Our research focuses on designing technology capable of creating
Affective Interactions with humans and contributing to their well-being.
We conduct interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Human-Computer
Interaction, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.
Rooted in Affective Computing, our goal is to design interactive technologies that are
genuinely helpful or simply enjoyable.

• [1 June 2024] AVI 2024
  Our four papers were accepted to 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces! See you in Arenzano!
  
  
  
• [1 April 2024] new workshop at ICMI2024
  I am delighted to announce our new workshop initiative: the First Multimodal Banquet: Exploring Innovative Technology for Commensality and Human-Food Interaction (CoFI2024), which will be held in conjunction with ICMI2024 in Costa Rica. Website: https://cofi2024.github.io
  
  
  
• [27 November 2023] Open Positions
  We are hiring research assistants (fellowships) for our project COmputational Models of COmmensality for Artificial Agents (COCOA). Please contact the coordinator for more details.
  
  
  
• [23 August 2023] New paper on emotion recognition
  Our paper Unleashing the Transferability Power of Unsupervised Pre-Training for Emotion Recognition in Masked and Unmasked Facial Images was just accepted to IEEE Access.
  
  
  

Read more about our ongoing and past projects here.
Check our list of available Master thesis and/or interships at the University of Genoa.