Intelligent Virtual Agents: 16th International Conference, IVA 2016, Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 20–23, 2016, Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Interacting with Virtual Agents in Shared Space: Single and Joint Effects of Gaze and Proxemics....Pages 1-14
The Effect of an Intelligent Virtual Agent’s Nonverbal Behavior with Regard to Dominance and Cooperativity....Pages 15-28
Increasing Engagement with Virtual Agents Using Automatic Camera Motion....Pages 29-39
An Exploratory Study Toward the Preferred Conversational Style for Compatible Virtual Agents....Pages 40-50
Talk to Me: Verbal Communication Improves Perceptions of Friendship and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 51-63
Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language....Pages 64-74
The Effect of Embodiment and Competence on Trust and Cooperation in Human–Agent Interaction....Pages 75-84
Playing with Social and Emotional Game Companions....Pages 85-95
This Is What’s Important – Using Speech and Gesture to Create Focus in Multimodal Utterance....Pages 96-109
An Enhanced Intelligent Agent with Image Description Generation....Pages 110-119
A Smartphone-Based Virtual Agent for Atrial Fibrillation Education and Counseling....Pages 120-127
What Kind of Stories Should a Virtual Human Swap?....Pages 128-140
Using Multiple Storylines for Presenting Large Information Networks....Pages 141-153
Virtual Agents in the Classroom: Experience Fielding a Co-presenter Agent in University Courses....Pages 154-163
Manipulating the Perception of Virtual Audiences Using Crowdsourced Behaviors....Pages 164-174
Using Temporal Association Rules for the Synthesis of Embodied Conversational Agents with a Specific Stance....Pages 175-189
Cross Modal Evaluation of High Quality Emotional Speech Synthesis with the Virtual Human Toolkit....Pages 190-197
Bidirectional LSTM Networks Employing Stacked Bottleneck Features for Expressive Speech-Driven Head Motion Synthesis....Pages 198-207
Fast-Forwarding Crowd Simulations....Pages 208-217
Socially-Aware Virtual Agents: Automatically Assessing Dyadic Rapport from Temporal Patterns of Behavior....Pages 218-233
Facial Expressions of Appraisals Displayed by a Virtual Storyteller for Children....Pages 234-244
Evaluating Social Attitudes of a Virtual Tutor....Pages 245-255
Robots or Agents – Neither Helps You More or Less During Second Language Acquisition....Pages 256-268
Impact of Individual Differences on Affective Reactions to Pedagogical Agents Scaffolding....Pages 269-282
The Benefits of Virtual Humans for Teaching Negotiation....Pages 283-294
An Architecture for Biologically Grounded Real-Time Reflexive Behavior....Pages 295-305
Thinking Outside the Box: Co-planning Scientific Presentations with Virtual Agents....Pages 306-316
CAAF: A Cognitive Affective Agent Programming Framework....Pages 317-330
Multi-party Language Interaction in a Fast-Paced Game Using Multi-keyword Spotting ....Pages 331-340
A Design Proposition for Interactive Virtual Tutors in an Informed Environment....Pages 341-350
Do Avatars that Look Like Their Users Improve Performance in a Simulation?....Pages 351-354
Managing Dialog and Joint Actions for Virtual Basketball Teammates....Pages 355-358
Shyness Level and Sensitivity to Gaze from Agents - Are Shy People Sensitive to Agent’s Gaze?....Pages 359-363
User Engagement Study with Virtual Agents Under Different Cultural Contexts....Pages 364-368
On Constrained Local Model Feature Normalization for Facial Expression Recognition....Pages 369-372
Familiarity Detection with the Component Process Model....Pages 373-377
Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations....Pages 378-382
Translating Player Dialogue into Meaning Representations Using LSTMs....Pages 383-386
Evaluating Presence Strategies of Temporarily Required Virtual Assistants....Pages 387-391
A Disclosure Intimacy Rating Scale for Child-Agent Interaction....Pages 392-396
Generating Needs, Goals and Plans for Virtual Agents in Social Simulations....Pages 397-401
Psychologically Based Virtual-Suspect for Interrogative Interview Training....Pages 402-406
Topic Switch Models for Dialogue Management in Virtual Humans....Pages 407-411
Physical vs. Virtual Agent Embodiment and Effects on Social Interaction....Pages 412-415
Acceptability of Embodied Conversational Agent in a Health Care Context....Pages 416-419
How Students Perceive the Gender and Personality of a Visually Androgynous Agent....Pages 420-423
Towards Personal Assistants that Can Help Users Plan....Pages 424-428
A Parameterized Schema for Representing Complex Gesture Forms....Pages 429-432
Blissful Agents: Adjuncts to Group Medical Visits for Chronic Pain and Depression....Pages 433-437
Making AutoTutor Agents Smarter: AutoTutor Answer Clustering and Iterative Script Authoring....Pages 438-441
The Effects of a Robot’s Nonverbal Behavior on Users’ Mimicry and Evaluation....Pages 442-446
Development of a Mobile Personal Health Guide for HIV-Infected African American MSM....Pages 447-450
A Deep Learning Methodology for Semantic Utterance Classification in Virtual Human Dialogue Systems....Pages 451-455
Simulink Toolbox for Real-Time Virtual Character Control....Pages 456-459
The LISSA Virtual Human and ASD Teens: An Overview of Initial Experiments....Pages 460-463
Virtual General Game Playing Agent....Pages 464-469
Exploring the Impact of Environmental Effects on Social Presence with a Virtual Human....Pages 470-474
A Distributed Intelligent Agent Approach to Context in Information Retrieval....Pages 475-478
Composing the Atmosphere of a Virtual Classroom with a Group of Student Agents....Pages 479-483
Assessing Agreement in Human-Robot Dialogue Strategies: A Tale of Two Wizards....Pages 484-488
Development of a Virtual Classroom for High School Teacher Training....Pages 489-493
Using Virtual Characters to Study Human Social Cognition....Pages 494-499
An Interactive Tangram Game for Children with Autism....Pages 500-504
Virtual Dreaming: Simulating Everyday Life of the Darug People....Pages 505-508
Using Virtual Agents and Interactive Media to Create an ElectronixTutor for the Office of Naval Research....Pages 509-512
Using Virtual Agents to Deliver Lessons in Reading Comprehension to Struggling Adult Learners....Pages 513-515
Back Matter....Pages 516-518
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