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Publications

2014

  Non-Player Characters and Artificial Intelligence

Gonçalo Pereira and António Brisson and João Dias and André Carvalho and Joana Dimas and Samuel Mascarenhas and Joana Campos and Marco Vala and Iolanda Leite and Carlos Martinho and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, Psychology, Pedagogy, and Assessment in Serious Games, pg. 127-152, IGI GLobal, 2014

2013

  Censys: A Model for Distributed Embodied Cognition

Tiago Ribeiro and Marco Vala and Ana Paiva, Intelligent Virtual Agents, pg. 58-67, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, September, 2013

2012

  A model for embodied cognition in autonomous agents

Marco Vala and Tiago Ribeiro and Ana Paiva, , pg. 505--507, 2012

Thalamus: Closing the Mind-Body Loop in Interactive Embodied Characters

Tiago Ribeiro and Marco Vala and Ana Paiva, Intelligent Virtual Agents IVA'2012, pg. 189-195, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September, 2012

2011

  Providing Gender to Embodied Conversational Agents

Marco Vala and Gabriel Blanco and Ana Paiva, pg. 148-154, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September, 2011

Robots Meet IVAs: A Mind-Body Interface for Migrating Artificial Intelligent Agents

Michael Kriegel and Ruth Aylett and Pedro Cuba and Marco Vala and Ana Paiva, Intelligent Virtual Agents - 11th International Conference IVA 2011, pg. 282-295, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September, 2011

2009

  ION Framework - A Simulation Environment for Worlds with Virtual Agents

Marco Vala and Guilherme Raimundo and Pedro Sequeira and Pedro Cuba and Rui Prada and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - IVA2009, pg. 418–424, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September, 2009

2008

  EditION: A Collaborative Calligraphic Tool to Manage Virtual Environments

Alfredo Ferreira and Marco Vala and Guilherme Raimundo and João António Madeiras Pereira and Joaquim Armando Jorge and Ana Paiva, VL/HCC Workshop: Sketch Tools for Diagramming, pg. 37-46, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, September, 2008

So tell me what happened: turning agent-based interactive drama into comics

Tiago Alves and Ana Simões and Rui Figueiredo and Marco Vala and Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett, International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - AAMAS 2008 , pg. 1269-1272, IFAMAAS, 2008

2007

  "What can I do with this?" – Finding Possible Interactions between Characters and Objects

Pedro Sequeira and Marco Vala and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS’07, pg. 14-18, ACM Press, 2007

Editor caligráfico para gestão de ambientes virtuais

Alfredo Ferreira and Marco Vala and Guilherme Raimundo and Joaquim Armando Jorge and Ana Paiva and João António Madeiras Pereira, 15º Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica, Oeiras, Portugal, October, 2007

FearNot! demo: a virtual environment with synthetic characters to help bullying

Marco Vala and Pedro Sequeira and Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett, 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), IFAAMAS, 2007

2006

  Empathic Characters in Computer-based Personal and Social Education

João Dias and Ana Paiva and Marco Vala and Ruth Aylett and Sarah Woods and Carsten Zoll, Affective and Emotional Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 1, IOS Press, Maja Pivec, 2006

Mind the Body

Marco Vala and João Dias, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - IVA 2006, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2006

Unscripted Narrative for Affectively Driven Characters

Ruth Aylett and Sandy Louchart and João Dias and Ana Paiva and Marco Vala and Sarah Woods and Lynne Hall, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, pg. 43-52, May-June, 2006

2004

  From Motion Control to Emotion Influence: Controlling Autonomous Synthetic Characters in a Computer Game

Marco Vala and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, AAMAS'04 - 3th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pg. 1302-1303, IEEE Computer Society, New York, USA, July, 2004

Life-like Characters. Tools, Affective Functions and Applications

Ana Paiva and Rui Prada and Isabel Machado and Carlos Martinho and Marco Vala and André Silva, Playing with Agents - Agents in Social and Dramatic Games, pg. 361-376, Springer, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka, 2004

Tangible Influence: towards a new interaction paradigm for computer games

Marco Vala and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, ICEC'2004 - 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing, pg. 21-55, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September, 2004

2003

  FantasyA - The Duel of Emotions

Rui Prada and Marco Vala and Ana Paiva and Kristina Höök and Adrian Bullock, IVA'2003 - 4th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pg. 62-66, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Irsee, Germany, September, 2003

Fantasya and Sentoy

Kristina Höök and Adrian Bullock and Ana Paiva and Marco Vala and Ricardo Chaves and Rui Prada, CHI'2003 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pg. 804-805, ACM, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, April, 2003

Towards Tangibility in Gameplay: Building a Tangible Affective Interface for a Computer Game

Ana Paiva and Rui Prada and Ricardo Chaves and Marco Vala and Adrian Bullock and Gerd Andersson and Kristina Höök, ICMI'2003 - 5th international conference on Multimodal interfaces, pg. 60 - 67, ACM, Vancouver, Canada, November, 2003

2001

  Papous: The Virtual Storyteller

André Silva and Marco Vala and Ana Paiva, IVA'2001- Intelligent Virtual Agents, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September, 2001