Some of my publications
“The role of lateral inhibition in the sensory processing in a simulated spiking neural controller for a robot”, in Proc. 2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2009), Nashville, TN, 2009, pp. 179–183.
, “Should I worry about my stressed pregnant robot?”, in Proc. 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob 2009), Venice, Italy, 2009, vol. 146, pp. 203–204.
, “SimianWorld – A Study of Social Organisation Using an Artificial Life Model”, in Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013, Taormina, Italy, 2013, pp. 633–640.
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“Socially Emotional: Using Emotions to Ground Social Interaction”, in Socially Intelligent Agents. Papers from the 1997 AAAI Fall Symposium, 1997, pp. 10–15.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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 an Affect Space for Robots to Display Emotional Body Language”, in Proc. 19th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2010), Viareggio, Italy, 2010, pp. 464–469.
, “Towards an Affective Model of Norm Emergence and Adaptation”, in TSAR 2021: RO-MAN 2021 Workshop on Robot Behavior Adaptation to Human Social Norms, 2021.
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“Using a SOFM to learn Object Affordances”, in Proc. 5th Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF'04), Girona, Spain, 2004.
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“Using Hormonal Feedback to Modulate Action Selection in a Competitive Scenario”, in From Animals to Animats 8: Proc. 8th Intl. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'04), Los Angeles, USA, 2004, pp. 243–252.
, “Using Perlin Noise to Generate Emotional Expressions in a Robot”, in Proc. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013), Berlin, Germany, 2013, pp. 1845–1850.
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“Using Robots to Model Mental Disorders”, in Proc. UK-RAS Conference: 'Robots Working For & Among Us', 2017, Bristol, UK, 2018, pp. 121–123.
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“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.
, “Using Visual Velocity Detection to Achieve Synchronization in Imitation”, in Proc. 3rd Int. Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Hatfield, UK, 2005, pp. 26–29.
, “What Emotions are Necessary for HCI?”, in Human-Computer Interaction: Ergonomics and User Interfaces Vol. 1, Munich, Germany, 1999, pp. 838–842.
, “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.
, “Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action. Papers from the AISB'05 Symposium”. AISB, Hatfield, UK, 2005.
, “Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations”, Papers from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium. AAAI Press, 2004.
, “Emotional and Intelligent II: The Tangled Knot of Social Cognition. Papers from the 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium”. AAAI Press, North Falmouth, Massachusetts, 2001.
, “Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition. Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium”. AAAI Press, Orlando, Florida, 1998.
, “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.
, “Learning in Humans and Machines. Notes of the ECML'98 Workshop Human Learning Meets Machine Learning”. Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany, 1998.
, “Proceedings of the AISB'02 Symposium Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interactions”. AISB, Imperial College, London, UK, 2002.
, “Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems”, vol. 146. Lund University, Venice, Italy, 2009.
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“Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Volume I”, Special Issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, vol. 32, no. 5. Taylor & Francis, 2001.
, “Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Volume II”, Special Issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, vol. 32, no. 6. Taylor & Francis, 2001.
, “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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“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.
, “Attachment Bonds for Human-Like Robots”, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 301–320, 2006.
, “Développement de Liens Affectifs Basés sur le Phénomène d'Empreinte pour Moduler l'Exploration et l'Imitation d'un Robot”, Enfance, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 35–45, 2007.
, “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.
, “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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“Embodied Robot Models for Interdisciplinary Emotion Research”, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2019.
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“Emotion Understanding from the Perspective of Autonomous Robots Research”, Neural Networks, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 445–455, 2005.
, “Emotional Body Language Displayed by Artificial Agents”, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 2:1–2:29, 2012.
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“Emotions and Adaptation in Autonomous Agents: A Design Perspective”, Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 507–529, 2001.
, “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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“The Frontier of Synthetic Knowledge: Toward a Constructivist Science”, World Futures, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 171–177, 2012.
, “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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“Hedonic Value: Enhancing Adaptation for Motivated Agents”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 465–483, 2013.
, “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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“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.
, “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.
, “Interpretation of Emotional Body Language Displayed by a Humanoid Robot: A Case Study with Children”, International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 5, pp. 325–334, 2013.
, “Learning Affordances of Consummatory Behaviors: Motivation-Driven Adaptive Perception”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 18, no. 3-4, pp. 285–314, 2010.
, “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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“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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“Multimodal Child-Robot Interaction: Building Social Bonds”, Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 33–53, 2012.
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