Latest Publications

Journal Articles

[1] S. Chakraborty, R. Milo, G. Cordasco, A. Perna, and A. Esposito, "Exploring the role of conformity in decision-making and emotional regulation: A systematic review," Social Sciences, vol. 15, no. 1, art. no. 14, 2026.

[2] F. Prinzi, P. Barbiero, C. Greco, T. Amorese, G. Cordasco, P. Liò, S. Vitabile, and A. Esposito, "Using AI explainable models and handwriting/drawing tasks for psychological well-being," Information Systems, vol. 127, art. no. 102465, 2025.

[3] M. Veneziano, M. Sarno, M. S. Ler, M. Cuciniello, T. Amorese, A. Trusio, O. Gordeeva, G. Cordasco, and A. Esposito, "Children preferences for virtual agents with natural and synthetic voices: Exploring developmental differences in willingness to interact and voice quality," Journal Design+, in press.

[4] G. Di Gennaro, C. Greco, A. Buonanno, M. Cuciniello, T. Amorese, M. S. Ler, G. Cordasco, F. A. N. Palmieri, and A. Esposito, "HUM-CARD: A human crowded annotated real dataset," Information Systems, vol. 124, art. no. 102409, 2024.

[5] M. S. Ler, M. Veneziano, A. D'Iorio, G. Cordasco, G. Santangelo, and A. Esposito, "Task-related handwriting and drawing features for early detection of Alzheimer's disease: A pilot study," Journal of Clinical and Translational Research, advance online publication, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.36922/JCTR025380063

Conference Proceedings & Book Chapters

[6] S. Chakraborty, T. Amorese, M. Cuciniello, R. Milo, A. Perna, G. Cordasco, and A. Esposito, "The impact of gender and cultural differences on emotion recognition," in Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Proc. WIRN 2025), Springer, in press.

[7] S. Chakraborty, T. Amorese, M. Cuciniello, V. Villino, A. Perna, G. Cordasco, and A. Esposito, "Decoding emotions: The role of age and gender in recognition accuracy," in Socially Aware and Responsible AI Applications (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies), A. Esposito et al., Eds. Springer, in press.

[8] M. Cuciniello, T. Amorese, R. Milo, S. Chakraborty, A. Perna, G. Cordasco, and A. Esposito, "The role of stimulus gender and rankings on emotion recognition: A comparative study on participants' conformity," in Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Proc. WIRN 2025), Springer, in press.

[9] M. S. Ler, T. Amorese, M. Cuciniello, G. Cordasco, A. D'Iorio, M. Faundez-Zanuy, G. Santangelo, and A. Esposito, "Detecting cognitive decline through handwriting: The role of task complexity and feature selection," in Socially Aware and Responsible AI Applications (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies), vol. 460, A. Esposito et al., Eds. Springer, in press, ch. 2.

[10] R. Milo, T. Amorese, M. Cuciniello, A. Perna, G. Cordasco, and A. Esposito, "Frontal alpha asymmetry as an index of willingness to interact with virtual agents in users with depressive symptoms," in Proc. 2025 Int. Joint Conf. Neural Netw. (IJCNN), IEEE, 2025.

[11] M. Sarno, M. Cuciniello, T. Amorese, G. Cordasco, V. D'Agnese, and A. Esposito, "Exploring students' perceptions of an educational robot: The influence of voice and video modalities," in Proc. Int. Conf. Social Robotics, Singapore, 2025, pp. 72–729.

[12] M. Sarno, M. Cuciniello, T. Amorese, G. Cordasco, V. D'Agnese, and A. Esposito, "Hedonic qualities and students’ acceptance of pedagogical agents: A pilot study," in Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Proc. WIRN 2025), Springer, in press.

[13] M. Sarno, M. Veneziano, T. Amorese, M. Cuciniello, A. Perna, G. Cordasco, V. D'Agnese, and A. Esposito, "Exploring students' acceptance of pedagogical agents: A pilot study," presented at the 16th IEEE Int. Conf. Cogn. InfoCommun. (CogInfoCom), Vienna, Austria, Sep. 2025.

[14] M. Veneziano, M. Cuciniello, T. Amorese, G. Cordasco, A. Perna, and A. Esposito, "The role of pleasure and utility in children's interaction with virtual agents and robots: A pilot study," in Neural Approaches to Dynamics of Signal Exchanges (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies), Springer, in press.

[15] R. Milo, T. Amorese, M. Cuciniello, G. Cordasco, and A. Esposito, "Emotion recognition from unimodal to bimodal: Exploring the effects of communicative modes and gender of stimuli on the decoding accuracy of dynamic emotional expressions," presented at the 13° Forum Italiano Ambient Assisted Living (ForItAAL), 2024.

[16] R. Milo, G. Cordasco, and A. Esposito, "Emotional valence and gender effects on willingness to interact with virtual agents in people with depressive symptoms," presented at the 15th IEEE Int. Conf. Cogn. InfoCommun. (CogInfoCom), 2024.

[17] M. Sarno, T. Amorese, M. Cuciniello, G. Cordasco, V. D’Agnese, and A. Esposito, "Factors influencing young users’ acceptance of interactive dialogue systems with a pedagogical role: A recent review of the literature," in Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Proc. WIRN 2024), Springer, in press.

[18] M. Veneziano, M. Cuciniello, T. Amorese, G. Cordasco, and A. Esposito, "Preliminary investigation on children's acceptance of interactive dialogue systems," in Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Proc. WIRN 2024), Springer, in press.

[19] M. Veneziano, M. Cuciniello, T. Amorese, G. Cordasco, A. Esposito, and C. Vogel, "How willingness to interact and intelligibility of the voice affect children's interaction with an interactive dialogue system: A pilot study," presented at the 15th IEEE Int. Conf. Cogn. InfoCommun. (CogInfoCom), 2024.

Publications by Author (IRIS)

Anna Esposito
Gennaro Cordasco
Alda Troncone