Some of my publications
“Learning to Interact with the Caretaker: A Developmental Approach”, in Proc. Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2007), Lisbon, Portugal, 2007, vol. 4738, pp. 422–433.
, “Learning Affective Landmarks”, in Proc. 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob 2009), Venice, Italy, 2009, vol. 146, pp. 211–212.
, “Assessing Human Responses to Different Robot Attachment Profiles”, in Proc. 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2009), Toyama, Japan, 2009, pp. 251–256.
, “A Robot that Uses Arousal to Detect Learning Challenges and Seek Help”, in Proc. 14th Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2014), New York, NY, 2014, pp. 864–871.
, “Why Should You Care? An Arousal-Based Model of Exploratory Behavior for Autonomous Robots”, in Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Winchester, UK, 2008, pp. 242–248.
, “Using the Interaction Rhythm as a Natural Reinforcement Signal for Social Robots: A Matter of Belief”, in Proc. International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2010, Singapore, 2010, vol. 6414, pp. 81–89.
, “Arousal Regulation and Affective Adaptation to Human Responsiveness by a Robot that Explores and Learns a Novel Environment”, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, vol. 8, p. 17, 2014.
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“Developing Sensorimotor Associations Through Attachment Bonds”, in Proc. 7th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob 2007), Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2007, vol. 134, pp. 45–52.
, “Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations”, Papers from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium. AAAI Press, 2004.
, “Adaptation-By-Proxy: Contagion Effect of Social Buffering in an Artificial Society”, in ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, 2021.
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“Modelling Adaptation through Social Allostasis: Modulating the Effects of Social Touch with Oxytocin in Embodied Agents”, Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, vol. 2, no. 4, 2018.
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“The Effects of Affective Social Bonds on the Interactions and Survival of Simulated Agents”, in ACII2019 Workshop on Social Emotions, Theories and Models (SE-THEMO), Cambridge, UK, 2019, pp. 374–380. Khan_et_al_Affective_Social_Bonds_ACII2019_AcceptedVersion.pdf (657.01 KB)
, “The Long-Term Efficacy of “Social Buffering” in Artificial Social Agents: Contextual Affective Perception Matters”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 9, no. article 699573, pp. pp. 1 - 24, 2022.
, “Adaptation and the Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin: Early Experiments in a Simulated Agent Environment”, in Proc. 2nd Symposium on Social Interactions in Complex Intelligent Systems (SICIS), Liverpool, UK, 2018, pp. 2–9.
, “Modelling the Social Buffering Hypothesis in an Artificial Life Environment”, in Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2020 (ALIFE 2020), Montreal, Canada, 2020, pp. 393–401.
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“Let’s Be Friends: Perception of a Social Robotic Companion for children with T1DM”, in Proc. New Friends 2015, Almere, The Netherlands, 2015, pp. 32–33.
, “The Role of the Caregiver’s Responsiveness in Affect-Grounded Language Learning by a Robot: Architecture and First Experiments”, in Proc. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 12-15 September 2022, Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom, 2022, pp. 349–354.
, “Affect-grounded Language Learning in a Robot”, in FEEL-COG: The Role of Affect in the Development of Cognition, ICDL 2021 Workshop, 2021.
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“A Robot Model of Stress-Induced Compulsive Behavior”, in Proc. 8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2019, pp. 559–565. ACII_Lewis_Canamero_2019_draft.pdf (1016.8 KB)
, “An Embodied AI Approach to Individual Differences: Supporting Self-Efficacy in Diabetic Children with an Autonomous Robot”, in Proc. 7th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR-2015), Paris, 2015, pp. 401–410. 2015_Lewis_Canamero_ICSR.pdf (1.56 MB)
, “Modulating Perception with Pleasure for Action Selection”, in Proc. 5th Annual International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2014), Cambridge, MA, 2014.
, “Using Robots to Model Mental Disorders”, in Proc. UK-RAS Conference: 'Robots Working For & Among Us', 2017, Bristol, UK, 2018, pp. 121–123. UK-RAS_2017_Robot_Models_proceedings.pdf (100.3 KB)
, “Are Discrete Emotions Useful in Human-Robot Interaction? Feedback from Motion Capture Analysis”, in Proc. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2013), Geneva, Switzerland, 2013, pp. 97–102. ACII_2013_Lewis_Canamero,_Discrete_Emotions_Motion_Capture-draft.pdf (401.16 KB)
, “A Robot Model of OC-Spectrum Disorders: Design Framework, Implementation and First Experiments”, Computational Psychiatry, vol. 3, pp. 40–75, 2019.
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“Robin: An Autonomous Robot for Diabetic Children”, in Proc. UK-RAS Conference: 'Robots Working For & Among Us', 2017, Bristol, UK, 2018, pp. 13–15.
, Winner: 1st Prize, Best Paper
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UK-RAS_2017_Robin_proceedings.pdf (117.02 KB)“Hedonic quality or reward? A study of basic pleasure in homeostasis and decision making of a motivated autonomous robot”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 267–291, 2016.
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“An Affective Autonomous Robot Toddler to Support the Development of Self-Efficacy in Diabetic Children”, in Proc. 23rd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2014), Edinburgh, 2014, pp. 359–364. Lewis,_Canamero,_Autonomous_Robot_Toddler_Diabetic_Children,_ROMAN_2014_ACCEPTED.pdf (216 KB)
, “Pleasure, Persistence and Opportunism in Action Selection”, in Proc. 14th Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2014), New York, NY, 2014, pp. 932–933.
, “Robot Models of Mental Disorders”, in Proc. 7th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Workshops and Demos (ACIIW 2017), San Antonio, TX, 2017, pp. 193–200. ACII_Lewis_Canamero_2017_Robot_Models_of_Mental_Disorders_draft.pdf (176.35 KB)
, “From Sensorimotor Experiences to Cognitive Development: Investigating the Influence of Experiential Diversity on the Development of an Epigenetic Robot”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 3, 2016.
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“Epigenetic Adaptation in Action Selection Environments with Temporal Dynamics”, in Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013, 2013, pp. 505–512.
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“A Hormone-Driven Epigenetic Mechanism for Adaptation in Autonomous Robots”, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 445–454, 2018.
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“Hormonal Modulation of Interaction Between Autonomous Agents”, in Proc. 4th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob 2014), Genoa, Italy, 2014, pp. 402–407.
, “Epigenetic Adaptation through Hormone Modulation in Autonomous Robots”, in 2013 IEEE 3rd Joint International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob 2013), Osaka, 2013, pp. 1–6.
, Winner: Best Student Paper
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“Hormonal Modulation of Development and Behaviour Permits a Robot to Adapt to Novel Interactions”, in Proc. 14th Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2014), New York, NY, 2014, pp. 184–191.
, “The Degree of Potential Damage in Agonistic Contests and its Effects on Social Aggression, Territoriality and Display Evolution”, in Proc. 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005, pp. 351–358.
, “The Evolution of Affect-Related Displays, Recognition and Related Strategies”, in ALIFE IX: Proceeding of the 9th international conference on the simulation and synthesis of living systems, 2004, pp. 176–181.
, “Strategies in the Evolution of Affect Related Displays and Recognition”, in The Logic Of Artificial Life: Abstracting and Synthesizing the Principles of Living Systems; Proc. 6th German Workshop on Artificial Life 2004, Bamberg, Germany, 2004.
, “The effects of stress and predation on pain perception in robots”, in Proc. 11th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2023), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, September 10–13, 2023, 2023.
, “Emotion Modelling and Facial Affect Recognition in Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction”, in Affective Computing, Emotion Modelling, Synthesis and Recognition, InTechOpen Publishers, 2009.
, “A Human-Robot Mutual Learning System with Affect-Grounded Language Acquisition and Differential Outcomes Training”, in Social Robotics. 15th International Conference, ICSR 2023, Proceedings Part II, Doha, Qatar, December 3–7, 2023, 2024, vol. LNAI 14454, pp. 108–122.
, “Developing Preferential Attention to a Speaker: A Robot Learning to Recognise its Carer”, in Proc. 2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2009), Nashville, TN, 2009, pp. 77–84.
, “Towards a Model of Emotion Expression in an Interactive Robot Head”, in Proc. 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2009), Toyama, Japan, 2009, pp. 627–632.
, “Towards a Hormone-Modulated Model for Emotion Expression in a Socially Interactive Robot Head”, in Workshop "The role of Emotion in Adaptive Behavior and Cognitive Robotics" held in conjunction with 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2008), Osaka, Japan, 2008.
, “The Influence of Social Interaction on the Perception of Emotional Expression: A Case Study with a Robot Head”, in Advances in Robotics: Proc. FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009, Incheon, Korea, 2009, vol. 5744, pp. 63–72.
, “Human Responses to an Expressive Robot”, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Paris, France, 2006, vol. 128, pp. 79–86.
, “Children's Adaptation in Multi-session Interaction with a Humanoid Robot”, in 2012 IEEE RO-MAN: The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2012, pp. 351–357.
, “Meaningful Information, Sensor Evolution, and the Temporal Horizon of Embodied Organisms”, in Artificial Life VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life, Sydney, Australia, 2002, pp. 345–349.
, “The Importance of the Body in Affect-Modulated Action Selection: A Case Study Comparing Proximal Versus Distal Perception in a Prey-Predator Scenario”, in Proc. 3rd Intl. Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009, pp. 1–6.
, “Emotion in Decisions of Life and Death – Its Role in Brain-Body-Environment Interactions for Predator and Prey”, in Artificial Life XII: Proc. of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Odense, Denmark, 2010, pp. 812–822.
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