Improving social competences of virtual agents through artificial consciousness based on the Attention Schema Theory

Información del proyecto

ASTOUND

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 101071191

DOI

10.3030/101071191

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 14 Diciembre 2022

Fecha de inicio 1 Diciembre 2022

Fecha de finalización 30 Noviembre 2025

Financiado con arreglo a

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Coste total

€ 3 330 897,50

Aportación de la UE

€ 3 330 897,50

Coordinado por

UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
Spain

CORDIS proporciona enlaces a los documentos públicos y las publicaciones de los proyectos de los programas marco HORIZONTE.

Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Resultado final

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (3)

Architecture validated
"""Graziano/Turing test"" developed"

“Graziano/Turing test” developed

Cognitive plausibility and role of attention schema established

Documents, reports (6)

Publications describing novel conversational agent
Guidelines for an ethical roadmap for oversight of AI projects
Process of database curation established
Publications describing the conscious conversational agent
Website and project logo

Project logo and website ready

Publications describing the AST architecture

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

SME vehicle for IP exploitation incorporated
Patents protecting the architecture and the conscious agent update

Patentability of the architecture and the conscious agent assessed and more patent filed

Study of patentability of the proposed architecture and conscious agent

Preliminary study on the patentability for protecting the architecture and the conscious agent

Data Management Plan (2)

RP2 Update of Data Management Plan

DMP updated

Data Management Plan

DMP generated

Other (3)

Proposal of core morality

Proposal of core morality and its assessment to ensure system safety and allow human oversight

Report on the impact of conscious artificial agents on society
Promoting equality and fairness through self-aware algorithms

Data sets, microdata, etc (2)

Datasets for training the conscious conversational agent
Datasets for training the conscious conversational agent update 2

Publicaciones

Conference proceedings (35)

Context or Retrieval? Evaluating RAG Methods for Art and Museum QA System

Autores: Samuel Ramos-Varela, Jaime Bellver-Soler, Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia, Luis Fernando D’Haro
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, 2025
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics

Bias, Subjectivity and Norm in Large Language Models

Autores: Poibeau, T.
Publicado en: Aequitas (Fairness and Bias in AI), 2024
Editor: HAL

xDial-Eval: A Multilingual Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation Benchmark

Autores: Chen Zhang, Luis D’Haro, Chengguang Tang, Ke Shi, Guohua Tang, Haizhou Li
Publicado en: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, Edición 5579–5601, 2023
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2023.FINDINGS-EMNLP.371

Quelques observations sur la notion de biais dans les modèles de langue

Autores: Gallienne P., Poibeau T.
Publicado en: Actes de CORIA-TALN 2023. Actes de la 30e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), Edición Vol. 3, 2023
Editor: ATALA

"Awareness in robotics: An early perspective from the viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge"" Awareness Inside''"

Autores: Cosimo Della Santina, Carlos Hernandez Corbato, Burak Sisman, Luis A. Leiva, Ioannis Arapakis, Michalis Vakalellis, Jean Vanderdonckt, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Guido Manzi, Cristina Becchio, A ̈ıda Elamrani, Mohsen Alirezaei, Ginevra Castellano, Dimos V. Dim
Publicado en: European Robotics Forum, 2024
Editor: European Robotics Forum
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2402.09030

STEPI: System for Triplet Extraction of Personal Information in Dialogue Systems

Autores: Villa Monedero, M., Bellver, J., Ghebriout, M. I. E., De Cordoba, R., & D'Haro, L. F.
Publicado en: Iberspeech2024, 2024
Editor: ISCA

Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition combining Audio and Text using Small Language Models

Autores: Jaime Bellver, Mario Rodríguez Cantelar, Marcos Estecha Garitagoitia, Ricardo De Córdoba Herralde, Luis Fernando D'Haro
Publicado en: Iberspeech2024, 2024
Editor: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/IberSPEECH.2024-43

LLM-Driven Multimodal Fusion for Human Perception Analysis

Autores: Esteban-Romero, S., Martín-Fernández, I., Gil-Martín, M., Griol-Barres, D., Callejas-Carrión, Z., & Fernández-Martínez, F
Publicado en: MuSe'24: Proceedings of the 5th on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge and Workshop: Social Perception and Hum, 2024
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3689062.36890

A comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of large language models as automatic dialogue evaluators

Autores: Zhang, Chen, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Yiming Chen, Malu Zhang, and Haizhou Li.
Publicado en: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edición vol. 38, no. 17, pp. 19515-19524., 2024, ISSN 2374-3468
Editor: Advancement of Artifcial Intelligence
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.15407

Improving Hand Pose Recognition using Localization and Zoom Normalizations over MediaPipe Landmarks

Autores: Remiro Pérez, Miguel Ángel, Gil Martín, Manuel and San Segundo Hernández, Rubén
Publicado en: 10th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications session Sensors and Artificial Intelligence, 2023, ISSN 2673-4591
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ECSA-10-16215

DREAM: A Multicultural Multimodal Dataset Linking Dialogues and Realistic Image Sequences

Autores: Juan Mallo, Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia, Ricardo Cordoba, Luis Fernando D'Haro
Publicado en: Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026
Editor: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
DOI: 10.63317/2V7B4XHS2D5G

Synthesizing Olfactory Understanding: Multimodal Language Models for Image–Text Smell Matching

Autores: Esteban-Romero, S., Martín-Fernández, I., Gil-Martín, M., & Fernández-Martínez, F.
Publicado en: Symmetry, Edición 17(8), 2025
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/SYM17081349

Exploring Video Transformers and Automatic Segment Selection for Memorability Prediction

Autores: Martín-Fernández, I., Romero, S. E., Bellver-Soler, J., Gil-Martín, M., & Martínez, F. F.
Publicado en: MediaEval’23: Multimedia Evaluation Workshop,, 2024
Editor: CEUR

THAU-UPM at EmoSPeech-IberLEF2024: Efficient Adaptation of Mono-modal and Multi-modal Large Language Models for Automatic Speech Emotion Recognition

Autores: Esteban-Romero, S., Bellver-Soler, J., Martın-Fernández, I., Gil-Martın, M., D’Haro, L. F., & Fernández-Martınez, F.
Publicado en: Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum (IberLEF 2024) at SEPLN2024, 2024, ISSN 1613-0073
Editor: SEPLN

CVQA - Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark

Autores: David Romero*👁️, Chenyang Lyu*👁️, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo👁️, Teresa Lynn, Injy Hamed, Aditya Nanda Kishore, Aishik Mandal, Alina Dragonetti, Artem Abzaliev, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Chenxi Whitehouse, Christian Salamea, Dan John Velasco
Publicado en: NeurIPs, 2024
Editor: NeurIPs

Unveiling the Achilles' Heel of NLG Evaluators: A Unified Adversarial Framework Driven by Large Language Models

Autores: Chen, Y., Zhang, C., Luo, D., D'Haro, L. F., Tan, R. T., & Li, H.
Publicado en: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 2024
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2024.FINDINGS-ACL.80

Overview of Dialog System Evaluation Track: Dimensionality, Language, Culture and Safety at DSTC 12.

Autores: John Mendonça, J., Zhang, L., Mallidi, R., Lavie, A., Trancoso, I. D’Haro, L. F., Sedoc, J.
Publicado en: Proceedings SigDial 2025, 2025
Editor: SigDial

Beyond single-audio: Advancing multi-audio processing in audio large language models

Autores: Chen, Y., Yue, X., Gao, X., Zhang, C., D'Haro, L. F., Tan, R. T., & Li, H.
Publicado en: EMNLP2024, 2024
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics

Video Memorability Prediction From Jointly-learnt Semantic and Visual Features

Autores: Martín-Fernández, Iván, Ricardo Kleinlein, Cristina Luna-Jiménez, Manuel Gil-Martín, and Fernando Fernández-Martínez
Publicado en: 20th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, Orleans, France, 2023, ISBN 979-8-4007-0912-8
Editor: ACM

Interpreting Sign Language Recognition using Transformers and MediaPipe Landmarks

Autores: Cristina Luna-Jiménez, Manuel Gil-Martín, Ricardo Kleinlein, Rubén San-Segundo, Fernando Fernández-Martínez
Publicado en: 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2023, ISBN 979-8-4007-0055-2
Editor: Association for Machinery Computational
DOI: 10.1145/3577190.3614143

Overview of Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metricsfor Open-Domain Dialogue Systems at DSTC 11 Track 4

Autores: Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar, Chen Zhang, Chengguang Tang, Ke Shi, Sarik Ghazarian, João Sedoc, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Alexander I. Rudnicky
Publicado en: Proceedings of The Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge, 2023
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics

Orchestra: AI-Driven Microservices Architecture to Create Personalized Experiences

Autores: Bellver-Soler, J., Ramos-Varela, S., Guragain, A., Córdoba, R., D’Haro, L. F.
Publicado en: IWSDS 2026, 2026
Editor: ACL

Thaurus: An innovative multimodal chatbot based on the next generation of conversational ai. 

Autores: Estecha-Garitagoitia, M., Rodríguez-Cantelar, M., Ruiz, A. G., García, C. G. F., Romero, S. E., Conforto, C., ... & D’Haro, L. F.
Publicado en: Proceeding Amazon Alexa Socialbot Grand Challenge 5, 2023
Editor: Amazon

Can Large Sound Event Detection Models Be Accurately Adapted to Specific Acoustic Scenarios?.

Autores: Fernández-Castañón, R., Espinoza-Cuadros, F. M., Perero-Codosero, J. M., Sancho-Lozano, E., & Hernández-Gómez, L. A.
Publicado en: International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 2025
Editor: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80946-0_4

Larger Encoders, Smaller Regressors: Exploring Label Dimensionality Reduction and Multimodal Large Language Models as Feature Extractors for Predicting Social Perception.

Autores: Martín-Fernández, I., Esteban-Romero, S., Bellver-Soler, J., Fernández-Martínez, F., & Gil-Martín, M.
Publicado en: Martín-Fernández, I., Esteban-Romero, S., Bellver-Soler, J., Fernández-Martínez, F., & Gil-Martín, M., 2024
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3689062.368908

Frequency Analysis and Transfer Learning Across Different Body Sensor Locations in Parkinson’s Disease Detection Using Inertial Signals

Autores: Rey-Díaz, A., Martín-Fernández, I., San-Segundo, R., & Gil-Martín, M.
Publicado en: The 11th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 2024
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ECSA-11-20507

A Comprehensive Analysis of Parkinson’s Disease Detection Through Inertial Signal Processing

Autores: Gil Martín, Manuel; Esteban Romero, Sergio; Fernández Martínez, Fernando; San Segundo Hernández, Rubén
Publicado en: reponame:Archivo Digital UPM, 2024
Editor: ICAART2024
DOI: 10.5220/0012360100003636

Design, Generation and Evaluation of a Synthetic Dialogue Dataset for Contextually Aware Chatbots in Art Museums

Autores: Rachidi, I., Ezzakri, A., Bellver-Soler, J., & D’Haro, L. F.
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, 2025
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics

Cutting Through Overload: Efficient Token Dropping for Speech Emotion Recognition in Multimodal Large Language Models

Autores: Bellver-Soler, J., Rodríguez-Cantelar, M., Córdoba, R., & D’Haro, L. F.
Publicado en: Proceedings IWSDS 2025, 2025
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics

Parkinson’s Disease Detection Through Inertial Signals and Posture Insights

Autores: Gil Martín, Manuel; Esteban Romero, Sergio; Fernández Martínez, Fernando; San Segundo Hernández, Rubén
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence | 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART24 | 24/02/2024 | Rome, Italy, 2024
Editor: ICAART
DOI: 10.5220/0012451100003636

A Personalized, Multimodal AI Assistant for Enhancing Museum Visitor Experience

Autores: A. Guragain, J. Bellver-Soler, S. Ramos-Varela, D. Aragón-Diaz, Long, L., L.F. D’Haro
Publicado en: Proceedings ALA2025, 2025
Editor: CEUR

Multimodal Audio-Language Model for Speech Emotion Recognition

Autores: Bellver, J., Martín-Fernández, I., Bravo-Pacheco, J. M., Esteban, S., Fernández-Martínez, F., & D'Haro, L. F.
Publicado en: odyssey 2024 , 2024
Editor: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/ODYSSEY.2024-41

ASSIST: A Multi-Agentic Framework for Human-Computer Interaction in Cultural Heritage Settings

Autores: Ramos-Varela, S., Guragain, A., Bellver-Soler, J., Aragón Díaz, D., Lin, L., & D’Haro, L. F.
Publicado en: International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, 2025
Editor: SIMBig 2025

Commonsense Generation and Evaluation for Dialogue Systems using Large Language Models

Autores: Estecha-Garitagoitia, M., Zhang, C., Rodríguez-Cantelar, M., & D'Haro, L. F.
Publicado en: Proceedings IWSDS 2024, 2024
Editor: ELRA SigSDS

Multimodal and Multilingual Olfactory Matching based on Contrastive Learning

Autores: Esteban-Romero, S., Martín-Fernández, I., Bellver-Soler, J., Gil-Martín, M., & Fernández-Martínez, F.
Publicado en: MediaEval’23: Multimedia Evaluation Workshop, 2024
Editor: CEUR

Peer reviewed articles (11)

PoE: A Panel of Experts for Generalized Automatic Dialogue Assessment

Autores: Chen Zhang; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Qiquan Zhang; Thomas Friedrichs; Haizhou Li
Publicado en: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Edición 31, 2023, ISSN 2329-9304
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.08992

Sign Language Dataset for Automatic Motion Generation

Autores: Villa Monedero, María, Gil Martín, Manuel , Sáez Trigueros, Daniel, Pomirski, Andrzej and San Segundo Hernández, Rubén
Publicado en: Journal of Imaging, Edición 9 (12), 2023, ISSN 2313-433X
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/JIMAGING9120262

Evaluating emotional and subjective responses in synthetic art-related dialogues: A multi-stage framework with large language models. 

Autores: Luna-Jiménez, C., Gil-Martín, M., D’Haro, L. F., Fernández-Martínez, F., & San-Segundo, R.
Publicado en: Expert Systems with Applications, Edición 255, 124524, 2024, ISSN 1873-6793
Editor: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/J.ESWA.2024.124524

Automatic Detection of Inconsistencies and Hierarchical Topic Classification for Open-Domain Chatbots

Autores: Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar, Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia, Luis Fernando D’Haro,Fernando Matía, Ricardo Córdoba
Publicado en: Applied Sciences, Edición 13 (16), 2023, ISSN 2076-3417
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/APP13169055

Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9

Autores: Gunasekara, C., Kim, S., D'haro, L.F., Rastogi, A., Chen, Y.N., Eric, M., Hedayatnia, B., Gopalakrishnan, K., Liu, Y., Huang, C.W. and Hakkani-Tür, D.,
Publicado en: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Edición 32, 4066 - 4076, 2024, ISSN 2329-9304
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2024.3426331

Sign Language Motion Generation from Sign Characteristic

Autores: Gil Martín, Manuel , Villa Monedero, María, Pomirski, Andrzej, Sáez Trigueros, Daniel and San Segundo Hernández, Rubén
Publicado en: Sensors, Edición 23, 2023, ISSN 1424-8220
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/S23239365

Dual Leap Motion Controller 2: A Robust Dataset for Multi-view Hand Pose Recognition

Autores: Manuel Gil-Martín, Marco Raoul Marini, Rubén San-Segundo, Luigi Cinque
Publicado en: Scientific Data, Edición 11, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-024-03968-9

A dataset of synthetic art dialogues with ChatGPT

Autores: Gil-Martín, M., Luna-Jiménez, C., Esteban-Romero, S., Estecha-Garitagoitia, M., Fernández-Martínez, F., & D’Haro, L. F.
Publicado en: Scientific Data2052-4463, Edición 11(1),825, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Editor: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-024-03661-X

Integrating Ethical Principles and Human Rights Based Approach in the EU Artificial Intelligence Act and the Council of Europe Convention on Artificial Intelligence: Interplay of Ethics and Law in the AI Regulation Debate

Autores: Irēna Barkāne, Celia Fernández Aller, Evelyne A. Tauchnitz, Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič, Manja Skočir, Aleš Završnik
Publicado en: Journal of the University of Latvia. Law, 2025, ISSN 2592-9364
Editor: University of Latvia
DOI: 10.22364/JULL.19.03

Unsupervised Mutual Learning of Discourse Parsing and Topic Segmentation in Dialogue

Autores: Jiahui Xu, Feng Jiang, Anningzhe Gao, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Haizhou Li
Publicado en: IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Edición 33, 2025, ISSN 2998-4173
Editor: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3623884

Testing Theory of Mind in GPT Models and Humans

Autores: James Strachan, Dalila Albergo, Giulia Borghini, Oriana Pansardi, Eugenio Scaliti, Alessandro Rufo, Guido Manzi, Michael Graziano, Cristina Becchio
Publicado en: Research Square, 2023, ISSN 2693-5015
Editor: Research Square
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3262385/v1

Book chapters (2)

Aspectos éticos de la inteligencia artificial

Autores: : Tomás Bastarreche Bengoa, Alfonso Egea de Haro, María Mercedes Serrano Pérez, Celia Fernández Aller
Publicado en: Derecho y Justicia Global, Edición 3, 2025, ISBN 978-84-7991-660-2
Editor: Universitas

Ethical Risks and Opportunities in Designing Artificial Awareness

Autores: A. Tanevska et al. (including L.D'Haro, C. Fernandez, P. Maurizio, J. Salgado)
Editor: Springer

Other (2)

Attention Schema in Neural Agents

Autores: Liu, Dianbo; Bolotta, Samuele; Zhu, He; Bengio, Yoshua; Dumas, Guillaume
Publicado en: ArXiv, 2023
Editor: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.17375

“Living with IA - A Philosophical Toolkit for Navigating the Conceptual Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Systems”

Autores: Casati R., Maurizio P.
Editor: Institut Jean Nicod