Intelligent Virtual Agents: 14th International Conference, IVA 2014, Boston, MA, USA, August 27-29, 2014. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Using Virtual Doppelgängers to Increase Personal Relevance of Health Risk Communication....Pages 1-12
Luke, I am Your Father: Dealing with Out-of-Domain Requests by Using Movies Subtitles....Pages 13-21
Animated Faces, Abstractions and Autism....Pages 22-25
Is That How Everyone Really Feels? Emotional Contagion with Masking for Virtual Crowds....Pages 26-35
Narrative Scenarios as a Testbed for Moral Agents....Pages 36-39
On the Sociability of a Game-Playing Agent: A Software Framework and Empirical Study....Pages 40-53
Effects of Coupling in Human-Virtual Agent Body Interaction....Pages 54-63
Improving Motion Classifier Robustness by Estimating Output Confidence....Pages 64-66
A Method to Evaluate Response Models....Pages 67-70
When to Elicit Feedback in Dialogue: Towards a Model Based on the Information Needs of Speakers....Pages 71-80
Representing Communicative Functions in SAIBA with a Unified Function Markup Language....Pages 81-94
An Exploratory Analysis of ECA Characteristics....Pages 95-98
Motion Parameterization and Adaptation Strategies for Virtual Therapists....Pages 99-108
Corpus Creation and Perceptual Evaluation of Expressive Theatrical Gestures....Pages 109-119
From Non-verbal Signals Sequence Mining to Bayesian Networks for Interpersonal Attitudes Expression....Pages 120-133
ERiSA: Building Emotionally Realistic Social Game-Agents Companions....Pages 134-143
Building Virtual Humans with Back Stories: Training Interpersonal Communication Skills in Medical Students....Pages 144-153
Agents Behavior Semi-automatic Analysis through Their Comparison to Human Behavior Clustering....Pages 154-163
Upper Body Animation Synthesis for a Laughing Character....Pages 164-173
Simulating Deceptive Cues of Joy in Humanoid Robots....Pages 174-177
Recommendations for Designing Maximally Effective and Persuasive Health Agents....Pages 178-181
Recorded Speech, Virtual Environments, and the Effectiveness of Embodied Conversational Agents....Pages 182-185
Exploring the Difference of the Impression on Human and Agent Listeners in Active Listening Dialog....Pages 186-189
Planning Motions for Virtual Demonstrators....Pages 190-203
With Us or Against Us: Simulated Social Touch by Virtual Agents in a Cooperative or Competitive Setting....Pages 204-213
A Step towards Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous Synthetic Characters....Pages 214-217
Dynamical Systems to Account for Turn-Taking in Spoken Interactions....Pages 218-221
Virtual Reflexes....Pages 222-231
Ascribed Gender and Characteristics of a Visually Androgynous Teachable Agent....Pages 232-235
Full Body Interaction with Virtual Characters in an Interactive Storytelling Scenario....Pages 236-239
Effects of an Agent’s Displaying Self-adaptors during a Serious Conversation....Pages 240-249
Let’s Be Serious and Have a Laugh: Can Humor Support Cooperation with a Virtual Agent?....Pages 250-259
Towards Realistic Female Avatar Creation....Pages 260-263
Metaphoric Gestures: Towards Grounded Mental Spaces....Pages 264-274
From Data to Storytelling Agents....Pages 275-278
Building Community and Commitment with a Virtual Coach in Mobile Wellness Programs....Pages 279-284
Look on the Bright Side: A Model of Cognitive Change in Virtual Agents....Pages 285-294
Naturalistic Pain Synthesis for Virtual Patients....Pages 295-309
Generative Models of Cultural Decision Making for Virtual Agents Based on User’s Reported Values....Pages 310-315
Mapping Personality to the Appearance of Virtual Characters Using Interactive Genetic Algorithms....Pages 316-319
Towards a Computational Architecture of Dyadic Rapport Management for Virtual Agents....Pages 320-324
A Cognitive Model of Social Relations for Artificial Companions....Pages 325-328
An Eye Tracking Evaluation of a Virtual Pediatric Patient Training System for Nurses....Pages 329-338
Personalization and Personification: A Constructive Approach Based on Parametric Agents....Pages 339-344
Interpersonal Attitude of a Speaking Agent in Simulated Group Conversations....Pages 345-349
Birth Control, Drug Abuse, or Domestic Violence? What Health Risk Topics Are Women Willing to Discuss with a Virtual Agent?....Pages 350-359
Evaluating the Impact of Anticipation on the Efficiency and Believability of Virtual Agents....Pages 360-363
Developing Interactive Embodied Characters Using the Thalamus Framework: A Collaborative Approach....Pages 364-373
The Right Agent for the Job?....Pages 374-384
Exploring Gender Biases with Virtual Patients for High Stakes Interpersonal Skills Training....Pages 385-396
A Qualitative Evaluation of Behavior during Conflict with an Authoritative Virtual Human....Pages 397-409
Steps towards a Challenging Teachable Agent....Pages 410-419
Large-scale Collection and Analysis of Personal Question-Answer Pairs for Conversational Agents....Pages 420-433
Design Guidelines for a Virtual Coach for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Patients....Pages 434-437
A Virtual Therapist for Speech and Language Therapy....Pages 438-448
AsapRealizer 2.0: The Next Steps in Fluent Behavior Realization for ECAs....Pages 449-462
A Data-Driven Method for Real-Time Character Animation in Human-Agent Interaction....Pages 463-476
Compound Gesture Generation: A Model Based on Ideational Units....Pages 477-491
Statistical Dialog Manager Design Tool for Health Screening and Assessments....Pages 492-495
Towards Learning Nonverbal Identities from the Web: Automatically Identifying Visually Accentuated Words....Pages 496-503
Maintaining Continuity in Longitudinal, Multi-method Health Interventions Using Virtual Agents: The Case of Breastfeeding Promotion....Pages 504-513
Towards a Dyadic Computational Model of Rapport Management for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction....Pages 514-527
Agent-User Concordance and Satisfaction with a Virtual Hospital Discharge Nurse....Pages 528-541
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