Dr. Eleonora Zedda (she/her) is a National Research Council (CNR) post-doctoral researcher. Her research revolves around human-robot interaction (HRI), specifically focusing on social robotics. Her primary research focuses on connecting users and robots by developing robot personalities and adapting robot behaviours to meet users' needs. Her approach aims to make human-robot interaction more intuitive and enjoyable for users by designing robots' behaviour that can understand and adapt to users' states.

Marwen Belkaid is a Junior Professor in Neuroscience and Robotics interested in using robots to study human cognition and to take inspiration from the brain to design novel architectures for autonomous social robots. His research particularly focuses on studying and modeling processes related to decision-making, emotion, and social interactions. He obtained his doctorate at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise in France in December 2016. Then, from 2017 to 2022, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Sorbonne Université, in Paris, and then at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa, Italy. Since September 2022, he holds a Junior Professor Chair in Neuroscience and Robotics at CY Cergy Paris Université where he develops his research at the ETIS Lab.

Marco Matarese (he/him) is a post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology and research fellow (assegnista) at the Univeristy of Naples Parthenope. His main research interests go from the robots’ influence to explainability in collaborative human-robot interaction. He obtained a bachelor's and an M.Sc. in computer science at the University of Naples Federico II. He subsequently completed a PhD in bioengineering and robotics at the University of Genoa and the Italian Institute of Technology. During his PhD, he collaborated with Paderborn and Bielefeld Universities in the TRR 318 “Constructing Explainability” project.

Dr. Marco Manca (he/him) is a National Research Council (CNR) researcher. His research interests lie within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), specifically focusing on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), End-User Development, accessibility, and usability of user interfaces. In Human-Robot Interaction, he has dedicated his efforts to studying the interaction between individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Humanoid Robots. He holds the role of Late Breaking Work co-chair for EICS 2024 and served as Poster/Demo co-chair for the IUI 2020 conference and Demo co-chair for the MUM 2019 conference.

Dr. Omar Eldardeer is a Post-Doc at the Italian Institute of Technology. His research interests lie in robot perception and learning, focusing on audio-visual biologically inspired models. Omar earned his M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from the University of Essex, UK. Subsequently, he obtained his Ph.D. From the University of Genova and the Italian Institute of Technology. His doctoral research centred on multimodal cognitive architectures for Human-Robot shared Perception. Following his Ph.D. Omar contributed to the EU project VOJEXT.

Francesca (she/her) is a Social Psychologist Ph.D. Student at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies (CONTACT) unit in the Cognitive Robotics, Interaction and Rehabilitation Technologies. Her main research interests include the social cognition of humanoid robots, the study of trust in robots, and group interactions. Since 2021 she has collaborated with the Laboratory of Social and Language Psychology as a research trainee at the University of Genoa, in which she researches about cognitive anthropomorphism of humanoid robots.

Andrea Rezzani (she/her) is a cognitive psychologist and PhD student at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano. Her supervisors are Prof. De Angeli, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Dr. Menéndez-Blanco, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, and Prof. Bushman, The Ohio State University. Her research project aims to investigate robot abuse when users engage in aggressive behaviours against robots, focusing on understanding the role of robots’ design. Andrea has been part of the Organising Committee of the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference CHItaly’21 as Local Chair.

Emilyann’s research interest lies at the intersection of technology and healthcare, with a strong focus in user-centred design practices and cognitive domains. In her role as a Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University, Emilyann works on the Feather project, which aims to identify urinary tract infections early on through interactions with a robot and monitoring changes to people’s movement patterns. She holds a Ph.D. from the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, a joint venture between Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral research focused on engaging older adults in cognitive activities through socially assistive robots and sensory feedback. She was also Co-Investigator for RULR, a project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Vitalise initiative, where she collaborated with international clinical experts and patients to enhance rehabilitation engagement for individuals with hemiparesis using brain-computer interfaces and social robots.

Rob Saunders is a computer scientist, design researcher, and artist pioneering research into computational modelling of creativity. As Associate Professor in the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and a founding member of the Association of Computational Creativity, his mission is to advance the science of computational creativity to benefit society. His research explores intrinsic motivation, emergent languages, and physical embodiment in modelling creative individuals and societies. His collaborative robotic art practice with Petra Gemeinboeck provides a platform for knowledge mobilisation by materially engaging audiences in questions of machine creativity. Their artworks have been exhibited internationally, including at Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao; the International Triennial of New Media Art, Beijing; and the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Joffrey Becker trained in social anthropology at EHESS (M.A, Ph.D) and was a member of the SPEAP programme created by Bruno Latour at Sciences-Po Paris (M.A). Becker's research focuses on robotics and artificial intelligence. His work aims to better understand how intelligent machines question our models on an ontological, interactional and societal level, regardless of their form. He holds a teaching chair at the École nationale supérieure de l'électronique et de ses applications (ENSEA), and his research is conducted at the Équipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes (ETIS - UMR CNRS 8051). Joffrey Becker is also a research associate in the Anthropology of Life team at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale (UMR 7130) of the Collège de France and a member of the Psyphine interdisciplinary research group. He also works with various research teams from the public and private sectors.