LIREC
Collaborators: André Pereira, João Dias, Paulo F. Gomes, Joana Dimas, Carlos Martinho, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva, Francisco S. Melo, Iolanda Leite, Alberto Sardinha, Rui Prada
Keywords: Social Robotics
Description
LIREC is a European funded (FP7) research project exploring how we live with digital and interactive companions. The project addresses a number of key scientific and technical areas, which have previously received limited examination:
- A multi-aspect (perception, memory, emotions, communication, learning) theory of artificial long-term companions.
- An extended empirical evaluation undertaken in real social settings to validate the theory developed.
- Ethological issues in developing these long term companion relationships.
- The effect of embodiment and migration on these long term companion relationships.
- The development of a guideline framework for viable long term companion technologies.
LIREC in the news:
Publications
Migration Between Two Embodiments of an Artificial Pet  Paulo Gomes and Alberto Sardinha and Elena Márquez Segura and Henriette Cramer and Ana Paiva, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 11, No. 1, pg. 1450001 (32 pages), 2014 |
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I Want to Be Your Friend: Establishing Relations with Emotionally Intelligent Agents João Dias and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) , IFAAMAS/ACM DL, May, 2013 |
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Multimodal Affect Modelling and Recognition for Empathic Robotic Companions Ginevra Castellano and Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva and Peter W. Mcowan, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 1, 2013 |
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Affective teaching: learning more effectively from empathic robots Ginevra Castellano and Iolanda Leite and Ana Paiva and Peter W. McOwan, Awareness magazine: Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems, Vol. Interactive Robotics, pg. doi: 10.2417/3201112.003948, January, 2012 |
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Modelling Empathic Behaviour in a Robotic Game Companion for Children: an Ethnographic Study in Real-World Settings Iolanda Leite and Ginevra Castellano and André Pereira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, Proc. of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boston, USA, pg. to appear, ACM, March, 2012 |
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Modelling Empathy in Social Robotic Companions Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Ginevra Castellano and Samuel Mascarenhas and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, Advances in User Modeling: UMAP 2011 Workshops (Revised Selected Papers), pg. 135--147, Springer, Heidelberg, January, 2012 |
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Revive! Reactions to Migration between Different Embodiments when Playing with Robotic Pets Elena Márquez Segura and Henriette Cramer and Paulo F. Gomes and Stina Nylander and Ana Paiva, 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 06/2012, 2012 |
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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 |
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The Illusion of Robotic Life: Principles and Practices of Animation for Robots Tiago Ribeiro and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pg. 383--390, ACM, Boston, USA, 2012 |
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Automatic Analysis of Affective Postures and Body Motion to Detect Engagement with a Game Companion Jyotirmay Sanghvi and Ginevra Castellano and Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Peter McOwan and Ana Paiva, HRI'2011- Human-Robot Interaction Conference, ACM Press, Lausanne, Switzerland, March, 2011 |
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Between Downward Spirals and Habituation: Emotion Intensity in Virtual Agents' Memory Retrieval Paulo F. Gomes and Ana Paiva and Carlos Martinho, Proc. of The 2nd Symposium on Human Memory for Artificial Agents in AISB’11, pg. 15-19, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), York, UK, April, 2011 |
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Empathy in Social Agents Ana Paiva, International Journal of Virtual Reality, Vol. 10, No. 1, pg. 65-68, 2011 |
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I've Been Here Before! Location and Appraisal in Memory Paulo F. Gomes and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, Proc. of The 10th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), IFAAMAS (http://www.aamas-conference.org/), 2011 |
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NPC memory affecting emotional reactions and path planning Paulo F. Gomes and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva |
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Social Robots in Learning Environments: a Case Study of an Empathic Chess Companion Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Ginevra Castellano and Samuel Mascarenhas and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of The International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE), CEUR Workshop Proceedings (ISSN 1613-0073), July, 2011 |
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Using Adaptive Empathic Responses to Improve Long-term Interaction with Social Robots Iolanda Leite, Proceedings of the International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 2011, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, July, 2011 |
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ViPleo and PhyPleo: Artificial pet with two embodiments Paulo F. Gomes and Elena Márquez Segura and Henriette Cramer and Tiago Paiva and Ana Paiva and Lars Erik Holmquist, The Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE), ACM, Lisbon, Portugal, November, 2011 |
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Affect Recognition for Interactive Companions: Challenges and Design in Real World Scenarios Ginevra Castellano and Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva and Peter McOwan, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Vol. 3, No. 1, pg. 89-98, 2010 |
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Closing the Loop: from Affect Recognition to Empathic Interaction Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Samuel Mascarenhas and Ginevra Castellano and Carlos Martinho and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Affect Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE'10), ACM Multimedia 2010, Florence, Italy, ACM, October, 2010 |
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Episodic memory retrieval through re-appraisal of past events Paulo F. Gomes and Ana Paiva and Carlos Martinho, Proc. of The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - Supplementary Materials, pg. 26-27, Springer, Philadelphia, USA, September, 2010 |
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Inter-ACT: An Affective and Contextually Rich Multimodal Video Corpus for Studying Interaction with Robots Ginevra Castellano and Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva and Peter McOwan, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Florence, Italy, ACM, October, 2010 |
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Pervasive Pleo: Long-term Attachment with Artificial Pets Joana Dimas and Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Pedro Cuba and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, Please enjoy!: Workshop on playful experiences in Mobile HCI, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2010 |
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Using Empathy to Improve Human-Robot Relationships André Pereira and Iolanda Leite and Samuel Mascarenhas and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships, Springer LNICST series (to appear), 2010 |
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”Why Can’t We Be Friends?” An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction Iolanda Leite and Samuel Mascarenhas and André Pereira and Carlos Martinho and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pg. 315-321, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 9, 2010 |
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Social interaction with robots and agents: Where do we stand, where do we go? E. Hudlicka and S. Payr and R. Ventura and C. Becker-Asano and K.Fischer and Iolanda Leite and Ana Paiva and C. Von, Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction - ACII 2009, IEEE PRESS, 2009 |
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As Time goes by: Long-term evaluation of social presence in robotic companions Iolanda Leite and Carlos Martinho and André Pereira and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robotics - RO-MAN 2009, pg. 669-674, IEEE Computer Society, 2009 |
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Designing a Game Companion for Long-Term Social Interaction Iolanda Leite and Ginevra Castellano and André Pereira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva and Peter Mc Owan, Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments - AFFINE 2009, ACM Proceedings, 2009 |
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Detecting user engagement with a robot companion using task and social interaction-based features Ginevra Castellano and André Pereira and Iolanda Leite and Ana Paiva and Peter Mc Owan, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces - ICMI 2009, pg. pp. 119--126 , ACM, 2009 |
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It's all in the game: Towards an affect sensitive and context aware game companion Ginevra Castellano and Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva and Peter McOwan, 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Proceedings, pg. 1-8, 2009 |
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Towards and Empathic Chess Companion Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva and Peter Mc Owan and Ginevra Castellano, Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - AAMAS 2009, IFAMAAS, 2009 |
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Are emotional robots more fun to play with? Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication - RO-MAN 2008 , pg. 77-82, IEEE Computer Society, 2008 |
