Silvia Di Battista
University of Chieti-Pescara, University of Bergamo, Marconi University
Papers
11
Total Citations
244
H-Index
7
About
Silvia Di Battista is an Italian researcher whose work sits at the dynamic intersection of educational technology, social robotics, and inclusive education. She has established herself as a leading voice in Educational Robotics (ER), particularly its applications for children with neurodevelopmental disorders and special needs students. Her 2020 systematic review on ER for children with neurodevelopmental disorders (69 citations) remains a foundational reference in the field, critically evaluating the evidence base for robot-assisted interventions. Complementing this, her investigations into teachers' attitudes toward ER for special needs students (45 citations) have illuminated the practical barriers and opportunities facing inclusive classrooms. Beyond assistive technology, Di Battista explores human-robot interaction more broadly, examining how social representations, gender, and cultural expectations shape people's perceptions of robots — work that has attracted considerable attention, with her 2021 study on everyday attitudes toward robots accumulating 56 citations. More recently, she has turned to gender bias in education, investigating how teachers make gender-differentiated attributions for students' successes and failures in STEM contexts. Across her body of work, Di Battista consistently bridges psychological theory with real-world educational practice, making her scholarship valuable to researchers, educators, and policymakers alike.
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- 4A Training Course in Educational Robotics for Learning Support Teachers25 citations · 2017
- 5Sex differences in expectations and perception of a social robot14 citations · 2018
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- 8Brief Research Report: Teachers’ Gender-Differentiated Attributions6 citations · 2022
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