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2023

• Emotions in Decision-Making for AI agents: A Systematic Review (In preparation)
  Aarti Malhotra
  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Journal


• Social Event Context classification (In preparation)
  Aarti Malhotra, Garima Sharma, Rishikesh, Abhinav Dhall, Jesse Hoey
  Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction, 2023

2022

• Socially Intelligent Affective AI
  Aarti Malhotra
  Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022
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• User perspectives on emotionally aligned social robots for older adults and persons living with dementia
  Jill Dosso, Ela Bandari, Aarti Malhotra, Jesse Hoey, Francois Michaud, Tony Prescott, and Julie Robillard
  The Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, 2022
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• Towards emotionally aligned social robots for dementia: perspectives of care partners and persons with dementia
  Jill Dosso, Ela Bandari, Aarti Malhotra, Jesse Hoey, Francois Michaud, Tony Prescott, and Julie Robillard
  Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2022
  [PDF]

2021

• Emotions in Socio-cultural Interactive AI Agents
  Aarti Malhotra, Jesse Hoey
  In ACII 2021 workshop on ‘Functions of emotions for socially interactive agents’
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• The Role of Identities in Socially Interactive Affective Robots
  Aarti Malhotra, Jesse Hoey
  In Human-Robot Interaction Conference Workshop on RoboIdentities, 2021
  [PDF]

2020

• A Biologically-Inspired Neural Implementation of Affect Control Theory
  Aarti Malhotra, Terrance Stewart, Jesse Hoey
  In 18th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Toronto, 2020
  [Video and paper]

2016

• Design and Study of Emotions in Virtual Humans for Assistive Technologies
  Aarti Malhotra
  Masters Thesis, University of Waterloo
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• A study of elderly people's emotional understanding of prompts given by virtual humans
  Pascal Poupart, Aarti Malhotra, Jesse Hoey, Alexandra Konig, Sarel van Vuuren
  Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Mexico, 2016.
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• Defining affective identities in elderly nursing home residents for the design of an emotionally intelligent cognitive assistant
  Alexandra Konig, Linda E Francis, Aarti Malhotra, Jesse Hoey
  Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Mexico, 2016.
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• Designing personalized prompts for a virtual assistant to support elderly care home residents
  Alexandra Konig, Aarti Malhotra, Jesse Hoey, Linda E Francis
  Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Mexico, 2016.
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2015

• An exploratory study into the use of an emotionally aware cognitive assistant
  Aarti Malhotra, Lifei Yu, Tobias Schroeder and Jesse Hoey
  Proc. AAAI Workshop on artificial intelligence applied to assistive technologies and smart environments, Austin, TX, 2015 (bibtex)
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• Approximate Linear Programming for Constrained Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
  Pascal Poupart, Aarti Malhotra, Pei Pei, Kee-Eung Kim, Bongseok Goh and Michael Bowling
  Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 7 pages, Austin, Texas, USA, 2015.
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2014

• Affectively Aligned Cognitive Assistance using Bayesian Affect Control Theory.
  Luyuan Lin, Stephen Czarnuch, Aarti Malhotra, Lifei Yu, Tobias Schroeder and Jesse Hoey
  Proc. of International Workconference on Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL), Belfast, UK, 2014 (bibtex)
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