Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15-17, 2011. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Culture-Related Topic Selection in Small Talk Conversations across Germany and Japan....Pages 1-13
“I Like Your Shirt” - Dialogue Acts for Enabling Social Talk in Conversational Agents....Pages 14-27
Virtual Clones: Data-Driven Social Navigation....Pages 28-34
Tilt Riders: Improvisational Agents Who Know What the Scene Is about....Pages 35-41
Digital Improvisational Theatre: Party Quirks ....Pages 42-47
Where to Sit? The Study and Implementation of Seat Selection in Public Places....Pages 48-54
Relational Agents Improve Engagement and Learning in Science Museum Visitors....Pages 55-67
Virtual Rapport 2.0....Pages 68-79
It’s in Their Eyes: A Study on Female and Male Virtual Humans’ Gaze....Pages 80-92
Get Involved in an Interactive Virtual Tour of Brest Harbour: Follow the Guide and Participate....Pages 93-99
Using Virtual Tour Behavior to Build Dialogue Models for Training Review....Pages 100-105
Posture, Relationship, and Discourse Structure....Pages 106-112
Sign Language Avatars: Animation and Comprehensibility....Pages 113-126
How to Train Your Avatar: A Data Driven Approach to Gesture Generation....Pages 127-140
Nonverbal Action Selection for Explanations Using an Enhanced Behavior Net....Pages 141-147
Providing Gender to Embodied Conversational Agents....Pages 148-154
Modeling Gaze Behavior for Virtual Demonstrators....Pages 155-161
A Framework for Motion Based Bodily Enaction with Virtual Characters....Pages 162-168
Towards Conversational Agents That Attend to and Adapt to Communicative User Feedback....Pages 169-182
Quid Pro Quo? Reciprocal Self-disclosure and Communicative Accomodation towards a Virtual Interviewer....Pages 183-194
Creating Familiarity through Adaptive Behavior Generation in Human-Agent Interaction....Pages 195-201
Contextual Affordances for Intelligent Virtual Characters....Pages 202-208
Negotiations in the Context of AIDS Prevention: An Agent-Based Model Using Theory of Mind....Pages 209-215
Towards More Comprehensive Listening Behavior: Beyond the Bobble Head....Pages 216-227
Backchannels: Quantity, Type and Timing Matters....Pages 228-239
Modeling Side Participants and Bystanders: The Importance of Being a Laugh Track....Pages 240-247
Appropriate and Inappropriate Timing of Listener Responses from Multiple Perspectives....Pages 248-254
Identifying Utterances Addressed to an Agent in Multiparty Human–Agent Conversations....Pages 255-261
Estimating a User’s Conversational Engagement Based on Head Pose Information....Pages 262-268
Demonstrating and Testing the BML Compliance of BML Realizers....Pages 269-281
Robots Meet IVAs: A Mind-Body Interface for Migrating Artificial Intelligent Agents....Pages 282-295
Multimodal Plan Representation for Adaptable BML Scheduling....Pages 296-308
Towards the Rapid Development of a Natural Language Understanding Module....Pages 309-315
Expressive Multimodal Conversational Acts for SAIBA Agents....Pages 316-323
Continuous Interaction within the SAIBA Framework....Pages 324-330
A Flexible Dual Task Paradigm for Evaluating an Embodied Conversational Agent: Modality Effects and Reaction Time as an Index of Cognitive Load....Pages 331-337
Did You Notice? Artificial Team-Mates Take Risks for Players....Pages 338-349
Sharing Emotions and Space – Empathy as a Basis for Cooperative Spatial Interaction....Pages 350-362
Perception of Spatial Relations and of Coexistence with Virtual Agents....Pages 363-369
Failure Detection and Reactive Teaming for Behavior-Based Subsumption....Pages 370-376
Comparing Modes of Information Presentation: Text versus ECA and Single versus Two ECAs....Pages 377-383
Empirical Evaluation of Computational Emotional Contagion Models....Pages 384-397
Don’t Scratch! Self-adaptors Reflect Emotional Stability....Pages 398-411
Exploration on Context-Sensitive Affect Sensing in an Intelligent Agent....Pages 412-418
To Date or Not to Date? A Minimalist Affect-Modulated Control Architecture for Dating Virtual Characters....Pages 419-425
Interactive Characters for Cultural Training of Small Military Units....Pages 426-427
The BML Sequencer: A Tool for Authoring Multi-character Animations....Pages 428-430
Intelligent Virtual Environment Development with the REVE Platform: An Overview....Pages 431-432
Users’s Expectations of IVA Recall and Forgetting....Pages 433-434
Validity of a Virtual Negotiation Training....Pages 435-436
A Software Framework for Individualized Agent Behavior....Pages 437-438
The Mona Lisa Gaze Effect as an Objective Metric for Perceived Cospatiality....Pages 439-440
Bots in Our Midst: Communicating with Automated Agents in Online Virtual Worlds....Pages 441-442
Realistic Eye Models Taking into Account Pupil Dilation and Corneal Reflection....Pages 443-444
Control of Speech-Related Facial Movements of an Avatar from Video....Pages 445-446
Teaching Her, Him ... or Hir?
 Challenges for a Cross-Cultural Study....Pages 447-448
Examining Learners’ Emotional Responses to Virtual Pedagogical Agents’ Tutoring Strategies....Pages 449-450
Source Orientation in Communication with a Conversational Agent....Pages 451-452
Checkpoint Exercise: Training with Virtual Actors in Virtual Worlds....Pages 453-454
Modeling Nonverbal Behavior of a Virtual Counselor during Intimate Self-disclosure....Pages 455-457
The Effects of Virtual Agent Humor and Gaze Behavior on Human-Virtual Agent Proxemics....Pages 458-459
CLARION as a Cognitive Framework for Intelligent Virtual Agents....Pages 460-461
Towards a Design Approach for Integrating BDI Agents in Virtual Environments....Pages 462-463
Animating a Conversational Agent with User Expressivity....Pages 464-465
Expressing Emotions on Robotic Companions with Limited Facial Expression Capabilities....Pages 466-467
A BML Based Embodied Conversational Agent for a Personality Detection Program....Pages 468-469
Flipper: An Information State Component for Spoken Dialogue Systems....Pages 470-472
Dynamic Planning for Agents in Games Using Social Norms and Emotions....Pages 473-474
Are Intelligent Pedagogical Agents Effective in Fostering Students’ Note-Taking While Learning with a Multi-agent Adaptive Hypermedia Environment?....Pages 475-476
Toward a Conversational Virtual Instructor of Ballroom Dance....Pages 477-478
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