Ana Paiva

TL;DR: In this article, the Siren serious game aims to educate 10-14 year old students on conflict management and resolution, presenting them with user and culture-adaptive mini game scenarios, based on popular game genres and taking into account their affective expressivity and in-game behaviour to adjust the intensity of the conflict to better suit their needs and competencies.

TL;DR: The data suggests that the gap between synthetic and real gestures is the smallest while the synthetic voice is the furthest from its natural version, suggesting that the importance of building synthetic voices as natural as possible is extremely important as it impacts in the perception of other means of communication.

TL;DR: A task that requires the players to take the perspective of another, in order to complete and win the task successfully is designed and analyzed to develop a cognitive model of perspective taking for agents and robots in educational contexts.

TL;DR: This chapter provides an analysis framework useful to classify the autonomy of synthetic characters versus the control of the users over those characters, in particular: scripted; partially scripted; influenced by role; and autonomous.

TL;DR: Examining the influence of a set of factors (gender, emotional representation, making Small Talk and embodiment) that may affect the trustworthiness of a robot showed that these factors influence the level of trust that people put in robots.