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2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
62
Citations
14451
World Ranking
2918
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Ana Paiva is affiliated with the Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal. Their research spans several fields with a strong emphasis on Computer Science and Psychology, including key subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Safety Research.

Their scholarly work explores multiple topics centered on human-robot interaction and artificial intelligence, including:

  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

They have contributed frequently to several publication venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their expertise. These venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
  • International Journal of Social Robotics
  • 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

Numerous co-authors have collaborated with Ana Paiva on research projects, showing ongoing partnerships with other experts in related fields:

  • Francisco S. Melo
  • Patrícia Arriaga
  • Teresa Chuva
  • Marta Couto
  • Miguel Vasco

Recent publications by Ana Paiva include the following works, specifying the title, year of publication, and venue:

  • Towards prosocial design: A scoping review of the use of robots and virtual agents to trigger prosocial behaviour, 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • Explainable Embodied Agents Through Social Cues, 2021, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
  • Exploring empathy in cyberbullying with serious games, 2021, Computers & Education
  • Creativity Landscapes: Systematic Review Spanning 70 Years of Creativity Interventions for Children, 2021, The Journal of Creative Behavior
  • Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, 2021, AI Matters

Best Publications

  • Social Robots for Long-Term Interaction: A Survey

    Iolanda Leite;Carlos Martinho;Ana Paiva

  • Feeling and reasoning: a computational model for emotional characters

    João Dias;Ana Paiva

  • The influence of empathy in human-robot relations

    Iolanda Leite;André Pereira;Samuel Mascarenhas;Carlos Martinho

  • Fearnot!: an experiment in emergent narrative

    R. S. Aylett;S. Louchart;J. Dias;A. Paiva

  • Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots: A Survey

    Ana Paiva;Iolanda Leite;Hana Boukricha;Ipke Wachsmuth

  • Automatic analysis of affective postures and body motion to detect engagement with a game companion

    Jyotirmay Sanghvi;Ginevra Castellano;Iolanda Leite;André Pereira

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

    João Dias;Samuel Mascarenhas;Ana Paiva

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

    Ana Paiva;Joao Dias;Daniel Sobral;Ruth Aylett

  • Empathic Robots for Long-term Interaction

    Iolanda Leite;Ginevra Castellano;André Pereira;Carlos Martinho

  • LEARNING BY FEELING: EVOKING EMPATHY WITH SYNTHETIC CHARACTERS

    Ana Paiva;João Dias;Daniel Sobral;Ruth Aylett

  • Detecting user engagement with a robot companion using task and social interaction-based features

    Ginevra Castellano;André Pereira;Iolanda Leite;Ana Paiva

  • The case of classroom robots: teachers’ deliberations on the ethical tensions

    Sofia Serholt;Wolmet Barendregt;Asimina Vasalou;Patrícia Alves-Oliveira;Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

  • Unscripted narrative for affectively driven characters

    R. Aylett;S. Louchart;J. Dias;A. Paiva

  • The illusion of robotic life: principles and practices of animation for robots

    Tiago Ribeiro;Ana Paiva

  • TAGUS ? A user and learner modeling workbench

    Ana Paiva;John A. Self

  • Procedural Content Generation: Goals, Challenges and Actionable Steps

    Julian Togelius;Alex J. Champandard;Pier Luca Lanzi;Michael Mateas

  • Are emotional robots more fun to play with

    I. Leite;A. Pereira;C. Martinho;A. Paiva

  • Modelling empathic behaviour in a robotic game companion for children: an ethnographic study in real-world settings

    Iolanda Leite;Ginevra Castellano;Andre Pereira;Carlos Martinho

  • An affectively driven planner for synthetic characters

    Ruth Aylett;Joao Dias;Ana Paiva

  • But that was in another country: agents and intercultural empathy

    Ruth Aylett;Natalie Vannini;Elisabeth Andre;Ana Paiva

  • Unscripted narrative for affectively driven characters

    Sandy Louchart;Ruth Aylett;Joao Dias;Ana Paiva

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Aylett
Ruth Aylett Heriot-Watt University
Iolanda Leite
Iolanda Leite Royal Institute of Technology
Pierre Dillenbourg
Pierre Dillenbourg École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Elisabeth André
Elisabeth André University of Augsburg
Francisco C. Santos
Francisco C. Santos Instituto Superior Técnico
Guy Hoffman
Guy Hoffman Cornell University
Georgios N. Yannakakis
Georgios N. Yannakakis University of Malta
Dieter Wolke
Dieter Wolke University of Warwick
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Kerstin Dautenhahn University of Waterloo
Aude Billard
Aude Billard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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