Publications
A list of my publications, divided by type and sorted by date. Most preprints will be included after publication.
Journals
- Front. Robot. AI ➜ Multi-party open-ended conversation with a social robot (2026) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Maria Jose Pinto Bernal · Martijn Catrycke · Tony Belpaeme · Frontiers in Robotics and AI
- IS ➜ If They Disagree, Will You Conform? Exploring the Role of Robots' Value Awareness in a Decision-Making Task (2025) Giulia Pusceddu · Giulio Antonio Abbo · Francesco Rea · Tony Belpaeme · Alessandra Sciutti · Interaction Studies
- SORO ➜ Concerns and Values in Human-Robot Interactions: A Focus on Social Robotics (2025) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Tony Belpaeme · Micol Spitale · International Journal of Social Robotics
Conference Papers
- HRI '26 (LBR) ➜ Expressive Furhat: Generating Real-Time Facial Expressions for Human-Robot Dialogue with LLMs (2026) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Ruben Janssens · Seppe Van de Vreken · Tony Belpaeme · Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
- HRI '26 (Video) ➜ Multimodal Large Language Models for Real-Time Situated Reasoning (2026) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Senne Lenaerts · Tony Belpaeme · Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
- ICSR+AI '24 ➜ Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Problem Solved? (2025) Ruben Janssens · Eva Verhelst · Giulio Antonio Abbo · Qiaoqiao Ren · Maria Jose Pinto Bernal · Tony Belpaeme · Social Robotics (LNCS, volume 15562)
- ECAI '24 (workshop VALE) ➜ Vision Language Models as Values Detectors (2025) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Tony Belpaeme · Value Engineering in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS, volume 15356)
- HRI '25 (LBR) ➜ "Can You be my Mum?": Manipulating Social Robots in the Large Language Models Era (2025) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Gloria Desideri · Tony Belpaeme · Micol Spitale · Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
- HRI '25 (LBR) ➜ I Was Blind but Now I See: Implementing Vision-Enabled Dialogue in Social Robots (2025) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Tony Belpaeme · Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
- HRI '25 (workshop Pioneers) ➜ Values in Social Robots: Implementing Inclusive, Value-Aware Human-Robot Interactions (2025) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Tony Belpaeme · Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
- ECAI '23 (workshop VALE) ➜ Social Value Alignment in Large Language Models (2024) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Serena Marchesi · Agnieszka Wykowska · Tony Belpaeme · Value Engineering in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS, volume 14520)
- ICAART '24 (session AWAI) ➜ Towards a Definition of Awareness for Embodied AI (2024) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Serena Marchesi · Kinga Ciupinska · Agnieszka Wykowska · Tony Belpaeme · Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: AWAI
- ICAART '24 (session AWAI) ➜ AwarePrompt: Using Diffusion Models to Create Methods for Measuring Value-Aware AI Architectures (2024) Kinga Ciupinska · Serena Marchesi · Giulio Antonio Abbo · Tony Belpaeme · Agnieszka Wykowska · Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: AWAI
- HICSS '24 ➜ Delivering Green Persuasion Strategies with a Conversational Agent: a Pilot Study (2024) Mathyas Giudici · Giulio Antonio Abbo · Pietro Crovari · Franca Garzotto · Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- DDP '23 ➜ Assessing LLMs Responses in the Field of Domestic Sustainability: An Exploratory Study (2023) Mathyas Giudici · Giulio Antonio Abbo · Ottavia Belotti · Alessio Braccini · Francesco Dubini · Riccardo Andrea Izzo · Pietro Crovari · Franca Garzotto · Third International Conference on Digital Data Processing
- CONVERSATIONS '22 ➜ Enhancing Conversational Troubleshooting with Multi-modality: Design and Implementation (2023) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Pietro Crovari · Franca Garzotto · Chatbot Research and Design (LNCS, volume 13815)
Posters
Preprints
- ECAI '25 (workshop VALE) ➜ Prompt-Based Value Steering of Large Language Models (2025) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Tony Belpaeme · Value Engineering in Artificial Intelligence (to appear in LNCS)
- HRI '23 (workshop) ➜ Users' Perspectives on Value Awareness in Social Robots (2023) Giulio Antonio Abbo · Tony Belpaeme · Presented at the 1st Workshop on Perspectives on Moral Agency in Human-Robot Interaction