Interests
Human-Robot Interaction - Artificial Intelligence - Socially Assistive Robotics
Current Projects
Publications
2019
An approach for personalized social interactions between a therapeutic robot and children with autism spectrum disorderKim Baraka and Marta Couto and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva and Manuela Veloso
An optimization approach for structured agent-based provider/receiver tasks
Kim Baraka and Marta Couto and Francisco S Melo and Manuela Veloso, International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2019
Interactive robots with model-based `autism-like' behaviors
Kim Baraka and Francisco S Melo and Manuela Veloso, Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics , De Gruyter, 2019
2017
Data-Driven Generation of Synthetic Behavioral Feature Vectors Modeling Children with Autism Spectrum DisordersKim Baraka and Francisco S Melo and Manuela Veloso, Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2017
Embodied Robotic Visualization of Autistic Child Behaviors with Varying Severities
Kim Baraka and Francisco S Melo and Manuela Veloso, BAILAR Workshop at Ro-MAN 2017, 2017
Simulating behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorders through reversal of the autism diagnosis process
Kim Baraka and Francisco S Melo and Manuela Veloso, Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pg. 753--765, 2017
‘Autistic Robots’ for Embodied Emulation of Behaviors Typically Seen in Children with Different Autism Severities
Kim Baraka and Francisco S Melo and Manuela Veloso, International Conference on Social Robotics, pg. 105--114, 2017
2016
Expressive lights for revealing mobile service robot stateKim Baraka and Ana Paiva and Manuela Veloso, Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference, pg. 107--119, 2016