ACM Distinguished Lecture “Cognitive Biases for the Design of Persuasive Technologies: Uses, Abuses and Ethical Concerns” at the ACM SIGCHI Finand Spring Seminar, May 22, 2024.
Invited talk at at Nexa (Politecnico di Torino) "Evitare la trappola comportamentista e la confusione tra sistemi human-like e human-level in Intelligenza Artificiale con la Minimal Cognitive Grid", May 8, 2024". Video of the talk available below
ACM Distinguished Lecture atFirst Workshop on Cognitive AI @ IJCLR 3rd International Joint Conference on Learning & Reasoning, University of Bari, November 13-15
Keynote Speaker at "BICA*AI 2023 at the 2023 Annual International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence, the 14th Annual Meeting of the BICA Society, Ningbo, China, October 13-15". Video of the talk available below
Invited tutorial (invitees Proffs. Angelo Montanari, Agostino Dovier and Andrea Orlandini) ) on "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds at the 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022), 28th November-3rd December 2022, Udine, Italy
Invited talk at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, "Analyzing the Explanatory Power of Bionic Systems With the Minimal Cognitive Grid" (invitees Prof. Marcin Milkowski and Przemysław Nowakowski). Link to the slides: "slides. Link to the paper: "Analyzing the Explanatory Power of Bionic Systems With the Minimal Cognitive Grid", 10 October 2022.
Keynote talk at CARLA Workshop @ FOIS 2021. Title "Heterogeneous Proxytypes as a Unifying Cognitive Framework for Conceptual Representation and Reasoning in Artificial Systems", 16 September 2021.
Keynote talk at Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds at WOA 2021, 22nd Workshop "From Objects to Agents", 2nd September 2021, University of Bologna.
Invited talk at VISCA 2021, Virtual International Symposium on Cognitive Architecture, University of Michigan (USA). Invitee: Prof. John Laird (University of Michigan, USA). Talk: Functional and Structural Models of Commonsense Reasoning in Cognitive Architectures, June 7 2021, The slides are available here. Video of the talk available below
Invited talk at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT, Robotics, Brains and Cognitive Sciences Department), iCog Initiative (Invitee Prof. Giulio Sandini). Talk: Cognitive Agents with Commonsense, 18 February, 2021. The slides are available here. Video of the talk available below
Invited lecture at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on The Cognitive Paradigm in the Artificial Intelligence Research, 10 June, 2020. The lecture was delivered online due to the COVID-19 issues. The slides are available here. Video of the talk available below
Invited talk (invitee Prof. Cristina Gena) "Bias Cognitivi per la Progettazione di Tecnologie Persuasive: Usi, Abusi e Pericoli etici" (EN: "Cognitive Biases for the Design of Persuasive Technologies: Uses, Abuses and Ethical Concerns") at World Usability Day (WUD 2018), University of Turin, November 8, 2018. Video of the talk available below (IT)
"Heterogeneous Proxytypes Extended: Integrating Theory-like Representations and Mechanisms with Prototypes and Exemplars" at BICA 2018 - 9th International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Czech Techical University, Prague, Czech Republic, August 23 2018. Video of the talk available below
Invited Lecture (invitee: Prof. Alexei Samsonovich, George Mason University, USA and NRNU MEPhI, Department of Cybernetics, Russia). Title of the talk: "Knowledge Representation in Cognitive Architectures: Current Limitations and Open Challenges", Moscow, Russia, International Early Research Career Enhancement School on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, August 2, 2017.
Invited talk (invitee Prof. Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University, Sweden): "Dual Peccs: A Cognitive System for Conceptual Categorization and Reasoning" at the Cognitive Science Series Seminar, Lund University, Sweden, August 31 2016.
Invited talk at the International School on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures held in Moscow (Russia) from April 21-24 2016. The school was organized and sponsored by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and by the BICA Society.
Invitee: Prof. Alexei Samsonovich (George Mason University, USA and NRNU MEPhI, Department of Cybernetics, Russia). Title of the talk: "Computational Explanation in BICA". The video of the talk is available on the Vimeo Channel of the BICA Society or can be watched below.
Invited panelist at the International School on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures held in Moscow (Russia) from April 21-24 2016. The school was organized and sponsored by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and by the BICA Society.
Invitee: Prof. Alexei Samsonovich (George Mason University, USA and NRNU MEPhI, Department of Cybernetics, Russia). Title of the panel: "Human-like Agency". Panelists: Tarek Besold, Kamilla Jóhandsóttir, Antonio Lieto, David Vernon. The video can be watched below.
Invited talk (invitee Prof. Francesco Stella, University of Siena): "Steps Towards Cognitive Narrative Machines", Symposium: The Mechanic Muse, organized by the University of Siena, 12-13 June 2015, Siena (Certosa di Pontignano), Italy.
"Categorizzazione basata su Prototipi ed Esemplari mediante l'integrazione di Spazi Concettuali e Ontologie in una Architettura Cognitiva", Senso Comune Workshop 2015, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy, 31 March 2015.
"Il sistema Labyrinth: archetipi narrativi e ontologie per l’ editoria multimediale", Notte dei Ricercatori, 26 September 2014, Torino. (poster presentation + demo), with R. Damiano.
"Ontological Representations and Narrative: A Case Study in Cultural Heritage", SIG IAOA Design Semantics Workshop 2014, University of Bari, Italy, 29th Jun 2014 - 2nd July 2014.