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Ana Paiva
Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico
Publications - 501
Citations - 11347
Ana Paiva is an academic researcher from Instituto Superior Técnico. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social robot & Human–robot interaction. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 472 publications receiving 9626 citations. Previous affiliations of Ana Paiva include University of Lisbon & Harvard University.
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Social Robots for Long-Term Interaction: A Survey
TL;DR: The main features of these robots are described and the main findings of the existing long-term studies are highlighted to highlight a set of directions for future research.
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Fearnot!: an experiment in emergent narrative
TL;DR: The experience of constructing the application FearNot!
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Feeling and reasoning: a computational model for emotional characters
João Dias,Ana Paiva +1 more
TL;DR: Inspired by the work of traditional character animators, this paper proposes an architectural model to build autonomous characters where the agent’s reasoning and behaviour is influenced by its emotional state and personality.
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Automatic analysis of affective postures and body motion to detect engagement with a game companion
TL;DR: An initial evaluation suggests that patterns of postural behaviour can be used to accurately predict the engagement of the children with the robot, thus making the approach suitable for integration into an affect recognition system for a game companion in a real world scenario.
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FAtiMA Modular: Towards an Agent Architecture with a Generic Appraisal Framework
TL;DR: This paper presents a generic and flexible architecture for emotional agents, with what it considers to be the minimum set of functionalities that allows us to implement and compare different appraisal theories in a given scenario.