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Dr. Alfonsina Scarinzi is a researcher at ZESS, Georg-August University of Göttingen, and was a fellow-in-residence at CY Advanced Studies (CY AS), invited by the BONHEURS laboratory. Her work bridges cognitive science, philosophy, and robotics, focusing on how meaning and experience emerge through embodied interaction.
Her research centers on enactive cognitive science and embodied cognition, particularly in human-robot interaction (HRI). She investigates how agents co-create meaning through sensorimotor engagement, especially in educational contexts involving social robots like iCub. Her work emphasizes the affective and pleasurable dimensions of learning and adaptation when humans interact with robots.
The single available publication reflects a strong interdisciplinary focus, combining philosophy of mind with robotics, particularly addressing how enactivism avoids conceptual pitfalls in modeling machine consciousness. This points to a research trajectory deeply engaged with both theoretical and applied aspects of cognitive robotics.
Dr. Scarinzi has been invited to present her work in international forums such as IEEE RO-MAN and through guest lectures at institutions like CY AS, indicating active scholarly engagement.
She has no listed scientific awards in the provided text. There is no information available about student supervision or grant funding.
Her primary research context involves experimental and philosophical exploration of human-robot interaction scenarios, particularly within structured research environments such as ZESS and through collaborative residencies like at CY AS.
