Some of my publications
] , “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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, “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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, “The Evolution of Affect-Related Displays, Recognition and Related Strategies”, in ALIFE IX: Proceeding of the 9th international conference on the simulation and synthesis of living systems, 2004, pp. 176–181.
, “Evolution of Bilateral Symmetry in Agents Controlled by Spiking Neural Networks”, in Proc. 2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2009), Nashville, TN, 2009, pp. 116–123.
, “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.
, “An Evolving Ecosystems Approach to Generating Complex Agent Behaviour”, in Proc. IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life 2007, ALIFE'07, Honolulu, HI, 2007, pp. 303–310.
, “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.
, “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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, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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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, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “Human Responses to an Expressive Robot”, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Paris, France, 2006, vol. 128, pp. 79–86.
, “A Human-Robot Mutual Learning System with Affect-Grounded Language Acquisition and Differential Outcomes Training”, in Social Robotics. 15th International Conference, ICSR 2023, Proceedings Part II, Doha, Qatar, December 3–7, 2023, 2024, vol. LNAI 14454, pp. 108–122.
, “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.
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Canamero_et_al_Imitating_human_performances_to_automatically_generate_expressive_jazz_ballads_AISB1999.pdf (40.49 KB), “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.
, “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 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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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 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 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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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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, “Modulating Perception with Pleasure for Action Selection”, in Proc. 5th Annual International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2014), Cambridge, MA, 2014.
, “Modulation of Exploratory Behavior for Adaptation to the Context”, in Proc. AISB 2006 Symposium on Biologically Inspired Robotics (Biro-net), Bristol, UK, 2006, pp. 131–137.
, “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.
, “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.
, “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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, “Optimal Noise in Spiking Neural Networks for the Detection of Chemicals by Simulated Agents”, in Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Winchester, UK, 2008, pp. 443–449.
, “Optimal Receptor Response Functions for the Detection of Pheromones by Agents Driven by Spiking Neural Networks”, in Proc. 9th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vol. II, Vienna, Austria, 2008, pp. 427–432.
, “Optimization Criteria Underlying "Winner-Take-All" and "Voting-Based" Action Selection Policies”, in Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots, TIMR'03: 4th British Conference on Mobile Robotics, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2003.
, “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 Reactive Competitive Emotion Selection System”, in Proc. 7th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR-2015), Paris, 2015, pp. 31–40.
, “Receptor Response and Soma Leakiness in a Simulated Spiking Neural Controller for a Robot”, in Proc. 4th International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing (ANNIIP 2008), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 2008, pp. 100–106.
, “Relating Behavior Selection Architectures to Environmental Complexity”, in From Animals to Animats: Proc. 7th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2002, pp. 127–128.