Stefano Ferilli
Papers
8
Total Citations
89
H-Index
4
About
Stefano Ferilli is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, social robotics, and ambient assisted living (AAL), with a particular focus on developing empathic and socially intelligent systems to support older adults and vulnerable populations. His most influential contribution, "Simulating Empathic Behavior in a Social Assistive Robot" (2016), has garnered 57 citations and established him as a notable voice in the design of robots capable of recognizing and responding to human emotional states. Ferilli's research consistently explores how social robots can move beyond purely task-oriented assistance to build meaningful, emotionally aware interactions — a vision articulated across multiple works spanning emotion recognition from speech prosody, social attitude modeling, and the prediction of users' daily routines and mood patterns. His 2022 paper on learning relations between daily routines and mood reflects an evolution toward more adaptive, personalized robotic companions in home environments. Through relational sequential pattern classification and embodied agent modeling, Ferilli also contributes foundational machine learning methodologies to the field. His body of work offers a coherent and forward-looking research agenda aimed at making assistive technology genuinely human-centered.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Simulating empathic behavior in a social assistive robot57 citations · 2016
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- 3Classifying Agent Behaviour through Relational Sequential Patterns6 citations · 2010
- 4Towards an empathic social robot for ambient assisted living5 citations · 2015
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- 6Modeling and Simulating Empathic Behavior in Social Assistive Robots4 citations · 2015
- 7Improving Speech-Based Human Robot Interaction with Emotion Recognition4 citations · 2015
- 8Towards a Caring Home for Assisted Living.2 citations · 2013