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Matthijs Pontier<br> Postdoc CAMeRA@VU<br> e-mail: <a href="mailto:matthijspon@gmail.com">matthijspon@gmail.com</a><br></big> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU University Amsterdam), CAMeRA<br> Buitenveldertselaan 3, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br> office: N-022 Metropolitan Building<small><br> phone: +31 (0) 20 598 3955<br> fax: +31 (0) 20 598 2990</small> </font> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top;"><img src="Matthijs052009.jpg" alt="" style="border: 0px solid ; "></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><big style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><big>Bio</big></big></p> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="sans-serif">Matthijs Pontier was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and went to the VU University of Amsterdam. He studied Artificial Intelligence as well as (Cognitive) Psychology, and obtained his Masters degree in the direction of Cognitive Science in 2007. He obtained his Ph.D in 2011, in which he developed Silicon Coppelia, a computational model of emotional intelligence, person perception and affective decision making. Currently, he is employed as a postdoc at CAMeRA at the VU University of Amsterdam.</font> <br><br> <p><big style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><big>Research interests</big></big></p> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="sans-serif"> <big>Cognitive Modelling:</big> <ul> <li>Machine Ethics</li> <li>Affective Decision Making</li> <li>Emotion Regulation</li> <li>Emotion Elicitation</li> </ul> <big>Applications of Cognitive Models in:</big> <ul> <li>Health care</li> <li>(Serious) Games</li> </ul> </font> <br> <p><big style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><big>Publications</big></big></p> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="sans-serif"> <b>In all publications listed below except the ones marked with a *, equal authorship is handled, and therefore the authors are listed in alphabetical order.</b><br> <br> <h3><u>Book Publications</u></h3> <b>2011</b> <ul><li>Pontier, M.A., <i>Virtual Agents for Human Communication - Emotion Regulation and Involvement-Distance Trade-Offs in Embodied Conversational Agents and Robots. </i> PhD Thesis. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="DissertationMAPontier.pdf">pdf</a></i><br></li></ul> <br> <h3><u>Journal Publications</u></h3> <b>2012</b> <ul><li>Hoorn, J.F., Pontier, M.A., and Siddiqui, G.F., <i>Coppélius' Concoction: Similarity and Complementarity Among Three Affect-related Agent Models. </i> Cognitive Systems Research Journal, 2012, pp. 33-49. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="COGSYS_378.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <b>2010</b> <ul><li>Bosse, T., Pontier, M.A., and Treur, J., <i>A Computational Model based on Gross Emotion Regulation Theory.</i> Cognitive Systems Research Journal, Vol. 11, 2010, pp. 211-230. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/papers/CSRJ_emotionreg.pdf">pdf</a>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2009.10.001">Elsevier Link</a></i></li></ul> <b>2008</b> <ul><li>Hoorn, J.F., and Pontier, M.A., <i>Robot communication - human contact with androids.</i> Information Design Journal, 2008, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 236-241. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="IDJ08.pdf">pdf</a>.</i></li></ul> <br> <h3><u>Conference Publications</u></h3> <b>2012</b> <ul><li>*Pontier, M.A., and Hoorn, J.F., <i>Toward machines that behave ethically better than humans do</i> In: Proceedings of of the 34th International Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci'12, 2012, in press. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="CogSci12.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <b>2011</b> <ul><li>Bosse, T., Brenninckmeyer, J., Kallisch, R., Paret, C., and Pontier, M.A., <i>Matching Skin Conductance Data to a Computational Model of Reappraisal</i> In: Proceedings of of the 33th International Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci'11, 2011, pp. 1888-1893. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="CogSci11.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <b>2010</b> <ul><li>*Pontier, M.A., Siddiqui, G.F., and Hoorn, J., <i>Speed Dating with an Affective Virtual Agent - Developing a Testbed for Emotion Models</i> In: J. Allbeck et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'10, 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6356, pp. 91-103. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="IVA2010Speeddating.pdf">pdf</a><br> <a href=http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/Speeddating-CondY13-M.html>Affective Agent Performing a Speed-date</a></i></big> &nbsp; (Downloading and installing Haptek Player is required)</i></li></ul> <ul><li>Bosse, T., Gratch, J., Hoorn, J.F.,Pontier, M.A., and Siddiqui, G.F., <i>Comparing Three Computational Models of Affect</i> In: Y. Demazeau et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS'10, 2010, Advances in Soft Computing, Vol. 70, pp. 175-184. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/PAAMS10-affectcomparison-v05.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <b>2009</b> <ul><li>Pontier, M.A., and Siddiqui, G.F., <i>An Affective Agent Playing Tic-Tac-Toe as Part of a Healing Environment</i> In: J.J. Yang et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA'09, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5925, Springer Verlag, 2009, pp. 33-47. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/PRIMA2009_Tic-Tac-Toe.pdf">pdf</a><br> <a href=http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/tictactoe.html>Affective Agent Playing Tic-Tac-Toe</a></i> (Downloading and installing Haptek Player is required)</i></big></li></ul> <ul><li>Pontier, M. A., and Siddiqui, G.F., <i>Silicon Coppélia: Integrating three affect-related models for establishing richer agent interaction</i> In: Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'09, 2009, pp. 194-202. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/IAT-2009_Coppelia.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <ul><li>Pontier, M.A., and Siddiqui, G.F., <i>Affective agents perceiving each other s actions.</i> In: Otamendi, J., Bargiela, A., Montes, J.L., Pedrera, L.M.D. (eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS'2009. European Council for Modelling and Simulation, 2009, pp. 194-202. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/ECMS2009_Affective_agents.pdf">pdf</a></i> <br><i>Nominated for best paper award.</i></li></ul> <b>2008</b> <ul><li>Hoorn, J.F., Pontier, M.A., and Siddiqui, G.F., <i>When the user is instrument to robot goals.</i> In: Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'08, 2008, pp. 296-301. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/IAT08_robot_goals.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <ul><li>Bosse, T., Hoorn, J.F., Pontier, M.A,, and Siddiqui, G.F., <i>Robot s Experience of Another Robot: Simulation.</i> In: Sloutsky, V., Love, B.C., and McRae, K. (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th International Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci'08, 2008, pp. 2498-2503. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/papers/CogSci08_robotsim.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <ul><li>Pontier, M.A., and Siddiqui, G.F., <i>A virtual therapist that responds empathically to your answers.</i> In: Prendinger, H., Lester, J., and Ishizuka, M. (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 08, 2008, pp. 417-425. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/IVA2008_VirtualTherapist.pdf">pdf</a><br> <a href=http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/welcome.php>Prototype Virtual Therapist application</a></i></big> (Downloading and installing Haptek Player is required)</i></big></li></ul> <ul><li>Pontier, M.A., <i>Simulating the Effects of Therapies and Traumas on Emotion Regulation.</i> In: Louca, L. S., Chrysanthou, Y., Oplatkova, Z., and Al-Begain, K. (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Modeling and Simulation, ECMS'08, 2008, pp. 104-110. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/ECMS2008_EmoRegTherapies.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <b>2007</b> <ul><li>Bosse, T., Pontier, M.A., Siddiqui, G.F., and Treur, J., <i>Incorporating Emotion Regulation into Virtual Stories.</i> In: Pelachaud, C., Martin, J.C., Andre, E., Chollet, G., Karpouzis, K., and Pele, D. (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'07. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4722. Springer Verlag, 2007, pp. 339-347. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/papers/IVA07-virtualstories-LNAI.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <ul><li>Bosse, T., Pontier, M., and Treur, J., <i>A Computational Model for Adaptive Emotion Regulation.</i> In: Lin, T.Y., Bradshaw, J.M., Klusch, M., Zhang, C., Broder, A., and Ho, H.(eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'07. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007, pp. 289-293. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/papers/IAT07-adapemreg-final.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <ul><li>Bosse, T., Pontier, M., and Treur, J., <i>A Dynamical System Modelling Approach to Gross Model of Emotion Regulation.</i> In: Lewis, R.L., Polk, T.A., Laird, J.E.(eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, ICCM'07. Taylor and Francis, 2007, pp. 187-192. Preliminary version: &nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/papers/ICCM07-emotionreg-final.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <br> <h3><u>Poster Publications</u></h3> <b>2010</b> <ul><li>*Pontier, M.A., Otte, M., and Hoorn, J.F., <i> An Affective Virtual Agent for Natural Human-Agent Interaction.</i> SNN Intelligent Machines Symposium 2010 &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/IMS2010.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <b>2008</b> <ul><li>Bosse, T., Hoorn, J.F., Pontier, M.A,, and Siddiqui, G.F., <i>Robot s Experience of Another Robot: Simulation.</i> 30th International Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci'08, 2008, &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/Poster_CogSci_Simulation.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <br> <h3><u>Extended Abstracts</u></h3> <b>2010</b> <ul><li>*Pontier, M.A., Otte, M., and Hoorn, J.F., <i> An Affective Virtual Agent for Natural Human-Agent Interaction.</i> SNN Intelligent Machines Symposium 2010 &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/IMS2010Abstract.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <b>2007</b> <ul><li>Bosse, T., Pontier, M.A., Siddiqui, G.F., and Treur, J., <i>Incorporating Emotion Regulation into Virtual Stories.</i> Proceedings of the 19th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence, BNAIC 07 &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/BNAIC07_Virtualstories.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> <ul><li>Bosse, T., Pontier, M., and Treur, J., <i>A Dynamical System Modelling Approach to Gross Model of Emotion Regulation.</i> Proceedings of the 19th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence, BNAIC 07 &nbsp;<i><a href="http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/BNAIC07_emotionreg.pdf">pdf</a></i></li></ul> </font> <p><br><big style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><big>International Program Committee Memberships</big></big></p> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="sans-serif"> <li>2012 European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2012)</li> <li>2011 European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2011)</li> <li>2010 European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2010)</li> </font> <br> <br> <p><big style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><big>PhD Project</big></big></p> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="sans-serif"><b><big>Virtual Agents for Human Communication - </big><br> Emotion Regulation and Involvement-Distance Trade-Offs in Embodied Conversational Agents and Robots</b><br> Thus far, conversational agents and social robots were mainly developed from a technical point of view; e.g., ELIZA (Weizenbaum, 1966). The underlying model was almost lay theory, showing that smiles express happiness and frowns sadness (cf. Breazeal, 2002). Yet, most agents and robots fail conversation-wise because they cannot apply the right emotional response to the right situation. In this interdisciplinary research project, we will apply theories and models from mediated interpersonal communication, human-computer interaction and media psychology to embodied conversational agents. In doing so, the agents will be capable of social interaction and human-like communication. Ideally, theory and simulation should be so good that in a Turing Test (Turing, 1964), people will not be able to tell the difference. If there are significant differences, the experiments will show where the used theories and models have to be improved. </font> <br> <br> <p><big style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><big>Teaching</big></big></p> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="sans-serif"> <li>2009 Instructor Psychology of Media Use</li> <li>2009 2nd reader of Master's Thesis of Sven Stam</li> <li>2009 Instructor Integrative Modelling</li> <li>2008 Instructor Introduction to Modelling and Simulation</li> <li>2008 2nd reader of Master's Thesis of Frank de Lange</li> <li>2007 Instructor Self-Organising Systems / Introduction to Modelling and Simulation</li> <li>2007 Instructor Functieleer practicum</li> </font> <br> <br> <p><big style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><big>Links</big></big></p> <ul><font color="#FFFFFF" face="sans-serif"> <li><big><a href="CVMatthijs.doc">CV</a></li></big> <li><a href=http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=19933074>LinkedIn Profile</a></li> <li><a href=http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/welcome.php>Prototype Virtual Therapist application</a> (Downloading and installing Haptek Player is required)</li> <li><a href=http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/tictactoe.html>Affective Agent Playing Tic-Tac-Toe</a> (Downloading and installing Haptek Player is required)</li> <li><a href=http://camera-vu.nl/matthijs/Speeddating-CondY13-M.html>Affective Agent Performing a Speed-date</a> (Downloading and installing Haptek Player is required)</li> <li><a href=http://camera-vu.nl/research/cogrobotics/coppelia.html>Link to my PhD project on the CAMeRA website</a></li> </ul> <br></big></font> <!-- END CONTENT --> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align="right">&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <!- Links on the bottom of the page-> <tr> <td valign="bottom"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr><td height="1" colspan="8" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td></tr> <tr><td height="1" colspan="8"></td></tr> <tr> <td> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="832" style="background-image: url('http://www.few.vu.nl/style/navigatie/menu_onder.jpg')"> <table width="832" style="height:24px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td width="94" align="right" class="scheikunde"><img src='http://www.few.vu.nl/style/spacer.gif' alt='' width='114' height='1' border='0'></td> <td align="right"><!--<a class="bwi" href="/" title="Afdeling Scheikunde">Scheikunde</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;/--></td> <td width="13"><!--<a class="bwi" href="/" title="Afdeling Scheikunde"><img src="/style/home_icon.gif" alt="" title="" width="13" height="13" border="0" align="middle"></a>/--></td> <td align="right" valign="middle" class="scheikunde"><a class="bwi" title="faculty of sciences home" href="http://camera-vu.nl/">CAMeRA</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> <td width="13"><a class="bwi" href="http://camera-vu.nl/" title="CAMeRA"><img src="http://www.few.vu.nl/style/home_icon.gif" alt="" title="" width="13" height="13" border="0" align="middle"></a></td> <td align="right" valign="middle" class="scheikunde"><a class="bwi" href="http://www.vu.nl/" title="VU Home">VU</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> <td width="13"><a class="bwi" href="http://www.vu.nl" title="VU Home"><img src="http://www.few.vu.nl/style/home_icon.gif" alt="VU Home" title="VU Home" width="13" height="13" border="0" align="middle"></a></td> <td><a class="bwi" title="phonebook" href="http://www.vu.nl/personen/index.cfm">Phonebook</a></td> <td><a class="bwi" title="Zoeken" href="http://www.vu.nl/nl/zoeken.asp">Search</a></td> <td><a class="bwi" title="E-mail the page owner" href="mailto:matthijspon@gmail.com">Page owner</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td style="background-image: url('http://www.few.vu.nl/style/navigatie/back_menu_end.gif')">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>