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João Dias is an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Science and Technology, from University of Algarve. He is currently the Coordinator and Integrated Researcher at CISCA (Centro de Investigação em Sistemas Ciberfísicos do Algarve), and colaborator at INESC-ID. He has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and has participated in 9 research projects, 7 of which were international research projects. He is also currently the Director of the Master in Informatics Engineering at University of Algarve. His research focus on the design and development of Intelligent Interactive Systems, including Intelligent Virtual Agents and Serious Games.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Dias
Date of birth
1979/04/25
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Dias, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
541C-36A9-F1A0
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1653-1821

Email addresses

  • jmdias@ualg.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Agents with Emotional Intelligence" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com Muito Bom
2005
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"FearNot!: Creating Emotional Autonomous Synthetic Characters for Emphatic Interactions" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom
2003
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 17
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Investigação em Sistemas Ciberfísicos do Algarve, Portugal
2013/01/13 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2020/02/01 - 2023/09 Researcher (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/02/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2013/01/13 - 2020/01/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal
2007 - 2012 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/10 - Current Coordenador Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Investigação em Sistemas Ciberfísicos do Algarve, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - 2027/08/31 ASP-belong
101080665 — ASP-belong
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2020/06/01 - 2022 LAW-NLP
PR01002
Principal investigator
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda SA
Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2022 SLICE - Social Learning for Intelligent Characters
PTDC/CCI-COM/30787/2017
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/01/01 - 2022 DOT - Die Offene Tür
Forschungsgruppe DOT der LBG GmbH
Principal investigator
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft
Concluded
2015/02/01 - 2019/01/31 RAGE - Realising an Applied Gaming Ecosystem
Grant agreement 644187
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 European Union
Concluded
2010/09/01 - 2013/12/31 eCUTE - Education in Cultural Understanding, Technologically-Enhanced
Grant agreement ID: 257666
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 European Union
Concluded
2008/03/01 - 2012/08/31 LIREC - LIving with Robots and interactivE Companions
Grant agreement ID: 215554
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 European Union
Concluded
2006/03/01 - 2009/02/28 eCIRCUS - Education through Characters with emotional-Intelligence and Role-playing Capabilities that Understand Social Interaction
Grant agreement ID: 027656
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 European Union
Concluded
2005/09/01 - 2007/12/31 HUMAINE - Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion
Grant agreement ID: 507422
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 European Union
Concluded
2003/09/01 - 2005/01/31 VICTEC - Virtual ICT with Empathic Characters
Grant agreement ID: IST-2001-33310
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 European Union
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Samuel Gomes; Tomás Alves; João Dias; Carlos Martinho. "Reward-Mediated Individual and Altruistic Behavior". 84-97. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-030-95305-8_7
  2. Schek, Esther Judith; Mantovani, Fabrizia; Realdon, Olivia; Dias, Joao; Paiva, Ana; Schramm-Yavin, Sarit; Pat-Horenczyk, Ruth. "Positive Technologies for Promoting Emotion Regulation Abilities in Adolescents". In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 169-174. Springer International Publishing, 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_23
  3. Dias, João; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Paiva, Ana. "FAtiMA Modular: Towards an Agent Architecture with a Generic Appraisal Framework". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 44-56. Springer International Publishing, 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-12973-0_3
  4. Pereira, Gonçalo; Brisson, António; Dias, João; Carvalho, André; Dimas, Joana; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Campos, Joana; et al. "Non-Player Characters and Artificial Intelligence". In Psychology, Pedagogy, and Assessment in Serious Games, 127-152. IGI Global, 2014.
    Published • 10.4018/978-1-4666-4773-2.ch007
  5. Lim, Mei Yii; Dias, João; Aylett, Ruth; Paiva, Ana. "Intelligent NPCs for Educational Role Play Game". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 107-118. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-11198-3_8
  6. Aylett, Ruth; Paiva, Ana; Dias, Joao; Hall, Lynne; Woods, Sarah. "Affective Agents for Education Against Bullying". In Affective Information Processing, 75-90. Springer London, 2009.
    Published • 10.1007/978-1-84800-306-4_5
  7. Dias, João; Paiva, Ana; Vala, Marco; Aylett, Ruth; Woods, Sarah; Zoll, Carsten. "Empathic characters in computer-based personal and social education". In Affective and Emotional Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction, 246-254. IOS Press, 2006.
Conference abstract
  1. Guimarães, Manuel; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Prada, Rui; Santos, Pedro A.; Dias, João. "An Accessible Toolkit for the Creation of Socio-EmotionalAgents". Paper presented in 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2019.
    Published
  2. Paradeda, Raul; Hashemian, Mojgan; Guerra, Carla; Prada, Rui; Dias, João; Paiva, Ana. "FIDES: How Emotions and Small Talks May Influence Trust in an Embodied vs. Non-embodied Robot". Paper presented in 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2017.
    Published
  3. Salvador, Nuno; Dias, João; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Paiva, Ana. "Conveying Social Relations in Virtual Agents Through an Emotion Sharing and Response Model". Paper presented in 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, Singapore, 2016.
    Published
  4. Dias, João; Paiva, Ana. "Lie to Me: Virtual Agents that Lie". Paper presented in 2013 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2013.
    Published
  5. Lim, Mei Yii; Aylett, Ruth; Vargas, Patricia; Ho, Wan Ching; Dias, João. "Human-like Memory Retrieval Mechanisms for Social Companions". Paper presented in 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2011.
    Published
  6. Aylett, Ruth; Kriegel, Michael; Lim, Mei Yii; Dias, João; Leichetenstern, Karin; Ho, Wan Ching; Paola, Rizzo. "ORIENT: Interactive Agents for Stage-Based Role-Play". Paper presented in 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2009.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Baptista, Jorge; Reis, Sónia; Dias, João; Santos, Pedro A.. "Lexicalized Meaning Representation (LMR)". Paper presented in International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations @ LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, 2024.
    Published
  2. Trincheiras P.; Santos P. A.; Dias, João. "NFLegacy, Towards a NFT-Based Game Ecosystem". Paper presented in Videogame Sciences and Arts, 2024.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81713-7_12
  3. Ramos, N.; Santos, P.A.; Dias, J.. "Dual Critic Conditional Wasserstein GAN for Height-Map Generation". Paper presented in International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games - FDG' 23, 2023.
    Published • 10.1145/3582437.3587183
  4. Araújo, André; Dias, João; Santos, Pedro A.. "Icarus, Towards Diplomatic Agents in Diplomacy". Paper presented in Videogame Sciences and Arts, 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-51452-4_21
  5. Rui Melo; Pedro A. Santos; João Dias. "A Semantic Search System for the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça". Paper presented in EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-49011-8_12
  6. Nuno Pablo Cordeiro; João Dias; Pedro A. Santos. "LeSSE—A Semantic Search Engine Applied to Portuguese Consumer Law". Paper presented in EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-49011-8_10
  7. Antunes, Ana; Campos, Joana; Guimarães, Manuel; Dias, João; Santos, Pedro A.. "Prompting for Socially Intelligent Agents with ChatGPT". Paper presented in 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2023.
    Published • 10.1145/3570945.3607303
  8. Antunes, André; Guimarães, Manuel; Santos, Pedro A.; Dias, João; Boura, Carla; Campos, Joana. "MHeVA: Mental Health Virtual Assistant for High Education Students". Paper presented in 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2023.
    Published • 10.1145/3570945.3607309
  9. Nunes, V.; Dias, J.; Santos, P.A.. "GAN-Based Content Generation of Maps for Strategy Games". 2022.
    10.48550/arXiv.2301.02874
  10. Rodrigues, P.; Mitic, M.; Krammer, I.; Dias, J.; Prada, R.; Schrank, B.. "The HUB: Designing an Interactive Social Space for Pre-Adolescents' Well-being". 2022.
    10.1145/3501712.3535282
  11. Silva, D.; Santos, P.A.; Dias, J.. "Emotionally Expressive Motion Controller for Virtual Character Locomotion Animations". 2022.
    10.1109/ISM55400.2022.00049
  12. Carvalho, D.S.; Campos, J.; Guimarães, M.; Antunes, A.; Dias, J.; Santos, P.A.. "CHARET: Character-centered approach to emotion tracking in stories". 2021.
  13. Antunes, A.; Campos, J.; Dias, J.; Santos, P.A.; Prada, R.. "EEG Model: Emotional Episode Generation for Social Sharing of Emotions". 2021.
    10.1145/3472306.3478342
  14. Alves, Tomas; Gomes, Samuel; Dias, Joao; Martinho, Carlos. "The Influence of Reward on the Social Valence of Interactions". 2020.
    10.1109/cog47356.2020.9231853
  15. Guimarães, Manuel; Prada, Rui; Santos, Pedro A.; Dias, João; Jhala, Arnav; Mascarenhas, Samuel. "The Impact of Virtual Reality in the Social Presence of a Virtual Agent". 2020.
    10.1145/3383652.3423879
  16. Granatyr, Jones; Gomes, Heitor Murilo; Dias, Joao Miguel; Paiva, Ana Maria; Nunes, Maria Augusta Silveira Netto; Scalabrin, Edson Emilio; Spak, Fabio. "Inferring Trust Using Personality Aspects Extracted from Texts". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/smc.2019.8914641
  17. Ribeiro, João; Melo, Francisco; Dias, João. "Multi-task Learning and Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Reinforcement Learning". Paper presented in 5th Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019.
    Published • 10.29007/g7bg
  18. Gomes, Samuel; Dias, Joao; Martinho, Carlos. "GIMME: Group Interactions Manager for Multiplayer sErious games". 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/cig.2019.8847962
  19. Hashemian, Mojgan; Prada, Rui; Santos, Pedro A.; Dias, Joao; Mascarenhas, Samuel. "Inferring Emotions from Touching Patterns". 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/acii.2019.8925505
  20. Yadollahi, Elmira; Johal, Wafa; Dias, Joao; Dillenbourg, Pierre; Paiva, Ana. "Studying the Effect of Robot Frustration on Children's Change of Perspective". 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/aciiw.2019.8925100
  21. Morais, Luís; Dias, João; Santos, Pedro A.. "From caveman to gentleman: a CiF-based social interaction model applied to conan". Paper presented in 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games - FDG '19, 2019.
    Published • 10.1145/3337722.3337746
  22. Mascarenhas, Samuel; Guimaraes, Manuel; Prada, Rui; Dias, Joao; Santos, Pedro A.; Star, Kam; Hirsh, Ben; Spice, Ellis; Kommeren, Rob. "A Virtual Agent Toolkit for Serious Games Developers". 2018.
    Published • 10.1109/cig.2018.8490399
  23. Gomes, Samuel; Dias, João; Martinho, Carlos. "Iterative Parallel Sampling RRT for Racing Car Simulation". 2017.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65340-2_10
  24. Paradeda, Raul Benites; Ferreira, Maria José; Dias, João; Paiva, Ana. "How Robots Persuasion based on Personality Traits May Affect Human Decisions". 2017.
    Published • 10.1145/3029798.3038348
  25. Petisca, Sofia; Dias, Joao; Alves-Oliveira, Patricia; Paiva, Ana. "Emotional sharing behavior for a social robot in a competitive setting". 2016.
    Published • 10.1109/roman.2016.7745200
  26. Petisca, Sofia; Dias, João; Paiva, Ana. "More social and emotional behaviour may lead to poorer perceptions of a social robot". 2015.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_52
  27. Petisca, Sofia; Dias, João; Paiva, Ana. "More May Be Less: Emotional Sharing in an Autonomous Social Robot". Paper presented in 2015 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, 2015.
    Published
  28. Dias, João; Paiva, Ana. "I Want to Be Your Friend: Establishing Relations with Emotionally Intelligent Agents". 2013.
    Published
  29. Dias, João; Paiva, Ana. "Agents with emotional intelligence for storytelling". 2011.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-24600-5_11
  30. Dias, João; Doce, Tiago; Prada, Rui; Paiva, Ana. "Creating individual agents through personality traits". 2010.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_27
  31. Rodrigues, Sergio H.; Mascarenhas, Samuel F.; Dias, Joao; Paiva, Ana. "“I can feel it too!”: Emergent empathic reactions between synthetic characters". 2009.
    Published • 10.1109/acii.2009.5349570
  32. Dias, João; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Prada, Rui; Paiva, Ana. "One for all or one for one? The influence of cultural dimensions in virtual agents’ behaviour". 2009.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-04380-2_30
  33. Mascarenhas, Samuel; Dias, João; Afonso, Nuno; Enz, Sibylle; Paiva, Ana. "Using Rituals to Express Cultural Differences in Synthetic Characters". 2009.
    Published
  34. Lim, Mei Yii; Dias, João; Aylett, Ruth; Paiva, Ana. "Improving Adaptiveness in Autonomous Characters". 2008.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_35
  35. Ho, Wan Ching; Dias, João; Figueiredo, Rui; Paiva, Ana. "Agents that remember can tell stories". 2007.
    Published • 10.1145/1329125.1329138
  36. Dias, João; Louchart, Sandy; Aylett, Ruth; Paiva, Ana. "Double appraisal for synthetic characters". 2007.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_55
  37. Dias, João; Ho, Wan Ching; Vogt, Thurid; Beeckman, Nathalie; Paiva, Ana. "I Know What I Did Last Summer: Autobiographic memory in Synthetic Characters". 2007.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-540-74889-2_53
  38. Krieger, Michael; Aylett, Ruth; Dias, João; Paiva, Ana. "An Authoring Tool for an Emergent Narrative Storytelling System". Paper presented in 2007 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, 2007.
    Published
  39. Aylett, Ruth; Dias, João; Figueiredo, Rui; Louchart, Sandy; Paiva, Ana. "Making It Up as You Go Along--Improvising Stories for Pedagogical Purposes". 2006.
    Published • 10.1007/11821830_25
  40. Dias, João; Aylett, Ruth; Paiva, Ana. "An Affectively Driven Planner for Synthetic Characters". 2006.
    Published
  41. Figueiredo, Rui; Dias, João; Aylett, Ruth; Louchart, Sandy; Paiva, Ana. "Shaping Emergent Narratives for a Pedagogical Application". Paper presented in 4th International Conference for Narrative and Learning Environments, 2006.
    Published
  42. Louchart, Sandy; Aylett, Ruth; Enz, Sibylle; Dias, João. "Understanding Emotions in Drama, a Step Towards Interactive Narratives". 2006.
    Published
  43. Aylett, Ruth; Louchart, Sandy; Dias, João; Paiva, Ana; Vala, Marco; Woods, Sarah; Hall, Lynne. "Unscripted Narrative for Affectively Driven Characters.". 2005.
    Published • 10.1109/MCG.2006.71
  44. Dias, João; Paiva, Ana. "Feeling and Reasoning: A Computational Model for Emotional Characters". 2005.
    Published • 10.1007/11595014_13
  45. Aylett, Ruth; Louchart, Sandy; Dias, João; Paiva, Ana; Vala, Marco. "FearNot!--An Experiment in Emergent Narrative". 2005.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/11550617_26
  46. Paiva, Ana; Dias, João; Sobral, Daniel; Aylett, Ruth; Sobreperez, Polly; Woods, Sarah; Hall, Lynne. "Caring for Agents and Agents that Care: Building Empathic Relations with Synthetic Agents". 2004.
    Published • 10.1109/AAMAS.2004.10047
Conference poster
  1. Battaglino, Cristina; Damiano, Rossana; Dias, João. "Telling the Difference Between Asking and Stealing: Moral Emotions in Value-based Narrative Characters". Paper presented in Seventh Intelligent Narrative Technologies Workshop, 2014.
  2. Dias, João; Reis, Henrique; Paiva, Ana. "The Great Deceivers: Virtual Agents and Believable Lies". Paper presented in CogSci 2013 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013.
  3. Marques, Nuno; Melo, Francisco; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Dias, João; Prada, Rui; Paiva, Ana. "Towards Agents with Human-Like Decisions Under Uncertainty". Paper presented in CogSci 2013 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013.
Edited book
  1. Dias, João. Games and Learning Alliance 6th International Conference, GALA 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, December 5–7, 2017, Proceedings. Springer. 2017.
    Published • Editor
  2. Bosse, Tibor; Broekens, Joost; Dias, João; van der Zwan, Janneke. Emotion Modeling Towards Pragmatic Models of Affective Processes. Springer International Publishing. 2014.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-12973-0 • Editor
Journal article
  1. Costa, Luis Felipe C.; Gomes, Samuel; Santos, Ana Moura; Xexéo, Geraldo; Lima, Yuri; Prada, Rui; Martinho, Carlos; Dias, João. "Heroine's Learning Journey: Motivating Women in STEM Online Courses Through the Power of a Narrative". IEEE Access (2024): 1-1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3360376.
    10.1109/access.2024.3360376
  2. Baptista, Jorge; Reis, Sónia; Santos, Pedro A.; Dias, João. "Comparação de anotações AMR entre línguas: problemas e soluções". Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (2024):
    Accepted
  3. Gomes, S.; Rocha, J.B.; Dias, J.; Martinho, C.. "Designing a Mood-Mediated Multi-level Reasoner". IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2023): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85164389211&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TAFFC.2023.3293310
  4. Gomes, S.; Costa, L.; Martinho, C.; Dias, J.; Xexéo, G.; Moura Santos, A.. "Modeling students' behavioral engagement through different in-class behavior styles". International Journal of STEM Education 10 1 (2023): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85150174140&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s40594-023-00407-w
  5. Guimarães, Manuel; Prada, Rui; Santos, Pedro A.; Dias, João; Soeiro, Cristina; Guerra, Raquel; Steiner-Stanitznig, Christina; Molinari, Andrea. "ISPO: A Serious Game to train the Interview Skills of Police Officers". International Journal of Serious Games 9 4 (2022): 43-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v9i4.514.
    10.17083/ijsg.v9i4.514
  6. Mascarenhas, S.; Guimarães, M.; Prada, R.; Santos, P.A.; Dias, J.; Paiva, A.. "FAtiMA Toolkit: Toward an Accessible Tool for the Development of Socio-emotional Agents". ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems 12 1 (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85127788953&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/3510822
  7. Mittmann, G.; Barnard, A.; Krammer, I.; Martins, D.; Dias, J.. "LINA - A Social Augmented Reality Game around Mental Health, Supporting Real-world Connection and Sense of Belonging for Early Adolescents". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6 (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85146309633&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/3549505
  8. Westera, Wim; Prada, Rui; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Santos, Pedro A.; Dias, João; Guimarães, Manuel; Georgiadis, Konstantinos; et al. "Artificial intelligence moving serious gaming: Presenting reusable game AI components". Education and Information Technologies 25 1 (2019): 351-380. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-019-09968-2.
    Published • 10.1007/s10639-019-09968-2
  9. Granatyr, Jones; Osman, Nardine; Dias, João; Nunes, Maria Augusta Silveira Netto; Masthoff, Judith; Enembreck, Fabrício; Lessing, Otto Robert; et al. "The Need for Affective Trust Applied to Trust and Reputation Models". ACM Computing Surveys 50 4 (2017): 1-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3078833.
    Published • 10.1145/3078833
  10. Dias, João; Machado, António; Santos, Pedro. "On the Structure of Role Playing Game Quests.". Revista de Ci^encias da Computação 12 (2017):
    Published • 10.34627/rcc.v12iEspecial
  11. Rodrigues, Sérgio Hortas; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Dias, João; Paiva, Ana. "A Process Model of Empathy For Virtual Agents". Interacting with Computers 27 4 (2014): 371-391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwu001.
    Published • 10.1093/iwc/iwu001
  12. Lim, Mei Yii; Dias, João; Aylett, Ruth; Paiva, Ana. "Creating adaptive affective autonomous NPCs". Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 24 2 (2010): 287-311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-010-9161-2.
    Published • 10.1007/s10458-010-9161-2
  13. Mascarenhas, Samuel; Dias, João; Prada, Rui; Paiva, Ana. "A DIMENSIONAL MODEL FOR CULTURAL BEHAVIOR IN VIRTUAL AGENTS". Applied Artificial Intelligence 24 6 (2010): 552-574. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2010.492163.
    Published • 10.1080/08839514.2010.492163
  14. Louchart, Sandy; Aylett, Ruth; Kriegel, Michael; Dias, João; Figueiredo, Rui; Paiva, Ana. "Authoring Emergent Narrative-Based Games". Journal of Game Development 3 (2008): 19-37.
    Published
  15. Paiva, Ana; Dias, João; Sobral, Daniel; Aylett, Ruth; Woods, Sarah; Hall, Lynne; Zoll, Carsten. "LEARNING BY FEELING: EVOKING EMPATHY WITH SYNTHETIC CHARACTERS". Applied Artificial Intelligence 19 3-4 (2005): 235-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08839510590910165.
    Published • 10.1080/08839510590910165
Journal issue
  1. Santos, Pedro; Veltkamp, Remco; Dias, João. "GALA Conf Special Issue". International Journal of Serious Games 5 3 (2018): https://doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v5i3.264.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.17083/ijsg.v5i3.264 • Invited editor
Report
  1. Rodrigues, Pedro; Dias, João; Beate Schrank; Kate Anne Woodcock. 2019. Recommender Systems and People-to-People Recommendations: An Analysis of Trends in Research. Attached in submission.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Dias, João. "Agents with Emotional Intelligence". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2013.
  2. Dias, João. "Fearnot!: Creating Emotional Autonomous Synthetic Characters for Empathic Interactions". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2005.

Other

Other output
  1. FAtiMA toolkit - Toward an effective and accessible tool for the development of intelligent virtual agents and social robots. 2021. Mascarenhas, S.; Guimarães, M.; Santos, P.A.; Prada, R.; Paiva, A.; Dias, J.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85102541872&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020 From traditional Q-Learning to Deep Reinforcement Learning Artificial Intelligence for Games Winter School
Instituto Politécnico do Cavado e do Ave
2016/08 Artificial Intelligence for Games Summer School Lisbon Game Sprint
BEST (Portugal)
2016/08 Game Research Summer School Lisbon Game Sprint
BEST (Portugal)
2016 Adversarial Search in Strategy Games Advanced School on Artificial Intelligence applied to the development of Digital Games
IPCA (Portugal)
2016 Hands on Path-finding Advanced School on Artificial Intelligence applied to the development of Digital Games
IPCA (Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022 - Current FlexiDialoge – Integrating Dialog Trees with LLMs.
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/09/01 - Current Grounded Text Generation for Socially Intelligent Agents
Co-supervisor of Ana Antunes
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/09/01 - Current Intelligent Interactive System for Promoting Social Wellbeing among Pre-adolescents
Co-supervisor of Pedro Rodrigues
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/09/01 - Current Preference-driven Group Management - From Theory and Simulation to Real Life Adaptation
Co-supervisor of Samuel Simão Canada Gomes
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - 2024 MRAG: Developing na Agentic Framework for Therapeutic Support Systems
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - 2024 LLMs applied to Embodied Virtual Agents.
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2024 Conditional Latent Diffusion Models for Controlled Terrain Generation
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2023/09 Towards the next generation of Socially Intelligent Agents
Co-supervisor of Manuel Guimarães
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Machine Learning Techniques applied to the Diplomacy Board Game.
Co-supervisor of André Araujo
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2023 NFLegacy, towards a NFT-based Game Ecosystem
Co-supervisor of Pedro Trincheiras
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2023 A Semantic Search System for the Legal Domain
Supervisor of Gonçalo Mascarenhas
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2021 - 2023 A Semantic Search System for the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça
Co-supervisor of Rui Melo
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2022/12/05 Friendly Lords: Implementing an Artificial Intelligence Social Architecture in Mount & Blade II: Bannerllord
Supervisor of David Cristóvão Ricardo
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/09 - 2022/06 NLP Applied to Portuguese Consumer Law
Co-supervisor of Nuno Cerqueira Pablo Cordeiro
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Creation of a Mental Health Virtual Assistant for College Students
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Emotionally Expressive Motion Controller for Virtual Character Locomotion Animations
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Dual Critic Conditional Wasserstein GAN for Height-Map Generation.
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/10/31 A Procedural Quest Generator for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Co-supervisor of Marco António dos Santos Cabral
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/10/31 Cunning Lords: Tactical AI and Troop Control for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Co-supervisor of Joaquim Manuel Rebotim Rosado Piteira Quadrado
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/10/31 CiF-Bannerlord, a Social Artificial Intelligence System for Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord
Co-supervisor of Filipe Miguel Dias da Silveira
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/09/30 The General Lord – Designing And Implementing A Persistent Multiplayer Mode in a AAA game
Co-supervisor of Marcos Pedrosa Pêgo
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/06/01 Natural Language Processing Appplied to the Portuguese Consumer Law
Co-supervisor of Maria Ana de Sousa e Moura Duarte
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020 - 2021 MCTS-based Planning for Grand Strategy Games
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Emotional Episode Generation using GPT-2
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020 - 2021 GAN-Based Content Generation of Maps for Strategy Games
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/12/01 Character Locomotion using Imitation Learning from Observations with Wavelets
Co-supervisor of João Manuel da Silva Carias
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/12/01 On the Performance of GANs for Estimating Univariate Distributions
Co-supervisor
 Matemática Aplicada (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2020/01/10 Creating an Agent for Amazon’s Alexa
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal
2019 - 2019 From Caveman to Gentleman, Implementing an Artificial Intelligence social architecture in Conan Exiles
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal
2019 - 2019 LINA: A Serious Game to Help Children Improve Social Relations With Their Peers
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal
2018 - 2018 An Affect-Aware Intelligent Tutoring System for EmoRegulators A Restricted-Perception Wizard-of-Oz Approach
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Using Deep Learning to create a Universal Game Player
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Effect of Emotions in Deception playing the Coup Game
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017 - 2017 A Deep Learning Approach to the Geometry Friends Game
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Application and Design of GPU Parallel RRT for Racing Car Simulation
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal
2016 - 2016 The Effect of Theory of Mind in Detecting Deception
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Social Sharing of Emotions for Intelligent Agents
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015 - 2015 CoBelievable: the effect of Cooperation in Believability
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Local Organizer of the International Conference IWINAC 2024 (2024/06)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2023 - Current Organizer of TOPAS Sul, a programming competition for high-school students, held in Universidade do Algarve (2023)
Call (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Organizer of the 22 ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference, held in Faro, Portugal (2022/09 - 2022/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2021 - 2021 Local Organizing Co-Chair of the International Conference QUATIC (Quality of Information and Communications Technology), which will take place in University of Algarve in 2021. (2021 - 2021)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Organização da Conferência GALA (Games and Learning Alliance) (2017/12)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Membro do comité organizador da Thematic Track Artificial Intelligence in Games, da conferência EPIA, Porto, Setembro de 2017 (2017 - 2017)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Organização da IVA 2014 Workshop on Affective Agents (2014 - 2014)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Membro principal do Comité Organizador da Workshop Emotional Empathic Agents, que teve lugar na décima primeira conferência internacional sobre Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) em Valência, 2012. (2012 - 2012)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2017 Représentations Relationnelles et Apprentissage Interactif pour l’Apprentissage Efficace de Comportement Cooperatif,
(Thesis) Arguer
 Thibaut Munzer (PhD)
Université de Bordeaux, France
2016 Contributions of Computational Cognitive Modeling to the Understanding of the Financial Markets
(Thesis) Arguer
 Davi Baccan (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2014 Creating Partly Autonomous Expressive Virtual Actors for Computer Animation
(Thesis) Arguer
 Rogério Silva (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016 - 2022 Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciência nos Videojogos Member of the administration board, and treasurer

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Director and member of the crediting commission of the Master in Informatics Engineering (MEI)
Director
 Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022 - Current Member of the Scientific Commission of MIUP (Maratona Inter-universitária de Programação)
Member
 Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2021 - Current Vice-president of the Bachelour's degree in Informatics Engineering (LEI)
President / Vice-president
 Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2013 - 2020 Membro do Conselho Científico do INESC-ID
Member
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2018 - 2020 Games and Learning Alliance Conference
2017 - 2020 Intelligent Virtual Agents
2014 - 2020 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
2019 - 2019 European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2015 - 2019 Affective Computing and Intelligent Interactions

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2021 - Current Evaluation of applications to project financing
Evaluator
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal Agência para o Investimento e Comércio Externo de Portugal EPE

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023 Interview about the CISCA research center and the projecto ASP-belong UAlgZine

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024 - Current 90 Segundos de Ciência (90 Seconds of Science) Interview about ASP-belong research project

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2018 - Current IEEE Transactions on Games IEEE
2020 - 2020 IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies IEEE
2019 - 2020 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing IEEE
2019 - 2019 International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education Springer

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2017 - 2018 Tutor do Programa Gulbenkian Novos Talentos em Inteligência Artificial Amândio Faustino