Papers that bridge the fields of Attachment Theory, Cognitive Science, and Affective Computing.

The papers are listed by year, any suggestions for additional articles welcomed. Some papers fit across categories,

Articles where computers are used for modelling and simulation of attachment phenomena (or attachment phenomena are explained in computational terms)

Articles where Attachment Theory is used as inspiration in the development of Affective Computing applications (or where Attachment Theory is used as a source of insight in the analysis of interactions between humans and computer applications)

Articles which use computers for modelling and simulation of Attachment Phenomena (or attachment phenomena are explained in computational terms)

Bischof, N., (1975) A Systems Approach toward the Functional Connections of Attachment and Fear, Child Development 46, 801-817

Bretherton, I., (1985) Attachment Theory: Retrospect and Prospect Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 50, No. 1/2, Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research, pp. 3-35

Kobak, R., Cole, H., Fleming, W., Ferenz-Gillies, R. and Gamble, W. (1993). Attachment and emotion regulation during mother-teen problem-solving: A control theory analysis. Child Development 64, 231-245

Parisi, D., Cecconi, F., Cerini, A., (1995). Kin-directed altruism and attachment behaviour in an evolving population of neural networks. In N. Gilbert and R. Conte (Eds.), Artificial societies. The computer simulation of social life (pp. 238-251). London: UCL Press.

Wright, I., Sloman, A., and Beaudoin, L. (1996). Towards a Design-Based Analysis of Emotional Episodes. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. 3, 2, 101-126 (appeared with commentaries and response)

Fraley, R. C. (2002). Attachment stability from infancy to adulthood: Meta-analysis and dynamic modeling of developmental mechanisms. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 123-151.

Fraley, R. C., & Brumbaugh, C. C. (2004). A dynamical systems approach to understanding stability and change in attachment security. In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (Eds.), Adult attachment : Theory, research, and clinical implications (pp. 86-132). New York: Guilford Press.

Petters, D., (2004). Simulating Infant-Carer Relationship Dynamics, In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium, (March 2004, Stanford): Architectures for Modelling Emotion - Cross-Disciplinary Foundations, number SS-04-02 in AAAI Technical reports, pages 114-122, Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Fraley, R. C., & Roberts, B. W. (2005). Patterns of continuity: A dynamic model for conceptualizing the stability of individual differences in psychological constructs across the life course. Psychological Review, 112, 60-74.

Petters, D., (2005). Building Agents to Understand Infant Attachment Behaviour, In Proceedings of the workshop: Modelling Natural Action Selection (July 2005, Edinburgh), pages 158-165, University of Sussex, Brighton: AISB Press.

Petters, D., (2006). Implementing a Theory of Attachment: A Simulation of the Strange Situation with Autonomous Agents, In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (April 2006, Trieste), pages 226-231, Trieste: Edizioni Golardiche.

Petters, D., (2006). Designing Agents to Understand Infants. Ph.D. thesis in Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.

Petters, D., (2007). Using Software Agents to Simulate Infant Secure-Base Behaviour. To be presented at the Society for Research in Child Development 2007 Biennial Meeting, (April 2007, Boston).

Bullinaria, J.A. (2007). The Effect of Learning on Life History Evolution. In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), 222-229. New York, NY: ACM.

Petters, D. and Waters, E. (2008). Epigenetic Development of Attachment Styles in Autonomous Agents. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics. Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotics Systems, pages 153-154 (July 2008, Brighton). Lund University Cognitive Studies, 139

Bullinaria, J.A. (2008). Another Reason Why We Should Look After Our Children. In: R.M. French & E. Thomas (Eds), From Associations to Rules: Connectionist Models of Behavior and Cognition, 41-52. Singapore: World Scientific.

Bullinaria, J.A. (2009). Lifetime Learning as a Factor in Life History Evolution. Artificial Life, 15, 389-409.

Articles which use Attachment Theory as inspiration in the development of Affective Computing applications (or where Attachment Theory is used as a source of insight in the analysis of interactions between humans and computer applications)

Alessi, N.E. and Huang, M.P.,(1998) The potential relevance of attachment theory in assessing relatedness with virtual humans In Giuseppe Riva, Brenda Wiederhold, Enrico Molinari (Eds.) Virtual Environments in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience, IOS Press: Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Likhachev, L. and Arkin, R.C., (2000), Robotic Comfort Zones. In, Proceedings of SPIE: Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems, 27--41,

Kaplan, F., (2001) Artificial Attachment : Will a robot ever pass Ainsworth's Strange Situation Test?. In Hashimoto, S., editor, Proceedings of Humanoids 2001 : IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages 125-132, 2001.

Arkin, R.C., (2005) Moving Up the Food Chain: Motivation and Emotion in Behaviour Base Robots In, J.M. Fellous and M.A. Arbib (Eds) Who Needs Emotions? The brain meets the Robot. Oxford University Press

Canamero, L., Blanchard, A., and Nadel, J., (2006). Attachment Bonds for Human-Like Robots. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 3(3): 301-320

Hiolle, A. and Canamero, L. (2007). Developing Sensorimotor Associations Through Attachment Bonds. In C. Prince, C. Balkenius, L. Berthouze, H. Kozima, M. Littman (Eds.), Proc. 7th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob 2007), Lund University Cognitive Studies, 134, pp. 45-52.

Hiolle, A., Canamero, L., and Blanchard, A. (2007). Learning to Interact with the Caretaker: A Developmental Approach. In A. Paiva, R. Prada, and R.W. Picard (Eds.), Proc. Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2007), LNCS 4738, pp. 425-436. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Hiolle, A. and Canamero, L. (2008). Conscientious caretaking for autonomous robots: an arousal-based model of exploratory behavior. In M. Schlesinger, L. Berthouze, and C. Balkenius (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modelling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems pp. 45-52. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 139.

Hiolle, A. and Canamero, L. (2008). Why should you care? An arousal-based model of exploratory behavior for autonomous robots. In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R.A. Watson, and M.A. Bedau (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life, pp. 242-248, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

Hiolle, A. Bard, K.A., and Canamero, L. (2009). Assessing human responses to different robot attachment profiles Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 251-257.

Sharkey, N., and Sharkey, A. (In Press for 2010 publication) The crying shame of robot nannies: an ethical appraisal. Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems.

Petters, D., Waters, E., and Schönbrodt, F. (In Press for 2010 publication). Strange Carers: Robots as Attachment Figures and Aids to Parenting. Commentary on Sharkey, N., and Sharkey, A.: The crying shame of robot nannies: an ethical appraisal. Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems.