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Intelligent Virtual Agents

12th International Conference, IVA 2012, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, September, 12-14, 2012. Proceedings

  • Yukiko Nakano
  • Michael Neff
  • Ana Paiva
  • Marilyn Walker
Conference proceedings IVA 2012

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7502)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 7502)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. IVAs for Learning Environments

    1. Fully Automated Generation of Question-Answer Pairs for Scripted Virtual Instruction
      Pascal Kuyten, Timothy Bickmore, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Paul Piwek, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka
      Pages 1-14
    2. The Virtual Apprentice
      Weizi Li, Jan M. Allbeck
      Pages 15-27
    3. The City of Uruk: Teaching Ancient History in a Virtual World
      Anton Bogdanovych, Kiran Ijaz, Simeon Simoff
      Pages 28-35
    4. An Analysis of the Dialogic Complexities in Designing a Question/Answering Based Conversational Agent for Preschoolers
      Anuj Tewari, Ingrid Liu, Carrie Cai, John Canny
      Pages 36-45
    5. Building Autonomous Social Partners for Autistic Children
      Sara Bernardini, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Tim J. Smith, Katerina Avramides
      Pages 46-52

  3. Emotion and Personality

    1. The Effect of Virtual Agents’ Emotion Displays and Appraisals on People’s Decision Making in Negotiation
      Celso M. de Melo, Peter Carnevale, Jonathan Gratch
      Pages 53-66
    2. First Impressions: Users’ Judgments of Virtual Agents’ Personality and Interpersonal Attitude in First Encounters
      Angelo Cafaro, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Timothy Bickmore, Dirk Heylen, Kamilla Rún Jóhannsdóttir, Gunnar Steinn Valgarðsson
      Pages 67-80
    3. A Study of Emotional Contagion with Virtual Characters
      Jason Tsai, Emma Bowring, Stacy Marsella, Wendy Wood, Milind Tambe
      Pages 81-88
    4. Longitudinal Affective Computing
      Lazlo Ring, Timothy Bickmore, Daniel Schulman
      Pages 89-96
    5. Generating Norm-Related Emotions in Virtual Agents
      Nuno Ferreira, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva, Frank Dignum, John Mc Breen, Nick Degens et al.
      Pages 97-104
    6. Virtual Agents in Conflict
      Henrique Campos, Joana Campos, Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva
      Pages 105-111

  4. Evaluation and Empirical Studies (1)

    1. How Do You Like Me in This: User Embodiment Preferences for Companion Agents
      Elena Márquez Segura, Michael Kriegel, Ruth Aylett, Amol Deshmukh, Henriette Cramer
      Pages 112-125
    2. A Second Chance to Make a First Impression? How Appearance and Nonverbal Behavior Affect Perceived Warmth and Competence of Virtual Agents over Time
      Kirsten Bergmann, Friederike Eyssel, Stefan Kopp
      Pages 126-138
    3. Spatial Misregistration of Virtual Human Audio: Implications of the Precedence Effect
      David M. Krum, Evan A. Suma, Mark Bolas
      Pages 139-145
    4. Virtual Human Personality Masks: A Human Computation Approach to Modeling Verbal Personalities in Virtual Humans
      Vaishnavi Krishnan, Adriana Foster, Regis Kopper, Benjamin Lok
      Pages 146-152
    5. The Effect of Visual Gender on Abuse in Conversation with ECAs
      Annika Silvervarg, Kristin Raukola, Magnus Haake, Agneta Gulz
      Pages 153-160

  5. Multimodal Perception and Expression

    1. Modeling Speaker Behavior: A Comparison of Two Approaches
      Jina Lee, Stacy Marsella
      Pages 161-174
    2. An Incremental Multimodal Realizer for Behavior Co-Articulation and Coordination
      Herwin van Welbergen, Dennis Reidsma, Stefan Kopp
      Pages 175-188
    3. Thalamus: Closing the Mind-Body Loop in Interactive Embodied Characters
      Tiago Ribeiro, Marco Vala, Ana Paiva
      Pages 189-195
    4. Lip-Reading: Furhat Audio Visual Intelligibility of a Back Projected Animated Face
      Samer Al Moubayed, Gabriel Skantze, Jonas Beskow
      Pages 196-203
    5. Subjective Optimization
      Chung-Cheng Chiu, Stacy Marsella
      Pages 204-211
    6. Understanding the Nonverbal Behavior of Socially Anxious People during Intimate Self-disclosure
      Sin-Hwa Kang, Albert (Skip) Rizzo, Jonathan Gratch
      Pages 212-217

  6. Narrative and Interactive Applications

    1. Virtual Reality Negotiation Training Increases Negotiation Knowledge and Skill
      Joost Broekens, Maaike Harbers, Willem-Paul Brinkman, Catholijn M. Jonker, Karel Van den Bosch, John-Jules Meyer
      Pages 218-230
    2. Towards Multimodal Expression of Laughter
      Radosław Niewiadomski, Catherine Pelachaud
      Pages 231-244
    3. Ada and Grace: Direct Interaction with Museum Visitors
      David Traum, Priti Aggarwal, Ron Artstein, Susan Foutz, Jillian Gerten, Athanasios Katsamanis et al.
      Pages 245-251
    4. Spatial Cues in Hamlet
      Christine Talbot, G. Michael Youngblood
      Pages 252-259
    5. Interactive Stories and Motivation to Read in the Raft Dyslexia Fluency Tutor
      Arthur Ward, Margaret McKeown, Carol Utay, Olga Medvedeva, Rebecca Crowley
      Pages 260-267
    6. Integrating Backchannel Prediction Models into Embodied Conversational Agents
      Iwan de Kok, Dirk Heylen
      Pages 268-274

  7. Social Interaction

    1. Incremental Dialogue Understanding and Feedback for Multiparty, Multimodal Conversation
      David Traum, David DeVault, Jina Lee, Zhiyang Wang, Stacy Marsella
      Pages 275-288
    2. Designing Relational Agents as Long Term Social Companions for Older Adults
      Laura Pfeifer Vardoulakis, Lazlo Ring, Barbara Barry, Candace L. Sidner, Timothy Bickmore
      Pages 289-302
    3. A Cognitive Model for Social Role Compliant Behavior of Virtual Agents
      Jeroen de Man, Annerieke Heuvelink, Karel van den Bosch
      Pages 303-310
    4. A Cognitive Social Agent Architecture for Cooperation in Social Simulations
      Jackeline Spinola, Ricardo Imbert
      Pages 311-318
    5. A Model for Social Regulation of User-Agent Relationships
      Sandra Gama, Gabriel Barata, Daniel Gonçalves, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva
      Pages 319-326

  8. Authoring and Tools

    1. Using Collaborative Discourse Theory to Partially Automate Dialogue Tree Authoring
      Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner
      Pages 327-340
    2. Authoring Rules for Bodily Interaction: From Example Clips to Continuous Motions
      Klaus Förger, Tapio Takala, Roberto Pugliese
      Pages 341-354
    3. Expressive Body Animation Pipeline for Virtual Agent
      Jing Huang, Catherine Pelachaud
      Pages 355-362
    4. The Turning, Stretching and Boxing Technique: A Step in the Right Direction
      Mark Dunne, Brian Mac Namee, John Kelleher
      Pages 363-369
    5. From Their Environment to Their Behavior: A Procedural Approach to Model Groups of Virtual Agents
      Rafael Hocevar, Fernando Marson, Vinícius Cassol, Henry Braun, Rafael Bidarra, Soraia R. Musse
      Pages 370-376

  9. Evaluation and Empirical Studies (2)

    1. Social Evaluation of Artificial Agents by Language Varieties
      Brigitte Krenn, Stephanie Schreitter, Friedrich Neubarth, Gregor Sieber
      Pages 377-389
    2. Empirical Validation of an Accommodation Theory-Based Model of User-Agent Relationship
      Timothy Bickmore, Daniel Schulman
      Pages 390-403
    3. Cultural Study on Speech Duration and Perception of Virtual Agent’s Nodding
      Tomoko Koda, Haruka Kishi, Takanori Hamamoto, Yota Suzuki
      Pages 404-411
    4. Cultural Behaviors of Virtual Agents in an Augmented Reality Environment
      Mohammad Obaid, Ionut Damian, Felix Kistler, Birgit Endrass, Johannes Wagner, Elisabeth André
      Pages 412-418
    5. Frown More, Talk More: Effects of Facial Expressions in Establishing Conversational Rapport with Virtual Agents
      Joshua Wei-Ern Wong, Kevin McGee
      Pages 419-425

  10. Conceptual Frameworks

    1. Characters with Personality!
      Karel Van den Bosch, Arjen Brandenburgh, Tijmen Joppe Muller, Annerieke Heuvelink
      Pages 426-439
    2. A Formal Architecture of Shared Mental Models for Computational Improvisational Agents
      Rania Hodhod, Andreya Piplica, Brian Magerko
      Pages 440-446
    3. A Reasoning Module to Select ECA’s Communicative Intention
      Jeremy Riviere, Carole Adam, Sylvie Pesty
      Pages 447-454
    4. Perception Markup Language: Towards a Standardized Representation of Perceived Nonverbal Behaviors
      Stefan Scherer, Stacy Marsella, Giota Stratou, Yuyu Xu, Fabrizio Morbini, Alesia Egan et al.
      Pages 455-463
    5. Flexible Conversation Management Using a BDI Agent Approach
      Wilson Wong, Lawrence Cavedon, John Thangarajah, Lin Padgham
      Pages 464-470

  11. Poster Abstracts

    1. Synthesising and Evaluating Cross-Modal Emotional Ambiguity in Virtual Agents
      Matthew P. Aylett, Blaise Potard
      Pages 471-473

About these proceedings

Introduction

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2012, held in Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in September 2012. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 31 short papers and 18 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on IVAs on learning environments; emotion and personality; evaluation and empirical studies; multimodal perception and expression; narrative and interactive applications; social interaction; authoring and tools; conceptual frameworks.

Keywords

augmented reality cognitive architecture expressive speech synthesis multimodal animation social interaction

Editors and affiliations

  • Yukiko Nakano
    • 1
  • Michael Neff
    • 2
  • Ana Paiva
    • 3
  • Marilyn Walker
    • 3
  1. 1.Dept. of Computer and Information ScienceSeikei UniversityTokyoJapan
  2. 2.Department of Computer Science and Program for Technocultural StudiesUniversity of CaliforniaDavisU.S.A.
  3. 3.Baskin School of EngineeringUniversity of California Santa CruzSanta CruzUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science Computer Science (R0)
  • Print ISBN 978-3-642-33196-1
  • Online ISBN 978-3-642-33197-8
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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