Select Publications
Journal articles
2021, 'Personalized Robot Interventions for Autistic Children: An Automated Methodology for Attention Assessment', International Journal of Social Robotics, 13, pp. 67 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00639-8
,2021, 'Robotics Aids for Character Building: More than Just Another Enabling Condition', International Journal of Social Robotics, 13, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-021-00756-y
,2020, 'Can a robot invigilator prevent cheating?', AI and Society, 35, pp. 981 - 989, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00954-8
,2020, 'Humanoid Robots and Autistic Children: A Review on Technological Tools to Assess Social Attention and Engagement', International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219843620300019
,2020, 'Can Robots Make Us Better Humans?', International Journal of Social Robotics, 13, pp. 7 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00700-6
,2020, 'Unfulfilled Prophecies in Sport Performance: Active Inference and the Choking Effect', Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science and the humanities, 27, pp. 152 - 184, https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2020/00000027/f0020003/art00008
,2019, 'Sympathy for Dolores: Moral Consideration for Robots Based on Virtue and Recognition', Philosophy & Technology, 33, pp. 1 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13347-019-0341-y
,2017, 'Mind-upload. The ultimate challenge to the embodied mind theory', Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 16, pp. 425 - 448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11097-016-9464-0
,2015, 'Introduction: when embodied cognition and sport psychology team-up', Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 14, pp. 213 - 225, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11097-015-9415-1
,2014, 'Fenomenologia e Scienza Cognitiva: Le Ragioni e i Modi della Loro Integrazione, con la Discussione di Due Possibili Obiezioni', Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi. Italian Journal of Cognitive Science, 1, pp. 341 - 372, http://dx.doi.org/10.12832/78933
,2014, 'Inference or familiarity? The embodied roots of social cognition', Synthesis Philosophica, 29, pp. 253 - 272
,2014, 'What's going on in there? FINDING INSPIRATION IN AVATAR, MASSIMILIANO CAPPUCCIO TRACES THE LIMITS OF EMPATHY', TPM-THE PHILOSOPHERS MAGAZINE, pp. 61 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/tpm20146684
,2013, 'Pointing as an Instrumental Gesture: Gaze representation through indication', Humanamente. Journal of philosophical studies, 6, pp. 125 - 150, http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/153
,2011, 'The Sign of the Hand. Symbolic Practices and the Extended Mind', Versus. Quaderni di Studi Semiotici, 112-112, pp. 33 - 55, http://versus.dfc.unibo.it/arc2b.php?numero=112-113
,2009, 'Constructing the Space of Action: From Bio-Robotics to Mirror Neurons', World Futures, 65, pp. 126 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02604020802595037
,2008, 'Idee in Azione. I Neuroni Specchio e l’Intenzionalità', Psicomotricità. Terapia, Prevenzione, Formazione, 12, pp. 7 - 14, http://rivistedigitali.erickson.it/psicomotricita/archivio/vol-12-n-1-2/
,2008, 'Empatia e neuroni specchio. Dalle neuroscienze cognitive alla Quinta Meditazione cartesiana', Rivista di estetica, pp. 43 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/estetica.1978
,2003, 'Traces of a computational mind', Revue de Synthèse, 124, pp. 43 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02963400
,1997, 'Introduction', Special issue of the Australian Journal of Comedy, 3, pp. 12 - 14
,Conference Papers
2021, 'A prototype of a robot memory game: Exploring the technical limitations of human-robot interaction in a playful context', in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ELECTR NETWORK, pp. 195 - 199, presented at Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, ELECTR NETWORK, 08 August 2021 - 11 August 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447158
,2019, 'The biodynamic stress hypothesis Towards an evolutionary psychology paradigm', in 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2019 - Proceedings, pp. 369 - 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom47531.2019.9089930
,2019, 'The spontaneous order of creativity Brain, complexity and evolution', in 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2019 - Proceedings, pp. 375 - 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom47531.2019.9089955
,2019, 'A low-cost autonomous attention assessment system for robot intervention with autistic children', in IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON, pp. 787 - 792, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2019.8725132
,2017, 'Avatar based interaction therapy: A potential therapeutic approach for children with Autism', in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2017, pp. 480 - 484, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2017.8015864
,2016, 'What are skills, and what does disrupt skillful performance? The theoretical background of a portable dynamic EEG study on choking effect', in Front. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: International Conference - Educational Neuroscience., Abu Dhabi, presented at Front. Neurosci. - International Conference Educational Neuroscience, Abu Dhabi, 28 February 2016 - 29 February 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/conf.fnins.2016.92.00014
,2016, 'Autonomous artificial agents, ethical decision, and the frame problem', in AISB Annual Convention 2016, AISB 2016
,Conference Proceedings (Editor of)
Cappuccio M, (ed.), 2014, 'Unreflective Action and the Choking Effect - Special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences', Springer, Netherlands, Vol. 14, presented at First International Conference on Sport Psychology and Embodied Cognition, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE, 24 February 2014 - 27 February 2014, https://link.springer.com/journal/11097/14/2
Preprints
2023, Applications of Computer Vision in Autonomous Vehicles: Methods, Challenges and Future Directions, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2311.09093
,2022, Human-Robot Creative Interactions (HRCI): Exploring Creativity in Artificial Agents Using a Story-Telling Game, http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03702v1
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