📢 Join us Mon (Oct 6) at 10:30 (Lisbon) for a GAIPS talk by Dr. Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten (RWTH Aachen): Robots in Teams & Conflict. How can robots detect, face, or mediate group conflicts?

📍 IST Taguspark R1-38 | 🔗 Zoom here: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9839957292...

Here’s some photos of GAIPS member @pedrosantospps.bsky.social presenting his work on ICML 2025 in Vancouver and EWRL 2025 in Tübingen, Germany. His poster was selected as a "spotlight poster" (top 2.6% of the papers)! 🙌 Read his work here: icml.cc/virtual/2025...

This work will be presented this week at the EPIA 2025 international conference on Artificial Intelligence. Read it here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New publication! 📖

Visiting student Victor Pugliese collaborated with GAIPS members Diogo Carvalho, Fábio Faria and Francisco Melo on a paper titled “Optimizing 2D Packing Strategies for Autoclave Loading Using Deep Reinforcement Learning”

Make sure not to miss Anna’s insightful talks on these upcoming events! 📆

We welcome our newest senior researcher at GAIPS, Dr @annaciaunica.bsky.social ! 🙌 She will be attending ALife 2025 and Tech for Impact Summit 2025, and she will be making an appearance at Tufts University and on the 6th International Workshop on Active Inference.

You can check out the two papers here: eprints.soton.ac.uk/498596/1/GAL...
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More recently, the paper "Exploring Compatible Interaction Preferences with a Puzzle Video Game", published in the Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2025: Games at the Crossroads, uses the Alien Bar setup to explore ideas on interactions styles and group formation strategies.

"The Alien Bar Game: Puzzling Social Interaction Between Baristas", published on Special Issue for GALA 2024 Games Competition & Exhibition Book of Abstract, presents “The Alien Bar”, a game designed for research in teamwork and psychology that explores social dynamics.

📖 New publications from GAIPS members Samuel Gomes and Carlos Martinho! 🙌

GAIPS members Rui Prada and Carla Pacheco were recently at the CARMA Project's second general assembly, in Paris!

CARMA is 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻.

🔗 Find the full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ar...

📖 GAIPS member Diogo Carvalho brings home another publication in Reinforcement Learning! This article was published in the "Awards Track" special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (Elsevier), after it won "Outstanding Paper Award" at ECAI 2023! Congratulations to all the authors!👏

Stay tuned for the proceedings link!

Today, we congratulate our friend and former GAIPS member Ali Kordia on his publication at ICRA 2025! In this publication, Ali presents his work on a method for producing, optimizing, and coordinating multiple Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMP) to achieve a multi-robot collaborative task.

📖 New GAIPS paper on @icmlconf.bsky.social 2025, from @pedrosantospps.bsky.social, Alberto Sardinha and Francisco S. Melo!

📰 “The Number of Trials Matters in Infinite-Horizon General-Utility Markov Decision Processes”

Yesterday at the @gaipslab.bsky.social reading group on #human_ai_interaction we read:

Lee, S., Hwang, S., Kim, D., & Lee, K. (2025, April). Conversational Agents as Catalysts for Critical Thinking: Challenging Social Influence in Group Decision-making. CHI'25 LBW.

🌏 GAIPS Member Rui Prada has recently returned from two research visits, where he gave two talks:
🇲🇴 At Macao's University of Science and Technology: “Interactive Entertainment and Digital Impact Creation.
🇯🇵 At Ritsumeikan University in Osaka: “Social Agents and Serious Applications of Games"

New publication!
GAIPS Members José Bernardo Rocha and Rui Prada recently published a systematic review in IEEE Transactions on Games on the uses of Procedural Content Generation #pcg in cooperative games! #research #cooperativegames

This paper, showing the central role of emotion expressions in the evolution of cooperation in society, was published in the last volume of Scientific Reports!

We are glad to announce a new GAIPS publication on @springernature.com Scientific Reports, from GAIPS member Henrique Correia da Fonseca!

🔗 Find the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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