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Scandle Oct 7

📅 Registrations are now open!

5th Annual Meeting of the Italian Reproducibility Network
“The Present of Research is Open”

🗓️ Feb 13, 2026 – Verona
🛠️ Workshop on Feb 12
🌍 International speakers
🧪 Posters & prizes!

🎙️ Talks by Nathan Faivre, Juliana Raffaghelli & Sabina Leonelli

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Poster submission: 6/01/2026.
Registration: 19/01/2026.

#OpenScience #ITRN2026
@openscience @OpenScienceFeed @OpenSciTwente

Scandle Sep 23

🌍 How has #OpenScience changed your work or vision of science?
Share your story in a short video (🎥) or text+photo 📝 and inspire others!
➡️ Submit here: https://shorturl.at/w31dH or here: https://shorturl.at/7Ktgd
✨ Testimonials will be shown at #ITRN2026 in Verona!

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Scandle Jul 31, 2025

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We’d love to hear your thoughts!
💬 Join the conversation: How are you addressing replicability in AI-enhanced research?
📄 Read the pre-print: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/69ua4_v1
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #AI #SocialRobotics #ITRN

OSF

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Scandle Jul 31, 2025

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Authored by:
Antonio Aquino, Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro, Rocco Gaudenzi, Marco Lezcano, Vittorio Iacovella, Michela Vezzoli, and Michele Scandola
🧠 ITRN AI Working Group

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Scandle Jul 31, 2025

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Though rooted in social robotics, this framework applies to any AI-driven experimental research, especially in the social sciences.

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Scandle Jul 31, 2025

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To address this, we offer a framework based on Open Science:
✅ Modular testing
✅ Parameter fixation
✅ Structured prompt engineering
✅ Robust experimental design

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Scandle Jul 31, 2025

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This raises new challenges:
🤖 Adaptive AI behavior
🎭 GAN-generated facial expressions
💬 Emotionally expressive chatbots
All can undermine experimental control.

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Scandle Jul 31, 2025

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We propose a new experimental model:
🔁 Experiment-AI-Subjects Triad (EAIST)
AI becomes part of the experimental loop, generating stimuli and conditions.

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Scandle Jul 31, 2025

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Generative AI is reshaping experimental research.
But how do we ensure replicability when AI introduces randomness and variability?

Scandle Jul 31, 2025

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🚨 New pre-print from the ITRN AI Working Group!
"AI in the Experimental Loop: Implications for Replicability in Social Robotics and Social Sciences"
📄 https://osf.io/preprints/osf/69ua4_v1