Alice Nardelli

University of Genoa, Italian Institute of Technology

Papers

6

Total Citations

27

H-Index

4

About

Alice Nardelli is an emerging researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, cognitive architecture, and artificial personality design. Her work focuses on developing sophisticated software frameworks that endow robotic agents with psychologically rich, human-like qualities — spanning personality modeling, emotional intelligence, and working memory — to foster more natural and intuitive collaboration between humans and machines. Nardelli's most influential contribution is her taxonomy-based framework for generating synthetic personalities grounded in the Big Five personality model, which has garnered 7 citations since its 2023 publication. Building on this foundation, she has advanced an integrated approach that orchestrates personality dynamics, emotional responses, and memory encoding within a unified cognitive architecture, recognizing that human intelligence emerges from the synergy of these processes rather than any single mechanism. Her user-centered implementations on the industrial mobile manipulator RB-KAIROS+ demonstrate a commitment to real-world applicability, validating biologically inspired memory architectures like WorkMATe alongside state-of-the-art GRU models. With a growing body of work accumulating over 27 citations in just two years, Nardelli represents a compelling new voice in socially intelligent robotics, pushing the field toward agents capable of genuine mutual understanding with their human counterparts.

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H-Index
6
Papers
27
Total Citations
5
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
A Software Framework to Encode the Psychological Dimensions of an Artificial Agent.
7 citations · 2023
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2023 (3 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 8
🏛 Institutions: University of Genoa, Italian Institute of Technology

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