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Building Persuasive Robots with Social Power Strategies
Mojgan Hashemian, Marta Couto, Samuel Mascarenhas +3
Can social power endow social robots with the capacity to persuade? This paper represents our recent endeavor to design persuasive social robots. We have designed and run three dif…
Towards Explainable Social Agent Authoring tools: A case study on FAtiMA-Toolkit
Manuel Guimarães, Joana Campos, Pedro A. Santos +2
The deployment of Socially Intelligent Agents (SIAs) in learning environments has proven to have several advantages in different areas of application. Social Agent Authoring Tools…
Agents for Automated User Experience Testing
Pedro M. Fernandes, Manuel Lopes, Rui Prada
The automation of functional testing in software has allowed developers to continuously check for negative impacts on functionality throughout the iterative phases of development.…
An Agent-based Architecture for AI-Enhanced Automated Testing for XR Systems, a Short Paper
I. S. W. B. Prasetya, Samira Shirzadehhajimahmood, Saba Gholizadeh Ansari +2
This short paper presents an architectural overview of an agent-based framework called iv4XR for automated testing that is currently under development by an H2020 project with the…
FAtiMA Toolkit -- Toward an effective and accessible tool for the development of intelligent virtual agents and social robots
Samuel Mascarenhas, Manuel Guimarães, Pedro A. Santos +3
More than a decade has passed since the development of FearNot!, an application designed to help children deal with bullying through role-playing with virtual characters. It was al…
A Game AI Competition to foster Collaborative AI research and development
Ana Salta, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo
Game AI competitions are important to foster research and development on Game AI and AI in general. These competitions supply different challenging problems that can be translated…
Towards Social Identity in Socio-Cognitive Agents
Diogo Rato, Samuel Mascarenhas, Rui Prada
Current architectures for social agents are designed around some specific units of social behaviour that address particular challenges. Although their performance might be adequate…
IMPRESS: Improving Engagement in Software Engineering Courses through Gamification
Tanja E. J. Vos, I. S. W. B. Prasetya, Gordon Fraser +5
Software Engineering courses play an important role for preparing students with the right knowledge and attitude for software development in practice. The implication is far reachi…