Publications

We publish our research outcomes at conferences and journals in the field of Human-Robot Interaction, Design Research, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence.

2024

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A Brave New Robotic World

Patricia Alves-Oliveira
American Scientist, volume 112, issue 4, pages 248-249, Sigma XI-The Scientific Research Society

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Workshop YOUR Study Design 2024! Participatory Critique and Refinement of Participants' Studies

Mayumi Mohan, Joana Brito, Anouk Neerincx, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Naomi T Fitter
Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pages 1341-1343, ACM

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Multiple Ways of Working with Users to Develop Physically Assistive Robots

Amal Nanavati, Max Pascher, Vinitha Ranganeni, Ethan K Gordon, Taylor Kessler Faulkner, Siddhartha S Srinivasa, Maya Cakmak, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Jens Gerken
arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00489, arXiv

2023

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Unintended Failures of Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts

Amal Nanavati, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Tyler Schrenk, Ethan K Gordon, Maya Cakmak, Siddhartha S Srinivasa
Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pages 884-886, ACM

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Design principles for robot-assisted feeding in social contexts

Amal Nanavati, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Tyler Schrenk, Ethan K Gordon, Maya Cakmak, Siddhartha S Srinivasa
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pages 24-33, ACM

2022

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Flex-SDK: An open-source software development kit for creating Social Robots

Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Kai Mihata, Raida Karim, Elin A Bjorling, Maya Cakmak
Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pages 1-10, ACM

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Designing for culturally responsive social robots: An application of a participatory framework

Belinda Louie, Elin A Björling, Annie Camey Kuo, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, volume 9, article 983408, Frontiers Media SA

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Robots for connection: A co-design study with adolescents

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Elin A Björling, Patriya Wiesmann, Heba Dwikat, Simran Bhatia, Kai Mihata, Maya Cakmak
2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pages 578-583, IEEE

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Flexi: A robust and flexible social robot embodiment kit

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Matthew Bavier, Samrudha Malandkar, Ryan Eldridge, Julie Sayigh, Elin A Björling, Maya Cakmak
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pages 1177-1191, ACM

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Connecting the dots of social robot design from interviews with robot creators

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Alaina Orr, Elin A Björling, Maya Cakmak
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, volume 9, pages 720799, Frontiers Media SA

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Robot-mediated interventions for youth mental health

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Tanya Budhiraja, Samuel So, Raida Karim, Elin Björling, Maya Cakmak
Design for Health, volume 6, issue 2, pages 138-162, Routledge

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Towards a Common Understanding and Vision for Theory-Grounded Human-Robot Interaction (THEORIA)

Glenda Hannibal, Nicholas Rabb, Theresa Law, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pages 1254-1257, IEEE

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“And then what happens?” Promoting Children's Verbal Creativity Using a Robot

Maha Elgarf, Natalia Calvo-Barajas, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Giulia Perugia, Ginevra Castellano, Christopher Peters, Ana Paiva
2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pages 71-79, IEEE

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Community-Based Data Visualization for Mental Well-being with a Social Robot

Raida Karim, Yufei Zhang, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Elin A Björling, Maya Cakmak
2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pages 839-843, IEEE

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Creativity landscapes: Systematic review spanning 70 years of creativity interventions for children

Patrícia Alves‐Oliveira, Patricia Arriaga, Carla Xavier, Guy Hoffman, Ana Paiva
The Journal of Creative Behavior, volume 56, issue 1, pages 16-40

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Social momentum: Design and evaluation of a framework for socially competent robot navigation

Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Wil Thomason, Ross A Knepper
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI)

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I Am the Robot: Teen Collaboration in an Asymmetric, Virtual Reality Game

Elin A Björling, Ada Kim, Katelynn Oleson, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, volume 2, Frontiers Media SA

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Learning backchanneling behaviors for a social robot via data augmentation from human-human conversations

Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Amal Nanavati, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Nikita Filippov, Allison Sauppe, Bilge Mutlu, Maya Cakmak
Conference on Robot Learning, 513-525, PMLR

2021

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Social robots for creativity stimulation in children

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Guy Hoffman, Ana Paiva

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Collection of metaphors for human-robot interaction

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Maria Luce Lupetti, Michal Luria, Diana Löffler, Mafalda Gamboa, Lea Albaugh, Waki Kamino, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, David Puljiz, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Marcus Scheunemann, Michael Suguitan, Dan Lockton
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 1366-1379

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Robotics-based interventions for children’s creativity

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Sara Ibérico Nogueira, Ana Paiva ---
Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 1-8

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Children as robot designers

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Ana Paiva, Guy Hoffman
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 399-408

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Collecting Insights about How Novice Programmers Naturally Express Programs for Robots

Rajeswari Hita Kambhamettu, Michael Jae-Yoon Chung, Vinitha Ranganeni, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
Plateau Workshop

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Inspiring Social Creativity in Children with CUBUS

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Raquel Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Ana Paiva, Carlos Martinho
ICCC, 149-157

2020

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Robot Exteriors for Life Transitions

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

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Modeling socio-emotional and cognitive processes from multimodal data in the wild

Dennis Küster, Felix Putze, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Maike Paetzel, Tanja Schultz
Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 883-885

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YOLO - Your Own living object

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Ana Paiva, Guy Hoffman
Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 638-638

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Creativity encounters between children and robots

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Matthew A Cronin, Ana Paiva
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 379-388

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Boosting Children’s Creativity through Creative Interactions with Social Robots

Patricia Alves-Oliveira
Doctoral Thesis. Lisbon, Portugal: University Institute of Lisbon.

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Software Architecture for YOLO, a Creativity-Stimulating Robot

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Samuel Gomes, Ankita Chandak, Patrícia Arriaga, Guy Hoffman, Ana Paiva
SoftwareX, 11, 100461

2019

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An Extended Framework for Characterizing Social Robots

Kim Baraka, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro
Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluation Methods and Their Standardization, 21-64

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Guide to Build YOLO, a Creativity-Stimulating Robot for Children

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Ana Paiva, Guy Hoffman
HardwareX, 6, e00074

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Humanization of Robots: Is It Really Such a Good Idea?

Jean‐Christophe Giger, Nuno Piçarra, Patrícia Alves‐Oliveira, Raquel Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga
Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 1(2), 111-123

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Robots for Social Good: Exploring Critical Design for HRI

Hee Rin Lee, EunJeong Cheon, Maartje De Graaf, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Cristina Zaga, James Young
2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 681-682

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Effects of Distinct Robot Navigation Strategies on Human Behavior in a Crowded Environment

Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Alena M Hutchinson, John Macdonald, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Ross A Knepper
2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 421-430

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Empathic Robot for Group Learning: A Field Study

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Pedro Sequeira, Francisco S Melo, Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 8(1), 1-34

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"I Choose... YOU!” Membership Preferences in Human–Robot Teams

Filipa Correia, Sofia Petisca, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Francisco S Melo, Ana Paiva
Autonomous Robots, 43, 359-373

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Sparking Creativity with Robots: A Design Perspective

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Silvia Tulli, Philipp Wilken, Ramona Merhej, João Gandum, Ana Paiva
14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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YOLO: A Robot Designed to Boost Creativity in Children

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Guy Hoffman, Ana Paiva

2018

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Influence of Body Odors and Gender on Perceived Genital Arousal

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Joana Carvalho, Jacqueline Ferreira, Laura Alho, Pedro Nobre, Mats J Olsson, Sandra C Soares
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47, 661-668

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Towards More Humane Machines: Creating Emotional Social Robots

Ana Paiva, Samuel Mascarenhas, Sofia Petisca, Filipa Correia, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
New Interdisciplinary Landscapes in Morality and Emotion, 125-139

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YOLO - A Robot That Will Make Your Creativity Boom

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Ankita Chandak, Ian Cloutier, Priyanka Kompella, Peter Moegenburg, André Elias Bastos Pires
Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 335-336

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Friends or foes? Socioemotional support and gaze behaviors in mixed groups of humans and robots

Raquel Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Filipa Correia, Sofia Petisca, Ana Paiva
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 279-288

2017

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The case of classroom robots: teachers’ deliberations on the ethical tensions

Sofia Serholt, Wolmet Barendregt, Asimina Vasalou, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Aidan Jones, Sofia Petisca, Ana Paiva
Ai & Society, 32, 613-631

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“Me and you together” movement impact in multi-user collaboration tasks

Miguel Faria, Rui Silva, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Francisco S Melo, Ana Paiva
2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

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Reports on the 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium Series

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Richard G Freedman, Dan Grollman, Laura Herlant, Laura Humphrey, Fei Liu, Ross Mead, Frank Stein, Tom Williams, Shomir Wilson
AI Magazine, 38(2), 86-90

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YOLO, a robot for creativity: A co-design study with children

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Ana Paiva, Guy Hoffman
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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A big applause for Cubus: A virtual sandbox to stimulate ideas in children

André Pires, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Carlos Martinho

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A social robot as a card game player

Filipa Correia, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Francisco Melo, Ana Paiva
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment

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Groups of Humans and Robots: the AMIGOS Project

Filipa Correia, Patrícia Arriaga, Sofia Petisca, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Raquel Oliveira, Samuel Mascarenhas, Iolanda Leite, Francisco S Melo, Ana Paiva
Workshop on Groups in Human-Robot Interaction, The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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Social and entertainment robots for older adults

Filipa Correia, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Sofia Petisca, Ana Paiva
Workshop on Human-Centered Robotics: Interaction, Physiological Integration and Autonomy in Conjunction with the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference

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Cubus: Autonomous embodied characters to stimulate creative idea generation in groups of children

André Pires, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Carlos Martinho
Intelligent Virtual Agents: 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, August 27-30, 2017, Proceedings 17

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Representation of movement for robots with personality: A co-design study with small groups of children

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Guy Hoffman, Ana Paiva
Proc. 26th IEEE Int. Symp. Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2017)

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Groups of humans and robots: Understanding membership preferences and team formation

Filipa Correia, Sofia Petisca, PA Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Francisco S Melo, Ana Paiva
Groups of humans and robots: Understanding membership preferences and team formation

2016

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Psychological Science in HRI: Striving for a More Integrated Field of Research

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Dennis Küster, Arvid Kappas, Ana Paiva
AAAI Fall Symposia

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Follow me: Communicating intentions with a spherical robot

Miguel Faria, Andrea Costigliola, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Ana Paiva
2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Just follow the suit! trust in human-robot interactions during card game playing

Filipa Correia, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Nuno Maia, Tiago Ribeiro, Sofia Petisca, Francisco S Melo, Ana Paiva
2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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The role that an educational robot plays

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Pedro Sequeira, Ana Paiva
2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Emotional sharing behavior for a social robot in a competitive setting

Sofia Petisca, Joao Dias, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Ana Paiva
2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Children's peer assessment and self-disclosure in the presence of an educational robot

Shruti Chandra, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Séverin Lemaignan, Pedro Sequeira, Ana Paiva, Pierre Dillenbourg
2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Map reading with an empathic robot tutor

Lynne Hall, Colette Hume, Sarah Tazzyman, Amol Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Ruth Aylett, Ginevra Castellano, Fotis Papadopoulos, Aidan Jones, Lee J Corrigan, Ana Paiva, Patrícia Alves Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Wolmet Barendregt, Sofia Serholt, Arvid Kappas
2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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Boosting children's creativity through creative interactions with social robots

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Guy Hoffman, Ana Paiva
2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 591-592). IEEE.

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Building a social robot as a game companion in a card game

Filipa Correia, Tiago Ribeiro, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Nuno Maia, Francisco S Melo, Ana Paiva
2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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Discovering social interaction strategies for robots from restricted-perception Wizard-of-Oz studies

Pedro Sequeira, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Eugenio Di Tullio, Sofia Petisca, Francisco S Melo, Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva
2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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Towards an Agenda for Sci-Fi Inspired HCI Research

Omar Mubin, Mohammad Obaid, Philipp Jordan, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Thommy Eriksson, Wolmet Barendregt, Daniel Sjolle, Morten Fjeld, Simeon Simoff, Mark Billinghurst
ACE '16 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

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Students' Normative Perspectives on Classroom Robots

Sofia Serholt, Wolmet Barendregt, Dennis Küster, Aidan Jones, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Ana Paiva
What Social Robots Can and Should Do

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An interactive tangram game for children with autism

Beatriz Bernardo, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Maria Graça Santos, Francisco S Melo, Ana Paiva
Intelligent Virtual Agents: 16th International Conference, IVA 2016, Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 20–23, 2016, Proceedings 16

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A study on trust in a robotic suitcase

Beatriz Quintino Ferreira, Kelly Karipidou, Filipe Rosa, Sofia Petisca, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Ana Paiva
Social Robotics: 8th International Conference, ICSR 2016, Kansas City, MO, USA, November 1-3, 2016 Proceedings 8

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Synthesizing robotic handwriting motion by learning from human demonstrations

Hang Yin, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Francisco S Melo, Aude Billard, Ana Paiva
Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Looking for conflict: gaze dynamics in a dyadic mixed-motive game

Joana Campos, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Ana Paiva
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems volume 30 pages 112-135 Spring US

2015

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It's Amazing, We Are All Feeling It!—Emotional Climate as a Group-Level Emotional Expression in HRI

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Pedro Sequeira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Sofia Petisca, Carla Guerra, Francisco S Melo, Ana Paiva
2015 AAAI Fall Symposium Series

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Can a child feel responsible for another in the presence of a robot in a collaborative learning activity?

Shruti Chandra, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Séverin Lemaignan, Pedro Sequeira, Ana Paiva, Pierre Dillenbourg
2015 24th IEEE international symposium on robot and human interactive communication (RO-MAN)

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The Empathic Robotic Tutor: Featuring the NAO Robot

Tiago Ribeiro, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Sofia Petisca, Pedro Sequeira, Amol Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mary Ellen Foster, Aidan Jones, Lee J Corrigan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Helen Hastie, Ruth Aylett, Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts

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Challenges in child-robot interaction: The cases of two research projects

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Ana Paiva
Evaluating Child Robot Interaction at ICSR 2015

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Designing robotic teaching assistants: interaction design students’ and children’s views

Mohammad Obaid, Wolmet Barendregt, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Ana Paiva, Morten Fjeld
Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015

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Empathic robotic tutors for personalised learning: A multidisciplinary approach

Aidan Jones, Dennis Küster, Christina Anne Basedow, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Sofia Serholt, Helen Hastie, Lee J Corrigan, Wolmet Barendregt, Arvid Kappas, Ana Paiva, Ginevra Castellano
Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015

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Social Robots for Older Adults: Framework of activities for aging in place with robot's

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Sofia Petisca, Filipa Correia, Nuno Maia, Ana Paivaclear
Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015

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An empathic robotic tutor for school classrooms: Considering expectation and satisfaction of children as end-users

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Sofia Petisca, Eugenio Di Tullio, Francisco S Melo, Ana Paiva
Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015

2014

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From Thalamus to Skene: High-level behaviour planning and managing for mixed-reality characters

Tiago Ribeiro, André Pereira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Ana Paiva
Workshop on Architectures and Standards for IVAs, held at the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2014)

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Meet me halfway: Eye behaviour as an expression of robot's language

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Tiago Ribeiro, Ana Paiva
2014 AAAI fall symposium series

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Towards dialogue dimensions for a robotic tutor in collaborative learning scenarios

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Ana Candeias, Amol Deshmukh, Tiago Ribeiro, Helen Hastie, Ana Paiva, Ruth Aylett
The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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How do you imagine robots? Children’s expectations about robots

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Sofia Petisca, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Ana Paiva
Interaction Design and Children Workshop on Child-Robot Interaction: Social Bonding, Learning and Ethics