Valerio Sperati

positions:

• 2006 M.A. in Cognitive Psychology, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
• 2007-now: Researcher at ISTC-CNR

General research goal:

1. Studying the behaviour as a result of the interaction between body, nervous system and environment.
2. Development of interactive device prototypes.

Specific Research Topics:

1. visual attention / scene analysis.
2. hardware implementation of a simple compliant robotic arm.
3. hardware and software implementation of  "+me" and other interactive devices for Autism Spectrum Disorders

Research method used:

1. Neural network models
2. Genethic alghoritms
3. Software simulations
4. Realisation of hardware prototypes

main pubblications:

1. Sperati, V., Trianni, V., Nolfi, S. (2008). Evolving coordinated group behaviours through maximisation of mean mutual information,  in Swarm Intelligence, Volume 2, numbers 2-4, pages 73-95, Springer New York

2. Sperati, V., Trianni, V., Nolfi, S. (2010). Evolution of self-organised path formation in a swarm of robots, in proceedings of 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

3. Sperati, V., Trianni, V., Nolfi, S. (2011). Self-Organised Path Formation in a Swarm of Robots, in Swarm Intelligence, Volume 5, Issue 2, pages 97-119, Springer New York

4: Sperati, V. et al. (2019) Acceptability of the Transitional Wearable Companion +me in Typical Children: a Pilot Study" (2019), Frontiers in Psychology 10:125 DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00125

Supplementary information on ResearchGate.