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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…
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…
Explainable Agents Through Social Cues: A Review
Sebastian Wallkotter, Silvia Tulli, Ginevra Castellano +2
The issue of how to make embodied agents explainable has experienced a surge of interest over the last three years, and, there are many terms that refer to this concept, e.g., tran…
Playing Games in the Dark: An approach for cross-modality transfer in reinforcement learning
Rui Silva, Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo +2
In this work we explore the use of latent representations obtained from multiple input sensory modalities (such as images or sounds) in allowing an agent to learn and exploit polic…
Nutty-based Robot Animation -- Principles and Practices
Tiago Ribeiro, Ana Paiva
Robot animation is a new form of character animation that extends the traditional process by allowing the animated motion to become more interactive and adaptable during interactio…
Learning multimodal representations for sample-efficient recognition of human actions
Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo, David Martins de Matos +2
Humans interact in rich and diverse ways with the environment. However, the representation of such behavior by artificial agents is often limited. In this work we present \textit{m…