Publications and Talks


Saberi, M. (2016) Personality-Based Cognitive Design of Characters in Virtual Environments. In J. O. Turner, M. Nixon, U. Bernardet & S. DiPaola (Eds.), Integrating Cognitive Architectures into Virtual Character Design. IGI Global, Pennsylvania, USA. Chapter 5, 124-150.

Saberi, M., Bernardet, U., & DiPaola, S. (2015a). Effect of a Virtual Agent’s Contingent Smile Response on Perceived Social Status. In W.-P. Brinkman, J. Broekens, & D. Heylen (Eds.), Intelligent Virtual Agents (Vol. 9238, pp. 488–491). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7\_54.

Saberi, M., Bernardet, U., & DiPaola, S. (2015b). Model of Personality-Based, Nonverbal Behavior in Affective Virtual Humanoid Character. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 371–372). ICMI ’15. Seattle, Washington, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2818346.2823296

Saberi, M., Bernardet, U., & DiPaola, S. (2014). An architecture for personality-based, nonverbal behavior in affective virtual humanoid character. Procedia Computer Science, 41, 204-211.

Saberi, M., Bernardet, U., & DiPaola, S. (2014). An architecture for personality-based, nonverbal behavior in affective virtual humanoid character. Procedia Computer Science, 41, 204-211.

Bernardet, U., Saberi, M., & DiPaola, S. (2016). Simulink Toolbox for Real-time Virtual Character Control. In Intelligent Virtual Agents (forthcoming). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing.

Gabora, L., & Saberi, M. (2011, November). How did human creativity arise? An agent-based model of the origin of cumulative open-ended cultural evolution. In Proceedings of the ACM conference on cognition & creativity (pp. 299-306).

Gabora, L., & Saberi, M. (2011, November). An agent-based model of the cognitive mechanisms underlying the origins of creative cultural evolution. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition (pp. 299-306). ACM.

Gabora, L., & Saberi, M. (2011, November). ACM Conference on Cognition & Creativity. Atlanta, GA. Title of talk: How did Human Creativity Arise? An Agent-based Model of the Origin of Cumulative Open-ended Cultural Evolution.

Gabora, L., & Saberi, M. (2011, August). American Psychological Association convention in Washington DC. Title of talk: Should Everyone Be Creative? A computer simulation.

Certificates and Honors


Certificate Program in University Teaching and Learning Simon Fraser University, Apr 2013
Instructional Skill Workshop, Teaching and Learning Center, Simon Fraser University, Feb 2013