Some of my publications
“Modelling the Social Buffering Hypothesis in an Artificial Life Environment”, in Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2020 (ALIFE 2020), Montreal, Canada, 2020, pp. 393–401.
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“Modelling Adaptation through Social Allostasis: Modulating the Effects of Social Touch with Oxytocin in Embodied Agents”, Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, vol. 2, no. 4, 2018.
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“Modeling Motivations and Emotions as a Basis for Intelligent Behavior”, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents'97), Marina del Rey, CA, USA, 1997, pp. 148–155.
, “Meaningful Information, Sensor Evolution, and the Temporal Horizon of Embodied Organisms”, in Artificial Life VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life, Sydney, Australia, 2002, pp. 345–349.
, “Making New "New AI" Friends: Designing a Social Robot for Diabetic Children from an Embodied AI Perspective”, International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 523–537, 2016.
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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 Object Functionalities in the Context of Action Selection”, in Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots, TIMR'03: 4th British Conference on Mobile Robotics, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2003.
, “Learning in Humans and Machines. Notes of the ECML'98 Workshop Human Learning Meets Machine Learning”. Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany, 1998.
, “Learning Affordances of Consummatory Behaviors: Motivation-Driven Adaptive Perception”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 18, no. 3-4, pp. 285–314, 2010.
, “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.
, “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.
, “Issues in the Design of Emotional Agents”, in Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition. Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium, 1998, pp. 49–54.
, “Issues in the Design of Emotional Agents”, in Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition. Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium, 1998, pp. 49–54.
, “Introducing Neuromodulation to a Braitenberg Vehicle”, in Proc. 2005 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation: Robots get Closer to Humans (ICRA'05), Barcelona, Spain, 2005, pp. 4199–4204.
, “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.
, “Intelligenza artificiale in medicina: progetto di una piattaforma mobile inserita in un ambiente intelligente per l'assistenza ai disabili e agli anziani”, Recenti Progressi in Medicina, vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 190–195, 2004.
, “The Influence of Social Interaction on the Perception of Emotional Expression: A Case Study with a Robot Head”, in Advances in Robotics: Proc. FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009, Incheon, Korea, 2009, vol. 5744, pp. 63–72.
, “Induction of the being-seen-feeling by an embodied conversational agent in a socially interactive context”, in 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2021.
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“The Importance of the Body in Affect-Modulated Action Selection: A Case Study Comparing Proximal Versus Distal Perception in a Prey-Predator Scenario”, in Proc. 3rd Intl. Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009, pp. 1–6.
, “Imitating Human Performances to Automatically Generate Expressive Jazz Ballads”, in Proc. AISB'99 Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1999, pp. 115–20. Canamero_et_al_Imitating_human_performances_to_automatically_generate_expressive_jazz_ballads_AISB1999.pdf (40.49 KB)
, “I Show You How I Like You—Can You Read it in My Face?”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 454–459, 2001.
, “I Show You How I Like You: Human-Robot Interaction through Emotional Expression and Tactile Stimulation”, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2000.
, “Human Responses to an Expressive Robot”, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Paris, France, 2006, vol. 128, pp. 79–86.
, “How Does It Feel? Emotional Interaction with a Humanoid LEGO Robot”, in Socially Intelligent Agents: The Human in the Loop. Papers from the AAAI 2000 Fall Symposium, North Falmouth, Massachusetts, 2000, pp. 23–28.
, “A Hormone-Driven Epigenetic Mechanism for Adaptation in Autonomous Robots”, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 445–454, 2018.
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“Hormonal Modulation of Perception in Motivation-Based Action Selection Architectures”, in Proceedings of the Symposium on Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action (SSAISB'05), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 2005, pp. 9–16.
, “Hormonal Modulation of Perception in Motivation-Based Action Selection Architectures”, in Proceedings of the Symposium on Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action (SSAISB'05), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 2005, pp. 9–16.
, “Hormonal Modulation of Interaction Between Autonomous Agents”, in Proc. 4th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob 2014), Genoa, Italy, 2014, pp. 402–407.
, “Hormonal Modulation of Development and Behaviour Permits a Robot to Adapt to Novel Interactions”, in Proc. 14th Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2014), New York, NY, 2014, pp. 184–191.
, , “Hedonic Value: Enhancing Adaptation for Motivated Agents”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 465–483, 2013.
, “Hedonic quality or reward? A study of basic pleasure in homeostasis and decision making of a motivated autonomous robot”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 267–291, 2016.
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“Habit-based Regulation of Essential Variables”, in Proc. 14th Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 2014), New York, NY, 2014, pp. 168–175.
, “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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“Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Volume II”, Special Issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, vol. 32, no. 6. Taylor & Francis, 2001.
, “Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Volume I”, Special Issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, vol. 32, no. 5. Taylor & Francis, 2001.
, “Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Papers of the workshop held during the Fifth International Conference of The Society for Adaptive Behavior (SAB'98)”. University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1998.
, “A functionalist approach to language learning in robots: the development of meaning potentials in social and emotional contexts”, in HBCR 2021: IROS 2021 workshop on Human-Like Behavior and Cognition in Robots, 2021.
, “The Frontier of Synthetic Knowledge: Toward a Constructivist Science”, World Futures, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 171–177, 2012.
, “From Sensorimotor Experiences to Cognitive Development: Investigating the Influence of Experiential Diversity on the Development of an Epigenetic Robot”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 3, 2016.
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“From Imprinting to Adaptation: Building a History of Affective Interaction”, in Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob2005), 2005, pp. 23–30.
, “From Continuous Affective Space to Continuous Expression Space: Non-Verbal Behaviour Recognition and Generation”, in Proc. 4th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob 2014), Genoa, Italy, 2014, pp. 75–80.
, “A Flexible Component-Based Robot Control Architecture for Hormonal Modulation of Behaviour and Affect”, in Proc. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 18th Annual Conference, TAROS 2017, Guildford, UK, 2017, vol. 10454, pp. 464–474.
, “First Proposal for an Agent Architecture for Team and Multiple Task Coordination: A Case Study in Robotic Soccer”, in Proc. 2nd Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CCIA'99), Girona, Spain, 1999.
, “First Experiments Relating Behavior Selection Architectures to Environmental Complexity”, in Proc. 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002, pp. 3024–3029.
, “Expression of Grounded Affect: How Much Emotion Can Arousal Convey?”, in Proc. 21st Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference (TAROS2020), Nottingham, UK, 2020, vol. 12228, pp. 234–248.
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“Evolving Morphological and Behavioral Diversity Without Predefined Behavior Primitives”, in Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Winchester, UK, 2008, pp. 474–481.
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