Speaker: Micol Spitale
27 Marzo 2026 | 11:30
DEIB - NECSTLab Meeting Room (Ed. 20)
Online by Zoom
Contatti: Prof. Marco Santambrogio
Sommario
On Friday, March 27th, 2026, we will have a new talk for the series #NECSTFridayTalk.During this talk, we will have, as speaker, Micol Spitale, Assistant Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria.
This talk presents a research journey at the intersection of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Social Signal Computing, with a focus on promoting mental well-being and fostering inclusion. We explore how social robots can be designed and deployed as supportive tools for mental well-being applications, spanning both assessment and promotion in adult populations. In particular, we investigate how multimodal social signals, such as speech, gaze, posture, and interaction patterns, can be leveraged to infer users’ psychological states and to enable adaptive, personalized well-being interventions.
Building on this foundation, the talk presents a series of case studies where computational models have been developed to enhance inclusion, especially for people with intellectual disabilities. These studies demonstrate how machine learning and social signal analysis can be used to model interaction dynamics, recognize individual needs, and support participation in diverse contexts such as daycare centres.
Overall, the talk highlights the potential of combining HRI and Social Signal Computing to create intelligent, socially aware systems that support both mental well-being and inclusive participation, while also reflecting on key challenges and future research directions in these domains.
The NECSTLab is a DEIB laboratory, with different research lines on advanced topics in computing systems: from architectural characteristics, to hardware-software codesign methodologies, to security and dependability issues of complex system architectures.
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Every week, the “NECSTFridayTalk” invites researchers, professionals or entrepreneurs to share their work experiences and projects they are implementing in the “Computing Systems”.