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

Front Matter....Pages -
Fully Automated Generation of Question-Answer Pairs for Scripted Virtual Instruction....Pages 1-14
The Virtual Apprentice....Pages 15-27
The City of Uruk: Teaching Ancient History in a Virtual World....Pages 28-35
An Analysis of the Dialogic Complexities in Designing a Question/Answering Based Conversational Agent for Preschoolers....Pages 36-45
Building Autonomous Social Partners for Autistic Children....Pages 46-52
The Effect of Virtual Agents’ Emotion Displays and Appraisals on People’s Decision Making in Negotiation....Pages 53-66
First Impressions: Users’ Judgments of Virtual Agents’ Personality and Interpersonal Attitude in First Encounters....Pages 67-80
A Study of Emotional Contagion with Virtual Characters....Pages 81-88
Longitudinal Affective Computing....Pages 89-96
Generating Norm-Related Emotions in Virtual Agents....Pages 97-104
Virtual Agents in Conflict....Pages 105-111
How Do You Like Me in This: User Embodiment Preferences for Companion Agents....Pages 112-125
A Second Chance to Make a First Impression? How Appearance and Nonverbal Behavior Affect Perceived Warmth and Competence of Virtual Agents over Time....Pages 126-138
Spatial Misregistration of Virtual Human Audio: Implications of the Precedence Effect....Pages 139-145
Virtual Human Personality Masks: A Human Computation Approach to Modeling Verbal Personalities in Virtual Humans....Pages 146-152
The Effect of Visual Gender on Abuse in Conversation with ECAs....Pages 153-160
Modeling Speaker Behavior: A Comparison of Two Approaches....Pages 161-174
An Incremental Multimodal Realizer for Behavior Co-Articulation and Coordination....Pages 175-188
Thalamus: Closing the Mind-Body Loop in Interactive Embodied Characters....Pages 189-195
Lip-Reading: Furhat Audio Visual Intelligibility of a Back Projected Animated Face....Pages 196-203
Subjective Optimization....Pages 204-211
Understanding the Nonverbal Behavior of Socially Anxious People during Intimate Self-disclosure....Pages 212-217
Virtual Reality Negotiation Training Increases Negotiation Knowledge and Skill....Pages 218-230
Towards Multimodal Expression of Laughter....Pages 231-244
Ada and Grace: Direct Interaction with Museum Visitors....Pages 245-251
Spatial Cues in Hamlet....Pages 252-259
Interactive Stories and Motivation to Read in the Raft Dyslexia Fluency Tutor....Pages 260-267
Integrating Backchannel Prediction Models into Embodied Conversational Agents....Pages 268-274
Incremental Dialogue Understanding and Feedback for Multiparty, Multimodal Conversation....Pages 275-288
Designing Relational Agents as Long Term Social Companions for Older Adults....Pages 289-302
A Cognitive Model for Social Role Compliant Behavior of Virtual Agents....Pages 303-310
A Cognitive Social Agent Architecture for Cooperation in Social Simulations....Pages 311-318
A Model for Social Regulation of User-Agent Relationships....Pages 319-326
Using Collaborative Discourse Theory to Partially Automate Dialogue Tree Authoring....Pages 327-340
Authoring Rules for Bodily Interaction: From Example Clips to Continuous Motions....Pages 341-354
Expressive Body Animation Pipeline for Virtual Agent....Pages 355-362
The Turning, Stretching and Boxing Technique: A Step in the Right Direction....Pages 363-369
From Their Environment to Their Behavior: A Procedural Approach to Model Groups of Virtual Agents....Pages 370-376
Social Evaluation of Artificial Agents by Language Varieties....Pages 377-389
Empirical Validation of an Accommodation Theory-Based Model of User-Agent Relationship....Pages 390-403
Cultural Study on Speech Duration and Perception of Virtual Agent’s Nodding....Pages 404-411
Cultural Behaviors of Virtual Agents in an Augmented Reality Environment....Pages 412-418
Frown More, Talk More: Effects of Facial Expressions in Establishing Conversational Rapport with Virtual Agents....Pages 419-425
Characters with Personality!....Pages 426-439
A Formal Architecture of Shared Mental Models for Computational Improvisational Agents....Pages 440-446
A Reasoning Module to Select ECA’s Communicative Intention....Pages 447-454
Perception Markup Language: Towards a Standardized Representation of Perceived Nonverbal Behaviors....Pages 455-463
Flexible Conversation Management Using a BDI Agent Approach....Pages 464-470
Synthesising and Evaluating Cross-Modal Emotional Ambiguity in Virtual Agents....Pages 471-473
Immersive Interfaces for Building Parameterized Motion Databases....Pages 474-476
Creating Personalized and Distributed Virtual Learning Spaces through the Use of i-Collaboration 3.0....Pages 477-479
Eliciting Gestural Feedback in Chinese and Swedish Informal Interactions....Pages 480-482
Locus of Control in Conversational Agent Design: Effects on Older Users’ Interactivity and Social Presence....Pages 483-485
Online Behavior Evaluation with the Switching Wizard of Oz....Pages 486-488
Modeling the Multi-modal Behaviors of a Virtual Instructor in Tutoring Ballroom Dance....Pages 489-491
Hospital Buddy: A Persistent Emotional Support Companion Agent for Hospital Patients....Pages 492-495
Towards Assessing the Communication Responsiveness of People with Dementia....Pages 496-498
A Conversational Agent for Social Support: Validation of Supportive Dialogue Sequences....Pages 499-501
Rich Computational Model of Conflict for Virtual Characters....Pages 502-504
A Model for Embodied Cognition in Autonomous Agents....Pages 505-507
Evaluation of an Affective Model: COR-E....Pages 508-510
Evaluation of the Uncanny Valley in CG Characters....Pages 511-513
Full-Body Gesture Interaction with Improvisational Narrative Agents....Pages 514-516
Understanding How Well You Understood – Context- Sensitive Interpretation of Multimodal User Feedback....Pages 517-519
Toward a Computational Model for the Automatic Generation of Character Personality in Interactive Narrative....Pages 520-522
Efficient Cultural Models of Verbal Behavior for Communicative Agents....Pages 523-525
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