Dario Pasquali
Papers
9
Total Citations
96
H-Index
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About
Dario Pasquali is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, cognitive robotics, and deception detection. His most influential work explores how robots can autonomously detect lies during social interactions, a capability with profound implications for teaching, therapy, and law enforcement. His landmark paper, "Can a Robot Catch You Lying?" (2019, 29 citations), introduced a machine learning system for lie detection in HRI, while subsequent studies like "Detecting Lies is a Child (Robot)’s Play" (2021, 18 citations) and "Your Eyes Never Lie" (2020, 8 citations) advanced gaze-based deception detection methods. Beyond lie detection, Pasquali has made significant contributions to trust dynamics in human-robot teams, examining how robotic hardware faults affect human trust in "Expectations Vs. Reality" (2021, 16 citations). His recent work extends to cognitive architectures for industrial settings, including working memory-based navigation systems (2023) and an "Always-On" cognitive architecture for social context awareness (2025). With over 90 total citations across his publications, Pasquali's research uniquely bridges social robotics and artificial cognition, developing robots that can perceive, learn, and adapt in dynamic environments while maintaining natural, trustworthy social interactions.
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- 2Detecting Lies is a Child (Robot)’s Play: Gaze-Based Lie Detection in HRI18 citations · 2021
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- 4Magic iCub9 citations · 2021
- 5Your Eyes Never Lie8 citations · 2020
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