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Passionate about explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), human-robot interaction (HRI), and human cognition and biases. I am the only computer scientist who dreams of becoming a cognitive scientist.

Currently, I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Genoa (DIBRIS) and the Italian Institute of Technology (CONTACT unit) waiting for my PhD defense. I obtained a Bachelor's and MSc degrees in Computer Science at the University of Naples Federico II. During my PhD, I investigated the influence of the explainability of social robots on human-robot collaboration and tutoring. I collaborated with Prof. Katharina Rolhfing from Paderborn University and the TRR 318 "Constructing Explainability" during my PhD period abroad, working on partner-aware explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in tutoring with social agents. Previously, worked on robots' behavioral modeling and human-robot shared perception. I gave several invited talks at top institutions, including the University of Bielefeld (CITEC) and the International Symposium "Humans at the Centre of HRI" by Naver Labs Europe and Inria. For my MSc thesis, a research work conducted in conjunction with the Italian Institute of Technology, I received the Best MSc Thesis Award from Istituto di Biorobotica - Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa.


Education

Title: PhD
Institute: Università di Genova
Location: Genova
Country: Italy
From: 2020 To: 2023

Title: Master in Computer Science
Institute: Università di Napoli Federico II
Location: Napoli
Country: Italy
From: 2018 To: 2020

Title: Bachelor in Computer Science
Institute: Università di Napoli Federico II
Location: Napoli
Country: Italy
From: 2014 To: 2018

All Publications
2023
Matarese M., Cocchella F., Rea F., Sciutti A.
Ex(plainable) Machina: how social-implicit XAI affects complex human-robot teaming tasks
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Conference Paper Conference
2023
Matarese M., Rea F., Sciutti A.
How much informative is your XAI? A decision-making assessment task to objectively measure the goodness of explanations
HRI 2023 - Workshop on Social Robots Personalization, pp. 6
Conference Paper Conference
2023
Matarese M., Cocchella F., Rea F., Sciutti A.
Natural Born Explainees: how users' personality traits shape the human-robot interaction with explainable robots
IEEE RO-MAN 2023
Conference Paper Conference
2022
Matarese M., Rea F., Sciutti A.
Perception is Only Real When Shared: A Mathematical Model for Collaborative Shared Perception in Human-Robot Interaction
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 9
2021
Matarese M., Rea F., Sciutti A.
A User-Centred Framework for Explainable Artificial Intelligence\\in Human-Robot Interaction
AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction
Conference Paper Conference
Scientific Talks
2023
Matarese M.
Partner-aware explainable artificial intelligence in human-robot tutoring
Paderborn University
Institute
2023
Matarese M.
Partner-aware explainable artificial intelligence in human-robot tutoring
Univerisity of Bielefeld (CITEC)
Institute
2022
Matarese M.
Ex(plainable) Machina: how social-implicit XAI affects complex human-robot teaming tasks
Symposium "Humans at the Centre of HRI"
Workshop/Symposium
Awards and Achievements
2020
Matarese M.
Premio di Laurea Istituto di Biorobotica - Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa