Interests
I am passionate about designing and evaluating human-centric and long-term envisioned interactions with robots. My research lies at the intersection of psychology, design research, and engineering-related fields. I am skilled in robot behavior design, interaction design, user studies, prototyping, qualitative and quantitative methods and analysis, etc.
During my Ph.D. I am founded The Robot-Creativity Project, a project that seeks to create robots capable of interacting with people with the ultimate goal of boosting their creativity.
Current Projects
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Publications
2020
Software architecture for YOLO, a creativity-stimulating robot

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Samuel Gomes and Ankita Chandak and Patrícia Arriaga and Guy Hoffman and Ana Paiva, SoftwareX, Vol. 11, No. 100461, pg. 100461, Elsevier, January-June, 2020
2019
Effects of Distinct Robot Navigation Strategies on Human Behavior in a Crowded Environment

Christoforos Mavrogiannis and Alena M Hutchinson and John Macdonald and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Ross A Knepper, 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pg. 421--430, ACM/IEEE, March, 2019
Empathic robot for group learning: A field study


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Pedro Sequeira and Francisco S. Melo and Ginevra Castellano and Ana Paiva, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Vol. 8, No. 1, pg. 3, ACM, 2019
Guide to build YOLO, a creativity-stimulating robot for children


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Patrícia Arriaga and Ana Paiva and Guy Hoffman, HardwareX, ScienceDirect, July, 2019
Humanization of robots: Is it really such a good idea?


Jean-Christophe Giger and Nuno Piçarra and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Raquel Oliveira and Patrícia Arriaga, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pg. 111--123, Wiley Online Library, 2019
Robots for Social Good: Exploring Critical Design for HRI


Hee Rin Lee and EunJeong Cheon and Maartje Graaf and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Cristina Zaga and James Young, 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pg. 681--682, ACM/IEEE, March, 2019
Social robots for creativity stimulation in children


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Patrícia Arriaga and Guy Hoffman and Ana Paiva
Software architecture for YOLO, a creativity-stimulating robot


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Samuel Gomes and Ankita Chandak and Patrícia Arriaga and Guy Hoffman and Ana Paiva
Sparking creativity with robots: A design perspective


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli and Philipp Wilken and Ramona Merhej and João Gandum and Ana Paiva
2018
Friends or Foes?: Socioemotional Support and Gaze Behaviors in Mixed Groups of Humans and Robots

Raquel Oliveira and Patrícia Arriaga and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Filipa Correia and Sofia Petisca and Ana Paiva, International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, pg. 79-288, ACM, 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
YOLO - A Robot Designed to Boost Creativity in Children


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Patrícia Arriaga and Guy Hoffman and Ana Paiva
YOLO-A Robot that will Make Your Creativity BOOM


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Ankita Chandak and Ian Cloutier and Priyanka Kompella and Peter Moegenburg and André Pires, Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pg. 335-336, ACM/IEEE, March, 2018
2017
A big applause for Cubus: A virtual sandbox to stimulate ideas in children

André Pires and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Carlos Martinho
A Social Robot as a Card Game Player


Filipa Correia and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Tiago Ribeiro and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-17), AAAI Press, 2017
Cubus: Autonomous Embodied Characters to Stimulate Creative Idea Generation in Groups of Children


André Pires and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Patrícia Arriaga and Carlos Martinho, International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pg. 360--373, 2017
Groups of Humans and Robots: the AMIGOS Project


Filipa 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
Groups of humans and robots: Understanding membership preferences and team formation


Filipa Correia and Sofia Petisca and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Tiago Ribeiro and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, Robotics: Science and Systems 2017 (RSS), July, 2017
Me and You Together: Movement Impact in Multi-user Collaboration Tasks


Miguel Faria and Rui Silva and Patricia Alves-Oliveira and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, , 2017
Multiple Robots for Multiple Children: Co-Designing Movement for Robots with Personality


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Patrícia Arriaga and Guy Hoffman and Ana Paiva
Social and Entertainment Robots for Older Adults


Filipa Correia and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Sofia Petisca and Ana Paiva, Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Human-Centered Robotics: Interaction, Physiological Integration and Autonomy, Boston, USA, July, 2017
The Robot–Creativity Project


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Patrícia Arriaga and Ana Paiva and Guy Hoffman
YOLO, a Robot for Creativity: A Co-Design Study with Children


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Patrícia Arriaga and Ana Paiva and Guy Hoffman, Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, pg. 423--429, June, 2017
“ Me and You Together ” Movement Impact in Multi-user Collaboration Tasks


Miguel Faria and Rui Silva and Patricia Alves-Oliveira and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pg. 2793--2798, IEEE, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September, 2017
2016
A Study on Trust in a Robotic Suitcase

Beatriz Quintino Ferreira and Kelly Karipidou and Filipe Rosa and Sofia Petisca and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Ana Paiva, International Conference on Social Robotics, 2016
An Interactive Tangram Game for Children with Autism


Beatriz Bernardo and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Maria Graça Santos and Francisco S Melo and Ana Paiva, International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pg. 500--504, 2016
Boosting children's creativity through creative interactions with social robots


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Patrícia Arriaga and Guy Hoffman and Ana Paiva, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on, pg. 591--592, March, 2016
Building a social robot as a game companion in a card game


Filipa Correia and Tiago Ribeiro and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interation Extended Abstracts - Videos, pg. 563--563, 2016
Discovering Social Interaction Strategies for Robots from Restricted-Perception Wizard-of-Oz Studies


Pedro Sequeira and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Tiago Ribeiro and Eugenio Di Tullio and Sofia Petisca and Francisco S. Melo and Ginevra Castellano and Ana Paiva, , pg. 197--204, 2016
Emotional Sharing Behavior for a Social Robot in a Competitive Setting


Sofia Petisca and João Dias and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Ana Paiva, RO-MAN Conference, August, 2016
Follow me: Communicating intentions with a spherical robot


Miguel Faria and Andrea Costigliola and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Ana Paiva, Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on, pg. 664--669, August, 2016
Just follow the suit! Trust in Human-Robot Interactions during Card Game Playing


Filipa Correia and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Nuno Maia and Tiago Ribeiro and Sofia Petisca and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pg. 507-512, August, 2016
Psychological Science in HRI: Striving for a More Integrated Field of Research


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Dennis Kuster and Arvid Kappas and Ana Paiva, 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, November, 2016
Students’ Normative Perspectives on Classroom Robots


Sofia Serholt and Wolmet Barendregt and Dennis Kuster and Aidan Jones and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Ana Paiva, What Social Robots Can and Should Do: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016/TRANSOR 2016, Vol. 290, pg. 240, IOS Press, 2016
Synthesizing Robotic Handwriting Motion by Learning from Human Demonstrations


Hang Yin and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Francisco S. Melo and Aude Billard and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), July 09-15, 2016
The case of classroom robots: teachers’ deliberations on the ethical tensions


Sofia Serholt and Wolmet Barendregt and Asimina Vasalou and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Aidan Jones and Sofia Petisca and Ana Paiva, AI & SOCIETY, pg. 1--19, Springer, 2016
The role that an educational robot plays


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Pedro Sequeira and Ana Paiva, Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on, pg. 817--822, August, 2016
Towards an Agenda for Sci-Fi Inspired HCI Research


Omar Mubin and Mohammad Obaid and Philipp Jordan and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Thommy Eriksson and Wolmet Barendregt and Daniel Sjolle and Morten Fjeld and Simeon Simoff and Mark Billinghurst, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, pg. 10, 2016
2015
"It's amazing, We Are All Feeling it!" Emotional Climate as a Group-Level Emotional Expression in HRI
Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Pedro Sequeira and Eugenio Di Tullio and Sofia Petisca and Carla Guerra and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, AAAI Fall Symposium, 2015
An Empathic Robotic Tutor for School Classrooms: Considering Expectation and Satisfaction of Children as End-Users


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Tiago Ribeiro and Sofia Petisca and Eugenio Di Tullio and Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva, In Social Robotics, pg. 21-30, Springer International Publishing, 2015
Can a child feel responsible for another in the presence of a robot in a collaborative learning activity?


Shruti Chandra and Patricia Alves-Oliveira and Pedro Sequeira and Ana Paiva and Pierre Dillenbourg
Looking for Conflict: Gaze Dynamics in a Dyadic Mixed-Motive Game

Joana Campos and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Ana Paiva, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pg. 1035-1042, Springer US, March 25-29, 2015
Social Robots for Older Adults: Framework of Activities for Aging in Place with Robots


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Sofia Petisca and Filipa Correia and Nuno Maia and Ana Paiva, International Conference on Social Robotics, pg. 11-20, Springer, 2015
The Empathic Robotic Tutor: Featuring the NAO Robot


Tiago Ribeiro and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Eugenio Di Tullio and Sofia Petisca and Pedro Sequeira and Amol Deshmukh and Srinivasan Janarthanam and Mary Ellen Foster and Aidan Jones and Lee J Corrigan and others, , Vol. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extende, pg. 285--285, 2015
2014
Child-Robot Interaction: Social Bonding, Learning and Ethics

Wolmet Barendregt and Ana Paiva and Arvid Kappas and Asimina Vasalou and Carl Heath and Sofia Serholt and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Workshop proceedings of Interaction Design and Children Conference IDC, ACM Digital Library, Aarhus, Denmark, 17-20 June, 2014
"How do you imagine robots?" Children’s expectations about robots


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Sofia Petisca and Srinivasan Janarthanam and Helen Hastie and Ana Paiva
From Thalamus to Skene: High-level behaviour planning and managing for mixed-reality characters


Tiago Ribeiro and Eugenio Tullio and Patricia Alves-Oliveira and Ana Paiva, 2014
Meet me halfway: Eye Behaviour as an expression of Robot Language


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Eugenio Di Tullio and Tiago Ribeiro and Ana Paiva, 2014 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, pg. 13-16, AAAI Press, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Washington, USA, November, 2014
Towards Dialogue Dimensions for a Robotic Tutor in Collaborative Learning Scenarios


Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Srinivasan Janartham and Ana Candeias and Amol Deshmukh and Tiago Ribeiro and Helen Hastie and Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett, Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014 RO-MAN: The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pg. 862-867, IEEE, Edinburgh, Scotland, August, 2014