Beste Özcan

According to our database, Beste Özcan authored at least 13 papers between 2016 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2024

A tangible, toy-based platform to evaluate the child's social interaction in turn-taking game: a prospective on monitoring neurodevelopmental disorders.

Valerio Sperati, Beste Özcan, Federica Giovannone, Massimiliano Schembri, Noemi Faedda, Carla Sogos, Vincenzo Guidetti, Gianluca Baldassarre

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2024

The use of Transitional Wearable Companion toys to promote children's emotional intelligence: the Emotion-Lab program.

Clara Sardella, Claudia Di Marco, Martina Porcelli, Jasmine Miozzi, Valerio Sperati, Beste Özcan, Massimiliano De Luca, Alessandro Pecora, Massimiliano Schembri, Gianluca Baldassarre, Riccardo Santilli

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2024

2023

Multi-sensory Wearable Bio-feedback Pillow to Enhance Genuine Feeling of Intimate Connection.

Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati, Flora Giocondo, Massimiliano Schembri, Gianluca Baldassarre

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, 2023

Co-designing play activities and monitoring tools with smart interactive toys to support early intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder and comparable neurodevelopmental conditions.

Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati, Flora Giocondo, Jônata Tyska Carvalho, Gianluca Baldassarre

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2023

Supporting turn-taking activities: a pilot study using a smart toy with children with a diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders.

Flora Giocondo, Noemi Faedda, Gioia Cavalli, Massimiliano Schembri, Francesco Montedori, Federica Giovannone, Carla Sogos, Vincenzo Guidetti, Valerio Sperati, Beste Özcan, Gianluca Baldassarre

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2023

2022

A Novel System Based on a Smart Toy Responding to Child's Facial Expressions: Potential Use in Early Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Francesco Montedori, Francesca Romana Mattei, Beste Özcan, Massimiliano Schembri, Valerio Sperati, Gianluca Baldassarre

Proceedings of the HCI International 2022 - Late Breaking Posters, 2022

Leveraging curiosity to encourage social interactions in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: preliminary results using the interactive toy PlusMe.

Flora Giocondo, Noemi Faedda, Gioia Cavalli, Valerio Sperati, Beste Özcan, Federica Giovannone, Carla Sogos, Vincenzo Guidetti, Gianluca Baldassarre

Proceedings of the CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022, 2022

Interactive soft toys to support social engagement through sensory-motor plays in early intervention of kids with special needs.

Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati, Flora Giocondo, Massimiliano Schembri, Gianluca Baldassarre

Proceedings of the IDC '22: Interaction Design and Children, Braga, Portugal, June 27, 2022

2021

"X-8": An Experimental Interactive Toy to Support Turn-Taking Games in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati, Flora Giocondo, Gianluca Baldassarre

Proceedings of the HCI International 2021 - Posters - 23rd HCI International Conference, 2021

2020

The Progressive Intertwinement Between Design, Human Needs and the Regulation of Care Technology: The Case of Lower-Limb Exoskeletons.

Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Beste Özcan

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2020

Lokahi: The Wearable Body Pillow to Foster an Intimate Interaction Between Two Users Through Their Heartbeat Awareness.

Beste Özcan, Valerio Sperati

Proceedings of the HCI International 2020 - Late Breaking Posters, 2020

2016

Transitional Wearable Companions: A Novel Concept of Soft Interactive Social Robots to Improve Social Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Beste Özcan, Daniele Caligiore, Valerio Sperati, Tania Moretta, Gianluca Baldassarre

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2016

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction - A Novel Emotion-Based Model.

Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Alex Barco, Beste Özcan, Jainendra Shukla

Proceedings of the What Social Robots Can and Should Do, 2016