My name is Esteban, I am an assistant professor at the School of Technology and Innovations, Computer Science, University of Vaasa, Finland.
Research field: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Specific research interests:
Software agents practical reasoning, multi-agents systems (MAS)
Non-monotonic reasoning formal argumentation theory, answer-set/logic programming
Knowledge representation ontologies and knowledge bases and graphs
... and at the human side, I have experience using:
Activity Theory (Leontiev/Vygotsky/Kaptelinin's activity and the Engeström's activity system)
Planning theory of intention (Bratman)
Current tasks: I am part of the Digiconsumers project consortium making intelligent gamification, which in plain words would be: take your boring and repetitive gamified strategies (stories, avatars, etc.), add them AI-based mechanisms to transform them into autonomous (and less boring) gamified software that is, computer-based stuff that changes when the person changes.
Contact information:
Name: Esteban
Last name: Guerrero
esteban.guerrero@uwasa.fi (at University of Vaasa, Finland)
https://www.uwasa.fi/person/rosero/en/ (Web page at University of Vaasa, Finland)
News!
Last update: 31-Aug-2022
Research, teaching and pedagogical activities:
[31-Aug-2022] Reviewer of the journal Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (IF 7.027)
[30-Aug-2022] Enrolled in the course Basics of University Pedagogy, University of Turku, Finland.
[23-Aug-2022] Funding extension for the Digiconsumers project by the Academy of Finland! Running AI+gamification until 2024.
[23-Aug-2022] I'm part of a work package in the new project called: "Improving Financial Literacy and Pro-Environmental Choices Using Game-Based Pedagogy and Virtual Reality'' funded by the Nasdaq Nordic Foundation. This project is oriented to design, build and evaluate a highly interactive game-based pedagogical solution for financial and stock market literacy.
[08-Jun-2022] Part of the program committee of The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), and revising papers for ICWSM-2023
[23-Apr-2022] Part of the technical program committee of the Twelfth International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologie, AMBIENT 2022, Valencia, Spain (link)
[19-Apr-2022] New journal paper! Guerrero, E., Kalmi, P. Gamification Strategies: A Characterization Using Formal Argumentation Theory. SN COMPUT. SCI. 3, 291 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01164-3.
[10-Mar-2022] Attending the mini-course "AI Ethics and Fairness in Link-Based Recommender Systems" (material here). By Ricardo Baeza-Yates, and Carlos Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
[3-Mar-2022] New accepted paper: "What if gamified software is fully proactive? Towards autonomy-related design principles" at in the workshop on Personalizing Persuasive Technologies (PPT 2022) (link), part of the 7th international conference on Persuasive Technology 2022 (PERSUASIVE 2022). (accepted version)
[23-Feb-22] Invited to be reviewer of the 14th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, EICS 2022
[09-Feb-22] Invited to be PC member of the second International Conference on disruptive technologies, tech ethics and artificial intelligence DiTTEt
[26-Jan-22] PC member of the 13th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence ISAMI'22
[25-Jan-22] Invited to revise papers for the IEEE Intelligent Systems journal.
New papers:
Esteban Guerrero and Panu Kalmi. "Gamification strategies: a characterization using formal argumentation theory". SN Computer Science, 3(4), 1-19.
Esteban Guerrero, Tero Vartiainen, Panu Kalmi. "What if gamified software is fully proactive? Towards autonomy-related design principles". To appear in the workshop proceedings of the Personalizing Persuasive Technologies workshop (PPT 2022) (link), part of the 7th international conference on Persuasive Technology 2022 (PERSUASIVE 2022).
Esteban Guerrero, Nannan Xi, Tero Vartiainen, Panu Kalmi. Eristic dialogues in persuasive gamified systems. The 17th ARGDIAP conference, Reasoned Argumentation. Legal, Computational and Linguistic Perspectives.
Esteban Guerrero, Helena Lindgren. Typologies of persuasive strategies and content: a formalization using argumentation. 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Salamanca (Spain) | 6th-8th October, 2021 | PAAMS. 2021.
Esteban Guerrero. Causal interventions and argumentation-based frameworks: formalization of "what if" scenarios. Workshop on Decision Support, Recommendation, and Persuasion in Artificial Intelligence (DeRePAI), in the 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Salamanca (Spain). PAAMS. 2021. (pre-proceedings draft here) (slides)
Tania Bailoni, Mauro Dragoni, Esteban Guerrero, Helena Lindgren and Jean-Claude Martin. Ontological Modeling of Enablers and Barriers to Behavior Change in Personal Health Knowledge Graphs. The personal health knowledge graph (PHKG) workshop co-located with the 2021 Knowledge Graph Conference. (pre-proceedings draft here)
Guerrero, Esteban; Lindgren, Helena. Towards motivation-driven intelligent interfaces: formal argumentation meets activity theory. The 33rd the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) Workshop: SAIS 2021. (2021) (Slides)
Guerrero, Esteban; Santosa, Ailiana; Lindgren, Helena. Causal interventions with formal argumentation theory. International Workshop on Logical Aspects in Multi-Agent Systems and Strategic Reasoning, LAMAS-SR. (Satellite Workshop of AAMAS 2021). (2021). (paper here) (presentation here)
Ng, Nawi; Eriksson, Malin; Guerrero, Esteban; et al. Sustainable behaviour change for health supported by person-Tailored, Adaptive, Risk-aware digital Coaching in a social context: Study protocol for the STAR-C research programme. Frontiers In Public Health , Frontiers Media SA 2021, Vol. 9. (2021) (paper here)
Current project
Digiconsumers (2021-2022) at University of Vaasa, Finland Web portal"DigiConsumers - Improving young people's financial skills in a digitalised consumer society" Work package 4: Game-based approaches and digital tools in financial educationMy role: researcher using gamification mechanisms using artificial intelligence for guiding young people in financial decisions.
6 key publications (papers that I enjoyed writing)
E. Guerrero, J.C. Nieves, M. Sandlund and H. Lindgren. Activity qualifiers using an argument-based construction. Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer 2018, Vol. 54, (3) : 633-658.
E. Guerrero, Juan Carlos Nieves and Helena Lindgren. “An Activity-Centric Argumentation Framework for Assistive Technology Aimed at Improving Health”. Journal of Argumentation and Computation.2016.
E. Guerrero, Juan Carlos Nieves, and Helena Lindgren. “Semantic-based construction of arguments: An answer set programming approach.” International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 64 (2015): 54-74.
E. Guerrero, Lindgren H. Practical Reasoning About Complex Activities. In: Demazeau Y., Davidsson P., Bajo J., Vale Z. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10349. (2017). Springer, Cham.
E. Guerrero,J.C. Nieves, M. Sandlund and H. Lindgren. “Activity qualifiers in an argumentation framework as instruments for agents when evaluating human activity”. In 14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection, (PAAMS-16), pp. 1-12, 2016. Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Juan Carlos Nieves, E. Guerrero. “Deliberative argumentation for smart environments.” PRIMA 2014: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. Springer International Publishing, 2014. 141-149.
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