Interests

My research focuses on Interactive Storytelling techniques integrated with Child-Robot Interactions and crowdsourcing of information to engage young children in learning more about the biodiversity of their local surroundings.

Current Projects


Publications

2019

  The Role of Assertiveness in a Storytelling Game with Persuasive Robotic Non-Player Characters

Raul Benites Paradeda and Maria José Rodrigues Ferreira and Raquel Oliveira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, pg. 453–465, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States, October, 2019

What Makes a Good Robotic Advisor? The Role of Assertiveness in Human-Robot Interaction

Raul Benites Paradeda and Maria José Rodrigues Ferreira and Raquel Oliveira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, Social Robotics, pg. 144--154, Springer, Cham, Madri, Spain, November, 2019

2018

  Communicating Assertiveness in Robotic Storytellers

Raul Benites Paradeda and Maria José Rodrigues Ferreira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, Interactive Storytelling, pg. 442--452, Springer International Publishing, Cham, December, 2018

Would You Follow the Suggestions of a Storyteller Robot?

Raul Benites Paradeda and Maria José Rodrigues Ferreira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, Interactive Storytelling, pg. 489--493, Springer International Publishing, Cham, December, 2018

2017

  How Robots Persuasion based on Personality Traits May Affect Human Decisions

Raul Benites Paradeda and Maria José Ferreira and João Dias and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI '17, pg. 251-252, ACM, New York, NY, USA, March, 2017

Learning and Teaching Biodiversity Through a Storyteller Robot

Maria José Ferreira and Valentina Nisi and Francisco Melo and Ana Paiva, Interactive Storytelling: 10th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2017 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, November 14--17, 2017, Proceedings, pg. 367--371, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2017

Using Interactive Storytelling to Identify Personality Traits

Raul Benites Paradeda and Maria José Rodrigues Ferreira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, nteractive Storytelling: 10th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2017 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, November 14--17, 2017, Proceedings, pg. 181--192, Springer International Publishing, Cham, November, 2017

Using Interactive Storytelling to Identify Personality Traits

Raul Paradeda and Maria José Ferreira and Carlos Martinho and Ana Paiva, , Vol. 10690, No. 10, pg. 181--192, Springer International Publishing, November, 2017