Doctoral Consortium

11:00 – 11:10
Opening and introduction

11:10 – 11:30
Presenter: Dayris Rapado
Mentors: Bart Knijnenburg, Amon Rapp
Title: Cognitive-Emotional Modeling and Hybrid Intelligence: A User-Centered Approach to Psychomotor Interventions in Active Aging

11:30 – 11:50
Presenter: Victor Garcia
Mentors: Fabio Gasparetti, Ernesto de Luca
Title: Towards Personalized Physiotherapy via Common Semantic Fusion: Multi-Modal Learning, Computer Vision and Empathetic NLP

11:50 – 12:10
Presenter: Mohammed Almutairi
Mentors: Olga Santos, Amon Rapp
Title: Teaming in the AI Era: AI-Augmented Frameworks for Forming, Simulating, and Optimizing Human Teams

12:10 – 12:30
Presenter: Alessio Ferrato
Mentors: Julia Neidhardt, Ludovico Boratto
Title: Integrating Indoor Positioning, Recommendation, and Personalization to Enhance Museum Visitor Experiences

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch break

14:00 – 14:20
Presenter: Mahsa Nasri
Mentors: Olga Santos, Marko Tkalcic
Title: Towards Intelligent VR Training: A Physiological Adaptation Framework for Cognitive Load and Stress Detection

14:20 – 14:40
Presenter: Neeley Pate
Mentors: Wolfgang Wörndl, Marko Tkalcic
Title: Supporting User Information Processing Through Large Language Models Within the Political Sphere

14:40 – 15:00
Presenter: Massimo Donini
Mentors: Ludovico Boratto, Nadja Decarolis
Title: Investigating Speech and Multimedia Integration in Assistive Robots

15:00 – 15:20
Presenter: Fillipe Santos
Mentors: Alessandro Mazzei, Koenigstein, Noam
Title: Segment, Explain, Recommend: Advancing Conversational Recommender Systems with LLM Agents

15:20 – 16:00
Coffee break

16:00 – 16:20
Presenter: Linda Pigureddu
Mentors: Styliani Kleanthous, Alessandr Rossi
Title: Just a Chill Robot. Strategies for Relatable and Personalized Assistive Robots for Autistic Children

16:20 – 16:40
Presenter: Gregory LeMasurier
Mentors: Elizabeth Lex, Alessandr Rossi
Title: Enabling Novices to Diagnose Robot Failures by Aligning Users’ Mental Models of Robots

16:40 – 17:00
Presenter: Mubina Kamberovic
Mentors: Peter Brusilovsky, Elizabeth Lex
Title: AI-Assisted Learning

17:00 – 17:30
Wrap up and discussion