Publications

Books

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: 8

2022

- 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]
- 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]
- 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]

2021

- Anjie Fang and Hugo Damas and Henrique Campos and Daniela Fontes and Raghvendra Jain and Helmut Prendinger and Bernd Hollerit and Rui Prada and Marc Cavazza, Implementation and Analytics of the Distributed Eco-Driving Simulation iCO2, article in IEEE Access vol. 9 pp. 36252-36265, to appear on 2021, IEEE [bibTex]
- Paula Ferreira and Ana M. V. Simão and Ana Paiva and Carlos António Roque Martinho and Rui Prada and Aristides Ferreira and Francisco C. Santos, Exploring Empathy in Cyberbullying with Serious Games, article in Computers & Education vol. 166 (104155), Feb. 2021 [bibTex]
- Diogo Rato and Rui Prada, Towards social identity in socio-cognitive agents, article in Sustainability vol. 13 pp. 11390, Jan. 2021 [DOI Article link] [bibTex] [PDF]

International Conferences: 12

2022

- 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]
- 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]

2021

- Diogo Rato and Rui Prada, A Taxonomy of Social Roles for Agents in Games, presented at ICEC'21- 20th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, Nov. 2021 [DOI Article link] [bibTex] [PDF]
- Diogo Rato and Marta Couto and Rui Prada, Fitting the Room: Social Motivations for Context-Aware Agents, presented at HAI'21 - 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Nov. 2021 [DOI Article link] [bibTex] [PDF]
- Inês Lobo and Diogo Rato and Rui Prada and Frank Dignum, Socially Aware Interactions: From Dialogue Trees to Natural Language Dialogue Systems, presented at CONVERSATIONS'21 – the 5th International Workshop on Chatbot Research, Nov. 2021 [bibTex] [PDF]
- Ana Teresa Jerónimo Antunes and Joana Campos and João Miguel de Sousa de Assis Dias and Pedro Santos and Rui Prada, EEG Model: Emotional Episode Generation for Social Sharing of Emotions, presented at IVA’2021 – the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Sep. 2021 [bibTex]
- Sara L. Lopes and José Bernardo Guimarães Rocha and Aristides I. Ferreira and Rui Prada, Social robots as leaders: leadership styles in human robot teams, presented at RO-MAN 2021 - the 30th International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Aug. 2021 [bibTex]
- Carolina Veloso and Rui Prada, Validating the plot of Interactive Narrative games, presented at CoG 2021- International Conference on Games, Aug. 2021 [bibTex]
- Pedro Fernandes and Manuel Lopes and Rui Prada, Agents for Automated User Experience Testing, presented at ICST’2021 – the 14th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (AIST - 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing), Apr. 2021 [bibTex]
- Wishnu Prasetya and Samira Shirzadehhajimahmood and Saba Gholizadeh Ansari and Pedro Fernandes and Rui Prada, An Agent-based Architecture for AI-Enhanced Automated Testing for XR Systems, presented at ICST’2021 – the 14th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (AIST - 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing), Apr. 2021 [bibTex]
- Mojgan Hashemian and Marta Couto and Samuel Francisco Mascarenhas and Ana Paiva and Pedro Santos and Rui Prada, Persuasive Social Robot Using Reward Power over Repeated Instances of Persuasion, presented at PERSUASIVE 2021 – the 16th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Apr. 2021 [bibTex]

as Editors

Edited Proceedings: 1

2021

- Sinem Getir Yaman and Rui Prada and Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew and Nicolás Cardozo, editors, Automating TEST Case Design, Selection, and Evaluation, Proceedings of the A-TEST’2021 - 12th International Workshop on Automating TEST Case Design, Selection, and Evaluation, Aug. 2021, ACM [bibTex]

Reports

Technical Reports: 1

2022

- 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]