Research areas include: Embodied artificial intelligence; artificial life; human-robot interaction; cognitive technology; affecting computing; socially intelligent agents; social robotics; narrative intelligence; constructive biology; post-reactive robotics; morphogenesis, sensor evolution; swarm intelligence; control architectures for adaptive agents; learning and action selection; embodiment in software and robots; biologically inspired models of emotions for social interaction; interactive robotic or virtual systems in therapy and education; behavioural analysis and motivational modelling of autonomous agents.