Francesca Cocchella

Social Psychologist and PhD student at Italian Institute of Technology @RBCS_CONTACT. I study HRI with an interdisciplinary approach🤖

[ICSR2026 @icsr2026]

✳️💠On September 12th #ICSR25 will take place at
#CittàdellaScienza, Sala Newton. 🔬⚙️Città della Scienza, (1996), is a renowned science museum and innovation hub that symbolizes the area’s transformation into a center for #education and #culture.
📎
https://t.co/ErMxIEMMUW

[Francesca Cocchella @FCocchella]

Proud of our newest #paper on Cognitive Anthropomorphism! 🤖👩 Part of my collaboration with Professor Andrighetto from University of Genoa's Psychology Department.

[RBCS & CONTACT IIT @RBCS_CONTACT]

New paper is OUT! 📜
Find the empirical study on cognitive anthropomorphism of human robots, a collaboration between our CONTACT Unit and the Social Psychology lab of @UniGenova, in the International Journal of Social Robotics @SpringerNature.
🔗https://t.co/xxMcKj7uyV
@IITalk

[ICSR2026 @icsr2026]

Mark your #calendar!📆🤖 Here are the #keydates to participate in ICSR2025, more info coming soon❇️

[TERAIS @TERAIS_project]

📢WE ARE HIRING!

would you like to be a part of our #terais team? we have an open postdoctoral position!

For more information click on @EURAXESS here https://t.co/GYxC6DHegj

#openjob #postdocposition #postdoc #jobsearch #horizonproject #Robotics #openpostdoc #AI

[Francesca Cocchella @FCocchella]

Don't miss my latest pubblication!
If you are curious about robots interacting with children in schools: https://t.co/vNKcOaU2e0
And if you are curious about personality traits shaping the interaction with a robot during collaborative tasks: https://t.co/6zOihE1dZI

[Francesca Cocchella @FCocchella]

Some pictures from the amazing experience at @ieeeroman 2023 in Busan, South Korea 🇰🇷 so happy to have presented our work, together with my amazing team @RBCS_CONTACT 🤖👯‍♀️👯‍♂️

@alefreedot @DarioPasquali @el__mata @giuliabelgio @GiuliaPush_ @LindaLastrico

[Filipa Correia @PipzCorreiaz]

I really enjoyed presenting remotely my most recent works and be part of the GROUND workshop at #roman23. Here are the slides of my talk: https://t.co/B10LwK9WND

[RBCS & CONTACT IIT @RBCS_CONTACT]

Not everyone interacts with #robots 🤖 in the same way, as we do between us humans 🧑.
To learn how we can take leverage this to make more trustworthy 🤝 robots check @el__mata presentation!

📆 August 30th
🕑 2:00 PM KST (+9UTC)

@IITalk @ieeeroman #whisper_ERC

[Alessandra Sciutti @alefreedot]

On the 1st day of @ieeeroman I was amazed by how great was the GROUND Workshop by @ana_tanevska @giuliabelgio @LindaLastrico @DarioPasquali @FCocchella @GiuliaPush_ on #groups understanding and #adaptation! Kudos to the organisers! #TC_CognitiveRobotics @ERC_Research @IITalk

[RBCS & CONTACT IIT @RBCS_CONTACT]

📢 First up is the workshop 🧰 in "advancing GROup Understanding and #robot’s aDaptive behavior (GROUND)" @ieeeroman

📆 August 28th
🕑 13.45 local time (GMT +9)

🔗 https://t.co/HB5vsMDUqU

(more info in previous tweet 🐦https://t.co/Zl4pUWVYN8)

@IITalk

[Alessandra Sciutti @alefreedot]

A densely packed day of interesting talks today at @ieeeroman presented or chaired by @RBCS_CONTACT members! @IITalk

[RBCS & CONTACT IIT @RBCS_CONTACT]

A classroom is a peculiar environment 🧑‍🏫 so, while full of exciting possibilities ✨, adding a #robot 🤖 to it is no easy taks 🧩.
Discover the results of @FCocchella's et al. analysis in her presentation!

📆 August 30th
🕧 11:40 AM KST (+9 UTC)

@IITalk @ieeeroman #whisper_ERC

[Francesca Cocchella @FCocchella]

@RBCS_CONTACT

[Francesca Cocchella @FCocchella]

Last week I had the great opportunity to partecipate for the first time to the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology in Krakow. I’m extremely thankful to have had the chance to share my research and to meet such amazing researchers
#EASP

[RBCS & CONTACT IIT @RBCS_CONTACT]

(1/2) Curious or expert about #robots 🤖 interacting and adapting to groups of people 👥?

Join us at the 1st #workshop in "advancing GROup Understanding and robot’s aDaptive behavior" (GROUND) at @ieeeroman 2023, in Busan 🇰🇷 and online!
🔗 https://t.co/kR9VzkNQD3

@IITalk

[RBCS & CONTACT IIT @RBCS_CONTACT]

🤖 What makes #iCub so unique? 🧠

Unveil the thinking process behind its development with the documentary 🎞️ by @materiafilms, and discover how #developmentalpsychology, #neurobiology, #cognitivescience, #robotics, and much more, inspired it.
🔗https://t.co/TgKOc3431v

@IITalk

[RBCS & CONTACT IIT @RBCS_CONTACT]

📣 #callforpapers 📰!
Do you have novel insights into the vast and fascinating field of #AI and #socialrobotics 🤖? Submit your work in this new Special Issue and keep your eyes peeled 👁️ for the other fantastic contributions!

@IITalk

[RBCS & CONTACT IIT @RBCS_CONTACT]

📢 A new Postdoc position just opened up!
If you want to lead the next leg of the #HRI 🤖 journey, and believe in the importance of prospection as a core component of a social #cognitivearchitecture 🧠, hop aboard!
For more details check out 🔗 https://t.co/BU2JEK0V1j

@IITalk

[Furhat Robotics @furhatrobotics]

Thank you to all the amazing people coming from all over the world for making the Furhat after-party at the @HRI_Conference so memorable. It's incredible to see how fast our community is growing!
#homeofsocialrobotics #partywithfurhat

[Francesca Cocchella @FCocchella]

@wafajohal @GiuliaPush_ @HRI_Conference ❤️❤️