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==Agents and Robots that Can Listen to the User's Heart==
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           Agents and Robots that Can Listen
                   to the Users Heart

                                    Ana Paiva

                             University of Lisbon
                 GAIPS, INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Tecnico
                               Lisboa, Portugal
                           ana.paiva@inesc-id.pt



Abstract Empathy is often seen as the capacity to perceive, understand and
experience others emotions. This notion is often seen as one of the major elements
in social interactions between humans. As such, when creating social agents that
are believable and able to engage with users in social interactions, empathy needs
to be addressed. For the past few years, many researchers have been looking at
this problem, not only in trying to find ways to perceive the users emotions,
but also to adapt to them, and react in an empathic way. This talk will provide
an overview of this new challenging area of research, by analyzing empathy in
the social relations established between humans and social agents (virtual and
robotic).


Short Biography Ana Maria Paiva is a Full Professor in the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering (Departamento de Engenharia Informática)
of Instituto Superior Técnico from the Technical University of Lisbon ( Univer-
sidade Ténica de Lisboa). She is also the group leader of GAIPS, (Grupo de
Agentes Inteligentes e Personagens Sintéticas), a research group on agents and
synthetic characters at INESC-ID. Her main scientific interests lay in the area
of Autonomous Agents, Embodied Conversational Agents and Robots and Mul-
tiagent Simulation Systems. Prof. Ana Paiva has been researching in the area of
artificial intelligence for the past twenty years, having also taught at IST during
that period

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