Interests
Diogo Rato is a Ph.D. Candidate at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa and conducts research at INESC-ID in the AI for People and Society research group. His research work focuses on designing socio-cognitive models that apply the concepts of Social Identity to interactive agents. His research interests also include studying human-agent interaction using digital games and deploying groups of social non-player characters in virtual worlds.
Current Projects
Publications
2023
When "I" Becomes "We": Modelling Dynamic Identity on Autonomous AgentsInês Lobo and Joana Dimas and Samuel Mascarenhas and Diogo Rato and Rui Prada, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 26 (3), No. 9, pg. 29, 2023
2021
A Taxonomy of Social Roles for Agents in GamesDiogo Rato and Rui Prada, Entertainment Computing -- ICEC 2021, pg. 75--87, Springer International Publishing, 2021
Fitting the Room: Social Motivations for Context-Aware Agents
Diogo Rato and Marta Couto and Rui Prada, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction [Best Paper Award], pg. 39–46, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021
Socially Aware Interactions: From Dialogue Trees to Natural Language Dialogue Systems
Inês Lobo and Diogo Rato and Rui Prada and Frank Dignum, CONVERSATIONS'21 - the 5th International Workshop on Chatbot Research, November, 2021
Towards social identity in socio-cognitive agents
Diogo Rato and Samuel Mascarenhas and Rui Prada, Sustainability (Special Issue AI and Interaction Technologies for Social Sustainability), Vol. 13, No. 20, 2021
2020
Interviewing a Virtual Suspect: Conversational Game Characters Using AlexaGon{\c{c}}alo Baptista and Diogo Rato and Rui Prada, Videogame Sciences and Arts, pg. 98--112, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2020
2019
Societies in Games: How Do Players Perceive Groups of Game Characters?Diogo Rato and Samuel Mascarenhas and Rui Prada, Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts, pg. 639–644, Association for Computing Machinery, Barcelona, Spain, October, 2019
2018
A Virtual Platform to Train Cross-National Police Teams in Team Collaboration and Police-InterviewingDiogo Rato and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva and Emma Jaspeart and Geert Vervaeke, European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, Vol. 4 SCE, pg. 167-175, CEPOL, Oct, 2018
2017
Strategically Misleading the User: Building a DeceptiveVirtual SuspectDiogo Rato and Brian Ravenet and Rui Prada and Ana Paiva, Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pg. 1711-1713, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 2017