Interests

 

Intelligent Virtual Agents

Game Design

Interactive Storytelling

Social Interaction Dynamics

Current Projects


Publications

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