo, Cognizione, Interazione
L'era digitale e la questione dell'intelligenza artificiale. Associazione Culturale Michele De Tommaso. Ciclo di Incontri 2024/2025
Public Event
2023
Mazzola C.
Human-Robot Interaction: interdisciplinarietà e ricerca
RUI Residenza Universitaria Internazionale Roma
Outreach
Scientific Talks
2023
Tonelli A., Mazzola C., Sciutti A., Gori M.
Effetto della cecità sui meccanismi di central tendency nella stima di distanze acustiche
AIP sezione sperimentale - Integration and interaction between sensory modalities in children and adults with and without sensory impairments
Workshop/Symposium
2023
Mazzola C.
Shared Perception in HRI: beyond the "what"
The National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK)
Institute
2022
Mazzola C.
Cognitive Robotics for Interaction: a Human-Centered Approach
Comenius University Bratislava (SK)
Institute
2022
Mazzola C.
Development of Shared Perception in Human-Robot Interaction
Cognitive Robotics Lab, University of Manchester
Institute
2022
Mazzola C.
Human-Robot Interaction: study and development of Shared Perception
Humanoid Robots: an expanding interdisciplinary research field, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Workshop/Symposium
Oral presentations
2023
Mazzola C., Incao S., Marassi M., Rea F., Sciutti A.
A Hermeneutical Approach to Provide Robots with Socially Adaptive Perception
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 366, pp. 344-352
Book Series
2023
Mazzola C., Rea F., Sciutti A.
Real-time Addressee Estimation: Deployment of a Deep-Learning Model on the iCub Robot
Italian Conference in Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM), pp. 192-196
Conference
2023
Mazzola C., Romeo M., Rea F., Sciutti A., Cangelosi A.
To Whom are You Talking? A Deep Learning Model to Endow Social Robots with Addressee Estimation Skills
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 2023-June
Conference
2021
Bavazzano I., Mazzola C., Belgiovine G., Casadio M., Sciutti A.
Context dependency in a social rehabilitation scenario
IEEE ICDL 2021 Workshop Spatio-temporal Aspects of Embodied Predictive Processing
Conference
2020
Mazzola C., Aroyo A.M., Rea F., Sciutti A.
Interacting with a social robot affects visual perception of space
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 549-557
Conference
Organized Events
2024
Garello L., Mazzola C.
Trustworthy Human-Robot Interaction Summer School
2024
Malinovská K., Mazzola C., Cerneková Z., Ali H., Farkas V.
Trustworthy Human-Robot Interaction Summer School
2024
Mazzola C.
Workshop on Intelligent, Interactive, Embodied Agents
2023
Mazzola C.
Human-Aware Artificial Systems
2023
Mazzola C., Sandini G.
The Role of Embodiment In Self-Aware Humans and Robots - Workshop
Colleagues of COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
