Intelligent Virtual Agents: 5th International Working Conference, IVA 2005, Kos, Greece, September 12-14, 2005. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Training Agents: An Architecture for Reusability....Pages 1-14
Ask&Answer: An Educational Game Where It Pays to Endear Your Capricious Virtual Companion....Pages 15-24
Natural Behavior of a Listening Agent....Pages 25-36
Providing Computer Game Characters with Conversational Abilities....Pages 37-51
Fight, Flight, or Negotiate: Believable Strategies for Conversing Under Crisis....Pages 52-64
Dialog Simulation for Background Characters....Pages 65-74
INTERFACE Toolkit: A New Tool for Building IVAs....Pages 75-87
Autonomous Virtual Agents Learning a Cognitive Model and Evolving....Pages 88-98
Using Real Objects to Communicate with Virtual Characters....Pages 99-110
A Software Engineering Approach Combining Rational and Conversational Agents for the Design of Assistance Applications....Pages 111-119
Marve: A Prototype Virtual Human Interface Framework for Studying Human-Virtual Human Interaction....Pages 120-133
A Knowledge-Based Scenario Framework to Support Intelligent Planning Characters....Pages 134-145
CAA: A Context-Sensitive Agent Architecture for Dynamic Virtual Environments....Pages 146-151
When Emotion Does Not Mean Loss of Control....Pages 152-165
Social Situated Agents in Virtual, Real and Mixed Reality Environments....Pages 166-177
Do You See What Eyes See? Implementing Inattentional Blindness....Pages 178-190
Social Causality and Responsibility: Modeling and Evaluation....Pages 191-204
Teaching Virtual Characters How to Use Body Language....Pages 205-214
Direction of Attention Perception for Conversation Initiation in Virtual Environments....Pages 215-228
A Model of Attention and Interest Using Gaze Behavior....Pages 229-240
Where Do They Look? Gaze Behaviors of Multiple Users Interacting with an Embodied Conversational Agent....Pages 241-252
Hierarchical Motion Controllers for Real-Time Autonomous Virtual Humans....Pages 253-265
Modeling Dynamic Perceptual Attention in Complex Virtual Environments....Pages 266-277
An Objective Character Believability Evaluation Procedure for Multi-agent Story Generation Systems....Pages 278-291
Proactive Mediation in Plan-Based Narrative Environments....Pages 292-304
FearNot! – An Experiment in Emergent Narrative....Pages 305-316
Intelligent Virtual Agents in Collaborative Scenarios....Pages 317-328
A Conversational Agent as Museum Guide – Design and Evaluation of a Real-World Application....Pages 329-343
Using Ontology to Establish Social Context and Support Social Reasoning....Pages 344-357
Integrating Social Skills in Task-Oriented 3D IVA....Pages 358-370
Emergent Affective and Personality Model....Pages 371-380
Judging Laura: Perceived Qualities of a Mediated Human Versus an Embodied Agent....Pages 381-393
The Significance of Textures for Affective Interfaces....Pages 394-404
Levels of Representation in the Annotation of Emotion for the Specification of Expressivity in ECAs....Pages 405-417
Extended Behavior Networks and Agent Personality: Investigating the Design of Character Stereotypes in the Game Unreal Tournament....Pages 418-429
Direct Manipulation Like Tools for Designing Intelligent Virtual Agents....Pages 430-441
Social Communicative Effects of a Virtual Program Guide....Pages 442-453
Maintaining the Identity of Dynamically Embodied Agents....Pages 454-465
The Behavior Oriented Design of an Unreal Tournament Character....Pages 466-477
MyTutor: A Personal Tutoring Agent....Pages 478-488
Using Facial Expressions Depicting Emotions in a Human-Computer Interface Intended for People with Autism....Pages 489-489
A Survey of Computational Emotion Research....Pages 490-490
A Study on Generating and Matching Facial Control Point Using Radial Basis Function....Pages 491-491
A Platform Independent Architecture for Virtual Characters and Avatars....Pages 492-492
GAL: Towards Large Simulations with Tens of Agents....Pages 493-493
Virtual Agents in a Simulation of an ISO-Company....Pages 494-494
Appraisal for a Character-Based Story-World....Pages 495-496
Evolving Emotional Behaviour for Expressive Performance of Music....Pages 497-497
A Model of an Embodied Emotional Agent....Pages 498-498
Agent Assistance for 3D World Navigation....Pages 499-499
NeXuS: Delivering Perceptions to Situated Embodied Agents....Pages 500-500
Emotion in Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life Research: Facing Problems....Pages 501-501
A Synthetic Agent for Mentoring Novice Programmers Within a Desktop Computer Environment....Pages 502-502
vBroker: Agents Teaching Stock Market....Pages 503-503
Emergence of Representational Structures in Virtual Agents....Pages 504-504
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