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André Pereira
Researcher at Royal Institute of Technology
Publications - 61
Citations - 2347
André Pereira is an academic researcher from Royal Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social robot & Human–robot interaction. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 56 publications receiving 1885 citations. Previous affiliations of André Pereira include Instituto Superior Técnico & Disney Research.
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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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The influence of empathy in human-robot relations
TL;DR: This paper presents a study where an autonomous robot with empathic capabilities acts as a social companion to two players in a chess game, and argues that artificial companions capable of behaving in an empathic manner are more successful at establishing and maintaining a positive relationship with users.
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Empathic Robots for Long-term Interaction
TL;DR: An empathic model for social robots that aim to interact with children for extended periods of time is presented and the application of this model to a scenario where a social robot plays chess with children is described.
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Detecting user engagement with a robot companion using task and social interaction-based features
TL;DR: A person-independent, Bayesian approach to detect the user's engagement with the iCat robot, a robot companion, based on multimodal integration of task and social interaction-based features outperforms those based solely on non-verbal behaviour or contextual information.
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Modelling empathic behaviour in a robotic game companion for children: an ethnographic study in real-world settings
TL;DR: An ethnographic study conducted in an elementary school where 40 children interacted with a social robot capable of recognising and responding empathically to some of the children's affective states suggests that the robot's empathic behaviour affected positively how children perceived the robot.