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Past Presentations

Emerging Affect Theories and their Relevance to Psychotherapy Boston University School of Social Work. Professional Education Programs. Sept. 16, 2014, 9am - 4pm

Workshop on 'Computational Modeling of Cognition-Emotion Interactions: Relevance to Mechanisms of Affective Disorders and Therapeutic Action' Held at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 23, 2014, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

'Emotion Theories in Clinical Social Work', Mass. NASW Symposium, Framingham, MA (April 2014). Download a printer-friendly copy of the presentation here.

'Beyond Social Media: Advanced Technologies in Clinical Social Work', Mass. NASW Symposium, Framingham, MA Framingham, MA (April 2014). Download a brief summary of this presentation here.

Mindfulness Training and Coaching via Virtual Synthetic Characters, 16th CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology Conference, Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Quebec, Canada (June 2011) (Download presentation)

Virtual Coach for Mindfulness Meditation Training. In Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on "AI and Health Communication", Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. March 2011 (Download presentation)


Publications


Affective Computing and Cybertherapy

Virtual Coaching / Mindfulness Meditation

Affective Gaming

Computational Emotion Research



Affective Computing and Cybertherapy

Hudlicka, E., Lisetti, C., Hodge, D., Paiva, A., Rizzo, A., Wagner, E. (2008). Artificial Agents for Psychotherapy. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on “Emotion, Personality and Social Behavior”, TR SS-08-04, 60-64. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI.

Social interaction with robots and agents: Where do we stand, Where do we go? (with S. Payr, R. Ventura, C. Becker-Asano, K. Fischer, I. Leite, A. Paiva, C. von Scheve). In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Amsterdam, NL, September, 2009.

Computational Models of Emotion and Personality: Applications to Psychotherapy Research and Practice. In the Proceedings of the 10th Annual Cyber Therapy 2005 Conference: A Decade of Virtual Reality, Basel, Switzerland, 2005.

Virtual Coaching / Mindfulness Meditation

Virtual Training and Coaching of Health Behavior:  Example from Mindfulness Meditation Training. Patient Education and Counseling, 92(2), 160-166, 2013.

Mindfulness Training and Coaching via Virtual Synthetic Characters, 16th CyberTherapy & CyberPsychology Conference, Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Quebec, Canada (June 2011).

Virtual Coach for Mindfulness Meditation Training. In Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on “AI and Health Communication”, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. March 2011.

Affective Gaming

Affective Gaming in Education, Training and Therapy: Motivation, Requirements, Techniques. In Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches, P. Felicia, ed. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. (2011).

Hudlicka, E. & Broekens, J. Foundations for Modelling Emotions in Game Characters:  Modelling Emotion Effects on Cognition (with J. Broekens). In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Amsterdam, NL, September, 2009.

Affective Game Engines: Motivation and Requirements. In Proceedings of the 4th Intl. Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, April 2009.

Affective Computing and Game Design. In Proceedings of the 4th Intl. North American Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2008, 5-12.


Computational Emotion Research

Challenges in Developing Computational Models of Emotion and Consciousness. International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 1(1), 131-153. 2009.

Modeling the Mechanisms of Emotion Effects on Cognition. In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on “Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures”, TR FS-08-04, 82-86. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. 2008.

Modeling Interaction Between Metacognition and Emotion in a Cognitive Architecture. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Metacognition in Computation. Technical Report SS-05-0 4. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. 2005.

Beyond Cognition: Modeling Emotion in Cognitive Architectures. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). CMU, Pittsburgh, PA. 2004



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