2012

         “Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots”, invited talk in the Seminar Series of University of College of London, UK, January, 2012.

2011

         “Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots”, invited talk in the Seminar Series of University of Birmingham, UK, December, 2011.

        

     “ Emotions in Interactive Learning Environments”, invited talk in Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação, November, 2011.

     “Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots”, invited talk in the Seminar Series of University of Bielefeld, Germany, June, 2011.

    “Empathy in Social Agents”, invited talk in the CASA- Computer Animation and Social Agents Conference, at Chengdu, China, May, 2011.

    “Social Interactions with Robots: Myths and Reality”, invited talk in the Symposia on “Das Sociedades Humans às Sociedades Artificiais”, at IST in May, the 4th, 2011.

2010

    “Closing the affective loop: applications of affective computing with virtual agents and robots”, invited talk in the Summer School on Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing, in September 2010.

2007

    “Building Social and Emotional Agents”, invited talk and course at the International Summer School in Cognitive Science, Sofia, July, 2007.

    “Stories, Tangibles and Learning”, invited talk at the DIGITEL 2007 Workshop (“The First IEEE International Workshop on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning”), Jhongli, Taiwan, March, 2007.

2005

    “The Role of Tangibles in Interactive Storytelling”, invited talk at the ICVS 2005 (“International Conference on Virtual Storytelling”), Strasbourg, November, 2005.

2004

    “Can children establish emotional relations with synthetic characters?”, invited talk in the ESF (European Science Foundation) Workshop on “Affective and Emotional Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction: Emphasis on Game-Based and Innovative Learning Approaches”, September, 2004.

    “Synthetic Characters: From Design to Evaluation ... and back”, invited talk at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, in the workshop “Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents”, March, 2004.

2003

    “From Affect to Affective Interfaces”, invited talk at the Symposium of Interaction Design, Institute of Interaction Design, Ivrea, Italy, November, 2003.

    “Empathy in Synthetic Educational Agents: a first glimpse”, invited talk at the “Workshop Educational Agents - More than Virtual Tutors”, Vienna, June, 2003.

    “Building Virtual Characters: from actions to behaviours”, invited talk at the “IMAGINA”, Mónaco, February, 2003.

    “Intelligent Agents in Story Telling: from scripting to autonomy”, invited talk at the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, May, 2003.

2000

    “Just because they are Characters doesn’t mean they have character”, invited talk at the University of Reading, February 2000.

    “Just because they are Characters doesn’t mean they have character”, invited talk at the University of Kingston, February 2000.

    “Just because they are Characters doesn’t mean they have character”, invited talk at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, March, 2000.

1999

    “Enriching Current Classroom Activities”, invited talk in the panel “The Impact of AIED in the Schools” at the International Conference on AIED in Education, AIED, 1999.

1996

    “Communication Architectures and ITSs”, invited talk at the Workshop of Architectures and Methods for Designing Cost-Effective and Re-usable ITSs, Montreal, Junho de 1996.

    “New Perspectives for Learner Modelling”, invited talk at the University of Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, March 1996.

1995

    “Towards the generalization of communication with user modelling systems”,invited talk at the HCI Research Group do GMD, St. Augustin, Germany, September 1995.

    “Collaborative Learner Models”, invited talk at the equipe COAST, CNR, ENS de Lyon, France, October 1995.