Ruth Aylett

Orcid: 0000-0002-8606-5571

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  • Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK


According to our database1, Ruth Aylett authored at least 172 papers between 1991 and 2023.

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2023
Agency and legibility for artists through Experiential AI.
CoRR, 2023

Experiential AI: A transdisciplinary framework for legibility and agency in AI.
CoRR, 2023

Embodied Conversational Agents: Trust, Deception and the Suspension of Disbelief.
Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, 2023

2022
Challenge Discussion on Socially Interactive Agents: Considerations on Social Interaction, Computational Architectures, Evaluation, and Ethics.
Proceedings of the Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents:20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, 2022

Interactive Narrative and Story-telling.
Proceedings of the Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents:20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, 2022

Foreword.
Proceedings of the Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents:20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, 2022

2021
An Architecture for Emotional Facial Expressions as Social Signals.
IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput., 2021

2020
Real-time simulation of virtual humans' emotional facial expressions, harnessing autonomic physiological and musculoskeletal control.
Proceedings of the IVA '20: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2020

"Sorry to Disturb You": Autism and Robot Interruptions.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020

2019
Experiential AI.
AI Matters, 2019

2018
Endowing a Robotic Tutor with Empathic Qualities: Design and Pilot Evaluation.
Int. J. Humanoid Robotics, 2018

Social Impact of Recharging Activity in Long-Term HRI and Verbal Strategies to Manage User Expectations During Recharge.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2018

Investigating social vulnerability in children using computer mediated role-play.
Comput. Educ., 2018

Cultural Social Signal Interplay with an Expressive Robot.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2018

Robot Expressive Behaviour and Autistic Traits.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2018

2017
Do You Think I Approve of That? Designing Facial Expressions for a Robot.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 9th International Conference, 2017

The Interaction Between Voice and Appearance in the Embodiment of a Robot Tutor.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 9th International Conference, 2017

Evaluating robot facial expressions.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2017

2016
Modeling culture in intelligent virtual agents - From theory to implementation.
Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst., 2016


How Expressiveness of a Robotic Tutor is Perceived by Children in a Learning Environment.
Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interation, 2016

Modeling Culture in Intelligent Virtual Agents - From Theory to Implementation (Extended Abstract).
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, 2016

A Treasure Hunt With An Empathic Virtual Tutor: (Demonstration).
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, 2016

I Remember You!: Interaction with Memory for an Empathic Virtual Robotic Tutor.
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, 2016

Am I bovvered?: Fifteen years of Empathic Agents.
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, 2016

2015
Learning to Overcome Cultural Conflict through Engaging with Intelligent Agents in Synthetic Cultures.
Int. J. Artif. Intell. Educ., 2015

How motor speed of a robot face can influence the "older" user's perception of facial expression?
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2015

The Partial Poker-Face - When Affective Characters Try to Hide Their True Emotions.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents - 15th International Conference, 2015

From Non-human to Human: Adult's and Children's Perceptions of Agents Varying in Humanness.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents - 15th International Conference, 2015

Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous Synthetic Characters.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents - 15th International Conference, 2015

Investigating Narrative Modelling for Digital Games.
Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2015

Empathic Robotic Tutors: Map Guide.
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2015

The Empathic Robotic Tutor: Featuring the NAO Robot.
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2015

Influencing the Learning Experience Through Affective Agent Feedback in a Real-World Treasure Hunt: (Extended Abstract).
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2015

An Empathic Robotic Tutor in a Map Application.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2015

2014
Computational Models of Cultural Behavior for Human-Agent Interaction (Dagstuhl Seminar 14131).
Dagstuhl Reports, 2014

Off the Beaten Track! The Infinite Scotland Serious Game Design Approach.
Proceedings of the Serious Games Development and Applications, 2014

How can a robot signal its incapability to perform a certain task to humans in an acceptable manner?
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014

Towards dialogue dimensions for a robotic tutor in collaborative learning scenarios.
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014

A Step towards Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous Synthetic Characters.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents - 14th International Conference, 2014

Developing Interactive Embodied Characters Using the Thalamus Framework: A Collaborative Approach.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents - 14th International Conference, 2014

Affective Feedback for a Virtual Robot in a Real-World Treasure Hunt.
Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Multimodal, 2014

Towards a serious game playing empathic robotic tutorial dialogue system.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2014

Exploring socially intelligent recharge behaviour for human-robot interaction.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2014

Engaging with virtual characters using a pictorial interaction language.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

MIXER: why the difference?
Proceedings of the International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2014

Werewolves, cheats, and cultural sensitivity.
Proceedings of the International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2014

I'm the mayor: a robot tutor in enercities-2.
Proceedings of the International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2014

Spotting Social Interaction by Using the Robot Energy Consumption.
Proceedings of the 2014 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 13-15, 2014, 2014

An Embodied Empathic Tutor.
Proceedings of the 2014 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 13-15, 2014, 2014

2013
Serious game evaluation as a meta-game.
Interact. Technol. Smart Educ., 2013

Demonstration of the EmoteWizard of Oz Interface for Empathic Robotic Tutors.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

Do I remember you? Memory and identity in multiple embodiments.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2013

Demonstrating SerenA: Chance Encounters in the Space of Ideas.
Proceedings of the Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2013

SerenA: A Multi-site Pervasive Agent Environment That Supports Serendipitous Discovery in Research.
Proceedings of the Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2013

Traveller: An Interactive Cultural Training System Controlled by User-Defined Body Gestures.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2013, 2013

Suitability of Modelling Context for Use within Emergent Narrative.
Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling - 6th International Conference, 2013

Theoretical Considerations towards Authoring Emergent Narrative.
Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling - 6th International Conference, 2013

Towards empathic artificial tutors.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2013

Traveller: Interacting with agents to deal with misunderstandings due to culture.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2013

The Great Deceivers: Virtual Agents and Believable Lies.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

I contain multitudes: creativity and emergent narrative.
Proceedings of the Creativity and Cognition 2013, 2013

Traveller: an intercultural training system with intelligent agents.
Proceedings of the International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2013

Memory and the design of migrating virtual agents.
Proceedings of the International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2013

Towards Empathic Virtual and Robotic Tutors.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 16th International Conference, 2013

2012
Creating adaptive affective autonomous NPCs.
Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst., 2012

How Do You Like Me in This: User Embodiment Preferences for Companion Agents.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents - 12th International Conference, 2012

Distributed Drama Management: Beyond Double Appraisal in Emergent Narrative.
Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling - 5th International Conference, 2012

Socially constrained management of power resources for social mobile robots.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2012

Migrating artificial companions (demonstration).
Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2012

Can I trust you?: sharing information with artificial companions.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2012

2011
Technology-enhanced role-play for social and emotional learning context - Intercultural empathy.
Entertain. Comput., 2011

Advocating an ethical memory model for artificial companions from a human-centred perspective.
AI Soc., 2011

Special issue on social impact of AI: killer robots or friendly fridges.
AI Soc., 2011

Robots Meet IVAs: A Mind-Body Interface for Migrating Artificial Intelligent Agents.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents - 11th International Conference, 2011

Long-term socially perceptive and interactive robot companions: challenges and future perspectives.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2011

Research in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Story-Telling.
Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2011

Managing social constraints on recharge behaviour for robot companions using memory.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 2011

Human-like memory retrieval mechanisms for social companions.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), 2011

Forgetting through generalisation: a companion with selective memory.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), 2011

2010
Guest editorial of the special issue on intelligent virtual agents.
Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst., 2010

Self-Reconfiguration of Industrial Mobile Robots.
Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, 2010

Ubiquitous social perception abilities for interaction initiation in human-robot interaction.
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Affective interaction in natural environments, 2010

Crowd-Sourced AI Authoring with ENIGMA.
Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2010

MobComm: Using BDI-agents for the reconfiguration of mobile commissioning robots.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2010

2009
Culture-personality based affective model.
AI Soc., 2009

An Emergent Emotion Model for an Affective Mobile Guide with Attitude.
Appl. Artif. Intell., 2009

An initial memory model for virtual and robot companions supporting migration and long-term interaction.
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009

Technology-Enhanced Role-Play for Intercultural Learning Contexts.
Proceedings of the Entertainment Computing, 2009

Want to Know How to Play the Game? Ask the ORACLE!
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 9th International Conference, 2009

A Socially-Aware Memory for Companion Agents.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 9th International Conference, 2009

An Immersive Approach to Evaluating Role Play.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 9th International Conference, 2009

Towards Intelligent Computer Assisted Educational Role-Play.
Proceedings of the Learning by Playing. Game-based Education System Design and Development, 2009

But that was in another country: agents and intercultural empathy.
Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), 2009

ORIENT: interactive agents for stage-based role-play.
Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), 2009

Intelligent NPCs for Educational Role Play Game.
Proceedings of the Agents for Games and Simulations, 2009

FearNot!: providing children with strategies to cope with bullying.
Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children, 2009

Modeling the Story Facilitation of Game Masters in Multi-Player Role-Playing Games.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies II, 2009

Affective Agents for Education Against Bullying.
Proceedings of the Affective Information Processing, 2009

2008
On the implications of the virtual storyteller's point of view.
Knowl. Eng. Rev., 2008

Improving Adaptiveness in Autonomous Characters.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 8th International Conference, 2008

Emergent Narrative as a Novel Framework for Massively Collaborative Authoring.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 8th International Conference, 2008

Managing emergent character-based narrative.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment, 2008

Purposeful Authoring for Emergent Narrative.
Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2008

Emergent Stories Facilitated.
Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2008

If I were you: double appraisal in affective agents.
Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), 2008

So tell me what happened: turning agent-based interactive drama into comics.
Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), 2008

Profiling Culture for Affective Synthetic Characters.
Proceedings of the Adaptive Agents in Cultural Contexts, 2008

2007
On the Use of Virtual Animals with Artificial Fear in Virtual Environments.
New Gener. Comput., 2007

Narrative Construction in a Mobile Tour Guide.
Proceedings of the Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling, 2007

FearNot! - An Emergent Narrative Approach to Virtual Dramas for Anti-bullying Education.
Proceedings of the Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling, 2007

Being There: Participants and Spectators in Interactive Narrative.
Proceedings of the Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling, 2007

Double Appraisal for Synthetic Characters.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 7th International Conference, 2007

Feel the Difference: A Guide with Attitude!
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 7th International Conference, 2007

Adapting Hierarchical Social Organisation by Introducing Fear into an Agent Architecture.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 7th International Conference, 2007

From IVAs to Comics Generating Comic Strips from Emergent Stories with Autonomous Characters.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 7th International Conference, 2007

Fear and the Behaviour of Virtual Flocking Animals.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

FearNot! demo: a virtual environment with synthetic characters to help bullying.
Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), 2007

From Synthetic Characters to Virtual Actors.
Proceedings of the Third Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, 2007

Affective Adaptation of Synthetic Social Behaviour.
Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2007

Building Synthetic Actors for Interactive Dramas.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies, 2007

An Authoring Tool for an Emergent Narrative Storytelling System.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies, 2007

2006
Using Theory of Mind Methods to Investigate Empathic engagement with Synthetic Characters.
Int. J. Humanoid Robotics, 2006

Unscripted Narrative for Affectively Driven Characters.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2006

FearNot! Involving Children in the Design of a Virtual Learning Environment.
Int. J. Artif. Intell. Educ., 2006

FearNot's Appearance: Reflecting Children's Expectations and Perspectives.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 6th International Conference, 2006

Making It Up as You Go Along - Improvising Stories for Pedagogical Purposes.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 6th International Conference, 2006

Towards Primate-Like Synthetic Sociability.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 6th International Conference, 2006

An Affectively Driven Planner for Synthetic Characters.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2006

2005
REMOTE: Desk-top Virtual Reality for future command and control?
Virtual Real., 2005

Learning By Feeling: Evoking Empathy With Synthetic Characters.
Appl. Artif. Intell., 2005

Managing a Non-linear Scenario - A Narrative Evolution.
Proceedings of the Virtual Storytelling, 2005

Emergent Affective and Personality Model.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 5th International Working Conference, 2005

FearNot! - An Experiment in Emergent Narrative.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 5th International Working Conference, 2005

E-Learning Environment Based on Intelligent Synthetic Characters.
Proceedings of the Computational Science and Its Applications, 2005

Unscripted Narrative for Affectively Driven Characters.
Proceedings of the First Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, 2005

Affective Guide with Attitude.
Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2005

Achieving Empathic Engagement Through Affective Interaction with Synthetic Characters.
Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2005

2004
Don't You Escape! I'll Tell You My Story.
Proceedings of the MICAI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2004

Giving Embodied Agents a Grid-Boost.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents, 2004

Speaking and acting - Interacting language and action for an expressive character.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents, 2004

Welcome to MY Virtual Place.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents, 2004

Agents and Affect: Why Embodied Agents Need Affective Systems.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents, 2004

MY virtual graffiti system.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2004

Caring for Agents and Agents that Care: Building Empathic Relations with Synthetic Agents.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), 2004

Emotion and Action Selection: Regulating the Collective Behaviour of Agents in Virtual Environments.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), 2004

2003
Storytelling in virtual environments from a virtual guide perspective.
Virtual Real., 2003

Towards a narrative theory of virtual reality.
Virtual Real., 2003

Socially Intelligent Agents - Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots.
J. Documentation, 2003

Using Motivation-Driven Continuous Planning to Control the Behaviour of Virtual Agents.
Proceedings of the Virtual Storytelling; Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling, 2003

Let's run for It!: Conspecific Emotional Flocking Triggered via Virtual Pheromones.
Proceedings of the Smart Graphics, Third International Symposium, 2003

Solving the Narrative Paradox in VEs - Lessons from RPGs.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Agents, 4th International Workshop, 2003

That's My Point! Telling Stories from a Virtual Guide Perspective.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Agents, 4th International Workshop, 2003

Agents with No Aims: Motivation-Driven Continuous Planning.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Agents, 4th International Workshop, 2003

2002
Editorial message: special track on virtual reality, digital media, and computer games.
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2002

2001
Communicating Emotion in Virtual Environments through Artificial Scents.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, Third International Workshop, 2001

Intelligent Virtual Environments - A State-of-the-art Report.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, 2001

2000
Guest editorial - Applying agent technology to Virtual Reality: Intelligent virtual agents.
Virtual Real., 2000

Can models of agents be transferred between different areas?
Knowl. Eng. Rev., 2000

AI planning: solutions for real world problems.
Knowl. Based Syst., 2000

Applying Artificial Intelligence to Virtual Reality: Intelligent Virtual Environments.
Appl. Artif. Intell., 2000

Guest Editorial: Intelligent Virtual Environments.
Appl. Artif. Intell., 2000

1999
Virtual Teletubbies: Reapplying a Robot Architecture to Virtual Agents.
Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Autonomous Agents, 1999

Behavioural Virtual Agents.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence Today: Recent Trends and Developments, 1999

1998
Agent Systems and Applications.
Knowl. Eng. Rev., 1998

AI Planning in a Chemical Plant Domain.
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1998

1997
Planning and Chemical Plant Operating Procedure Synthesis: A Case Study.
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in AI Planning, 4th European Conference on Planning, 1997

What Does a Planner Need to Know About Execution?
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in AI Planning, 4th European Conference on Planning, 1997

Many Hands Make Light Work? An Investigation into Behaviourally Controlled Co-operant Autonomous Mobile Robots.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 1997

Supervising Multiple Cooperating Mobile Robots.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 1997

1996
Transitivity and Foregrounding in News Articles: Experiments in Information Retrieval and Automatic Summarising.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1996

1991
HELP - A Hierarchical Execution-Led Planner for Robotic Domains.
Proceedings of the European Workshop on Planning, 1991


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