Some of my publications
] , “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.
, “The Long-Term Efficacy of “Social Buffering” in Artificial Social Agents: Contextual Affective Perception Matters”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 9, no. article 699573, pp. pp. 1 - 24, 2022.
, “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.
, “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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, “Adaptation-By-Proxy: Contagion Effect of Social Buffering in an Artificial Society”, in ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, 2021.
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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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, “The Effects of Affective Social Bonds on the Interactions and Survival of Simulated Agents”, in ACII2019 Workshop on Social Emotions, Theories and Models (SE-THEMO), Cambridge, UK, 2019, pp. 374–380.
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Khan_et_al_Affective_Social_Bonds_ACII2019_AcceptedVersion.pdf (657.01 KB), “Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations”, Papers from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium. AAAI Press, 2004.
, “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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, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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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, “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.
, “Does Expression of Grounded Affect in a Hexapod Robot Elicit More Prosocial Responses?”, in UKRAS20 Conference: "Robots into the real world" Proceedings, Lincoln, UK, 2020, pp. 40–42.
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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.
, “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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, “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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, “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.
, “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.
, “A Reactive Competitive Emotion Selection System”, in Proc. 7th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR-2015), Paris, 2015, pp. 31–40.
, “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.
, “Situated Learning in Autonomous Agents”, in Learning Sites: Social and Technological Contexts for Learning, Elsevier, 1999, pp. 236–248.
, Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
, “Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots”, in Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 1–20.
, “The Frontier of Synthetic Knowledge: Toward a Constructivist Science”, World Futures, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 171–177, 2012.
, “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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, “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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, “Ecological Integration of Affordances and Drives for Behaviour Selection”, in Proc. IJCAI 2005 Workshop on Modeling Natural Action Selection, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005, pp. 225–228.
, “Motivation-driven learning of object affordances: First experiments using a simulated khepera robot”, in Proc. 5th International Conference in Cognitive Modelling (ICCM'03), Bamberg, Germany, 2003, pp. 57–62.
, “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.
, “Motivation Driven Learning of Action Affordances”, in Proceedings of the Symposium on Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action (SSAISB'05), Hatfield, UK, 2005, pp. 33–36.
, “Using a SOFM to learn Object Affordances”, in Proc. 5th Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF'04), Girona, Spain, 2004.
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, “Learning Affordances of Consummatory Behaviors: Motivation-Driven Adaptive Perception”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 18, no. 3-4, pp. 285–314, 2010.
, “Hedonic Value: Enhancing Adaptation for Motivated Agents”, Adaptive Behavior, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 465–483, 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.
, “e-Tools: The use of Assistive Technologies to enhance disabled and senior citizens’ autonomy”, in e-Health: Application of Computing Science in Medicine and Health Care, Instituto Politécnico National Press, 2003, pp. 119–132.
, “Assistive technologies for the disabled and for the new generation of senior citizens: The e-Tools architecture”, AI Communications, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 193–207, 2003.
, “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 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.
, “Designing emotions for activity selection in autonomous agents”, in Emotions in Humans and Artifacts, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 115–148.
, “Learning in Humans and Machines. Notes of the ECML'98 Workshop Human Learning Meets Machine Learning”. Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany, 1998.
, “Did Garbo Care about the Uncanny Valley? Commentary to K.F. MacDorman and H. Ishiguro, “The uncanny advantage of using androids in cognitive and social science research””, Interaction Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 355–359, 2006.
, “Designing Emotions for Activity Selection”, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2000.
, “Situated Cognition: A Challenge to Artificial Intelligence?”, in Learning Sites: Social and Technological Contexts for Learning, Elsevier, 1999, pp. 223–235.
, “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.