Interests

 

Intelligent Virtual Agents

Game Design

Interactive Storytelling

Social Interaction Dynamics

Current Projects

SLICE

Publications

2019

  An Accessible Toolkit for the Creation of Socio-EmotionalAgents

Manuel Guimarães and Samuel Mascarenhas and Rui Prada and Pedro Santos and João Dias, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pg. 2357--2359, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May, 2019

Artificial intelligence moving serious gaming: Presenting reusable game AI components

Wim Westera and Rui Prada and Samuel Mascarenhas and Pedro Santos and João Dias and Manuel Guimarães and Konstantinos Georgiadis and Enkhbold Nyamsuren and Kiavash Bahreini and Zerrin Yumak and others, Education and Information Technologies, pg. 1--30, Springer, July, 2019

2018

  A Virtual Agent Toolkit for Serious Games Developers

Samuel 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

2017

  CiF-CK: An Architecture for Social NPCs in Commercial Games

Manuel Guimarães and Pedro Santos and Arnav Jhala, CiG 2017, New York, USA, IEEE Computer Society, 2017

Prom Week Meets Skyrim (Demo)

Manuel Guimarães and Pedro Santos and Arnav Jhala, Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pg. 1790--1792, 2017

Prom week meets skyrim: Developing a social agent architecture in a commercial game

Manuel Guimarães and Pedro Santos and Arnav Jhala, Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pg. 1562--1564, 2017