Some of my publications
“Why Should You Care? An Arousal-Based Model of Exploratory Behavior for Autonomous Robots”, in Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Winchester, UK, 2008, pp. 242–248.
, “Using the Interaction Rhythm as a Natural Reinforcement Signal for Social Robots: A Matter of Belief”, in Proc. International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2010, Singapore, 2010, vol. 6414, pp. 81–89.
, “Using Perlin Noise to Generate Emotional Expressions in a Robot”, in Proc. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013), Berlin, Germany, 2013, pp. 1845–1850.
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“Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction: Using Multi-Activity Switching to Engage Young Users”, Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 32–67, 2016.
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“Towards a Model of Emotion Expression in an Interactive Robot Head”, in Proc. 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2009), Toyama, Japan, 2009, pp. 627–632.
, “A Robot that Uses Arousal to Detect Learning Challenges and Seek Help”, in Proc. 14th Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2014), New York, NY, 2014, pp. 864–871.
, “Pleasure, Persistence and Opportunism in Action Selection”, in Proc. 14th Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2014), New York, NY, 2014, pp. 932–933.
, “Natural Emotion Elicitation for Emotion Modeling in Child-Robot Interactions”, in Proc. 4th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2014), Singapore, 2014, pp. 51–56.
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“Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction with Young Users”, in Proc. ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction conference (HRI-2011) (Robots with Children Workshop), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2011.
, “Let’s Be Friends: Perception of a Social Robotic Companion for children with T1DM”, in Proc. New Friends 2015, Almere, The Netherlands, 2015, pp. 32–33.
, “Learning to Interact with the Caretaker: A Developmental Approach”, in Proc. Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2007), Lisbon, Portugal, 2007, vol. 4738, pp. 422–433.
, “Learning Affective Landmarks”, in Proc. 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob 2009), Venice, Italy, 2009, vol. 146, pp. 211–212.
, “Interpretation of Emotional Body Language Displayed by Robots”, in Proc. 3rd International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments, AFFINE'10, Firenze, Italy, 2010, pp. 37–42.
, “Interpretation of Emotional Body Language Displayed by a Humanoid Robot: A Case Study with Children”, International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 5, pp. 325–334, 2013.
, “Grounding Synthetic Knowledge: An Epistemological Framework and Criteria of Relevance for the Scientific Exploration of Life, Affect and Social Cognition”, in Advances In Artificial Life, ECAL 2011 (Proc. 11th European Conference on Artificial Life), Paris, France, 2011, pp. 200–207.
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“Emotion Modelling and Facial Affect Recognition in Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction”, in Affective Computing, Emotion Modelling, Synthesis and Recognition, InTechOpen Publishers, 2009.
, “Emotion et cognition: les robots comme outils et modèles”, in Systèmes d'interaction émotionnelle, Paris, France: Lavoisier Hermes Science, 2010.
, “Eliciting Caregiving Behavior in Dyadic Human-robot Attachment-like Interactions”, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 3:1–3:24, 2012.
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“Developing Sensorimotor Associations Through Attachment Bonds”, in Proc. 7th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob 2007), Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2007, vol. 134, pp. 45–52.
, “Conscientious Caretaking for Autonomous Robots: An Arousal-Based Model of Exploratory Behavior”, in Proc. 8th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob 2008), Brighton, UK, 2008, vol. 139, pp. 45–52.
, “Assessing Human Responses to Different Robot Attachment Profiles”, in Proc. 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2009), Toyama, Japan, 2009, pp. 251–256.
, “Arousal Regulation and Affective Adaptation to Human Responsiveness by a Robot that Explores and Learns a Novel Environment”, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, vol. 8, p. 17, 2014.
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