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Dr. Marta Couto is a Postdoctoral fellow at INESC-ID, GAIPS. She received a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 2016 from ISPA- Instituto Universitário and has been working on HRI/HCI since then. From 2016 to 2018, she was part of "INSIDE: Intelligent Networked Robot Systems for Symbiotic Interaction with Children with Impaired Development" a CMU Portugal Project that developed a robot to mediate a therapy session with children with autism spectrum disorders. The project was a multidisciplinary collaboration between clinicians and researchers. In 2019 she joined INESC-ID, GAIPS and collaborated with AMIGOS (Affect Modeling for robots In GrOup Social interactions), another multidisciplinary team that joined engineers and psychologists. In 2020 she joined iv4XR - Intelligent Verification/Validation for Extended Reality Based Systems, a European project coordinated by INESC-ID. In this project, she has been researching User Experience (UX) and Cognitive Load in games and collaborating in studies to develop computational tools to test user experience based on models of emotion. The work combines theories from psychology, user studies, and experimental psychology techniques to improve computational models for UX testing. Within Iv4XR, she is part of the management Workpackage of the project and the project's ethics board. She is also involved in several dissemination activities, especially those aimed at reaching a more extensive, non-technical audience. Aside from the current project, she has ongoing collaborations with researchers from other institutions and has co-organized two special issues and two workshops stemming from those collaborations. She is currently involved in a collaboration investigating standard practices and challenges researchers face in Child-Robot Interaction (CRI), including ethical practices. The team includes researchers from GAIPS, INESC-ID; Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; the Social and Robotics Research Laboratory (SIRRL), University of Waterloo, Canada; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and LEGO education Denmark. The collaborations mentioned and involvement in international projects with multidisciplinary teams involve the definition and implementation of user studies, data analysis, and dissemination. Since 2019 she is also a lecturer at ISPA- Instituto Universitário, where she teaches Cognitive psychology and Introduction to psychological sciences. She has also co-supervised MsC students from Instituto Superior Técnico and ISPA.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marta Barley de La Cueva Couto

Citation names

  • Couto, Marta

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3210-AF3A-70A5
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5841-4263

Email addresses

  • marta.couto@gaips.inesc-id.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology - Psychology, Special

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/04/29
Concluded
 Psicologia (Doutoramento)
Major in Cognitive Psychology
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
"Validação, Desenvolvimento e Necessidade de Cognição" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom com distinção e louvor
2009
Concluded
 Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia Clínica (Mestrado)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
"Necessidade de Cognição, Memória de Trabalho e Recuperação de Contra-exemplos para Codicionais Causais" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02/22 - Current Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09 - Current Lecturer (University Teacher) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/01 - 2016/04 Colaboradora Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2008/12 - 2014/12 Colaboradora Instituto Superior de Psicologia AplicadaUnidade de Investigação em Psicologia Cognitiva do Desenvolvimento e da Educação, Portugal
2007/10 - 2008/10 Estágio curricular, nas unidades de Medicina do Adolescente e Obesidade Pediátrica Hospital de Santa Maria, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/02/18 - 2019/12/31 AMIGOS (Affect Modeling for robots In GrOup Social interactions)
PTDC/EEI­SII/7174/2014
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
Ongoing
2016/04/01 - 2018/12/31 INSIDE: Intelligent Networked Robot Systems for Symbiotic Interaction with Children with Impaired Development
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5665-PICT/135829/PT
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2011/03 - 2015/03 Counterexamples and Deductive Reasoning
SFRH/BD/68337/2010
 Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/12/01 - Current Intelligent Verification/Validation for Extended Reality Based Systems
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/856716/EU
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Hashemian, Mojgan; Couto, Marta; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Paiva, Ana; Santos, Pedro A.; Prada, Rui. "Persuasive Social Robot Using Reward Power over Repeated Instances of Persuasion". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 63-70. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-79460-6_6
  2. Yadollahi, Elmira; Couto, Marta; Johal, Wafa; Dillenbourg, Pierre; Paiva, Ana. "Exploring the Role of Perspective Taking in Educational Child-Robot Interaction". In Artificial Intelligence in Education, 346-351. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-52240-7_63
  3. Tulli, Silvia; Couto, Marta; Vasco, Miguel; Yadollahi, Elmira; Melo, Francisco; Paiva, Ana. "Explainable Agency by Revealing Suboptimality in Child-Robot Learning Scenarios". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 23-35. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_3
Conference abstract
  1. Rato, Diogo; Couto, Marta; Rui Prada. "Behavior vs Appearance: What Type of Adaptations are More Socially Motivated?". Paper presented in 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022), Auckland, 2022.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Rato, Diogo; Couto, Marta; Prada, Rui. "Attributing Social Motivations to Changes in Agents’ Behavior and Appearance". Paper presented in HAI’2022 – the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2022.
    10.1145/3527188.3561925
  2. Yadollahi, Elmira; Couto, Marta; Dillenbourg, Pierre; Paiva, Ana. "Motivating Children to Practice Perspective-Taking Through Playing Games with Cozmo". 2022.
    10.1109/ro-man53752.2022.9900523
  3. Yadollahi, Elmira; Couto, Marta; Dillenbourg, Pierre; Paiva, Ana. "Do Children Adapt Their Perspective to a Robot When They Fail to Complete a Task?". 2022.
    10.1145/3501712.3529719
  4. Rato, Diogo; Couto, Marta; Prada, Rui. "Fitting the Room: Social Motivations for Context-Aware Agents". 2021.
    10.1145/3472307.3484185
  5. Yadollahi, Elmira; Chandra, Shruti; Couto, Marta; Lim, Angelica; Sandygulova, Anara. "Children, Robots, and Virtual Agents: Present and Future Challenges". 2021.
    10.1145/3459990.3460516
  6. Yadollahi, Elmira; Couto, Marta; Dillenbourg, Pierre; Paiva, Ana. "Can you guide me?". Paper presented in IDC '20: Interaction Design and Children, 2020.
    10.1145/3397617.3397831
  7. Hashemian, Mojgan; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Couto, Marta; Paiva, Ana; Santos, Pedro A.; Prada, Rui. "The Application of Social Power in Persuasive Social Robots". Paper presented in HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020.
    Published • 10.1145/3371382.3377447
  8. Hashemian, Mojgan; Couto, Marta; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Paiva, Ana; Santos, Pedro A.; Prada, Rui. "Persuasive Social Robots using Reward/Coercion Strategies". Paper presented in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020.
    10.1145/3371382.3378373
  9. Baraka, K; Melo, Francisco; Veloso, M; Couto, M. "An optimization approach for structured agent-based provider/receiver tasks". Paper presented in 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019), Montreal, 2019.
    Accepted
Conference poster
  1. Couto, Marta; Jesus, Cátia; Melo, Isabel; Fonseca, M José; Farias, Anabela; Santos, Graça; Monteiro, José P. "Robot Assisted Therapy for ASD Children: Interacting with a Semi-autonomous Robot". Paper presented in Carnegie Mellon Portugal Symposium, 2017.
  2. Couto, Marta. "Perturbação do Espectro do Autismo (PEA) - a consulta multidisciplinar do Centro de Desenvolvimento da Criança Torrado da Silva". Paper presented in III Congresso Internacional do Cadin, 2016.
  3. Couto, Marta; Quelhas, Ana Cristina. "O impacto da fluência de recuperação de contra-exemplos nas inferências causais". Paper presented in 9º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental-APPE, 2014.
  4. Couto, Marta; Quelhas, Ana Cristina; Juhos, Csongor. "Raciocínio e Intencionalidade - Tipos de razão para as acções". Paper presented in 6º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental-APPE, 2011.
  5. Couto, Marta; Quelhas, Ana Cristina; Juhos, Csongor. "Necessidade de Cognição, Memória de Trabalho e Recuperação de Contra-exemplos para Condicionais Causais". Paper presented in 5º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental-APPE, 2010.
  6. Trêpa, Margarida; Couto, Marta; Dias Ferreira, Pedro. "Quando os Adolescentes não se concentram!". Paper presented in 4º Congresso Nacional de Medicina do Adolescente, Aveiro, 2008, 2008.
Journal article
  1. Gómez-Sánchez, Jesica; Moreno-Ríos, Sergio; Couto, Marta; Quelhas, Ana Cristina. "Conditional content, explicit information and generating cases: Sources for suppressing inferences". Acta Psychologica 213 (2021): 103240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103240.
    Published • 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103240
  2. Baraka, Kim; Melo, Francisco S.; Couto, Marta; Veloso, Manuela. "Optimal action sequence generation for assistive agents in fixed horizon tasks". Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 34 2 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-020-09458-7.
    10.1007/s10458-020-09458-7
  3. Melo, F; Sardinha, A; Belo, D; Couto, M; Faria, M; Gambôa, H. ; Jesus, C; et al. "Project INSIDE: Towards Autonomous Semi-Unstructured Human-Robot Social Interaction in Autism Therapy.". Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 96 (2019): 198-216.
    Published
  4. "Project INSIDE: towards autonomous semi-unstructured human–robot social interaction in autism therapy". (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2018.12.003.
    10.1016/j.artmed.2018.12.003
  5. Couto, Marta; Quelhas, Ana Cristina; Byrne, Ruth M. J.. "Advice conditionals about tips and warnings: interpretations and inferences". Journal of Cognitive Psychology 29 3 (2017): 364-380. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2016.1278377.
    10.1080/20445911.2016.1278377
  6. Rasga, Célia; Quelhas, Ana Cristina; Couto, Marta; Marques, João. "Teoria da mente e pensamento contrafactual em crianças de baixo nível socioeconómico". Análise Psicológica 33 4 (2015): 467-479. http://dx.doi.org/10.14417/ap.1186.
    10.14417/ap.1186
  7. Marques, João; Quelhas, Cristina; Juhos, Csongor; Couto, Marta; Rasga, Célia. "Counterfactual thinking: Study of the focus effect of scenarios and blame ascriptions to victim and perpetrator". Análise Psicológica 32 4 (2014): 355-385. http://dx.doi.org/10.14417/ap.952.
    10.14417/ap.952
  8. Couto, Marta; Quelhas, Ana Cristina; Juhos, Csongor. "Need for cognition, working memory and counterexample retrieval for causal conditionals". Psychologica 53 (2010): 183-216. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_53_9.
    Published • 10.14195/1647-8606_53_9
Journal issue
  1. Couto, Marta; Chandra, Shruti; Yadollahi, Elmira; Vicky Charisi. "Special Issue on Child-Robot Interaction: Design, Evaluation, and Novel Solutions.". Interaction Studies (2022):
    In press • Coeditor
  2. Couto, Marta; Baraka, Kim; Beights, Becca. "Special Issue on Robots and Autism: Conceptualization, Technology, and Methodology". Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics (2021):
    In press • Invited editor
Working paper
  1. Couto, Marta; Jesus, C.,; Solera-Ureña, Rubén. 2017. "The Ideal Study Protocol (Project INSIDE Internal Report)". https://iid-intranet.inesc-id.pt/publications/downloadfile?id=40361e2f-63dd-4529-acac-29dd455825b5.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2016/10 Robots as therapy assistants for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder . An exploratory study. III Congresso Internacional do Cadin
Cadin (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/08 Counterexamples to Advice: Conditional reasoning about tips and warnings 9º London Reasoning Workshop
Birkbeck College, University of London (Londres, United Kingdom)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021 - Current Using Secondary Tasks to Measure Cognitive Load in Games
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - Current RACIOCÍNIO COM SILOGISMOS CATEGÓRICOS E HABILITAÇÕES ACADÉMICAS
Co-supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021 - Current Efeito Dunning-Kruger e a sua relação com a autoestima
Co-supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2020/02/01 - 2021/01/14 Assessing Players’ Cognitive Load in Games
Co-supervisor
 Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/06/24 - 2021/06/30 Children, Robots, and Virtual Agents: Present and Future Challenges (2021/06/25 - 2021/06/25)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference 2021, Greece
2020/11/16 - 2020/11/16 CRI: Present and Future Relationships Workshop https://sites.google.com/view/child-robot-interaction/home (2020/11/14 - 2020/11/18)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020) , United States

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2022/11/08 "USO PROBLEMÁTICO DAS REDES SOCIAIS EM JOVENS: RELAÇÃO COM A NECESSIDADE DE COGNIÇÃO" The thesis studied the relationship between problematic usage of social media and Need for Cognition (i.e., the tendency for people to enjoy engaging in complex tasks)
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Gonçalo Afonso Berenguer Sardinha (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2022/11/08 "A Teia Social Os efeitos da intensidade de uso de Redes Sociais na Atenção" The thesis aimed to relate the intensity of social media usage to attention
President of the jury
 Manuel Magalhães de Mesquita (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2022/11/08 "Teoria da Mente e Sintomatologia Depressiva em Jovens Adultos" The thesis studies the Theory of mind abilities in adults with different degrees of depression symptoms
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Maria João da Silva Caratão Fidalgo Ferreira (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/09 - Current Introduction to psychological sciences (Licenciatura) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2019/09/14 - Current Cognitive Psychology I & II (Mestrado integrado) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal