Laura Corti

• Post-doc researcher at Campus Bio-Medico University

The ageing of the population is one of the most significant social transformations that the twenty first century is showcasing and a challenge that impacts society at large. The elderly, inasmuch as everybody else, are confronted with continuous transformations that are induced by technology, although they seldom benefit from the opportunities that...

The problem of embodiment recurs several times in the contemporary debate in diverse disciplines, such as philosophy, neuroscience, and robotics. In particular, it is possible to define robots as (physical) embodied AI (Artificial Intelligence). From a philosophical point of view, this description opens a series of problems, such as: is the robotic...

One of the most challenging goals in social robotics is implementing emotional skills. Making robots capable of expressing and deciphering emotions is considered crucial for allowing humans to socially interact with them. In addition to presenting technical challenges, the implementation of artificial emotions in artificial systems raises intriguin...

Computational models of affect (CMAS), in their most common form, cannot take into account the qualitative (phenomenal) dimension of affect itself. Their expressivity can be extended, thus promoting the much sought-after standardization in the most theory-neutral way, using OWL (Web Ontology Language) and machine learning techniques. OWL is an expr...

The paper aims to design a map of human-Artificial Intelligence (a.i.) relationship by the concept of metamorphosis, which is describable as an external change of form but also a biological process of transformation. Therefore, this last concept becomes the key idea to analyze the feedback which is given by the device, made by a.i., to the subject...