Publications

Below an updated list of my publications. You can also follow my publication updates on ResearchGate and  Google Scholar. 

Journal Papers

  • Zaga, C. (2019). Designing the future of education: From tutor robots to intelligent playthings., Journal of Human Factors

  • de Vries, R. A., Truong, K. P., Zaga, C., Li, J., & Evers, V. (2017). A word of advice: how to tailor motivational text messages based on behavior change theory to personality and gender. Personal and ubiquitous computing, 21(4), 675-687.

  • Zaga, C. (2012). Twitter: un’analisi dell’italiano nel micro blogging. Italiano LinguaDue, 4(1), 165-210.

Conference Proceedings (In HCI and HRI Fields Conference papers are peer-reviewed and hold similar status of journal papers)

  • Lee, M., Noortman, R., Zaga, C., Starke, A., Huisman, G., & Andersen, K. (2021, May). Conversational Futures: Emancipating Conversational Interactions for Futures Worth Wanting. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).

  • Lupetti, M. L., Zaga, C., & Cila, N. (2021, March). Designerly ways of knowing in HRI: Broadening the scope of design-oriented HRI through the concept of intermediate-level knowledge. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 389-398). nominated best Paper award (top 5%)

  • Eggink, W., Ozkaramanli, D., Zaga, C., & Liberati, N. (2020). Setting the stage for Responsible Design. In Design Research Society, DRS 2020: Synergy (pp. 713-730). Design Research Society.

  • Lee, W. Y., Hou, Y. T. Y., Zaga, C., & Jung, M. (2019, March). Design for serendipitous interaction: BubbleBot-bringing people together with bubbles. In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 759-760). IEEE.

  • Lee, H. R., Cheon, E., De Graaf, M., Alves-Oliveira, P., Zaga, C., & Young, J. (2019, March). Robots for social good: exploring critical design for HRI. In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 681-682). IEEE.

  • De Vries, R. A., Zaga, C., Bayer, F., Drossaert, C. H., Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2017, May). Experts get me started, peers keep me going: comparing crowd-versus expert-designed motivational text messages for exercise behavior change. In Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp. 155-162). ACM.

  • Zaga, C., de Vries, R. A., Li, J., Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2017, May). A Simple Nod of the Head: The Effect of Minimal Robot Movements on Children's Perception of a Low-Anthropomorphic Robot. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 336-341). ACM. (24% acceptance rate)

  • Vroon, J., Zaga, C., Davison, D., Kolkmeier, J., & Linssen, J. (2017, March). Snoozle--A Robotic Pillow That Helps You Go to Sleep: HRI 2017 Student Design Competition. In Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 399-400). ACM. (Winner Delegates' Choice Award, Student Design Competition)

  • Zaga, C., Charisi, V., Schadenberg, B., Reidsma, D., Neerincx, M., Prescott, T., ... & Evers, V. (2017, March). Growing-up hand in hand with robots: Designing and evaluating child-robot interaction from a developmental perspective. In Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 429-430). ACM.

  • Zaga, C. (2017, March). Something in The Way It Moves and Beeps: Exploring Minimal Nonverbal Robot Behavior for Child-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 387-388). ACM.

  • Zaga, C., Moreno, A., & Evers, V. (2017, February). Gotta Hatch'em All!: Robot-Supported Cooperation in Interactive Playgrounds. In Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing(pp. 347-350). ACM.

  • Zaga, C., De Vries, R. A., Spenkelink, S. J., Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2016, March). Help-giving robot behaviors in child-robot games: exploring semantic free utterances. In The Eleventh ACM/IEEE international conference on human robot interaction (pp. 541-542). IEEE Press. (Best Late Breaking Report Award)

  • Zaga, C., Lohse, M., Charisi, V., Evers, V., Neerincx, M., Kanda, T., & Leite, I. (2016, March). 2nd workshop on evaluating child robot interaction. In The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (pp. 587-588). IEEE Press.

  • Zaga, C., Lohse, M., Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2015, October). The effect of a robot’s social character on children’s task engagement: Peer versus tutor. In International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 704-713). Springer, Cham.

  • Kim, J., Truong, K. P., Charisi, V., Zaga, C., Lohse, M., Heylen, D., & Evers, V. (2015). Vocal turn-taking patterns in groups of children performing collaborative tasks: an exploratory study. In Sixteenth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.

Peer reviewed Workshops

  • Vroon, J., Kortuem, G., Zaga, C., Rozendaal, M., Lupetti, M. L., & van Beek, E. (2020, July). Expressive/Sensitive: Full Day Workshop at DIS 2020. In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 421-424).

  • Kim, J., Shareef, I.H., Regier, P., Truong, K.P., Charisi, V., Zaga, C., Bennewitz, M., Englebienne, G. and Evers, V., Automatic ranking of engagement of a group of children “in the wild” using emotional states and deep pose machines. Proc. Workshop of Creating Meaning With Robot Assistants in the IEEE Humanoids 2017, Birmingham, UK

  • Charisi, V., Zaga C., and Evers V., Co-design Activities: A Tool to Tackle Ethical Issues in Child-Robot Interaction

  • Zaga, C., Papenmeier A., Beelen, T., Bernard, T., Truong P., K. and Evers, V. Towards Co-designing Minimal Robot Behaviors with Children: What Children Can Teach Robots What Actors Can Teach Robot (Workshop at CHI 2017)

  • Joose, M., Van Waveren, S., Zaga, C., Evers, V., Groups in Conflict at the Airport: How People Think a Robot Should Act. Robots in Groups Workshop at CSCW 2017

  • Kim, J., Truong, K. P., Charisi, V., Zaga, C., Evers, V., & Chetouani, M. (2016, October). Multimodal detection of engagement in groups of children using rank learning. In International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding(pp. 35-48). Springer

  • Zaga, C., Truong, K. P., Lohse, M., & Evers, V. (2014, June). Exploring child-robot engagement in a collaborative task. In Proceedings of the Child-Robot Interaction Workshop: Social Bonding, Learning and Ethics. Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigacao e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID).

  • Celli, F., & Zaga, C. (2013). Be conscientious, express your sentiment!. AI Conference Italy, 5747(495), 5252.

Theses and DIssertation

  • Zaga, C., 2014, Engaging Child-Robot Interaction in a collaborative Task (Master Thesis, University of Twente/University of Trento)

  • Zaga, C., 2012, Twitter: un'analisi dell'italiano del microblogging (Bachelor Thesis, University of Milan)

  • Zaga, C., 2021 The Design of Robothings: Non-Anthropomorphic and Non-Verbal Robots to Promote Children’s Collaboration Through Play (Doctoral dissertation, University of Twente).