Publications

Aniol Civit, Antonio Andriella, Carles Sierra, Guillem Alenyà (2026). Multi-User Personalisation in Human-Robot Interaction: Resolving Preference Conflicts Using Gradual Argumentation. arXiv preprint.

Tamlin Love, Ferran Gebellí, Pradip Pramanick, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà, Anais Garrell, Raquel Ros, Silvia Rossi (2026). HEXAR: a Hierarchical Explainability Architecture for Robots. arXiv preprint.

Kim Baraka, Ifrah Idrees, Taylor Kessler Faulkner, Erdem Biyik, Serena Booth, Mohamed Chetouani, Daniel H. Grollman, Akanksha Saran, Emmanuel Senft, Silvia Tulli, Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Antonio Andriella, Helen Beierling, Tiffany Horter, Jens Kober, Isaac Sheidlower, Matthew E. Taylor, Sanne van Waveren, Xuesu Xiao (2025). Human-Interactive Robot Learning: Definition, Challenges, and Recommendations. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction.

Antonio Andriella, Giovanni Falcone, Silvia Rossi (2025). Enhancing Robot Assistive Behaviour with Reinforcement Learning and Theory of Mind. Int J Soc Robot 17(10), 2293-2309.

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Patrick Holthaus, Alessandra Rossi, Snehesh Shrestha, Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie, Aysegul Ucar, Daniel Hernández García, Frank Förster, Antonio Andriella, Shelly Bagchi (2025). Would Human-Robot Interaction Conferences Benefit From More Formal Reporting? : Evaluating a Novel Study Reporting Form. IEEE RO-MAN 2025, pp. 2192-2198.

Tamlin Love, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà (2025). Temporal Counterfactual Explanations of Behaviour Tree Decisions. arXiv preprint.

Antonio Andriella, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2025). Personalising Human-Robot Interactions in Social Contexts. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics.

Antonio Andriella, Ilenia Cucciniello, Antonio Origlia, Silvia Rossi (2024). A Bayesian Framework for Learning Proactive Robot Behaviour in Assistive Tasks. User Model User-Adap Inter 35, 1.

Aniol Civit, Antonio Andriella, Maite Antonio, Casimiro Javierre, Concepción Boqué, Guillem Alenyà (2024). Exploring the Potential of a Robot-Assisted Frailty Assessment System for Elderly Care. 33th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 168-175.

Tamlin Love, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà (2024). What Would I Do If…? Promoting Understanding in HRI through Real-Time Explanations in the Wild. 33th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 504-509.

Antonio Andriella, Raquel Ros, Yoav Ellinson, Sharon Gannot, Séverin Lemaignan (2024). Dataset and Evaluation of Automatic Speech Recognition for Multi-lingual Intent Recognition on Social Robots. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

Francesco Vigni, Antonio Andriella, Silvia Rossi (2024). A Rosbag Tool to Improve Dataset Reliability. Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

Tamlin Love, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà (2024). Towards Explainable Proactive Robot Interactions for Groups of People in Unstructured Environments. Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

Aniol Civit, Antonio Andriella, Cristian Barrue, Maite Antonio, Concepción Boqué, Guillem Alenyà (2024). Introducing Social Robots to Assess Frailty in Older Adults. Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. LBR Finalist <3%.

Francesco Vigni, Antonio Andriella, Silvia Rossi (2023). Sweet Robot O’Mine - How a Cheerful Robot Boosts Users’ Performance in a Game Scenario. 32th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 1368-1374.

Santiago Forgas-Coll, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà (2023). Gendered Human–Robot Interactions in Services. International Journal of Social Robotics, 15:1791–1807.

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Alejandro Suárez-Hernández, Antonio Andriella, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2023). User Interactions and Negative Examples to Improve the Learning of Semantic Rules in a Cognitive Exercise Scenario. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

Alberto Olivares-Alarcos, Antonio Andriella, Sergi Foix, Guillem Alenyà (2023). Robot explanatory narratives of collaborative and adaptive experiences. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Shelly Bagchi, Patrick Holthaus, Gloria Beraldo, Emmanuel Senft, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Zhao Han, Suresh Kumaar Jayaraman, Alessandra Rossi, Connor Esterwood, Antonio Andriella, Paul Pridham (2023). Towards Improved Replicability of Human Studies in Human-Robot Interaction: Recommendations for Formalized Reporting. Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 629-633. LBR Finalist <6%.

Ilenia Cucciniello, Antonio Andriella, Silvia Rossi (2023). Towards a Computational Approach for Proactive Robot Behaviour in Assistive Tasks. Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 521-525.

Séverin Lemaignan, Sara Cooper, Raquel Ros, Lorenzo Ferrini, Antonio Andriella, Aina Irisarri (2023). Open-source Natural Language Processing on the PAL Robotics ARI Social Robot. Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 907-908.

Santiago Forgas-Coll, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà (2023). Social robot-delivered customer-facing services: an assessment of the experience. The Service Industries Journal, 43:154-184.

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Antonio Andriella, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2022). Implications of Robot Backchannelling in Cognitive Therapy. 14th International Conference on Social Robotics, pp. 546-557.

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Santiago Forgas-Coll, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà (2022). Does the personality of consumers influence the assessment of the experience of interaction with social robots?. International Journal of Social Robotics, To appear.

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Alessandra Rossi*, Antonio Andriella*, Silvia Rossi, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2022). Evaluating the Effect of Theory of Mind on People's Trust in a Faulty Robot. 31th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 477-482.

Santiago Forgas-Coll, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà (2022). The effects of gender and personality of robot assistants on customers’ acceptance of their service. Service Business, 16:359-389.

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Antonio Andriella, Carme Torras, Carla Abdelnour, Guillem Alenyà (2022). Introducing CARESSER: a framework for in situ learning robot social assistance from expert knowledge and demonstrations. User Model User-Adap Inter.

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Antonio Andriella, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Santiago Forgas-Coll, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2022). I Know How You Feel: The Importance of Interaction Style on Users Acceptance in Entertainment Scenario. Interaction Studies, 23:21-57.

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Santiago Forgas-Coll, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà (2022). How do Consumers’ Gender and Rational Thinking Affect the Acceptance of Entertainment Social Robots?. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14:973-994.

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Antonio Andriella, Henrique Siqueira, Di Fu, Sven Magg, Pablo Barros, Stefan Wermter, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2021). Do I Have a Personality? Endowing Care Robots with Context-Dependent Personality Traits. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13:2081–2102.

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Alejandro Suárez-Hernández, Antonio Andriella, Aleksandar Taranović, Javier Segovia-Aguas, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2021). Automatic Learning of Cognitive Exercises for Socially Assistive Robotics. 30th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 139-146.

Antonio Andriella, Alessandra Rossi, Anouk Van Maris, Silvia Rossi (2021). The Road to a successful HRI: AI, Trust and ethicS - TRAITS. Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, VIrtual, pp. 709-711.

Antonio Andriella, Rubén Huertas-García, Santiago Forgas-Coll, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2020). Discovering SOCIABLE: Using a Conceptual Model to Evaluate the Legibility and Effectiveness of Backchannel Cues in an Entertainment Scenario. 29th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 752-759.

Antonio Andriella, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2020). Cognitive System Framework for Brain-Training Exercise based on Human-Robot Interaction. Cognitive Computation 12:793–810.

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Antonio Andriella, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2019). Short-Term Human-Robot Interaction Adaptability in Real-world Environments. Internation Journal of Social Robotics, 12: 639-657.

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Antonio Andriella, Alejandro Suárez-Hernández, Javier Segovia-Aguas, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2019). Natural Teaching of Robot-Assisted Rearranging Exercises for Cognitive Training. 11th International Conference on Social Robotics, pp 611-621.

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Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà, Carme Torras (2019). Learning Robot Policies Using a High-Level Abstraction Persona-Behaviour Simulator. 28th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 1-8.

Antonio Andriella, Joan Lobo-Prat, Carme Torras, Guillem Alenyà (2019). Robot interaction adaptation for healthcare assistance. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Robotics in Service Interactions, pp. 159-172.

Antonio Andriella, Guillem Alenyà, Joan Hernández-Farigola, Carme Torras (2018). Deciding the different robot roles for patient cognitive training. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 117: 20-29.

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