Some of my publications
] , “I Show You How I Like You—Can You Read it in My Face?”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 454–459, 2001.
, “Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems”, vol. 146. Lund University, Venice, Italy, 2009.
, “A Bottom-Up Investigation of Emotional Modulation in Competitive Scenarios”, in Proc. Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2007), Lisbon, Portugal, 2007, vol. 4738, pp. 398–409.
, “Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action. Papers from the AISB'05 Symposium”. AISB, Hatfield, UK, 2005.
, “Emotions pour les agents situés”, in Intelligence Artificielle Située, Paris: Hermès science publications, 1999.
, “Embodied Robot Models for Interdisciplinary Emotion Research”, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2019.
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, “Designing emotions for activity selection in autonomous agents”, in Emotions in Humans and Artifacts, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 115–148.
, “Learning in Humans and Machines. Notes of the ECML'98 Workshop Human Learning Meets Machine Learning”. Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany, 1998.
, “Did Garbo Care about the Uncanny Valley? Commentary to K.F. MacDorman and H. Ishiguro, “The uncanny advantage of using androids in cognitive and social science research””, Interaction Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 355–359, 2006.
, “Designing Emotions for Activity Selection”, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2000.
, “Situated Cognition: A Challenge to Artificial Intelligence?”, in Learning Sites: Social and Technological Contexts for Learning, Elsevier, 1999, pp. 223–235.
, “Issues in the Design of Emotional Agents”, in Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition. Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium, 1998, pp. 49–54.
, “Emotions and Adaptation in Autonomous Agents: A Design Perspective”, Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 507–529, 2001.
, “Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Papers of the workshop held during the Fifth International Conference of The Society for Adaptive Behavior (SAB'98)”. University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1998.
, “Socially Emotional: Using Emotions to Ground Social Interaction”, in Socially Intelligent Agents. Papers from the 1997 AAAI Fall Symposium, 1997, pp. 10–15.
, “First Experiments Relating Behavior Selection Architectures to Environmental Complexity”, in Proc. 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002, pp. 3024–3029.
, “Making New "New AI" Friends: Designing a Social Robot for Diabetic Children from an Embodied AI Perspective”, International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 523–537, 2016.
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, “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.
, “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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, “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.
, “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.
, “Hedonic Value: Enhancing Adaptation for Motivated Agents”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 465–483, 2013.
, “Learning Affordances of Consummatory Behaviors: Motivation-Driven Adaptive Perception”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 18, no. 3-4, pp. 285–314, 2010.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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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, “The Frontier of Synthetic Knowledge: Toward a Constructivist Science”, World Futures, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 171–177, 2012.
, “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.
, Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
, “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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, “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.
, “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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, “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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