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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
iCat: an affective game buddy based on anticipatory mechanisms
In this paper, we study the role of emotions and expressive behaviour in socially interactive characters employed in educational games. More specifically, on how we can use such e...
Iolanda Leite, Carlos Martinho, André Perei...
HAIS
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Design Patterns for Combining Social and Individual Intelligences on Modular-Based Agents
Design patterns have been recently concerned in the multi-agent community for the design of systems with decentralized coordination. In this paper we present a design pattern for d...
Bianca Innocenti, Beatriz López, Joaquim Sa...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Visual attention in spoken human-robot interaction
Psycholinguistic studies of situated language processing have revealed that gaze in the visual environment is tightly coupled with both spoken language comprehension and productio...
Maria Staudte, Matthew W. Crocker
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  ROMAN 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Eliciting Requirements for a Robotic Toy for Children with Autism - Results from User Panels
— The discussion presented in this paper is part of our investigation in the IROMEC project which recognizes the important role of play in child development. The project investig...
Ben Robins, Nuno Otero, Ester Ferrari, Kerstin Dau...
CEEMAS
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Agent Factory: Towards Social Robots
This paper advocates the application of multi-agent techniques in the realisation of social robotic behaviour. We present the Social Robot Architecture, which integrates the key e...
Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Brian R. Duffy, Rem W. Colli...