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Pattie Maes

Pattie Maes

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Computer Science

D-Index
91
Citations
50058
World Ranking
564
National Ranking
300

Overview

Pattie Maes is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has conducted extensive research primarily in the field of Neuroscience. This research encompasses several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, with additional work in Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, and Social Psychology.

The main topics of Maes's research include Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Sleep and related disorders, Mind wandering and attention, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, AI in Service Interactions, Misinformation and Its Impacts, and Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility.

Maes's recent papers cover a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics, often intersecting cognitive science and technology. These papers include:

  • Influencing human-AI interaction by priming beliefs about AI can increase perceived trustworthiness, empathy and effectiveness (2023, Nature Machine Intelligence)
  • Dream engineering: Simulating worlds through sensory stimulation (2020, Consciousness and Cognition)
  • Comparing Learning in Virtual Reality with Learning on a 2D Screen Using Electrostatics Activities (2020, TUGraz OPEN Library - Graz University of Technology)
  • Dormio: A targeted dream incubation device (2020, Consciousness and Cognition)
  • Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset increases post-sleep creative performance (2023, Scientific Reports)

Throughout the career, Maes has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors including Pat Pataranutaporn, Adam Haar Horowitz, Michelle Carr, Judith Amores, and Robert Stickgold, with multiple joint publications.

The scientist's work has appeared in various publication venues, with a concentration in arXiv (Cornell University), Consciousness and Cognition, Frontiers in Computer Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Nature Machine Intelligence.

Best Publications

  • Agents that reduce work and information overload

    Pattie Maes

  • Social information filtering: algorithms for automating “word of mouth”

    Upendra Shardanand;Pattie Maes

  • Concepts and experiments in computational reflection

    Pattie Maes

  • Kasbah: An Agent Marketplace for Buying and Selling Goods

    Anthony Chavez;Pattie Maes

  • Agents that buy and sell

    Pattie Maes;Robert H. Guttman;Alexandros G. Moukas

  • Agent-mediated electronic commerce: a survey

    Robert H. Guttman;Alexandros G. Moukas;Pattie Maes

  • Modeling adaptive autonomous agents

    Pattie Maes

  • Artificial life meets entertainment: lifelike autonomous agents

    Pattie Maes

  • Situated agents can have goals

    Pattie Maes

  • Collaborative reputation mechanisms for electronic marketplaces

    Giorgos Zacharia;Alexandros Moukas;Pattie Maes

  • How to Do the Right Thing

    Pattie Maes

  • Trust management through reputation mechanisms

    Giorgos Zacharia;Pattie Maes

  • Collaborative interface agents

    Yezdi Lashkari;Max Metral;Pattie Maes

  • Learning to coordinate behaviors

    Pattie Maes;Rodney A. Brooks

  • Method and system for facilitating wireless, full-body, real-time user interaction with a digitally represented visual environment

    Pattie E. Maes;Bruce M. Blumberg;Trevor J. Darrell;Thad E. Starner

  • Designing autonomous agents

    Pattie Maes

  • Direct manipulation vs. interface agents

    Ben Shneiderman;Pattie Maes

  • SixthSense: a wearable gestural interface

    Pranav Mistry;Pattie Maes

  • WUW - wear Ur world: a wearable gestural interface

    Pranav Mistry;Pattie Maes;Liyan Chang

  • Just-in-time information retrieval agents

    B. J. Rhodes;P. Maes

  • Evolving agents for personalized information filtering

    B. Sheth;P. Maes

Frequent Co-Authors

Maja J. Matarić
Maja J. Matarić University of Southern California
Stewart W. Wilson
Stewart W. Wilson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jordan Pollack
Jordan Pollack Brandeis University
Trevor Darrell
Trevor Darrell University of California, Berkeley
Jürgen Steimle
Jürgen Steimle Saarland University
Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland, College Park

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