Some of my publications
“Emotion Understanding: Robots as Tools and Models”, in Emotional Development: Recent Research Advances, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 235–258.
, “Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Volume II”, Special Issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, vol. 32, no. 6. Taylor & Francis, 2001.
, “Imitating Human Performances to Automatically Generate Expressive Jazz Ballads”, in Proc. AISB'99 Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1999, pp. 115–20.
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“Building Emotional Artifacts in Social Worlds: Challenges and Perspectives”, in Emotional and Intelligent II: The Tangled Knot of Social Cognition; Papers from the 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium, North Falmouth, Massachusetts, 2001, pp. 22–30.
, “I Show You How I Like You: Human-Robot Interaction through Emotional Expression and Tactile Stimulation”, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2000.
, “Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition. Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium”. AAAI Press, Orlando, Florida, 1998.
, “Modeling Motivations and Emotions as a Basis for Intelligent Behavior”, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents'97), Marina del Rey, CA, USA, 1997, pp. 148–155.
, “Animating Affective Robots for Social Interaction”, in Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction, John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2008, pp. 103–121.
, “Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Volume I”, Special Issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, vol. 32, no. 5. Taylor & Francis, 2001.
, “Embodied Affect for Real-World Human-Robot Interaction”, in Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, New York, NY, USA, 2020, pp. 459–460.
, “Emotion et cognition: les robots comme outils et modèles”, in Systèmes d'interaction émotionnelle, Paris, France: Lavoisier Hermes Science, 2010.
, Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction. John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2008.
, “Preface”, in From Animals to Animats 16. Proceedings 16th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2022, Springer, LNAI, LNCS, 2022, p. v - x.
, “Cognitive Architectures to Bridge Interdisciplinary Gaps in Emotion Research?”, in Proc. 5th Annual International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2014), Cambridge, MA, 2014.
, “Emotionally Grounded Social Interaction”, in Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology, John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2000, pp. 137–162.
, “Emotion Understanding from the Perspective of Autonomous Robots Research”, Neural Networks, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 445–455, 2005.
, “Emotional and Intelligent II: The Tangled Knot of Social Cognition. Papers from the 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium”. AAAI Press, North Falmouth, Massachusetts, 2001.
, “What Emotions are Necessary for HCI?”, in Human-Computer Interaction: Ergonomics and User Interfaces Vol. 1, Munich, Germany, 1999, pp. 838–842.
, “When Emotional Machines are Intelligent Machines: The Tangled Knot of Affective Cognition”, in Emotional Machines. Perspectives from Affective Computing and Emotional Human-Machine Interaction, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2023.
, “Attachment Bonds for Human-Like Robots”, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 301–320, 2006.
, “How Does It Feel? Emotional Interaction with a Humanoid LEGO Robot”, in Socially Intelligent Agents: The Human in the Loop. Papers from the AAAI 2000 Fall Symposium, North Falmouth, Massachusetts, 2000, pp. 23–28.
, “A functionalist approach to language learning in robots: the development of meaning potentials in social and emotional contexts”, in HBCR 2021: IROS 2021 workshop on Human-Like Behavior and Cognition in Robots, 2021.
, “Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction: Using Multi-Activity Switching to Engage Young Users”, Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 32–67, 2016.
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“Intelligenza artificiale in medicina: progetto di una piattaforma mobile inserita in un ambiente intelligente per l'assistenza ai disabili e agli anziani”, Recenti Progressi in Medicina, vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 190–195, 2004.
, “e-Tools: The use of Assistive Technologies to enhance disabled and senior citizens’ autonomy”, in e-Health: Application of Computing Science in Medicine and Health Care, Instituto Politécnico National Press, 2003, pp. 119–132.
, “Assistive technologies for the disabled and for the new generation of senior citizens: The e-Tools architecture”, AI Communications, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 193–207, 2003.
, “Learning Affordances of Consummatory Behaviors: Motivation-Driven Adaptive Perception”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 18, no. 3-4, pp. 285–314, 2010.
, “Hedonic Value: Enhancing Adaptation for Motivated Agents”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 465–483, 2013.
, “Using a SOFM to learn Object Affordances”, in Proc. 5th Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF'04), Girona, Spain, 2004.
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“Ecological Integration of Affordances and Drives for Behaviour Selection”, in Proc. IJCAI 2005 Workshop on Modeling Natural Action Selection, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005, pp. 225–228.
, “Motivation-driven learning of object affordances: First experiments using a simulated khepera robot”, in Proc. 5th International Conference in Cognitive Modelling (ICCM'03), Bamberg, Germany, 2003, pp. 57–62.
, “Learning Object Functionalities in the Context of Action Selection”, in Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots, TIMR'03: 4th British Conference on Mobile Robotics, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2003.
, “Motivation Driven Learning of Action Affordances”, in Proceedings of the Symposium on Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action (SSAISB'05), Hatfield, UK, 2005, pp. 33–36.
, “The Frontier of Synthetic Knowledge: Toward a Constructivist Science”, World Futures, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 171–177, 2012.
, “Grounding Synthetic Knowledge: An Epistemological Framework and Criteria of Relevance for the Scientific Exploration of Life, Affect and Social Cognition”, in Advances In Artificial Life, ECAL 2011 (Proc. 11th European Conference on Artificial Life), Paris, France, 2011, pp. 200–207.
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“Constructing Emotions: Epistemological Groundings and Applications in Robotics for a Synthetic Approach to Emotions”, in International Symposium on AI-Inspired Biology, De Montford University, Leicester, UK, 2010, pp. 20–28.
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Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
, “Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots”, in Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 1–20.
, “Situated Learning in Autonomous Agents”, in Learning Sites: Social and Technological Contexts for Learning, Elsevier, 1999, pp. 236–248.
, “Habit-based Regulation of Essential Variables”, in Proc. 14th Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2014), New York, NY, 2014, pp. 168–175.
, “A Reactive Competitive Emotion Selection System”, in Proc. 7th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR-2015), Paris, 2015, pp. 31–40.
, “Introducing Neuromodulation to a Braitenberg Vehicle”, in Proc. 2005 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation: Robots get Closer to Humans (ICRA'05), Barcelona, Spain, 2005, pp. 4199–4204.
, “First Proposal for an Agent Architecture for Team and Multiple Task Coordination: A Case Study in Robotic Soccer”, in Proc. 2nd Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CCIA'99), Girona, Spain, 1999.
, “Induction of the being-seen-feeling by an embodied conversational agent in a socially interactive context”, in 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2021.
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“Expression of Grounded Affect: How Much Emotion Can Arousal Convey?”, in Proc. 21st Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference (TAROS2020), Nottingham, UK, 2020, vol. 12228, pp. 234–248.
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“Does Expression of Grounded Affect in a Hexapod Robot Elicit More Prosocial Responses?”, in UKRAS20 Conference: "Robots into the real world" Proceedings, Lincoln, UK, 2020, pp. 40–42.
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“A Flexible Component-Based Robot Control Architecture for Hormonal Modulation of Behaviour and Affect”, in Proc. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 18th Annual Conference, TAROS 2017, Guildford, UK, 2017, vol. 10454, pp. 464–474.
, “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.
, “Eliciting Caregiving Behavior in Dyadic Human-robot Attachment-like Interactions”, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 3:1–3:24, 2012.
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