Instagram Reactions to a Virtual Dining Companion: Qualitative Coding vs. Automated Sentiment Analysis

Authors: Hunter Fong, Magdalena Igras-Cybulska, Radoslaw Niewiadomski

Conference: 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly 2025), October 6–10, 2025, Salerno, Italy

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Individual Differences in Social and Emotional Responses to Robotic Dining Companions: Toward Personalized Interaction Design

Authors: Hunter Fong, Selim Soufargi, Maurizio Mancini, Radoslaw Niewiadomski

Conference: 17th International Conference on Social Robotics + AI (ICSR 2025), September 10-12, 2025, Napoli, Italy

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Designing Interactions for Artificial Commensal Companions

Authors: Hunter Fong, Selim Soufargi, Maurizio Mancini, Radoslaw Niewiadomski

Conference: 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2025), July 5–9, 2025, Madeira, Portugal

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Toward Modeling Commensal Interactions in Human Dyads

Authors: Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Cigdem Beyan

Conference: 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2025), July 5–9, 2025, Madeira, Portugal

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A Social Robot Companion for Individuals Eating Alone

Authors: Selim Soufargi, Hunter Fong, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Maurizio Mancini

Conference: 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2025), March 24-27, 2025, Cagliari, Italy

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Automatic Recognition of Commensal Activities in Co-located and Online settings

Authors: Yazgi, K., Beyan, C., Mancini, M., Niewiadomski, R.

Conference: 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024), November 4–8, 2024, San Jose, Costa Rica

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Do We Need Artificial Dining Companions? Exploring Human Attitudes Toward Robots in Commensality Settings

Authors: Hoxha, A., Fong, H., Niewiadomski, R.

Conference: 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024), November 4–8, 2024, San Jose, Costa Rica

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Sounding bodies: Exploring Sonification to Promote Physical Contact

Authors: Chiara Gulino, Radoslaw Niewiadomski

Conference: 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2024), June 3-7, 2024, Arenzano (Genoa), Italy

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Multimodal Interactive VR Mindfulness Experience

Authors: Maurizio Mancini, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Giovanna Varni, Andrea Chirico, Tommaso Palombi, Fabio Alivernini, Fabio Lucidi

Conference: 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2024), June 3-7, 2024, Arenzano (Genoa), Italy

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Towards the Dataset for Analysis and Recognition of Facial Expressions Intensity

Authors: Tiuleneva M., Castano E., Niewiadomski, R.

Conference: 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2024), June 3-7, 2024, Arenzano (Genoa), Italy

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First Multimodal Banquet: Exploring Innovative Technology for Commensality and Human-Food Interaction (CoFI2024)

Authors: Niewiadomski, R., Altarriba Bertran, F., Dawes, C., Obrist, M., Mancini, M.

Conference: 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024), November 4–8, 2024, San Jose, Costa Rica

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A Virtual Agent as a Commensal Companion

Authors: Mancini, M., Niewiadomski, R., De Lucia, G., Longobardi, F.M.

Conference: 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2024), September 16–19, 2024, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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How Do We Perceive the Intensity of Facial Expressions? The PIFE Dataset for Analysis of Perceived Intensity

Authors: Tiuleneva M., Castano E., Niewiadomski, R.

Conference: 12th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2024), September 15–18, 2024, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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