Publications

(updated April 2021)

In bold, I am the corresponding author or the presenter.

Journal Articles

  1. Davies, S., Lucas, A., Ricolfe-Viala, C., & Di Nuovo, A. (2021). A Database for Learning Numbers by Visual Finger Recognition in Developmental Neuro-Robotics. FRONTIERS IN NEUROROBOTICS, 15, 12.
  2. Camp N, Lewis M, Hunter K, Johnston J, Zecca M, Di Nuovo A, Magistro D. Technology Used to Recognize Activities of Daily Living in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 2021; 18(1):163.
  3. Wang N, Chen C, Di Nuovo A., (2021) A Framework of Hybrid Force/Motion Skills Learning for Robots. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS (ISSN 2379-8920), 13, 1, pp 162 – 170.
  4. Di Nuovo, A., & Cangelosi, A. (2021). Abstract concept learning in cognitive robots. CURRENT ROBOTICS REPORTS, 1-8.
  5. Pecyna, L., Cangelosi, A., & Di Nuovo, A. (2020). A robot that counts like a child: a developmental model of counting and pointing. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH (1430-2772), in press.
  6. Rossi, S., Conti, D., Garramone, F., Santangelo, G., Staffa, M., Varrasi, S., & Di Nuovo, A. (2020). The Role of Personality Factors and Empathy in the Acceptance and Performance of a Social Robot for Psychometric Evaluations. ROBOTICS, 9(2), 39.
  7. Conti, D., Trubia, G., Buono, S., Di Nuovo, S., & Di Nuovo, A. (2020). Social robots to support practitioners in the education and clinical care of children: The CARER-AID project. LIFE SPAN AND DISABILITY, 23(1), 17-30.
  8. Conti, D., Carla, C., Di Nuovo, S., Di Nuovo A. (2020). “Robot, tell me a tale!”: A Social Robot as tool for Teachers in Kindergarten. INTERACTION STUDIES (1572-0373), Vol. 21(2), pp. 221–243
  9. Conti D, Trubia G, Buono S, Di Nuovo S, Di Nuovo A. (2020) Affect Recognition in Autism: a single case study on integrating a humanoid robot in a standard therapy. QWERTY – OPEN AND INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE AND EDUCATION (2240-2950) 14(2):66-87
  10. Di Nuovo A., McClelland, J.L. (2019). Developing the knowledge of number digits in a child-like robot. NATURE MACHINE INTELLIGENCE (2522-5839), 1(12), pp. 594–605.
  11. Conti, D., Cattani, A., Di Nuovo, S., and Di Nuovo A. (2019) “Are future psychologists willing to accept and use a humanoid robot in their practice? Italian and English students’ perspective.” FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY (1664-1078), 10: 2138.
  12. Moschetti, A.; Cavallo, F.; Esposito, D.; Penders, J.; Di Nuovo, A. (2019). Wearable Sensors for Human–Robot Walking Together. ROBOTICS (2218-6581), 8(2):38.
  13. Di Nuovo, A., Varrasi, S., Lucas, A., Conti, D., Mcnamara, J., & Soranzo, A. (2019). Assessment of Cognitive skills via Human-robot Interaction and Cloud Computing. JOURNAL OF BIONIC ENGINEERING (1672-6529). May 2019, Volume 16, Issue 3, pp 526–539.
  14. Wang, N., Di Nuovo A., Cangelosi, A., & Jones, R. (2019). Temporal Patterns in Multi-modal Social Interaction between Elderly Users and Service Robot. INTERACTION STUDIES (1572-0373). 20(1), pp. 4–24.
  15. Di Nuovo, A., & Jay, T. (2019). The development of numerical cognition in children and artificial systems: a review of the current knowledge and proposals for multi-disciplinary research. IET COGNITIVE COMPUTATION AND SYSTEMS (2517-7567), 1(1), 2-11.
  16. Cavallo, F., Esposito, R., Limosani, R., Manzi, A., Bevilacqua, R., Felici, E., Di Nuovo, A., Cangelosi, A. Lattanzio, F. & Dario P. (2018) ” Robotic Services Acceptance in Smart Environments with Older Adults: User Satisfaction and Acceptability Study.” JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH (1438-8871);20(9):e264
  17. Di Nuovo, A.; Conti, D.; Trubia, G.; Buono, S.; Di Nuovo, S. (2018). Deep Learning Systems for Estimating Visual Attention in Robot-Assisted Therapy of Children with Autism and Intellectual Disability. ROBOTICS (2218-6581), 7(2): 25.
  18. Di Nuovo, A., Broz, F., Wang, N., Belpaeme, T., Cangelosi, A., Jones, R., … & Dario, P. (2018). The multi-modal interface of Robot-Era multi-robot services tailored for the elderly. INTELLIGENT SERVICE ROBOTICS (1861-2776), 11(1), 109-126.
  19. Conti D., Di Nuovo S., Buono S., Di Nuovo A. (2017) Robots in education and care of children with developmental disabilities: A study on acceptance by experienced and future professional. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS (1875-4791), January 2017, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp 51-62.
  20. Conti D., Di Nuovo S., Di Nuovo A. (2016) Modelling Unilateral Spatial Neglect with a Cognitive Robotics Approach, COGNITIVE PROCESSING (1612-4782), August 2016, Vol. 17, Issue 3, pp 321–328
  21. Cannavò R., Conti D., Di Nuovo A., (2016). Computer-aided assessment of aviation pilots attention: integrated test design and the empirical validation. APPLIED COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS (2210-8327), Vol. 12(1), 16-26.
  22. Broz, F., Di Nuovo A., Belpaeme T., Cangelosi A. (2015). Towards Integrating Task Planning and Dialog for Assistive Robotic Services. PALADYN, JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOURAL ROBOTICS (2081-4836). Vol. 6(1), 111-118.
  23. De La Cruz VM, Di Nuovo A, Di Nuovo S (2015). Dita e parole per contare: come un robot cognitivo tira le somme. It all adds up: Fingers, words and counting in a cognitive robot. SISTEMI INTELLIGENTI (1120-9550), Vol. XXVII, n.1, 41- 60. In Italian.
  24. De La Cruz VM, Di Nuovo A, Di Nuovo S and Cangelosi A (2014). Making fingers and words count in a cognitive robot. FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIOURAL NEUROSCIENCE (1662-5153), 8:13.
  25. Di Nuovo S., De La Cruz V., Conti D., Buono S., Di Nuovo A. (2014). Mental Imagery: Rehabilitation through Simulation. LIFE SPAN & DISABILITY. (2035-5963). Vol. 17 (1), 89-118
  26. Di Nuovo A., Marocco D.; Di Nuovo S.; Cangelosi A. (2013). Autonomous Learning in Humanoid Robotics Through Mental Imagery. NEURAL NETWORKS (0893-6080) Vol. 41, pp. 147 – 155.
  27. Di Nuovo A., Ascia G. (2013). A Fuzzy System Index for Interpretability Preservation in Deep Tuning of Fuzzy Rule Based Classifiers. JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS (1064-1246), Vol. 25, p. 493 – 504.
  28. Di Nuovo A., Di Nuovo S.; Buono S. (2012). Intelligent Quotient Estimation of Mental Retarded People from Different Psychometric Instruments using Artificial Neural Networks. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE (0933-3657), Vol. 54, p. 135 – 145.
  29. Ascia G.; Catania V.; Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Patti D. (2011). Performance Evaluation of Efficient Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Design Space Exploration of Embedded Computer Systems. APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING (1568-4946), Vol. 11, p. 382 – 398.
  30. Di Nuovo A. (2011). Missing Data Analysis with Fuzzy C-Means: a study of its application in a psychological scenario. EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS (0957-4174), Vol.38, p. 6793-6797.
  31. Di Nuovo A.; Catania V; Di Nuovo S.; Buono S.(2008). Psychology with soft computing: An integrated approach and its applications. APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING (1568-4946), Vol. 8, p. 829-837.
  32. Ascia G.; Catania V; Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Patti D. (2007). Efficient Design Space Exploration for Application Specific Systems-on-a-Chip. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE (1383-7621), Vol. 53 (10), p. 733 – 750.
  33. Di Nuovo A.; Catania V; Palesi M. (2006). Genetic Learning of a Fuzzy C-Means Classifier System. WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS (1790-0832), Vol. 3 (9), p. 1609 – 1616.
  34. Di Nuovo A.; Di Nuovo S.; Buono S. (2006). Missing data analysis: A comparison between statistical methods and a fuzzy clustering algorithm. TPM. TESTING PSYCHOMETICS AND METHODOLOGY IN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY (1720-0121), Vol. 13, p. 179 – 192.

Referred Book Chapters

  1. Conti D., Di Nuovo A., Di Nuovo S. (2017). The Acceptability of the Artificial: the attitude toward Post-human. In Posthuman. Consciousness and Pathic Engagement, Edition: First, Chapter: VI, Publisher: Sussex Academic Press, Editors: Mauro Maldonado and Paolo Augusto Masullo, pp.76-84. ISBN: 9781782844747.
  2. Di Nuovo A., Marocco M., Di Nuovo S., Cangelosi A. (2017). Embodied Mental Imagery in Cognitive Robots. In L. Magnani and T. Bertolotti (Eds.), Handbook of Model-Based Science. Springer, pp.609-627. ISBN: 9783319305264.
  3. Cangelosi A., Morse A., Di Nuovo A., Rucinski M., Stramandinoli F., Marocco M., De La Cruz V., Fischer K. (2016). Embodied language and number learning in developmental robots. In M.H. Fischer & Y. Coello (Eds.), Foundations of Embodied Cognition. Taylor & Francis Press, pp. 275-293. ISBN: 9781138805835.
  4. Belpaeme T, Adams S, de Greeff J, Di Nuovo A, Morse A, Cangelosi A (2016). Social development of artificial cognition. In Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems – Volume I; Volume 105 of the series Intelligent Systems Reference Library pp 53-72. ISBN: 9783319310558.
  5. Di Nuovo S., Cangelosi A., Di Nuovo A., Marocco D. (2012) Simulazione del mental imagery nelle prestazioni motorie. In H. Gundlach, E. Pérez-Córdoba, M. Sinatra, G. Tanucci (a cura di) L’arte del movimento, Lecce: Pensa MultiMedia (pp. 171-184).
  6. Ascia G.; Catania V; Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Patti D. (2008). Computational Intelligence to Speed-Up Multi-Objective Design Space Exploration of Embedded Systems. In: Lam Thu Bui and Sameer Alam, Multi-Objective Optimization In Computational Intelligence: Theory And Practice. Information Science Reference, NEW YORK, NY p. 265 – 299. ISBN: 9781599044989.

Full articles in peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

  1. Conti, D., Trubia, G., Buono, S., Di Nuovo, A., & Di Nuovo, S. (2020). Brief review of robotics in low-functioning autism therapy. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol. 2730). Tilburg University.
  2. Di Nuovo, A. (2020). A Developmental Neuro-Robotics Approach for Boosting the Recognition of Handwritten Digits. In 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp 1-7.
  3. Conti, D., Di Nuovo, S., & Di Nuovo, A. (2020). A brief review of robotics technologies to support social interventions for older users. In Human Centred Intelligent Systems (pp. 221-232). Springer, Singapore.
  4. Pecyna, L., Cangelosi, A, Di Nuovo A. (2019) “A Deep Neural Network for Finger Counting and Numerosity Estimation”, Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 1-8, IEEE.
  5. Conti, D., Di Nuovo, A., Di Nuovo S. (2019). “Social robots for older users: a possibility to support assessment and social interventions”. Proceedings of the First Symposium on Psychology-Based Technologies, pp. 1-8
  6. Varrasi S., Lucas A., Soranzo A., Mcnamara J., Di Nuovo A. (2019) “IBM Cloud Services enhance automatic cognitive assessment via human-robot interaction.”, In: New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics, Advances in Theory and Practice, pp. 169-176, Springer,
  7. Varrasi S., Di Nuovo S., Conti D., Di Nuovo A. (2019) Social Robots as Psychometric Tools for Cognitive Assessment: A Pilot Test. In: Ficuciello F., Ruggiero F., Finzi A. (eds) Human Friendly Robotics. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 7. 99-112, Springer, Cham
  8. Rossi, S., Santangelo, G., Staffa, M., Varrasi, S., Conti, D., & Di Nuovo, A. (2018). Psychometric evaluation supported by a social robot: Personality factors and technology acceptance. In 2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 802-807). IEEE.
  9. Conti, D., Trubia, G., Buono, S., Di Nuovo, S., & Di Nuovo, A. (2018). Evaluation of a robot-assisted therapy for children with autism and intellectual disability. In Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (pp. 405-415). Springer, Cham.
  10. Di Nuovo, A. (2018). Long-short term memory networks for modelling embodied mathematical cognition in robots. of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2018), pp.1- 7, In: WCCI 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence.
  11. Di Nuovo, A. (2017). An embodied model for handwritten digits recognition in a cognitive robot. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), pp. 1-6, IEEE.
  12. Acampora G., Di Nuovo A., Siciliano B. and Vitiello A. (2017). A Comparison of Fuzzy Approaches for Training a Humanoid Robotic Football Player. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZIEE 2017), pp 1-6
  13. Hirsch, L., & Di Nuovo, A. (2017). Document clustering with evolved search queries. Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC ’17), pp. 1239 – 1246.
  14. Di Nuovo A., Cannavo R., Di Nuovo S., Trecca G., Ravecca F. (2016), A Neuro-Fuzzy approach to identify a Hierarchical Fuzzy System for modelling Aviation Pilot Attention. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, (FUZZ-IEEE 2016), Vancouver (Canada), pp 32-37.
  15. Di Nuovo A., Wang N., Broz F., Belpaeme T., Jones R., Cangelosi A. (2016), Experimental evaluation of a multi-modal user interface for a robotic service. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Proceedings of the 17th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2016), Sheffield, UK, pp. 87-98.
  16. Carbone G., Di Nuovo A. (2016), A hybrid multi-objective evolutionary approach for Optimal Path Planning of a Hexapod Robot, Lecture Notes on Computer Science (Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics), Plymouth, UK, pp. 131-144.
  17. Di Nuovo A., Cangelosi A. (2015) Artificial Mental Imagery in Cognitive Robots Interaction. A review and future research directions. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2015, Cape Town, pp. 91-96
  18. Di Nuovo A., De La Cruz V.M. , Cangelosi A (2015) A Deep Learning Neural Network for Number Cognition: a bi-cultural study with the iCub. IEEE ICDL-Epirob 2015, pp. 320-325.
  19. Conti D., Di Nuovo S., Trubia G., Buono S., Di Nuovo A. (2015) Use of robotics to stimulate imitation in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A pilot study in a clinical setting. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN), pp. 1 -6.
  20. Conti D., Allegra Cattani, Di Nuovo S., Di Nuovo A. (2015) A Cross-Cultural Study of Acceptance and Use of Robotics in Future Psychology Practitioners. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN), Aug 31-Sept 3, Kobe, Japan, pp. 555 – 560.
  21. Wang, N., Broz, F., Di Nuovo, A., Belpaeme, T., & Cangelosi A. (2015). A User-centric Design of Service Robots Speech Interface for the Elderly. Proceedings of the International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2015, pp. 1-6.
  22. Di Nuovo, A., De La Cruz, V. M., & Cangelosi, A. (2014). Grounding fingers, words and numbers in a cognitive developmental robot. In Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain (CCMB), 2014 IEEE Symposium on (pp. 9-15). IEEE.
  23. Di Nuovo A., Broz, F, Belpaeme T, Cangelosi A, Cavallo F., Esposito R., Dario P. (2014).A Web Based Multi-Modal Interface for Elderly Users of the Robot-Era Multi-Robot Services, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp 2186-2191.
  24. Di Nuovo A.; De La Cruz V.; Cangelosi A.; Di Nuovo S. (2014). The iCub learns numbers: An embodied cognition study, Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2014), pp.1- 8, In:WCCI 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence.
  25. Di Nuovo A., Di Nuovo S., Buono S., Cutello V. (2014). Benefits of Fuzzy Logic in the Assessment of Intellectual Disability. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2014. FUZZ-IEEE 2014. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence)
  26. Fachantidis A.,Di Nuovo A., Cangelosi A. , Vlahavas I. (2013). Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Humanoids: A Study on Forming Rewards with the iCub platform. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain, pp 87- 93, In:IEEE SSCI 2013.
  27. Di Nuovo A.; Ascia Giuseppe; Catania Vincenzo (2012). A Study on Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization with Fuzzy Approximation for Computational Expensive Problems. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XII, pp 102- 111, vol.7492, In:Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XII. 1-5 Settembre, Taormina,
  28. Di Nuovo A.; Marocco D.; Cangelosi A.; De La Cruz V.M.; Di Nuovo S. (2012). Mental practice and verbal instructions execution: A cognitive robotics study. Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2012 International Joint Conference on,pp 1- 6, In:WCCI 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence.
  29. Di Nuovo A.; Cannavò R; Di Nuovo S (2011). An Agent-based Infrastructure for Monitoring Aviation Pilot’s Situation Awareness. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011,pp 1- 7, In:IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011.
  30. Di Nuovo A.; Cannavò R.; Di Nuovo S. (2011). A Intelligent Infrastructure for in-flight Situation Awareness of Aviation Pilots. Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Directing the Future of Adaptive Systems (HCI 2011) 598- 607, vol.6780, In:HCI International 2011. 9-14 July 2011, Bonnet Creek, Orlando, Florida, USA,
  31. Di Nuovo A. , Marocco D. , Di Nuovo S. , Cangelosi A. (2011). A Neural Network model for spatial mental imagery investigation: A study with the humanoid robot platform iCub. The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2199- 2204, In:The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.
  32. Catania V; De Francisci Morales G.; Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Patti D. (2009). An Effective Methodology to Multi-objective Design of Application Domain-specific Embedded architectures. Proceedings of 12th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital Systems Design IEEE Computer Society, 643- 650,
  33. Di Nuovo A.; Catania V (2009). Linguistic Modifiers to improve the Accuracy-Interpretability Trade-off in Multi-Objective Genetic Design of Fuzzy Rule Based Classifier Systems. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA ‘09) IEEE Computer Society, 128- 133,
  34. Di Nuovo A.; Di Nuovo S.; Buono S.; Catania V. (2009). Feedforward Artificial Neural Network to Estimate IQ of Mental Retarded People from Different Psychometric Instruments. Proceedings of 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IEEE Computer Society, 690- 696,
  35. Di Nuovo A.; Catania V (2008). An evolutionary fuzzy c-means approach for clustering of bio-informatics databases. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2008. FUZZ-IEEE 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence) 2077- 2082,
  36. Catania V; De Francisci Morales G.; Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Patti D. (2008). High Performance Computing for Embedded System Design: A Case Study. Proceedings of 11th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE on DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN Architectures, Methods and Tools IEEE Computer Society, 656- 659,
  37. Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Catania V (2007). Multi-Objective Evolutionary Fuzzy Clustering for High-Dimensional Problems. Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZIEEE ’07) 1927- 1932, July 23-26, 2007, London,
  38. Di Nuovo A.; Catania V (2007). On External Measures for Validation of Fuzzy Partitions. Foundations of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing 491- 501, vol.4529, World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA-07).
  39. Di Nuovo A.; Catania V; Di Nuovo S.; Buono S.(2006). Evolving Fuzzy C-Means: An Intelligent Technique for Efficient Diagnosis of Children Mental Retardation Level from Databases with Missing Values. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI ’06) 290- 296, 26-29 June, Las Vegas, USA,
  40. Di Nuovo A. (2006). Knowledge Base Extraction for Fuzzy Diagnosis of Mental Retardation Level. STAIRS 2006 – Proceedings of the Third Starting AI Researchers’ Symposium 50- 61, vol.142, In:STAIRS 2006, THE THIRD EUROPEAN STARTING AI RESEARCHER SYMPOSIUM”. 28-29 August, Riva Del Garda, Italy.
  41. Di Nuovo A.; Catania V (2006). An Efficient Approach for the Design of Transparent Fuzzy Rule-Based Classifiers. Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZIEEE ’06) 1381- 1387, In:FUZZIEEE ’06. 16-21 JULY 2006, VANCOUVER, CANADA,
  42. Ascia G.; Catania V; Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Patti D. (2006). A Multiobjective Genetic Fuzzy Approach for Intelligent System-level Exploration in Parameterized VLIW Processor Design. Proceedings of 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC ’06) 1736- 1743, In:CEC 2006, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. July 16-21, 2006, Vancouver (BC), Canada.
  43. Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Patti D.; Ascia G.; Catania V (2006). Fuzzy Decision Making in Embedded System Design. Proceedings of the International Conference on Hardware-Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES) ACM Press, 223- 228, October 22-25, 2006, Seoul, Korea,
  44. Di Nuovo A.; Catania V; Palesi M. (2006). The Hybrid Genetic Fuzzy C-Means: a Reasoned Implementation. Proceedings of 7th WSEAS International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FS ’06) 33- 38, Cavtat, Croazia,
  45. Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Patti D. (2006). An Hybrid Soft Computing Approach for Automated Computer Design. STAIRS 2006 – Proceedings of the Third Starting AI Researchers’ Symposium 84- 95, vol.142, In:STAIRS 2006, The Third European Starting AI Researcher Symposium. 28-29 AUGUST, RIVA DEL GARDA (TN), ITALY,
  46. Di Nuovo A.; Catania V (2006). Genetic Tuning of Fuzzy Rule Deep Structures for Efficient Knowledge Extraction from Medical Data. Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 5053- 5058, vol.6, In:IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. 8-11 OCTOBER 2006, TAIPEI, TAIWAN,
  47. Ascia G.; Catania V; Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Patti D. (2006). Fuzzy Simulation to Speedup Computer Design. Proceedings of 4th Industrial Simulation Conference (ISC 2006) 285- 289, In:Industrial Simulation Conference 2006. JUNE 5-7, 2006, PALERMO (ITALY),
  48. Ascia G.; Catania V; Di Nuovo A.; Palesi M.; Patti D. (2006). An Efficent Hierachical Fuzzy Approach for System Level System-on-a-Chip Design. Proceedings of 2006 International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (IC-SAMOS 2006) 115- 122, In:International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation. July 17-20, 2006, Samos, Greece,
  49. Barbera M, Busà AG, Di Nuovo A., Lombardo A, Schembra G. (2005). A simulation tool for tuning IP network parameters based on fluid-flow models and parallel genetic algorithms. Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005. IEEE GLOBECOM’05. 2, 6 pp.

Short articles/Long Abstracts in peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

  1. Di Nuovo A, Clegg J, Bamforth J, Conti D, Sage K, Ibbotson R, Westaway A, Arnold K (2020) An explorative study on robotics for supporting children with Autism Spectrum Disorder during clinical procedures. In Proceedings of 15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2020). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages.
  2. Lucas A., Ricolfe-Viala C., Di Nuovo A. (2019) Preliminary Investigation on Visual Finger-Counting with the iCub Robot Cameras and Hands. In: Althoefer K., Konstantinova J., Zhang K. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11650, pp. 484-488. Springer, Cham
  3. Di Nuovo, A., Varrasi, S., Conti, D., Bamsforth, J., Lucas, A., Soranzo, A., & McNamara, J. (2019). Usability Evaluation of a Robotic System for Cognitive Testing. In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 588-589).
  4. Conti, D., Di Nuovo, S., & Di Nuovo, A. (2019, March). Kindergarten Children Attitude Towards Humanoid Robots: what is the Effect of the First Experience?. In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 630-631).
  5. Penders, J., Wang, J., Bhowmil, D., Di Nuovo, A., Soranzo, A., Rolph, J., … & Young, J. (2018). Robots claiming space: gauging public reaction using computer vision techniques. In Proceedings of the 19th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) Conference. Sheffield.
  6. Varrasi, S. Di Nuovo, S. Conti, D. and Di Nuovo, A. (2018). A Social Robot for Cognitive Assessment. In HRI’18 Companion: Conference on ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 5- 8, 2018, Chicago, IL, USA. ACM, NY, NY, USA, 2 pages.
  7. Conti, D., Di Nuovo, A., Trubia, G., Buono, S., & Di Nuovo, S. (2018). Adapting Robot-Assisted Therapy of Children with Autism and Different Levels of Intellectual Disability: A Preliminary Study. In Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 91-92). ACM.
  8. Conti D.,Di Nuovo A., Cirasa C., Di Nuovo S. (2017) A comparison of kindergarten storytelling by human and humanoid robot with different social behavior. In: HRI ’17. Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction – HRI ’17. New York, ACM, 97-98.
  9. Conti D., Di Nuovo S., Buono S., Di Nuovo A. (2015) Computational Modelling of Cognitive Dysfunctions: A Cognitive Robotics Study on Unilateral Spatial Neglect. IEEE ICDL-Epirob 2015.
  10. Broz, F.; Di Nuovo, A.; Belpaeme, T.; Cangelosi, A. (2014). Towards Integrating Dialog, Planning, and Execution for Service Robots. In 2014 AAAI Fall Symposium Series.
  11. De La Cruz, V. M.; Floccia, C.; Cattani, A.; Di Nuovo, A.; Cangelosi A. (2014). Counting cultures and their effects on children and robots. Proceedings of the annual conference of the Italian Cognitive Science Association, 2014 In:AISC 2014 (Italian Society of Cognitive Science). Milano.
  12. Conti, D.; Di Nuovo S.; Buono, S.; Trubia G.; Di Nuovo A. (2014). Uso della robotica per stimolare l’imitazione nell’Autismo. Uno studio pilota. Proceedings of the annual conference of the Italian Cognitive Science Association, 2014 In:AISC 2014 (Italian Society of Cognitive Science). Milano.
  13. De La Cruz V.M.; Di Nuovo A.; Di Nuovo S. (2013). Fingers, words and counting in a cognitive robot. Proceedings of the annual conference of the Italian Cognitive Science Association, 2013 In:AISC 2013 (Italian Society of Cognitive Science). Milano.
  14. Di Nuovo A., Marocco D., Di Nuovo S., Cangelosi A., (2013). Ballistic Action Planning in Robotics by means of Artificial Imagery. Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 773- 774, vol.12,
  15. De La Cruz V.M.; Di Nuovo A.; Di Nuovo S. (2012). Mental Imagery: what are we talking about really? Proceedings of the annual conference of the Italian Cognitive Science Association, 2012 In:AISC 2012 (Italian Society of Cognitive Science). Milano,
  16. Di Nuovo A.; Marocco D (2012). Recurrent Neural Network for Ballistic Actions: a Study with the iCub. In:IEEE ICDL-Epirob 2012. 7-9 November 2012, San Diego, USA,
  17. Broz, F, Di Nuovo A., Belpaeme T, Cangelosi A (2012). Multimodal Robot Feedback for Eldercare. Workshop at the IEEE International Symposium on Robots and Human Interactive Communications (RO-MAN), September 9, 2012, Paris, France
  18. Di Nuovo A.; De La Cruz V.M.; Di Nuovo S.; Marocco D.; Cangelosi A. (2012). Doing as you’re told: A cognitive robot model of motor imagery, action and verbal instruction. In:COGSYS 2012. Vienna,
  19. De La Cruz V.M.; Di Nuovo A.; Di Nuovo S. (2011). Doing as you’re told: A cognitive robot model of motor imagery, action and verbal instruction. Proceedings of the annual conference of the Italian Cognitive Science Association, 2011 In:AISC 2011 (Italian Society of Cognitive Science). Milano,
  20. Di Nuovo A.; Marocco D.; Di Nuovo S.; Cangelosi A. (2010). Estimating Spatial Position from Proprioceptive and Visual information: A Cognitive Robotics Model. Lund University Cognitive Studies, LUND: 1- 2, In:EPIROB 2010. November 5-7, 2010, Sweden,.

Edited Conference Proceedings

  1. Di Nuovo A., Wagner, C.; Kumbasar, T.; Siciliano, B.; Acampora, G. (2017), Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), Naples July 9-12, 2017. ISBN 978-1-5090-6034-4, ISSN 1558-4739.
  2. Blesa M. J.; Blum C.; Cangelosi A. ; Cutello V.; Di Nuovo, A.; Pavone M.; Talbi, E. (2016), Proceedings pf the 10th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, HM 2016, Plymouth, UK, June 8-10, 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series 9668, ISSN 0302-9743.
  3. Di Nuovo A., Broz F., Cavallo F., Dario P. (2014). Proceedings of the International Workshop on New Frontiers of Service Robotics for the Elderly. ISBN 9-781841-02372-4.
  4. Di Nuovo A.; De La Cruz V.; Marocco D. (2012). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Artificial Mental Imagery in Cognitive Systems and Robotics. ISBN: 9-781841-02325-0.

Editorials for Journal Special Issues

  1. Di Nuovo, A., Acampora, G., & Schlesinger, M. (2017). Guest Editorial Cognitive Agents and Robots for Human-Centered Systems. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS (2379-8920), 9(1), 1-4.
  2. Di Nuovo A., Broz F., Cavallo F., Dario P. (2016). New Frontiers of Service Robotics for Active and Healthy Ageing. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS (1875-4791), Vol. 8, Issue 3, pp 353-354
  3. Di Nuovo A., De La Cruz V. M., Marocco D. (2013). Special issue on artificial mental imagery in cognitive systems and robotics. ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR (1059-7123), Vol. 21, p. 217 – 221

Other scientific outputs

  1. Di Nuovo A.; De Francisci Morales G.; Palesi M.; Patti D. (2009). System Level Design of Application Domain-specific Embedded System Architectures. 143- 146, In:ACACES 2009, Fifth International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for. 07/2009, Terrassa, Spain,
  2. Di Nuovo A. (2007). Computational Intelligence in Embedded System Design. ACACES 2007 Poster abstracts Academia Press, 291- 294.