Publications

Books

Books: 1

2022

- Andreas Wichert, Mind, Brain, Quantum AI, and the Multiverse, book, Oct. 2022, Chapman and Hall/CRC [bibTex]

Book Chapters: 1

2022

- Diogo Rato and Rui Prada, Socially Interactive Agents in Games, chapter of The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics, Nov. 2022, Association for Computing Machinery [bibTex] [PDF]

Articles

International Journal Articles: 30

2023

- João Tiago Aparicio and Elisabete Arsenio and Francisco C. Santos and Rui Miguel Carrasqueiro Henriques, Spatiotemporal trip profiles in public transportation reveal city modular structure, article in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, to appear on 2023 [bibTex]
- Rodrigo Simas and Luís Gouveia Coutinho Sá Couto and Andreas Wichert, Classification and Generation of real-world data with an Associative Memory Model,, article in Neurocomputing, Jul. 2023, Elsevier [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Vânia Mendonça and Ricardo Rei and Luísa Coheur and Alberto Sardinha, Onception: Active Learning with Expert Advice for Real World Machine Translation, article in Computational Linguistics, Jun. 2023, MIT Press Journals [bibTex] [PDF]
- Andreas Wichert, Quantum Lernmatrix, article in Entropy vol. 25, May. 2023, MDPI [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Luís Gouveia Coutinho Sá Couto and Andreas Wichert, Self-organizing maps on "what-where" codes towards fully unsupervised classification, article in Biological Cybernetics vol. 117 pp. 211–220, May. 2023, Springer [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Inês Lobo and Joana Dimas and Samuel Mascarenhas and Diogo Rato and Rui Prada, When “I” Becomes “We”: Modelling Dynamic Identity on Autonomous Agents, article in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, May. 2023 [bibTex] [PDF]
- Manuel Lopes and Tânia R. P. Ramos, Efficient Sensor Placement and Online Scheduling of Bin Collection, article in Computers and Operations Research vol. 151, Mar. 2023, Elsevier [Article] [DOI Article link] [bibTex] [PDF]

2022

- Francisco S. Melo and Kim Baraka and Ana Paiva and Manuela Veloso and Marta Couto, "Sequencing matters": Investigating suitable action sequences in robot-assisted autism therapy, article in Frontiers in Robotics and AI vol. 9 pp. 784249, to appear on 2022 [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Luís Gouveia Coutinho Sá Couto and Andreas Wichert, “Using brain inspired principles to unsupervisedly learn good representations for visual pattern recognition”, article in Neurocomputing, to appear on 2022 [bibTex]
- Pedro Santos and Samuel Francisco Mascarenhas and Manuel Castro Guerra Moreira Guimarães and Rui Prada and João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias and Ana Paiva, FAtiMA Toolkit: Toward an Accessible Tool for the Development of Socio-emotional Agents, article in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems vol. 12 (1) pp. 1-30, to appear on 2022 [Article] [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Pedro Santos and Manuel Castro Guerra Moreira Guimarães and Rui Prada and João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias and Cristina Soeiro and Raquel Guerra and Christina Steiner-Stanitznig and Andrea Molinari, ISPO: A Serious Game to train the Interview Skills of Police Officers, article in International Journal of Serious Games vol. 9 (4) pp. 42-61, to appear on 2022, Serious Games Society [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Miguel Serras Vasco and Hang Yin and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, Leveraging hierarchy in multimodal generative models for effective cross-modality inference, article in Neural Networks vol. 146 pp. 238-255, to appear on 2022 [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- João Tiago Aparicio and Elisabete Arsenio and Francisco C. Santos and Rui Miguel Carrasqueiro Henriques, LINES: muLtImodal traNsportation rEsilience analySis, article in Sustainability, to appear on 2022, MDPI [bibTex]
- Filipa Correia and Joana Campos and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, Robotic Gaze Responsiveness in Multiparty Teamwork, article in International Journal of Social Robotics, Dec. 2022, Springer [bibTex]
- Francisco Fernandes and Ivo Roupa and Sérgio Gonçalves and Gonçalo Moita and Miguel da Silva and João António Madeiras Pereira and Joaquim Armando Pires Jorge and Richard Neptune and Daniel Simões Lopes, Sticks and STONES May Build My Bones: Deep Learning Reconstruction of Limb Rotations in Stick Figures, article in Pattern Recognition Letters, Dec. 2022 [Article] [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Diogo Rato and Filipa Correia and André Pereira and Rui Prada, Robots in Games, article in International Journal of Social Robotics pp. 1-23, Nov. 2022, Springer [bibTex] [PDF]
- Paula C. Ferreira and Aristides Ferreira and Ana Margarida Veiga Simão and Rui Prada and Ana Paula Paulino and Ricardo Eugénio Proença Rodrigues, Self-Regulated Learning and Working Memory Determine Problem-Solving Accuracy in Math, article in The Spanish Journal of Psychology vol. 25, Sep. 2022, Cambridge University Press [Article] [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Isabel Nogueira and Rui de Klerk and Ricardo Portal and Helena Mendes and Diogo Chambel Lopes and Daniel Simões Lopes, A Usability Study on Widget Design for Selecting Boolean Operations, article in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction vol. 6 (70), Aug. 2022, MDPI [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Andreas Wichert, Quantum Tree Search with Qiskit,, article in Mathematics vol. 10 (17) pp. 3013, Aug. 2022 [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Milagros Jaén-Vargas and Karla Reyes Leiva and Francisco Fernandes and Sérgio Barroso Gonçalves and Miguel Tavares Silva and Daniel Simões Lopes and José Javier Serrano Olmedo, Effects of sliding window variation in the performance of acceleration-based Human Activity Recognition using Deep Learning models, article in PeerJ Computer Science, Jul. 2022 [Article] [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Sofia Petisca and Iolanda Margarete dos Santos Carvalho Leite and Ana Paiva and Francisco Esteves, Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness, article in International Journal of Social Robotics, Jul. 2022 [bibTex]
- Pedro Rodrigues and Artur Esteves and João Botelho and Vanessa Machado and Carlos Zagalo and Ezequiel Zorzal and José João Mendes and Daniel Simões Lopes, Usability, acceptance, and educational usefulness study of a new haptic operative dentistry virtual reality simulator, article in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine vol. 221, Jun. 2022 [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Ramona Merhej and Fernando Pedro Pascoal dos Santos and Francisco S. Melo and Francisco C. Santos, Cooperation and Learning Dynamics under Wealth Inequality and Diversity in Individual Risk, article in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (in press), May. 2022 [bibTex]
- Juan C. Burguillo and Jelena Grujic and Elias Fernandez Domingos and Inês Terrucha and Francisco C. Santos and Tom Lenaerts, Delegation to autonomous agents promotes cooperation in collective-risk dilemmas, article in Scientific Reports, May. 2022, Nature-Springer (in press) [bibTex]
- Pedro Rodrigues and Rafael S. Costa and Rui Miguel Carrasqueiro Henriques, Enrichment analysis on regulatory subspaces: a novel direction for the superior description of cellular responses to SARS-CoV-2, article in Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier, Mar. 2022, Elsevier [bibTex]
- Luís Gouveia Coutinho Sá Couto and Andreas Wichert, "What-Where" sparse distributed invariant representations of visual patterns, article in Neural Computing and Applications vol. 34 pp. 6207-6214, Feb. 2022 [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Luciana Barbosa and Artur Rodrigues and Alberto Sardinha, Optimal price subsidies under uncertainty, article in European Journal of Operational Research, Feb. 2022, Elsevier [DOI Article link] [bibTex]
- Paula C. Ferreira and Ana Margarida Veiga Simão and Ana Paiva and Carlos António Roque Martinho and Rui Prada and José Bernardo Guimarães Rocha, Serious Game-based Psychosocial Intervention to Foster Prosociality in Cyberbullying Bystanders, article in Psychosocial Intervention vol. 31 (2) pp. 83-96, Feb. 2022, COPM [Article] [bibTex]

International Conferences: 20

2023

- Gonçalo Querido and Alberto Sardinha and Francisco S. Melo, Learning to Perceive in Deep Model-Free Reinforcement Learning, presented at The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023), May. 2023 [bibTex]

2022

- Ricardo Eugénio Proença Rodrigues and Ricardo Silva and Ricardo Pereira and Carlos António Roque Martinho, A cautionary tale of side-by-side evaluations while developing emotional expression for intelligent virtual agents, presented at 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, to appear on 2022 [bibTex]
- Diogo Rato and Rui Prada and Marta Couto, Attributing Social Motivations to Changes in Agents’ Behavior and Appearance, presented at HAI '22: International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Dec. 2022 [DOI Article link] [bibTex] [PDF]
- Ramona Merhej and Fernando Pedro Pascoal dos Santos and Francisco S. Melo and Mohamed Chetouani and Francisco C. Santos, Cooperation and learning dynamics under risk diversity and financial incentives, presented at 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to appear on 2022 [bibTex]
- Pedro Santos and João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias and Diogo Silva, Emotionally Expressive Motion Controller for Virtual Character Locomotion Animations, to appear on 2022 [bibTex]
- Pedro Santos and João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias and Vasco Nunes, GAN-Based Content Generation of Maps for Strategy Games, presented at GAME-ON'2022, to appear on 2022 [DOI Article link] [bibTex] [Video]
- Miguel Serras Vasco and Hang Yin and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, How to sense the world: Leveraging hierarchy in multimodal perception for robust reinforcement learning agents, presented at 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to appear on 2022 [bibTex]
- Samuel Simão Canada Gomes and Tomás Alves and João Dias and Carlos António Roque Martinho, Reward-Mediated Individual and Altruistic Behavior, presented at Videojogos 2020, to appear on 2022 [bibTex]
- Jennifer Renoux and Neziha Akalin and Joana Campos and Filipa Correia and Lucas Morill-Mendez and Fernando P. Santos and Ana Paiva, The impact of game outcomes and Agent-based Feedback on Prosociality in Social Dilemmas, presented at HumanE AI conference, to appear on 2022 [bibTex]
- Filipa Correia and Sean Christeson and Samuel Francisco Mascarenhas and Ana Paiva and Marlena Fraune, I Know I Am, But What Are You? How Culture and Self-Categorization Affect Emotions Toward Robots, presented at CSCW'2022 The 25th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing, Nov. 2022 [bibTex] [PDF]
- Fábio Vital and Miguel Serras Vasco and Alberto Sardinha and Francisco S. Melo, Perceive, Represent, Generate: Translating Multimodal Information to Robotic Motion Trajectories, presented at 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), Oct. 2022 [bibTex]
- Alexandre Neves and Alberto Sardinha, Learning to Cooperate with Completely Unknown Teammates, presented at 21st EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aug. 2022 [bibTex]
- João Ribeiro and Cassandro Martinho and Alberto Sardinha and Francisco S. Melo, Making Friends in the Dark: Ad Hoc Teamwork under Partial Observability, presented at IJCAI‘22 Workshop on Ad Hoc Teamwork, Jul. 2022 [bibTex]
- Luciana Barbosa and Cláudia Nunes and Artur Rordrigues and Alberto Sardinha, Auctions and Real Options: Bidding for Feed-In Tariff, presented at 29th Annual Global Finance Conference, Jun. 2022 [bibTex]
- Luciana Barbosa and Cláudia Nunes and Artur Rordrigues and Alberto Sardinha, Feed-In Tariffs In Renewable Energy Projects, presented at 25th Annual International Real Options Conference, Jun. 2022 [bibTex]
- Pedro Rodrigues and Marija Mitic and Ina Krammer and João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias and Rui Prada and Beate Schrank, The HUB: Designing an Interactive Social Space for Pre-Adolescents’ Well-being, presented at IDC’22 – the 21st International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Jun. 2022 [bibTex]
- Diogo Rato and Marta Couto and Rui Prada, Behavior vs Appearance: What Type of Adaptations are More Socially Motivated? (Extended Abstract), presented at AAMAS’2022 - 21th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, May. 2022 [bibTex]
- Andreia Valente and Daniel Simões Lopes and Nuno Nunes and Augusto Esteves, Empathic AuRea: Exploring the Effects of an Augmented Reality Cue for Emotional Sharing Across Three Face-to-Face Tasks, presented at IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, Mar. 2022 [bibTex]
- Francisco Nicolau and Johan Gielis and Adalberto L. Simeone and Daniel Simões Lopes, Exploring and Selecting Supershapes in Virtual Reality with Line, Quad, and Cube Shaped Widgets, presented at IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, Mar. 2022 [bibTex]
- Cristiana Antunes and Ana Neto and Filipa Correia and Ana Paiva and Hugo Nicolau, Inclusive'R'Stories: An Inclusive Storytelling Activity with an Emotional Robot, presented at Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Mar. 2022 [DOI Article link] [bibTex]

Dissertations

MSc Theses: 9

2024

- Joana Raposo advised by Alberto Sardinha and Ana Paiva, Trust in Human-Robot Ad Hoc Teamwork, MSc Thesis, Nov. 2024 [bibTex]

2023

- Rui Melo advised by Pedro Santos and João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias, A Semantic Search System for the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, MSc Thesis at Instituto Superior Técnico, Jun. 2023 [bibTex]

2022

- João Silva advised by Carlos António Roque Martinho, Improving Believability through Timing Manipulation, MSc Thesis at instituto superior técnico, Nov. 2022 [bibTex]
- Jorge Nunes advised by Carlos António Roque Martinho, Modelling Player Skill in a Procedurally Generated Single-Player Videogame, MSc Thesis at Institito Superior Técnico, Nov. 2022 [bibTex]
- Andreia Matos advised by Carlos António Roque Martinho, On the Feeling of Acoustic and Visual Tension in Generative Art, MSc Thesis, Nov. 2022 [bibTex]
- Hélio Martins advised by Carlos António Roque Martinho, Pro(f)Social: a serious game to improve teachers’ bystander behaviour in cyberbullying situations, MSc Thesis at instituto superior técnico, Nov. 2022 [bibTex]
- Vasco Pires advised by Sandra Gama and Daniel Jorge Viegas Gonçalves, Studying the distinction cognitive bias in information visualization, MSc Thesis at Institito Superior Técnico, Nov. 2022 [bibTex]
- Pedro Vilela advised by Carlos António Roque Martinho, Team Formation in Gamified Environments, MSc Thesis, Nov. 2022 [bibTex]
- Nuno Cordeiro advised by João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias and Pedro Santos, NLP Applied To Portuguese Consumer Law, MSc Thesis, Jun. 2022 [bibTex]

as Editors

Edited Books: 1

2022

- Carlos António Roque Martinho and João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias and Joana Campos and Dirk Heylen, editors, IVA '22: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, to appear on 2022, ACM [bibTex]

Other Publications: 1

2022

- Vasco D. Silva and Anna Carolina Nametala Finamore do Couto and Rui Miguel Carrasqueiro Henriques, editors, On the Role of Multi-Objective Optimization to the Transit Network Design Problem, arXiv:2201.11616, to appear on 2022, arXiv [bibTex]

Edited Proceedings: 1

2022

- Joana Campos, editor, IVA '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Sep. 2022, ACM [bibTex]

Reports

Technical Reports: 3

2022

- Pedro Santos and Manuel Castro Guerra Moreira Guimarães and Arnav Jhala, Emergent social NPC interactions in the Social NPCs Skyrim mod and beyond, INESC-ID Tec. Rep. /2022, on 2022 [bibTex]
- Pedro Santos and João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias and Jorge Baptista and Ana Teresa Jerónimo Antunes and Nuno Cordeiro and Bruno Martins, State of the Art in Artificial Intelligence applied to the Legal Domain, INESC-ID Tec. Rep. /2022, on 2022 [bibTex]
- Pedro Santos and Manuel Castro Guerra Moreira Guimarães and Joana Campos and João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias and Rui Prada, Towards Explainable Social Agent Authoring tools: A case study on FAtiMA-Toolkit, INESC-ID Tec. Rep. /2022, on 2022 [bibTex]