ESC

Publications

Here are some of my publications. You can find all of them on my Google Scholar page.

Journal Papers

  1. 2025
    Angelopoulos, G., Hellou, M., Vinanzi, S., Rossi, A., Rossi, S., & Cangelosi, A. (2025). Robot, did you read my mind? Modelling human mental states to facilitate transparency and mitigate false beliefs in human-robot collaboration. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 15(1), 1–29.
    DOI 
    @article{angelopoulos2025robot,
  title = {Robot, did you read my mind? Modelling human mental states to facilitate transparency and mitigate false beliefs in human-robot collaboration},
  author = {Angelopoulos, Georgios and Hellou, Mehdi and Vinanzi, Samuele and Rossi, Alessandra and Rossi, Silvia and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction},
  volume = {15},
  number = {1},
  pages = {1--29},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1145/3737890}
}
  2. 2024
    Hellou, M., Vinanzi, S., & Cangelosi, A. (2024). A review of theory of mind and robotics: Mind reading in human-robot interaction for proactive social robots. International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics, 197–211.
    DOI 
    @article{hellou2024review,
  title = {A review of theory of mind and robotics: Mind reading in human-robot interaction for proactive social robots},
  author = {Hellou, Mehdi and Vinanzi, Samuele and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  booktitle = {International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics},
  pages = {197--211},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-81688-8_15}
}
  3. 2022
    Hellou, M., Lim, J. Y., Gasteiger, N., Jang, M., & Ahn, H. S. (2022). Technical methods for social robots in museum settings: an overview of the literature. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14(8), 1767–1786.
    DOI 
    @article{hellou2022technical,
  title = {Technical methods for social robots in museum settings: an overview of the literature},
  author = {Hellou, Mehdi and Lim, JongYoon and Gasteiger, Norina and Jang, Minsu and Ahn, Ho Seok},
  journal = {International Journal of Social Robotics},
  volume = {14},
  number = {8},
  pages = {1767--1786},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/s12369-022-00904-y}
}
  4. 2021
    Hellou, M., Gasteiger, N., Lim, J. Y., Jang, M., & Ahn, H. S. (2021). Personalization and localization in human-robot interaction: a review of technical methods. Robotics, 10(4), 120.
    DOI 
    @article{hellou2021personalization,
  title = {Personalization and localization in human-robot interaction: a review of technical methods},
  author = {Hellou, Mehdi and Gasteiger, Norina and Lim, Jong Yoon and Jang, Minsu and Ahn, Ho Seok},
  journal = {Robotics},
  volume = {10},
  number = {4},
  pages = {120},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  doi = {10.3390/robotics10040120}
}

Conference Papers

  1. 2025
    Hellou, M., Angelopoulos, G., Vinanzi, S., Rossi, A., Rossi, S., & Cangelosi, A. (2025). Can you handle the truth? The effects of robots correcting users’ misalignment on trust and perceived social competence. 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2410–2417.
    Link 
    @inproceedings{hellou2025truth,
  title = {Can you handle the truth? The effects of robots correcting users' misalignment on trust and perceived social competence},
  author = {Hellou, Mehdi and Angelopoulos, Georgios and Vinanzi, Samuele and Rossi, Alessandra and Rossi, Silvia and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  booktitle = {2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  pages = {2410--2417},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11217739}
}
  2. 2025
    Berto Letı́cia, Hellou, M., Sciutti, A., Gudwin, R., Colombini, E., & Cangelosi, A. (2025). A theory of mind motivational framework for social interaction with autonomous cognitive robots. 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 429–436.
    @inproceedings{berto2025theory,
  title = {A theory of mind motivational framework for social interaction with autonomous cognitive robots},
  author = {Berto, Let{\'\i}cia and Hellou, Mehdi and Sciutti, Alessandra and Gudwin, Ricardo and Colombini, Esther and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  booktitle = {2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  pages = {429--436},
  year = {2025},
  organization = {IEEE}
}
  3. 2024
    Hellou, M., Vinanzi, S., & Cangelosi, A. (2024). Where is my favourite toy? Inferring the mental states of users in false belief understanding. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 1–8.
    Link 
    @inproceedings{hellou2024favourite,
  title = {Where is my favourite toy? Inferring the mental states of users in false belief understanding},
  author = {Hellou, Mehdi and Vinanzi, Samuele and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)},
  pages = {1--8},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10644973}
}
  4. 2023
    Hellou, M., Gasteiger, N., Kweon, A., Lim, J. Y., MacDonald, B. A., Cangelosi, A., & Ahn, H. S. (2023). Development and validation of a motion dictionary to create emotional gestures for the NAO robot. 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 897–902.
    Link 
    @inproceedings{hellou2023motion,
  title = {Development and validation of a motion dictionary to create emotional gestures for the {NAO} robot},
  author = {Hellou, Mehdi and Gasteiger, Norina and Kweon, Andy and Lim, JongYoon and MacDonald, Bruce A and Cangelosi, Angelo and Ahn, Ho Seok},
  booktitle = {2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  pages = {897--902},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10309372}
}
  5. 2023
    Hellou, M., Vinanzi, S., & Cangelosi, A. (2023). Bayesian theory of mind for false belief understanding in human-robot interaction. 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 1893–1900.
    Link 
    @inproceedings{hellou2023bayesian,
  title = {Bayesian theory of mind for false belief understanding in human-robot interaction},
  author = {Hellou, Mehdi and Vinanzi, Samuele and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  booktitle = {2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  pages = {1893--1900},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10309356}
}

Thesis

  1. 2025
    Hellou, M. (2025). Theory of Mind for Personalised Social Robots [PhD thesis, The University of Manchester].
    Link 
    @phdthesis{hellou_thesis,
  title = {Theory of Mind for Personalised Social Robots},
  author = {Hellou, Mehdi},
  school = {The University of Manchester},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://www.proquest.com/openview/072e35029537e99986cfa2a2ba0ba5be/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2026366&diss=y}
}