Nuno Andrade da Cruz Henriques

University of Lisbon | UL

The field of Cognitive Science is broader enough on the interdisciplinary study of the brain, mind, and intelligence with a scientific research community gaining momentum over the last few decades. Specifically, joining the two fields of psychology and artificial intelligence (AI) one may envision agents, embodied or not, human-like or wearable, wi...

The humans are affective and cognitive beings relying on memories for their individual and social identities. Also, human dyadic bonds require some common beliefs such as empathetic behaviour for better interaction. In this sense, research studies involving human-agent interaction should resource on affect, cognition, and memory integration. The de...

An agent, artificial or human, must be continuously adjusting its behaviour in order to thrive in a more or less demanding environment. An artificial agent with the ability to predict human emotional valence in a geospatial and temporal context requires proper adaptation to its mobile device environment with resource consumption strict restrictions...

This paper presents ARES-III, a multi-purpose service robot for robust operation in all-terrain outdoor environments. Currently in pre-production phase, ARES-III is aimed to fulfil the requirements of a robotic platform that is able to support the development of real world applications in surveillance, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and oth...

The boundaries of art are subjective, but the impetus for art is often associated with creativity, regarded with wonder and admiration along human history. Most interesting activities and their products are a result of creativity. The main goal of our approach is to explore new creative ways of editing and producing videos, using evolutionary algor...

We propose a new multimedia authoring paradigm based on evolutionary computation, video annotation, and cinematic rules. New clips are produced in an evolving population through genetic transformations influenced by user choices, and regulated by cinematic techniques like montage and video editing. The evolutionary mechanisms, through the fitness f...

This dissertation proposes a new approach regarding multimedia documents creation. To support this approach, an evolutionary module and a multimedia production system were conceived, integrated and implemented. A new paradigm is pursued for editing multimedia described documents. Cut and merge of video segments is applied by a Genetic Algorithm. Th...