Publications:
(Journal)
Ho, W. C., Dautenhahn, K., Lim, M., Enz, S., Zoll, C. and Watson, S. (2009) Towards Learning 'Self' and Emotional Knowledge in Social and Cultural Human-Agent Interactions, International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems, 1(3), July-September 2009.

Ho, W. C., Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C. L. (008) Computational memory architectures for autobiographic agents interacting in a complex virtual environment: a working model, Connection Science, 20:1, 21 - 65.

Vargas, P. A., Fernaeus, Y., Lim, M. Y., Enz, S., Ho, W. C., Jacobsson, M. and Aylett, R. (2011): Advocating an ethical memory model for artificial companions from a human-centred perspective , Artificial Intelligence & Society Special Issue on Killer Robots or Friendly Fridges, Springer.

Zhang, S. j. and Ho, W. C. (Accepted) Tele-Immersive Interaction with Intelligent Virtual Agents Based on Real-Time 3D Modeling, Recent Advances in Electronic Commerce and Information Technology, Academy Publisher.

(Book chapter)
Watson, S., Dautenhahn, K., Ho, W. C., Dawidowicz, R.: (2009) Developing relationship between autonomous agents: promoting pro-social behaviour through virtual learning environment (Part I & II), in Trajkovski, G. P. and Collins, S. G. (Eds) Handbook of Research on Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions. IGI Global.

(Conference/Workshop)
Ho, W.C., Lim, M.Y. and Brom, C. (2011) Introduction: The Second Symposium of Human Memory for Artificial Agent, In Proceeding of The Second Symposium of Human Memory for Artificial Agent at AISB Convention 2011. Published by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). Printed by the University of York, UK. ISBN 1 978-1-908187-04-8.

Lim, M. Y., Aylett, R., Ho, W. C. and Dias, J. (2011) Human-like Memory Retrieval Mechanisms for Social Companions, in Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2011, 2-6 May-2011, Taipei, Taiwan.

Lim, M. Y., Aylett, R., Ho, W. C. and Enz, S. (2011) Forgetting Through Generalisation – A Companion with Selective Memory, in Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2011, 2-6 May-2011, Taipei, Taiwan.

Ho, W.C., Dautenhahn, K., Lim, M.Y. and Du Casse, K. (2010) Modelling Human Memory in Robotic Companions for Personalisation and Long-term Adaptation in HRI, in First International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive ArchitecturesIOS Press (as part of FAIA Series), 64-71.

Lim, M.Y., Ho, W.C. and Aylett, R. (2010) Memory, Companion Agents and Aging Society, in Digital Economy All Hands Meeting - Digital Futures, October 11th and 12th, 2010, at Nottingham, UK.

Lim, M.Y., Ho, W.C. and Aylett, R. (2010) Spreading Activation - An Autobiographic Memory Retrieval Mechanism for Social Companions, in the Proceeding of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2010).

Nuxoll, A., Tecuci, D., Ho, W. C. and Wang, N. (2010) Comparing Forgetting Algorithms for Artificial Episodic Memory Systems, Remembering Who We Are - Human Memory for Artificial Agent, AISB 2010

Papadopoulos, F., Dautenhahn, K., Ho, W.C. and Walters, M.L. (2010) AIBOCOM: Designing robot enhanced human-human remote communication technology. in Carole Bouchard, Ameziane Aoussat, Pierre Levy, Toshimasa Yamanaka (Eds.), Proceedings of the Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research International Conference 2010 (KEER2010), 2-4 March 2010, Arts et Metiers ParisTech, Paris, France. ISBN: 978-4-9905104-0-4, pp. 671- 682.

Ho, W. C., Lim, M. Y., Vargas, P. A., Enz, S., Dautenhahn K. and Aylett, R. (2009) An Initial Memory Model for Virtual and Robot Companions Supporting Migration and Long-term Interaction. Proceedings of RO-MAN 2009, pp 277-284, Toyama, Japan.

Ho, W. C. and Dautenhahn K. (2009) An Education Game Facilitating Children's Development of Social Relationships using IVAs with Social Group Dynamics, The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Amsterdam, Sept 14-16, 2009.

Lim, M. Y., Aylett, R., Ho, W. C., Vargas, P. A. and Enz, S. (2009) A Socially-Aware Memory for Companion Agents, The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Amsterdam, Sept 14-16, 2009.

Vargas, A. P., Freitas, A. A., Lim, M. Y., Ho, W. C., Enz, S. and Aylett, R. (2009) Forgetting and Generalisation in Memory Modelling for Robot Companions: a Data Mining Approach, First International Workshop on LEarning and Mining for Robotics (LEMIR) 2009.

Du Casse, K., Koay, K. L., Ho, W. C. and Dautenhahn, K. (2009) Reducing the cost of robotics software: SAMGAR, a generic modular robotic software communication architecture, submitted to ICAR 2009 Conference, Munich, Germany.

Ho, W. C., Davis, M. and Dautenhahn, K. (2009) Supporting Narrative Understanding of Children with Autism: A Story Interface with Autonomous Autobiographic Agents, submitted to IEEE ICORR 2009, Kyoto, Japan.

Vargas, P. A., Ho, W. C., Lim, M., Enz, S. and Aylett, R. (2009) To Forget or Not to Forget: Towards a Roboethical Memory Control, in the Social Understanding of AI Workshop, Proceedings of AISB 2009.

Aylett, R., Kriegel, M., Lim, M., Dias, J., Leichtenstern, K., Ho, W. C. and Rizzo, P. (2009) ORIENT: interactive agents for stage-based role-play, Proc. of 8th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Decker, Sichman, Sierra, and Castelfranchi (eds.), May, 10-15, 2009, Budapest, Hungary.

Ho, W. C. and Dautenhahn, K.: 2008, Towards a Narrative Mind: Creating Coherent Life Stories for Believable Agents, Proceeding of Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) 2008, 59-72.

Castellano, G., Aylett, R., Dautenhahn, K., Paiva, A, McOwan, P.W., Ho, S. (2008) Long-term affect sensitive and socially interactive companions,Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy. (name appeared as "Steve Ho" in this paper).

Dias, J., Ho, W. C., Vogt, T., Beeckman N., Paiva, A. and Andre, E.: 2007, I Know What I Did Last Summer: Autobiographic Memory in Synthetic Characters, Proceedings of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2007, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp 606-617.

Ho, W. C., Watson, S. and Dautenhahn, K.: 2007, AMIA: A Knowledge Representation Model for Computational Autobiographic Agents, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2007.

Ho, W. C., Dias, J., Figueiredo, R. and Paiva, A.: 2007, Agents that remember can tell stories: integrating autobiographic memory into emotional agents, Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), ACM Press.

Ho, W. C. and Watson, S: 2006, Autobiographic knowledge for believable virtual characters, Intelligent Virtual Agents 2006 (IVA 2006), Springer LNAI, 383 - 394.

Ho, W. C., Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C. L: 2005, A study of episodic memory-Based learning and narrative structure for autobiographic agents, Proceedings of AISB 2006 convention, Vol 3, pp 26-29, Bristol, UK.

Ho, W. C., Avila-Garcia, O. and Nehaniv, C. L.: 2005, Assessing the performance of different behavior selection architectures in a large and complex virtual environment, Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation - Special Session: Complex Adaptive Systems, IEEE, pp. 359-365.

Ho, W. C., Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C. L.: 2005, Autobiographic agents in dynamic virtual environments - performance comparison for different memorycontrol architectures, Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation - Special Session: Artificial Life, pp. 573-580.

Ho, W. C., Dautenhahn, K., Nehaniv, C. L. and te Boekhorst, R.: 2004, Sharing memories: An experimental investigation with multiple autonomous autobiographic agents, IAS-8, 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IOS Press, Amsterdam, NL, pp. 361-370.

Ho, W. C., Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C. L.: 2003, Comparing different control architectures for autobiographic agents in static virtual environments, Intelligent Virtual Agents 2003 (IVA 2003), Springer LNAI, pp. 182-191.

(PhD Dissertation)
Wan Ching Ho: 2005, Computational memory architectures for autobiographic and narrative virtual agents, Ph.D Dissertation, University of Hertfordshire.

(Edited Proceeding)
Ho, W.C., Lim, M.Y. and Brom, C. (eds) Proceeding of The Second Symposium of Human Memory for Artificial Agent at AISB Convention 2011. Published by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Printed by the University of York, UK. ISBN 1 978-1-908187-04-8.

Successful funding applications:
2008 China-UK Science Networks from UK Royal Society: Principle investigator and organiser of Agent Architecture Modelling Workshop (13th - 15th, STRI, University of Hertfordshire). Funding: 1,997.00 GBP.

2009 International Travel Grant from UK Royal Society: Principle investigator. Funding: 5,700.00 GBP.

Field of specialisation:
Human-agent interactions, human-robot interactions, intelligent virtual agents, agent simulation in Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life, cognitive agent architecture modelling, narrative intelligence, educational games, intelligent agent-based assistive technology

Academic qualifications:
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Dec 2005
B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, June 2002
HND in Computing Studies, Caritas Francis Hsu College, July 2001

Career history:
(November 2008 - to-date) Second PhD supervisor for Kyron Du-Casse in his migrating agent research

(October 2008 - to-date) Second PhD supervisor for Fotios Papadopoulos in his human-robot interaction research

(March 2008 - to-date) Senior research fellow for EU funded Framework 7 LIREC project (LIving with Robots and intEractive Companions) in School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire

(March 2006 - March 2008) Full-time research fellow for EU funded Framework 6 eCircus project (Education through Characters with emotional-Intelligence and Role-playing Capabilities that Understand Social interaction) in School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire

(January 2005 - February 2008) Second M.Phil. supervisor for Rafal Dawidowicz in his research "Social relationship in a Multi-Agent Virtual Environment"

(September 2003- June 2004) Part-time research fellow for EU funded ELVIS project (E-Learning with Virtual Interactive Synthetic characters) in School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire

(January 2003- July 2003) Part-time research assistant for Plagiarism Detection and Prevention project funded by Learning and Teaching Development Fund in School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire

(September 2003- June 2004) Part-time teaching assistant for Systems & Networks in School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire

(September 2002 - June 2003) Part-time teaching assistant for Computer Network Principles and Applications in School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire

(September 2002 - December 2005) Full-time Ph.D. candidate in School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire. Supervision team: Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn and Professor Chrytopher L. Nehaniv from University of Hertfordshire.

Symposium organiser:
"Remembering Who We Are - Human Memory for Artificial Agent", a one-day symposium in AISB Convention 2010 (29th March – 1st April 2010, De Montfort University at Leicester, UK)

"The 2nd Symposium of Human Memory for Artificial Agent", a two-day symposium in AISB Convention 2011 (4th-7th April 2011, University of York, UK)

Conference session chair:
2009 IEEE RO-MAN Conference, co-chair of session "Anthropomorphic Robots and Virtual Humans"

Program committee/paper reviewer:
2nd International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2012)

1st International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2011)

2th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICIS 2010)

The IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2010 (IHCI 2010)

19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2010)

2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

The 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS' 2008)

The 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007)

The 2nd Workshop on Narrative Learning Environments (NLE 2007)

The 2nd International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information (Bio-ADIT 2006)

Invited Talk:
"Modelling the Creation of Personal Narrative: A Computational Approach with Autobiographic Agents", in HCSNet Workshop on Narrative & Communication Disorders, 13-14 September, 2008, University of Melbourne, Australia

"A New Kind of Episodic Information and Memory for NPC in Computer Games", in Edutainment 2005 (Europe-China Workshop on E-learning and Games), 28 February - 2 March, 2005, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Laboratory visit:
February 2009, Mixed-Reality laboratory in Beihang University, Beijing, China.

November 2008, Prof. Helmut Prendinger's laboratory in National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

November 2008, Prof. Tetsuo Ono's laboratory in Future University Hakodate, Hakodate, Japan.