Dr Joanna Bryson

Bann, E. Y. and Bryson, J. J., 2013. Forthcoming. Measuring cultural relativity of emotional valence and arousal using semantic clustering and Twitter. In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Berlin: Cognitive Science Society.

Gaudl, S., Davies, S. and Bryson, J. J., 2013. Behaviour oriented design for real-time-strategy games: An approach on iterative development for STARCRAFT AI. In: Foundations of Digital Games Conference 2013 (FDG 2013). Foundations of Digital Games, pp. 198-205.

Huang, B., El-Khoury, S., Li, M., Bryson, J. J. and Billard, A., 2013. Forthcoming. Learning a Real Time Grasping Strategy. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). .

Sylwester, K., Herrmann, B. and Bryson, J., 2013. Forthcoming. Homo homini lupus? Explaining antisocial punishment. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics

Seth, A. K. and Bryson, J. J., 2013. Natural action selection, modeling. In: Pashler, H., ed. Encyclopedia of the mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Bann, E. Y. and Bryson, J. J., 2013. Forthcoming. The conceptualisation of emotion qualia: semantic clustering of emotional tweets. In: Mayor, J., ed. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW). World Scientific.

Bryson, J. J., Mitchell, J., Powers, S. T. and Sylwester, K., 2013. Forthcoming. Understanding and addressing cultural variation in costly antisocial punishment. In: Gibson, M. and Lawson, D., eds. Applied Evolutionary Anthropology. London, U. K.: Springer-Verlag.

Bryson, J.J., 2012. A role for consciousness in action selection. International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 4 (2), pp. 471-482.

Powers, S.T., Taylor, D. J. and Bryson, J. J., 2012. Punishment can promote defection in group-structured populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 311, pp. 107-116.

Whitehouse, H., Kahn, K., Hochberg, M. E. and Bryson, J. J., 2012. From the imaginary to the real: the back and forth between reality and simulation. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2 (3), pp. 219-224.

Bryson, J.J., 2012. Internet memory and life after death. Bereavement Care, 31 (2), pp. 70-72.

Gemrot, J., Brom, C., Bída, M. and Bryson, J., 2012. How to compare usability of techniques for the specification of virtual agents' behavior? : An experimental pilot study with human subjects. In: Agents for Educational Games and Simulations International Workshop, AEGS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2, 2011. Revised Papers. Vol. 7471 LNAI. Berlin: Springer, pp. 38-62.

Bryson, J. J., 2012. Structuring intelligence: the role of hierarchy, modularity and learning in generating intelligent behaviour. In: McFarland, D., Stenning, K. and McGonigle-Chalmers, M., eds. The complex mind. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 126-143.

Whitehouse, H., Kahn, K., Hochberg, M. E. and Bryson, J. J., 2012. The role for simulations in theory construction for the social sciences: case studies concerning Divergent Modes of Religiosity. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2 (3), pp. 182-201.

Seth, A. K., Prescott, T. J. and Bryson, J. J., eds., 2011. Modelling Natural Action Selection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gluckman, G. M. and Bryson, J. J., 2011. An agent-based model of the effects of a primate social structure on the speed of natural selection. In: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'11 - Companion Publication. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 535-542.

Bryson, J. J. and Kime, P. P., 2011. Just an artifact: Why machines are perceived as moral agents. In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011-07-16 - 2011-07-22, Barcelona, Catalonia.

Gemrot, J., Brom, C., Bryson, J. J. and Bída, M., 2011. How to compare usability of techniques for the specification of virtual agents behavior? An experimental pilot study with human subjects. In: Proceedings of the AAMAS 2011 Workshop on the uses of Agents for Education, Games and Simulations, 2011-05-02 - 2011-05-03, Taipei, Taiwan.

Bryson, J. J., 2011. A role for consciousness in action selection. In: Proceedings of the AISB 2011 Symposium: Machine Consciousness, 2011-04-06 - 2011-04-07, University of York.

Grey, J. and Bryson, J. J., 2011. Procedural quests: A focus for agent interaction in role-playing-games. In: Proceedings of the AISB 2011 Symposium: AI & Games, 2011-04-06 - 2011-04-07, University of York.

Bryson, J., 2011. AI robots should not be considered moral agents. In: Berlatsky, N., ed. Artificial Intelligence. Detroit: Greenhaven Press.

Bryson, J. J. and Kime, P. P., 2011. Just an artifact : why machines are perceived as moral agents. In: Walsh, T., ed. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 2. Menlo Park, CA, USA: AAAI Press, pp. 1641-1646.

Rohlfshagen, P. and Bryson, J. J., 2010. Flexible latching: a biologically-inspired mechanism for improving the management of homeostatic goals. Cognitive Computation, 2 (3), pp. 230-241.

Bryson, J. J. and Tanguy, E. A. R., 2010. Simplifying the design of human-like behaviour: Emotions as durative dynamic state for action selection. International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, 1 (1), pp. 30-50.

Bryson, J. J., 2010. Cultural ratcheting results primarily from semantic compression. In: The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 8). World Scientific, pp. 50-57.

Bryson, J. J., 2010. Robots should be slaves. In: Wilks, Y., ed. Close engagements with artificial companions: key social, psychological, ethical and design issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 63-74.

Bryson, J. J., 2010. The need for cognitive systems in medical care. CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation Magazine, 3 (3), pp. 35-36.

Bryson, J. J., 2010. Why robot nannies probably won't do much psychological damage. Interaction Studies, 11 (2), pp. 196-200.

Bryson, J., 2009. Building Persons is a Choice. Erwägen Wissen Ethik, 20 (2), pp. 195-197.

Bryson, J. J. and Kaczensky, P., 2009. Exploring Knowledge Dissemination as a Selective Force for Aggregation: Preliminary Results from Modelling Wild Asiatic Asses. In: Powers, S., ed. Levels of Selection and Individuality in Evolution: Conceptual Issues and the Role of Artificial Life Models, a workshop at The Tenth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL '09), 2009-09-14, Budapest.

Bryson, J. J., 2009. Age-related inhibition and learning effects: Evidence from transitive performance. In: The 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009), 2009-07-29 - 2009-08-01, Amsterdam.

Bryson, J. J., 2009. Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness. In: Bishop, M., ed. The Second AISB Symposium Computing and Philosophy, 2009-04-09, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Bryson, J. J., 2009. Representations underlying social learning and cultural evolution. Interaction Studies, 10 (1), pp. 77-100.

Bilovich, A. and Bryson, J. J., 2008. Detecting the evolution of semantics and individual beliefs through statistical analysis of language use. In: Beal, J., Bello, P., Cassimatis, N., Coen, M. and Winston, P., eds. Naturally-Inspired Artificial Intelligence - Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, Technical Report. Arlington, VA: AAAI Press, pp. 21-26.

Rohlfshagen, P. and Bryson, J. J., 2008. Improved Animal-Like Maintenance of Homeostatic Goals via Flexible Latching. In: Samsonovich, A. V., ed. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures: Papers from the AAAI Symposium. Arlington, VA: AAAI Press, pp. 153-160.

Bryson, J. J., 2008. The Role of Modularity in Stabilizing Cultural Evolution: Conformity and Innovation in an Agent-Based Model. In: Davis, A. and Ludwig, J., eds. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Adaptive Agents in Cultural Contexts (AACC '08), 2008-11-07 - 2008-11-09, Arlington, Virginia.

Bryson, J. J., 2008. The Impact of Durative State on Action Selection. In: Horswill, I., Hudlicka, E., Lisetti, C. and Velasquez, J., eds. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior. AAAI, pp. 2-9.

Bryson, J. J., 2008. Embodiment vs. Memetics. Mind & Society, 7 (1), pp. 77-94.