RT @ieee_cog: We are thrilled to announce our newly confirmed keynote speaker for CoG2025 – Caio Chagas, Creative Director at @ilexgames a….

RT @ieee_cog: Meet CoG2025's keynote pannel: @MajaPantic70, Tommy Thompson from @AIandGames and Alena Denisova @SevenFridays! 🙌 Find more i….

You can check it out the two papers here:

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! 🙌

Don't miss the deadline! Guarantee your presence at #CoG2025!.@InescID.

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📖 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, after it won "Outstanding Paper Award" at ECAI 2023! Congratulations to the authors!👏

🧠✨ GAIPS at the @hhai_conference in Pisa, Italy! .Members Ana Carrasco, Regina Duarte, and Rui Prada attended, along with Samuele Tonati — a former PhD visiting researcher at GAIPS — who’s been actively collaborating with Regina Duarte.

📖 Presented @AAMASconf, co-authored by GAIPS members @PipzCorreiaz and Joana Campos .Results from a user study (N=256) show that manipulating the feedback strategy of a virtual agent in a cooperation game can promote cooperation. Read it here:

📖 Presented @AAMASconf.The authors use the extended Lewis Game framework to demonstrate how agents use implicit repair to adapt their communication in noisy environments, with very good results. Read it here:

📖 Presented @AAMASconf .The authors propose a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning approach (DNA-MARL) for agents to learn cooperative behavior using only local observations and communication, which outperforms existing approaches. Read it here:

GAIPS made a strong presence @AAMASconf in Detroit (USA). Guilherme Varela and Fábio Vital presented 2 full papers and 1 extended abstract, also co-authored by Francisco Melo. Additionally, Joana Campos and Filipa Correia co-authored 1 full paper presented at the conference.

Stay tuned for the proceedings link!.

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

🌍✨ The EMPOWER EU project held its final meeting last week in Brussels. Carlos Martinho, Joana Brito, Joana Campos and Miguel Belbute participated and presented their work . A big thank you to all involved and on to the next project!. #EMPOWER #NDD #digitaleducation

Save the date: 21st of May, at 11 a.m. in room 1.44, IST Taguspark Campus. See you there!.

Join us on another edition of Talks@GAIPS! This month we have the pleasure of hosting Maria Raposo de Lima, from Imperial College London presenting her work on “Title: Conversational AI to Support Well-being and Cognitive Health in Ageing and Dementia Care”.

📢 New GAIPS publication in TMLR by Diogo Carvalho, Pedro Santos & Francisco Melo!. They propose and validate the multi-Q-learning algorithm, which converges and can approximate the optimal solution with arbitrary precision. 🔗