Team Workshops on the Current Debate of Social Robotics
In July & August 2025, EMOROB organised two internal workshops aimed at sharing research progress and promoting interdisciplinary discussion within the team.
Ilaria Fornacciari attended the Department of the Arts and Humanities research seminar of the Burgundy School of Business (Université Bourgogne France-Comte) in November 2023.
The seminar has been open to students from the school's cultural branch. Ilaria Fornacciari gave a short presentation whose title echoed the project title: "Robots, Computing the Human and Autism". Aspects of the project and possible future collaborations were discussed, in particular with colleagues Eleonora Montagner, Marco Donato and Nick Daw.
In July & August 2025, EMOROB organised two internal workshops aimed at sharing research progress and promoting interdisciplinary discussion within the team.
How do metaphors and analogies influence research of autism therapy? Ilaria Fornacciari explored this relationship and more in her talk "Mirroring Mechanical Metaphors: Materials for an Archaeology of “Emotional Competence”, from Asperger to Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy (RAAT)".