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Samuel Mascarenhas is currently a post-doc researcher at GAIPS, INESC-ID in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2015 he received his doctoral degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon in Portugal. His research interests are in artificial intelligence, culture, affective computing, virtual agents and socio-cognitive sciences. In his Ph.D., he studied the integration of cultural aspects in virtual agents to improve their ability to act with other humans in social contexts. As a developer / researcher in two EU-funded projects (eCircus and eCute) he applied the work of his Ph.D. in the development of two serious games for raising intercultural awareness (ORIENT and TRAVELLER). His participation focused on the creation of characters whose artificial intelligence follows a flexible model of socio-cultural biases. He was also an active member of two other EU-funded projects, named LIREC and SEMIRA.
Google Scholar Profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lbg-WuIAAAAJ&hl=en
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2019
Social Power in Human-Robot Interaction: Towards more Persuasive Robots
Mojgan Hashemian and Ana Paiva and Samuel Mascarenhas and Pedro Santos and Rui Prada, , 2019
2018
A Virtual Agent Toolkit for Serious Games DevelopersSamuel Mascarenhas and Manuel Guimarães and Rui Prada and João Dias and Pedro A Santos and Kam Star and Ben Hirsh and Ellis Spice and Rob Kommeren, 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), pg. 1--7, IEEE, August, 2018
Enhancing Social Believability of Virtual Agents using Social Power Dynamics
Mojgan Hashemian and Rui Prada and Pedro Santos and Samuel Mascarenhas, , pg. 147-152, ACM, November , 2018
Exploring the Impact of Fault Justification in Human-Robot Trust
Filipa Correia and Carla Guerra and Samuel Mascarenhas and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pg. 507--513, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018
Group-based Emotions in Teams of Humans and Robots
Filipa Correia and Samuel Mascarenhas and Rui Prada and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pg. 261-269, ACM, New York, NY, USA, March, 2018
Towards more humane machines: creating emotional social robots
Ana Paiva and Samuel Mascarenhas and Sofia Petisca and Filipa Correia and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Towards more humane machines: creating emotional social robots, pg. 125-139, Routledge, Sara Graça da Silva, 2018
2017
Groups of Humans and Robots: the AMIGOS ProjectFilipa Correia and Patrícia Arriaga and Sofia Petisca and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Raquel Oliveira and Samuel Mascarenhas and Iolanda Leite and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Workshop on Groups in Human-Robot Interaction, August, 2017
2016
Conveying Social Relations in Virtual Agents Through an Emotion Sharing and Response Model (Extended Abstract)Nuno Salvador and João Dias and Samuel Mascarenhas and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), IFAAMAS, May, 2016
Modeling culture in intelligent virtual agents - From theory to implementation (JAAMAS Extended Abstract)
Samuel Mascarenhas and Nick Degens and Ana Paiva and Rui Prada and Gert Jan Hofstede and Adrie Beulens and Ruth Aylett, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), IFAAMAS, May, 2016
Modeling culture in intelligent virtual agents: From theory to implementation
Samuel Mascarenhas and Nick Degens and Ana Paiva and Rui Prada and Gert Jan Hofstede and Adrie Beulens and Ruth Aylett, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 30, No. 5, pg. 931–962, Springer, September, 2016
2015
A Process Model of Empathy for Virtual AgentsSérgio Hortas Rodrigues and Samuel Mascarenhas and João Dias and Ana Paiva, Interacting with Computers, Vol. 27, No. 4, pg. 371-391, Oxford University Press, February, 2015
Modeling culture in intelligent virtual agents - From theory to implementation
Samuel Mascarenhas and Nick Degens and Ana Paiva and Rui Prada and Gert Jan Hofstede and Adrie Beulens and Ruth Aylett, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pg. 1--32, Springer, October, 2015
The Development of Cooperation in Evolving Populations through Social Importance
Pedro Sequeira and Samuel Mascarenhas and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, pg. 308--313, IEEE Computer Society, Providence, Rhode Island, Aug, 2015
The “Favors Game”: A Framework to Study the Emergence of Cooperation through Social Importance ( Extended Abstract )
Pedro Sequeira and Samuel Mascarenhas and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pg. 1899--1900, Istanbul, Turkey, May, 2015
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
An Agent Model for the Appraisal of Normative Events Based in In-Group and Out-Group RelationsNuno Ferreira and Samuel Mascarenhas and Ana Paiva and Gennaro Di Tosto and Frank Dignum and John Mc Breen and Nick Degens and Gert Hofstede and Giulia Andrighetto and Rosaria Conte, AAAI-13 Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July, 2013
Can I ask you a favour? A Relational Model of Socio-Cultural Behaviour (Extended Abstract)
Samuel Mascarenhas and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva and Nick Degens and Gert Jan Hofstede, Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). IFAAMAS/ACM DL, 2013
Planning culturally-appropriate conversations using adjacency pairs
Samuel Mascarenhas and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva
Social importance dynamics: A model for culturally-adaptive agents
Samuel Mascarenhas and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva
The influence of empathy in human-robot relations
Iolanda Leite and André Pereira and Samuel Mascarenhas and Carlos Martinho and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 71, No. 3, pg. 250 - 260, 2013
Towards agents with human-like decisions under uncertainty
Nuno Marques and Francisco S. Melo and Samuel Mascarenhas and João Dias and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, Cogsci 2013- The annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013
Traveller: An Intercultural Training System with Intelligent Agents (Demonstration)
Samuel Mascarenhas and André Silva and Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett and Felix Kistler and Elisabeth André and Nick Degens and Gert Jan Hofstede, Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems., IFAAMAS/ACM DL, 2013
2012
Generating Norm-Related Emotions in Virtual AgentsNuno Ferreira and Samuel Mascarenhas and Ana Paiva and Frank Dignum and John Mc Breen and Nick Degens and Gert Jan Hofstede, Intelligent Virtual Agents IVA'2012, pg. 97-104, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September, 2012
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
When Agents Meet: Empathy, Moral Circle, Ritual, and Culture
Nick Degebs and G.J. Hofstede and J. Mc Breen and A. Beulens and Samuel Mascarenhas and Nuno Ferreira and Ana Paiva, Workshop on Emotional and Empathic Agents at the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2012
2011
FAtiMA Modular: Towards an Agent Architecture with a Generic Appraisal FrameworkJoão Dias and Samuel Mascarenhas and Ana Paiva, Workshop on Standards in Emotion Modeling, Leiden, 2011
Games based learning for Exploring Cultural Conflict
L. Hall and S Luft and Asad Nazir and John Hodgson and Michael Hall and Cristopher Ritter and S. Jones and Samuel Mascarenhas and B. Cooper and Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett, AISB Symposium: AI & Games, pg. 6-7, York, 2011
Integration and Evaluation of Prototypical Culture-related Differences
Birgit Endrass and Nick Degens and Gert Jan Hofstede and Elisabeth Andre and Samuel Mascarenhas and Gregor Mehlmann and Ana Paiva, Workshop on Culturally Motivated Characters at the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), pg. 1--9, Springer, Reykjav\'{\i}k, Iceland, 2011
Modelling rituals for Homo Biologicus
Gert Jan Hofstede and Samuel Mascarenhas and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the European Social Simulation, 2011
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
“How should I say this ?” Agents with culturally-appropriate verbal communication styles
Samuel Mascarenhas and Ana Paiva and Nick Degens and John Mcbreen and Gert-jan Hofstede, Workshop on Culturally Motivated Characters at the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), pg. 1-10, Springer, Reykjav\'{\i}k, Iceland, 2011
2010
A Dimensional Model for Cultural Behaviour in Virtual AgentsSamuel Mascarenhas and João Dias and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 24, No. 6, pg. 552-574, 2010
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
Creating Virtual Synthetic Cultures for Intercultural Training
Samuel Mascarenhas and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems held in conjuction with the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pg. 25-35, Pittsburgh, USA, 2010
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
”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
2009
I can feel it too! Emergent empathic reactions between synthetic charactersSérgio Hortas Rodrigues and Samuel Mascarenhas and João Miguel Assis Dias and Ana Paiva, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, 2009. ACII 2009. 3rd International Conference on, pg. 1 -7, IEEE, sept., 2009
One for all or one for one? The influence of Cultural Dimensions in Virtual Agents
Samuel Mascarenhas and João Dias and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, IVA'2009 - 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pg. 272-286, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September, 2009
Using rituals to express cultural differences in synthetic character
Samuel Mascarenhas and João Miguel Assis Dias and Nuno Afonso and Sybille Enz and Ana Paiva, Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - AAMAS 2009, pg. 305-312, IFAMAAS, 2009
2008
Game Mechanics for Cooperative GamesJosé Bernardo Rocha and Samuel Mascarenhas and Rui Prada, Zon Digital Games 2008, pg. 72-80, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Porto, Portugal, November, 2008
