IDEA – Interdisciplinary Design of Emotion Sensitive Agents - International Workshop co-located with AAMAS 2023

GMT+1 (UK)

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Round table discussion:

• defining the field of Interdisciplinary Design of Emotion Sensitive Agents
• key opportunities and challenges of the field
• how to organise the community interested in developing the field
  

Moderators:

• Loïs Vanhée, Associate professor in Responsible Artificial Intelligence and Co-Director TAIGA - Centre for Transdisciplinary AI, Umeå University, Sweden
• Melania Borit, Professor of Methodologies for Interdisciplinary Research and Leader of CRAFT Lab - Knowledge Integration and Blue Futures, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Paper session 1

• Vivek Nallur (University College Dublin, Ireland) - "Anxiety Among Migrants - Questions for Agent Simulation"
• Paulina Rosero (Universidad de las Américas, Ecuador) - "How emotions can lead to actions among farmers. A theoretical approach to define emotion sensitive agents"

Invited speaker:

Paulo Menzes, Professor in Computer Science, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Chair of IEEE-RAS (Robotics and Automation Society) - Portuguese Chapter

Paper session 2

• Geneva Smith (McMaster University, Canada) and Jacques Carette (McMaster University, Canada) - "Building Test Cases for Video Game-Focused Computational Models of Emotion"
• Linda Gutsche (École normale supérieure - PSL, France) and Loïs Vanhée (Umeå University, Sweden) - "The Value of Knowledge: Joining Reward and Epistemic Certainty Optimisation for Anxiety-Sensitive Planning"

Invited speaker:

Caitlin Limonciello, Director of Research and Data Science at Senseye, US

Invited speaker:

Simon Lindgren, Professor of Sociology and Director of DIGSUM - Centre for Digital Social Research, Umeå University, Sweden