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Publications

    Books

  • Palestra G. (2016). Il nuovo sistema di email dell'Università di Bari, Edizioni Accademiche Italiane, ISBN: 978-3-330-77662-3

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    International Journals

  • De Carolis, B., de Gemmis, M., Lops, P., & Palestra, G. (2017). Recognizing users feedback from non-verbal communicative acts in conversational recommender systems. Pattern Recognition Letters, 99, 87-95.
  • De Carolis, B., Ferilli, S., & Palestra, G. (2017). Simulating empathic behavior in a social assistive robot. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76(4), 5073-5094.
  • Palestra, G., Cazzato, D., Adamo, F., Bortone, I., & Distante, C. (2017). Assistive robot, rgb-d sensor and graphical user interface to encourage communication skills in asd population. Journal of Medical Robotics Research, 2(02), 1740002.
  • Bortone, I., Agnello, N., Argentiero, A., Denetto, V., Neglia, C., Palestra, G., & Benvenuto, M. (2015). The PoSE Project: the Potential of Technological Learning for Postural Education in Schoolchildren. ICST Trans. e-Education e-Learning, 2(6), e7.
  • Quarta, G., Larocca, F., D’Elia, M., Gaballo, V., Macchia, M., Palestra, G., & Calcagnile, L. (2013). Radiocarbon Dating the Exploitation Phases of the Grotta della Monaca Cave in Calabria, Southern Italy: A Prehistoric Mine for the Extraction of Iron and Copper. Radiocarbon, 55(2–3), 1246-1251.

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    Book Chapters

  • Courtial, E., Palestra, G., & Rebiai, M. (2017, June). A Tailored Serious Game for Preventing Falls of the Elderly. In International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics (pp. 230-239). Springer, Cham.
  • Carla Della Penna, Irene Maria Pia Battaglini, Antonio Maria La Scala, Giuseppe Palestra, Rosy Paparella, Rosa Pepe, Luigi Piliero, Laura Rizzo, Azioni sinergiche per l’accoglienza dei minori stranieri. Aracne Editrice, Ottobre 2016, ISBN: 978-88-548-9636-9
  • De Carolis B., Ferilli S., Palestra G. (2015) Improving Speech-Based Human Robot Interaction with Emotion Recognition. In: Esposito F., Pivert O., Hacid MS., Rás Z., Ferilli S. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9384. Springer, Cham
  • Del Coco M., Carcagnì P., Palestra G., Leo M., Distante C. (2015) Analysis of HOG Suitability for Facial Traits Description in FER Problems. In: Murino V., Puppo E. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing — ICIAP 2015. ICIAP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9280. Springer, Cham
  • Palestra, G., Pettinicchio, A., Del Coco, M., Carcagnì, P., Leo, M., & Distante, C. (2015, September). Improved performance in facial expression recognition using 32 geometric features. In International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (pp. 518-528). Springer, Cham.
  • Cazzato D., Adamo F., Palestra G., Crifaci G., Pennisi P., Pioggia G., Ruta L., Leo M., Distante C. (2015). Non-intrusive and calibration free visual exploration analysis in children with autism spectrum disorder. Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing V. Proceedings of the 5th Eccomas Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing. CRC Press – 2016 – 356 pages ISBN 9781138029262
  • Palestra, G., Bortone, I., Cazzato, D., Adamo, F., Argentiero, A., Agnello, N., Distante, C. (2014) Social Robots in Postural Education: A New Approach to Address Body Consciousness in ASD Children. In: Beetz M., Johnston B., Williams MA. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8755. Springer, Cham

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    International Conferences and Workshops

  • Palestra, G., De Carolis, B., & Esposito, F. Artificial Intelligence for Robot-Assisted Treatment of Autism.
  • Palestra G., Multimodal Interface for Robot-Children Interaction in Autism Treatment. In Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter, accepted.
  • De Carolis, B., & Palestra, G. (2017, September). Evaluating Natural Interaction with a Shop Window. In Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter (p. 9). ACM.
  • Palestra, G., Rebiai, M., Courtial, E., Giokas, K., & Koutsouris, D. (2017, June). A Fall Prevention System for the Elderly: Preliminary Results. In Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on (pp. 550-551). IEEE.
  • Palestra, G., Varni, G., Chetouani, M., & Esposito, F. (2016, November). A multimodal and multilevel system for robotics treatment of autism in children. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Social Learning and Multimodal Interaction for Designing Artificial Agents (p. 3). ACM.
  • De Carolis B., Ferilli S., Palestra G., & Redavid D. (2016). Emotion-Recognition from Speech-based Interaction in AAL Environment. In AI* AAL@ AI* IA (pp. 92-104).
  • Palestra G., Bortone I. (2016) Perspective Ethical Issues about Experiences with Social Robots to help Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. New Friends 2016, Conference Proceedings. Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues of Robots in Therapy and Education Workshop.
  • Bortone I., Agnello N., Argentiero A., Neglia C., Palestra G., Piscitelli P., Benvenuto M., Distante A. (2015). Healthy Aging: Postural Education on Elderly People in the Management of Osteoporosis, 3rd World Congress on Controversies, Debates & Consensus in Bone, Muscle & Joint Diseases (BMJD), Montreal, Canada.
  • De Carolis, B., & Palestra, G. (2016, June). Gaze-based Interaction with a Shop Window. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (pp. 304-305). ACM.
  • De Carolis, B., Ferilli, S., Palestra, G., & Carofiglio, V. (2015, September). Modeling and Simulating Empathic Behavior in Social Assistive Robots. In Proceedings of the 11th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter (pp. 110-117). ACM.
  • De Carolis B., Ferilli S., Palestra G., & Carofiglio V. (2015). Towards an Empathic Social Robot for Ambient Assisted Living. ESSEM@AAMAS 2015: 19-34
  • Leo, M., Del Coco, M., Carcagni, P., Distante, C., Bernava, M., Pioggia, G., & Palestra, G. (2015). Automatic emotion recognition in robot-children interaction for asd treatment. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (pp. 145-153).
  • Cazzato D., Adamo F., Distante C., Leo M., Palestra G., & Pioggia G. (2014). A Study for Evaluating Visual Exploration in ASD Children. International IEEE/EPSRC Workshop on Autonomous Cognitive Robotics, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK, 27-28 March 2014.

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    National Conferences and Workshops

  • Lecciso F., De Lumè F., Palestra G., Petrocchi S., Ingusci E., Ciavolino E., Fabio R. A., Un intervento sulla produzione delle emozioni di base mediato da un robot: analisi di un caso di un soggetto con disturbo dello spettro autistico-HF. XXX Congrès national de la psychologie du développement, 14-16 septembre 2017, Messina.
  • Lecciso F., Levante A., Petrocchi S., Ingusci E., Palestra G., De Lumè F., Interazione Robot-Bambino con Disturbo dello Spettro Autistico (DSA): un intervento sulla produzione delle emozioni di base, Le Nuove Tecnologie e il Valore Sociale della Ricerca Psicologica, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP) e Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (ISTC, CNR, Roma), 19 septembre 2016, Roma.
  • Giuseppe Palestra, SARACEN: L’utilizzo di robot nel lavoro con il bambino autistico. Convegno sulle tecnologie per l’autismo, Roma, 25 Febbraio 2016.