Some of my publications
“Should I worry about my stressed pregnant robot?”, in Proc. 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob 2009), Venice, Italy, 2009, vol. 146, pp. 203–204.
, “Should I worry about my stressed pregnant robot?”, in Proc. 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob 2009), Venice, Italy, 2009, vol. 146, pp. 203–204.
, “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.
, “Constructing Emotions: Epistemological Groundings and Applications in Robotics for a Synthetic Approach to Emotions”, in International Symposium on AI-Inspired Biology, De Montford University, Leicester, UK, 2010, pp. 20–28.
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“Emotion et cognition: les robots comme outils et modèles”, in Systèmes d'interaction émotionnelle, Paris, France: Lavoisier Hermes Science, 2010.
, “Emotion in Decisions of Life and Death – Its Role in Brain-Body-Environment Interactions for Predator and Prey”, in Artificial Life XII: Proc. of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Odense, Denmark, 2010, pp. 812–822.
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“Evolution of Bistable Dynamics in Spiking Neural Controllers for Agents Performing Olfactory Attraction and Aversion”, in Proc. 19th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2010), San Antonio, TX, 2010, vol. 11(Suppl 1), p. 92.
, “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.
, “Learning Affordances of Consummatory Behaviors: Motivation-Driven Adaptive Perception”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 18, no. 3-4, pp. 285–314, 2010.
, “Towards an Affect Space for Robots to Display Emotional Body Language”, in Proc. 19th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2010), Viareggio, Italy, 2010, pp. 464–469.
, “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.
, “Children Interpretation of Emotional Body Language Displayed by a Robot”, in Proc. 3rd International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2011), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2011, pp. 62–70.
, “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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“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.
, “Children's Adaptation in Multi-session Interaction with a Humanoid Robot”, in 2012 IEEE RO-MAN: The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2012, pp. 351–357.
, “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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“Emotional Body Language Displayed by Artificial Agents”, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 2:1–2:29, 2012.
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“The Frontier of Synthetic Knowledge: Toward a Constructivist Science”, World Futures, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 171–177, 2012.
, “Multimodal Child-Robot Interaction: Building Social Bonds”, Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 33–53, 2012.
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“Are Discrete Emotions Useful in Human-Robot Interaction? Feedback from Motion Capture Analysis”, in Proc. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2013), Geneva, Switzerland, 2013, pp. 97–102.
ACII_2013_Lewis_Canamero,_Discrete_Emotions_Motion_Capture-draft.pdf (401.16 KB)
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“Epigenetic Adaptation in Action Selection Environments with Temporal Dynamics”, in Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013, 2013, pp. 505–512.
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“Epigenetic Adaptation through Hormone Modulation in Autonomous Robots”, in 2013 IEEE 3rd Joint International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob 2013), Osaka, 2013, pp. 1–6.
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“Hedonic Value: Enhancing Adaptation for Motivated Agents”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 465–483, 2013.
, “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.
, “SimianWorld – A Study of Social Organisation Using an Artificial Life Model”, in Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013, Taormina, Italy, 2013, pp. 633–640.
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“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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“An Affective Autonomous Robot Toddler to Support the Development of Self-Efficacy in Diabetic Children”, in Proc. 23rd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2014), Edinburgh, 2014, pp. 359–364.
Lewis,_Canamero,_Autonomous_Robot_Toddler_Diabetic_Children,_ROMAN_2014_ACCEPTED.pdf (216 KB)
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“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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“Cognitive Architectures to Bridge Interdisciplinary Gaps in Emotion Research?”, in Proc. 5th Annual International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2014), Cambridge, MA, 2014.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “Modulating Perception with Pleasure for Action Selection”, in Proc. 5th Annual International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2014), Cambridge, MA, 2014.
, “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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“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.
, “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.
, “An Embodied AI Approach to Individual Differences: Supporting Self-Efficacy in Diabetic Children with an Autonomous Robot”, in Proc. 7th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR-2015), Paris, 2015, pp. 401–410.
2015_Lewis_Canamero_ICSR.pdf (1.56 MB)
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“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.
, “A Reactive Competitive Emotion Selection System”, in Proc. 7th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR-2015), Paris, 2015, pp. 31–40.
, “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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“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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“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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“Outline of a sensory-motor perspective on intrinsically moral agents”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 306–319 , 2016.
, “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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“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.
, “Robot Models of Mental Disorders”, in Proc. 7th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Workshops and Demos (ACIIW 2017), San Antonio, TX, 2017, pp. 193–200.
ACII_Lewis_Canamero_2017_Robot_Models_of_Mental_Disorders_draft.pdf (176.35 KB)
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“Adaptation and the Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin: Early Experiments in a Simulated Agent Environment”, in Proc. 2nd Symposium on Social Interactions in Complex Intelligent Systems (SICIS), Liverpool, UK, 2018, pp. 2–9.
, “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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“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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