João Dias

According to our database, João Dias authored at least 70 papers between 2004 and 2024.

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2024

Designing a Mood-Mediated Multi-Level Reasoner.

Samuel Gomes, José Bernardo Rocha, João Dias, Carlos Martinho

IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput., 2024

Heroine's Learning Journey: Motivating Women in STEM Online Courses Through the Power of a Narrative.

Luis Felipe Coimbra Costa, Samuel Gomes, Ana Moura Santos, Geraldo Bonorino Xexéo, Yuri Oliveira de Lima, Rui Prada, Carlos Martinho, João Dias

IEEE Access, 2024

2023

GAN-Based Content Generation of Maps for Strategy Games.

Vasco Nunes, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos

CoRR, 2023

Prompting for Socially Intelligent Agents with ChatGPT.

Ana Antunes, Joana Campos, Manuel Guimarães, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2023

MHeVA: Mental Health Virtual Assistant for High Education Students.

André Antunes, Manuel Guimarães, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Carla Boura, Joana Campos

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2023

Dual Critic Conditional Wasserstein GAN for Height-Map Generation.

Nuno Ramos, Pedro Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2023

A Semantic Search System for the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça.

Rui Melo, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2023

LeSSE - A Semantic Search Engine Applied to Portuguese Consumer Law.

Nuno Pablo Cordeiro, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos

Proceedings of the Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2023

2022

FAtiMA Toolkit: Toward an Accessible Tool for the Development of Socio-emotional Agents.

Samuel Mascarenhas, Manuel Guimarães, Rui Prada, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Ana Paiva

ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., 2022

LINA - A Social Augmented Reality Game around Mental Health, Supporting Real-world Connection and Sense of Belonging for Early Adolescents.

Gloria Mittmann, Adam Barnard, Ina Krammer, Diogo Martins, João Dias

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022

ISPO: A Serious Game to train the Interview Skills of Police Officers: ISPO: A Serious Game to train the Interview Skills of Police Officers.

Manuel Guimarães, Rui Prada, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Cristina Soeiro, Raquel Guerra, Christina Steiner-Stanitznig, Andrea Molinari

Int. J. Serious Games, 2022

Towards Explainable Social Agent Authoring tools: A case study on FAtiMA-Toolkit.

Manuel Guimarães, Joana Campos, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Rui Prada

CoRR, 2022

State of the Art in Artificial Intelligence applied to the Legal Domain.

João Dias, Pedro A. Santos, Nuno Pablo Cordeiro, Ana Antunes, Bruno Martins, Jorge Baptista, Carlos Gonçalves

CoRR, 2022

Semantic Norm Recognition and its application to Portuguese Law.

Maria Duarte, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Jorge Baptista

CoRR, 2022

Emotionally Expressive Motion Controller for Virtual Character Locomotion Animations.

Diogo Gonçalves Silva, Pedro Alexandre Simões dos Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 2022

The HUB: Designing an Interactive Social Space for Pre-Adolescents' Well-being.

Pedro Rodrigues, Marija Mitic, Ina Krammer, João Dias, Rui Prada, Beate Schrank

Proceedings of the IDC '22: Interaction Design and Children, Braga, Portugal, June 27, 2022

2021

FAtiMA Toolkit - Toward an effective and accessible tool for the development of intelligent virtual agents and social robots.

Samuel Mascarenhas, Manuel Guimarães, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva

CoRR, 2021

EEG Model: Emotional Episode Generation for Social Sharing of Emotions.

Ana Antunes, Joana Campos, João Dias, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada

Proceedings of the IVA '21: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2021

CHARET: Character-centered Approach to Emotion Tracking in Stories.

Diogo S. Carvalho, Joana Campos, Manuel Guimarães, Ana Antunes, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos

Proceedings of the AAMAS '21: 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2021

2020

Artificial intelligence moving serious gaming: Presenting reusable game AI components.

Wim Westera, Rui Prada, Samuel Mascarenhas, Pedro Santos, João Dias, Manuel Guimarães, Konstantinos Georgiadis, Enkhbold Nyamsuren, Kiavash Bahreini, Zerrin Yumak, Chris Christyowidiasmoro, Mihai Dascalu, Gabriel Gutu-Robu, Stefan Ruseti

Educ. Inf. Technol., 2020

Reward-Mediated Individual and Altruistic Behavior.

Samuel Gomes, Tomás Alves, João Dias, Carlos Martinho

CoRR, 2020

The Impact of Virtual Reality in the Social Presence of a Virtual Agent.

Manuel Guimarães, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos, João Dias, Arnav Jhala, Samuel Mascarenhas

Proceedings of the IVA '20: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2020

The Influence of Reward on the Social Valence of Interactions.

Tomás Alves, Samuel Gomes, João Dias, Carlos Martinho

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2020

2019

Multi-task Learning and Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Reinforcement Learning.

João G. Ribeiro, Francisco S. Melo, João Dias

Proceedings of the GCAI 2019. Proceedings of the 5th Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019

From caveman to gentleman: a CiF-based social interaction model applied to conan exiles.

Luís Morais, João Dias, Pedro Alexandre Santos

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2019

GIMME: Group Interactions Manager for Multiplayer sErious games.

Samuel Gomes, João Dias, Carlos Martinho

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2019

An Accessible Toolkit for the Creation of Socio-EmotionalAgents.

Manuel Guimarães, Samuel Mascarenhas, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2019

Studying the Effect of Robot Frustration on Children's Change of Perspective.

Elmira Yadollahi, Wafa Johal, João Dias, Pierre Dillenbourg, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos, 2019

Inferring Emotions from Touching Patterns.

Mojgan Hashemian, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos, João Dias, Samuel Mascarenhas

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2019

2018

Introduction to the GaLA Conf 2018 Special Issue.

Pedro Alexandre Santos, Remco C. Veltkamp, João Dias

Int. J. Serious Games, 2018

A Virtual Agent Toolkit for Serious Games Developers.

Samuel Mascarenhas, Manuel Guimarães, Rui Prada, João Dias, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Kam Star, Ben Hirsh, Ellis Spice, Rob Kommeren

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2018

2017

How Robots Persuasion based on Personality Traits May Affect Human Decisions.

Raul Benites Paradeda, Maria José Ferreira, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2017

Iterative Parallel Sampling RRT for Racing Car Simulation.

Samuel Gomes, João Dias, Carlos Martinho

Proceedings of the Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2017

FIDES: How Emotions and Small Talks May Influence Trust in an Embodied vs. Non-embodied Robot.

Raul Benites Paradeda, Mojgan Hashemian, Carla N. Guerra, Rui Prada, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2017

2016

Emotional sharing behavior for a social robot in a competitive setting.

Sofia Petisca, João Dias, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2016

Positive Technologies for Promoting Emotion Regulation Abilities in Adolescents.

Esther Judith Schek, Fabrizia Mantovani, Olivia Realdon, João Dias, Ana Paiva, Sarit Schramm-Yavin, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk

Proceedings of the eHealth 360°, 2016

Conveying Social Relations in Virtual Agents Through an Emotion Sharing and Response Model: (Extended Abstract).

Nuno Salvador, João Dias, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, 2016

2015

A Process Model of Empathy For Virtual Agents.

Sérgio Hortas Rodrigues, Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Interact. Comput., 2015

More Social and Emotional Behaviour May Lead to Poorer Perceptions of a Social Robot.

Sofia Petisca, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 7th International Conference, 2015

More May Be Less: Emotional Sharing in an Autonomous Social Robot.

Sofia Petisca, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the 2015 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 12-14, 2015, 2015

2014

FAtiMA Modular: Towards an Agent Architecture with a Generic Appraisal Framework.

João Dias, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Emotion Modeling, 2014

2013

Towards agents with human-like decisions under uncertainty.

Nuno Marques, Francisco S. Melo, Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

The Great Deceivers: Virtual Agents and Believable Lies.

João Dias, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva, Henrique Reis

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Lie to me: virtual agents that lie.

João Dias, Henrique Reis, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2013

I want to be your friend: establishing relations with emotionally intelligent agents.

João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2013

2012

Creating adaptive affective autonomous NPCs.

Mei Yii Lim, João Dias, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva

Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst., 2012

2011

Human-like memory retrieval mechanisms for social companions.

Mei Yii Lim, Ruth Aylett, Patrícia Amâncio Vargas, Wan Ching Ho, João Dias

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), 2011

Agents with Emotional Intelligence for Storytelling.

João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2011

2010

A Dimensional Model for Cultural Behavior in Virtual Agents.

Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva

Appl. Artif. Intell., 2010

Creating Individual Agents through Personality Traits.

Tiago Doce, João Dias, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 10th International Conference, 2010

2009

One for All or One for One? The Influence of Cultural Dimensions in Virtual Agents' Behaviour.

Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 9th International Conference, 2009

Using rituals to express cultural differences in synthetic characters.

Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Nuno Afonso, Sibylle Enz, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), 2009

ORIENT: interactive agents for stage-based role-play.

Ruth Aylett, Michael Kriegel, Mei Yii Lim, João Dias, Karin Leichtenstern, Wan Ching Ho, Paola Rizzo

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), 2009

Intelligent NPCs for Educational Role Play Game.

Mei Yii Lim, João Dias, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Agents for Games and Simulations, 2009

"I can feel it too!": Emergent empathic reactions between synthetic characters.

Sérgio Hortas Rodrigues, Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2009

Affective Agents for Education Against Bullying.

Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva, João Dias, Lynne E. Hall, Sarah Woods

Proceedings of the Affective Information Processing, 2009

2008

Improving Adaptiveness in Autonomous Characters.

Mei Yii Lim, João Dias, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 8th International Conference, 2008

2007

Double Appraisal for Synthetic Characters.

Sandy Louchart, Ruth Aylett, João Dias

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 7th International Conference, 2007

Agents that remember can tell stories: integrating autobiographic memory into emotional agents.

Wan Ching Ho, João Dias, Rui Figueiredo, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), 2007

I Know What I Did Last Summer: Autobiographic Memory in Synthetic Characters.

João Dias, Wan Ching Ho, Thurid Vogt, Nathalie Beeckman, Ana Paiva, Elisabeth André

Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2007

An Authoring Tool for an Emergent Narrative Storytelling System.

Michael Kriegel, Ruth Aylett, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies, 2007

2006

Unscripted Narrative for Affectively Driven Characters.

Ruth Aylett, Sandy Louchart, João Dias, Ana Paiva, Marco Vala, Sarah Woods, Lynne E. Hall

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2006

Mind the Body.

Marco Vala, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 6th International Conference, 2006

Making It Up as You Go Along - Improvising Stories for Pedagogical Purposes.

Ruth Aylett, Rui Figueiredo, Sandy Louchart, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 6th International Conference, 2006

An Affectively Driven Planner for Synthetic Characters.

Ruth Aylett, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2006

2005

Learning By Feeling: Evoking Empathy With Synthetic Characters.

Ana Paiva, João Dias, Daniel Sobral, Ruth Aylett, Sarah Woods, Lynne E. Hall, Carsten Zoll

Appl. Artif. Intell., 2005

FearNot! - An Experiment in Emergent Narrative.

Ruth Aylett, Sandy Louchart, João Dias, Ana Paiva, Marco Vala

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 5th International Working Conference, 2005

Feeling and Reasoning: A Computational Model for Emotional Characters.

João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2005

Unscripted Narrative for Affectively Driven Characters.

Sandy Louchart, Ruth Aylett, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the First Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, 2005

2004

Caring for Agents and Agents that Care: Building Empathic Relations with Synthetic Agents.

Ana Paiva, João Dias, Daniel Sobral, Ruth Aylett, Polly Sobreperez, Sarah Woods, Carsten Zoll, Lynne E. Hall

Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), 2004