International Projects

Oct 2024-Dec 2025: Role: Local Unit Responsible, AI-PATTERNS: AI Techniques for Patterns Discovery in Distributed Systems.
AI-Patterns implements sophisticated models to depict cloud capabilities more effectively and methods for detecting mild cognitive issues at an early stage. Furthermore, its goal is to create extensive databases for early identification of cognitive impairments, leading to decreased healthcare expenses and technological progress.
Funded under EU NextGeneration, PNRR Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3
https://www.becogsys.com/projects/ai-patterns.html

Nov 2024-Oct 2028: Role: Co-PI Crystal. CRYSTAL (Conversational Systems for Emotional Support and Customer Assistance) will advance research for a next generation of conversational models and systems that implement reliable, friendly and efficient human-machine interactions that can assist humans in tasks beyond automatic information provision.
Funded under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) ID 101182965.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101182965

Nov 2023-March 2026: Role PI (Principal Investigator) of the PRIN (Research Projects of National Interest funded by the Italian government) project IRRESPECTIVE "A pilot analysIs of behavioRal and opeRational data for detEcting Socio-emotional PrEcursors of mild CogniTIVE impairments (MCI) and dementia” D.D. n. 1409/2022 - Bando PRIN 2022 PNRR - Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza a titolarità del Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca. Duration two years and three months.
https://www.irrespective.org

Feb 2019-Jan 2024: Role:Principal Investigator (Italian Unit) of EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 project "Mental health monitoring through interactive conversations” (MENHIR). Grant N. 823907. Coordinator Zoraida CALLEJAS, UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA, SPAIN, Duration 48 months.
https://menhir-project.eu/ .
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/823907

Dec 2022-Jun 2024: Role: Co-PI (Principal Investigator) Socially Aware Learning through Interactions in Crowded Environments (SALICE), Funded through competitions from Università delle Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli”, Duration 1 year and 6 months.
PDF : https://www.unicampania.it/RipartizioniFS/RAG/Bandi_Ateneo/Bando_Piano_Strategico_2022/Graduatoria_di_merito_Bando_Giovani_Ricercatori.pdf

Jan 2022-Jan 2025: Role: Component. Promoting Socio-emotional and Motivational well-being: an integrated intervention for the prevention of cognitive decline PI: Gabriella Santangelo. Funded from PON Research and Innovation New program actions funded with ESF REACT-EU resources.

Sept 2020-Sept 2023: Role: Member, TAILOR (Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning, Learning and Optimization) H2020 ICT-48 European network of AI excellence, EC Grant Agreement number: 952215, Call identifierH2020-ICT-2019-3 ( https://tailor-network.eu/about/about-2/ ), https://tailor-network.eu/network/network-members/ .

Apr 2019-Apr 2023: Role: Substitute Management Committee Member of EU COST Action CA18106 "The neural architecture of consciousness”. Chair Dr Kristian SANDBERG (Denmark). Duration 48 months https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18106/#tabs|Name:management-committee
Cordis : https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/218542/factsheet/en .

Dec 2019-Dec 2022: Role: Principal Investigator (PI) of the Project "AutoNomous DiscoveRy Of depressIve Disorder Signs” (ANDROIDS, Call D.R.: n.28 del 11.01.2019), Programma V:ALERE 2019, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli” DR n. 906, del 04/10/2019. Duration: 36 months https://www.psicologia.unicampania.it/overview-and-activities https://www.psicologia.unicampania.it/android-project .
https://becogsys.com/projects/androids.html

Oct 2019-Oct 2022: Role: Component of the EU Erasmus+ Project "Gamified Career Guidance: Promoting Meaningful and Participative Career Construction and Vocational Development through a Gamified Digital Platform” (2018-1-DE01-KA203-004222); Coordinator Francisco Luís Baptista de Sá Machado (Instituto Universitário da Maia - ISMAI, Porto, Portogallo). Duration: 36 months, https://g-guidance.eu/language/en/team/ .

Jan 2019-Jun 2022: Role: Principal Investigator (Local Unit) of the project SocIal ROBOTics for active and healthy ageing (SIROBOTICS) Programma Operativo Nazionale (PON), AUTORITÀ di Gestione MIUR DD n. 1735 del 13/07/2017 Progetti di ricerca Industriale e Sviluppo Sperimentale, Area di Specializzazione "Tecnologie per gli ambienti di vita” Duration 36 months . The ambition of the proposal is to provide and evaluate new assistance processes for a continuative care carried out through a wide range of health services consisting of different levels of assistance in a domestic and residential field. The expected goals consist in strengthening and promoting the advancement of innovation, automation and the robotics community in Southern Italy, thus favouring the emergence of potential start-ups, not only in the healthcare field but also in other field related to ICT robotics technologies like logistics, medicine, cleaning, etc.
https://www.exprivia.it/en-tile-7907-si-robotics/

12. Nov 2017-Apr 2021 Role: Italian Unit Principal Investigator ofthe EU H2020 project on “Empathic, Expressive, Advanced, Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly (EMPHATIC)”. Grant N. 769872. Coordinator Maria Ines Torres, UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA. Duration 36 months.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/769872

Sept 2016-Sept 2020: Role: Management Committee Member for EU COST Action CA15218 "Measuring homelessness in Europe” Chair Koen HERMANS (BE). Duration 48 months, European Fundation in Science and Technologies https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA15218/#tabs|Name:management-committee .

Apr 2015-Apr 2019 Role: Substitute Management Committee Member for the EU COST Action IS146 “Enhancing Children’s Oral Language Skills across Europe and Beyond: A Collaboration Focusing upon Interventions for Children with Difficulties Learning Their First Language. Chair James LAW (UK).
European Fundation in Science and Technologies, Duration 48 months
https://www.cost.eu/actions/IS1406/#tabs|Name:management-committee

May 2014-May 2015 Role: Country’s Representative of the event’s grant n. 17: Computational Intelligence Methods for Biomedical ICT in Neurological Diseases, funded inside the proposal “Connecting ICT in Europe and Southeast Asia (Connect SEA). EU FP7 Framework Programme. Grant N. 611014

Jun 2014-Jul 2017 Role: Italian Unit Principal Investigator of the European Space Agency (ESA) Project “Psychological Status Monitoring by Content Analysis and Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis of Crew Talks and Video Diaries (CAPA)” ESA approved project n. HSO-U-LE-0302. Duration 36 monthsa
https://www.spsc.tugraz.at/research-projects/capa-psychological-status-monitoring-by-content-analysis-and-acoustic-phonetic-analysis-of-crew-talks-and-video-diaries.html

May 2013-2016 Role: Italian Unit Principal Investigator of the EU project “LangTERRA - Enhancing the Research Potential of ILSP/Athena R.C. in Language Technology in the European Research ERA” Coordinator Spyros Raptis, ILSP/Athena, Greece. Duration 36 months, FP7-REGPOT
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/285924/reporting

Jul 2012-Jul 2015 Role: Coordinator of the European Space Agency (ESA) project “Psychological Status Monitoring by Computerised Analysis of Language phenomena (COALA)”. (ESA) approved project n. HSO-US 2012-108. Duration 36 months
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Concordia/This_year_s_science

Dec 2012-Nov 2015 Role: Expert Research Professor in the EU project vAssist (AAL-2010-3-106) Voice Controlled Assistive Care and Communication Services for the Home. Duration 36 months
http://vassist.cure.at

Oct 2012-Jun 2013

Role: Advisory Board Member of the EU COST Project for the Organization of the Strategic Workshop on: “The future concept and reality of Social Robotics: Challenges, Perception and Applications - Role of Social Robotics in current and future society” http://www.cost.eu/events/socialrobotics

Jun 2011-Oct 2014 Role: Italian Unit Principal Investigator of the EU project “Support for incorporating R&D teams in international cooperation in the area of image and audio signal processing”. CZ/EU funded project N. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0094. Coordinator Hicham Atassi, Brno University of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Communication and Telecommunications, CZ 61200 Brno. Duration 36 months
http://spl.utko.feec.vutbr.cz/en/our-cooperation

Jul 2010-Nov 2014 Role: Management Committee Member of the EU COST Action IC1002 MUMIA: MUltilingual and Multifaceted Interactive information Access. Chair Michail Salampasis. Duration 48 months, European Fundation in Science and Technologies
https://www.cost.eu/actions/IC1002/#tabs|Name:management-committee

Jan 2010-Apr 2014 Role: Management Committee Member of the EU COST Action TD0904 “TIMELY: Time in Mental Activity”. Chair: Argiro Vatakis. Duration 48 months European Fundation in Science and Technologies, European Fundation in Science and Technologies. https://www.cost.eu/actions/TD0904/#tabs|Name:management-committee

Local Projects

"Virtual Communities and Conformity: The Social Influence of the Web on the Perception of Emotional States”. (Financial Year 2013) Scientific Director Prof. Anna Esposito

"The Propagation of Information in Social Networks”. University Research 2014, Second University of Naples (Financial Year 2014) Scientific Director Dr. Gennaro Cordasco

"The Amount of Emotional Information Transmitted by Audio and Video Channels”. University Research 2016 Second University of Naples. (Financial Year 2016) Scientific Director Dr. Gennaro Cordasco

"The Categorization of Digital Information through the use of Euler Diagrams”. University Research 2017 UNIVERSITY OF CAMPANIA "LUIGI VANVITELLI”. (Financial Year 2017) Scientific Director Dr. Gennaro Cordasco

"How Adults Over 65 Perceive the Personality of Virtual Agents: Hedonic and Pragmatic Aspects”. (Financial Year 2018) Scientific Director Prof. Anna Esposito

"The Attitude of Elderly Users Towards Assistive Virtual Agents: The Role of Voice and Gender”. University Research 2019 UNIVERSITY OF CAMPANIA "LUIGI VANVITELLI”. (Financial Year 2019) Scientific Director Dr. Gennaro Cordasco