Intelligent Virtual Agents: 6th International Conference, IVA 2006, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, August 21-23, 2006. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Why Fat Interface Characters Are Better e-Health Advisors....Pages 1-13
Virtual Rapport....Pages 14-27
Imitation Learning and Response Facilitation in Embodied Agents....Pages 28-41
Robust Recognition of Emotion from Speech....Pages 42-53
Affect Detection from Human-Computer Dialogue with an Intelligent Tutoring System....Pages 54-67
Exploitation in Affect Detection in Improvisational E-Drama....Pages 68-79
An Exploration of Delsarte’s Structural Acting System....Pages 80-92
Perception of Blended Emotions: From Video Corpus to Expressive Agent....Pages 93-106
Perceiving Visual Emotions with Speech....Pages 107-120
Dealing with Out of Domain Questions in Virtual Characters....Pages 121-131
MIKI: A Speech Enabled Intelligent Kiosk....Pages 132-144
Architecture of a Framework for Generic Assisting Conversational Agents....Pages 145-156
A Comprehensive Context Model for Multi-party Interactions with Virtual Characters....Pages 157-168
“What Would You Like to Talk About?” An Evaluation of Social Conversations with a Virtual Receptionist....Pages 169-180
Gesture Expressivity Modulations in an ECA Application....Pages 181-192
Visual Attention and Eye Gaze During Multiparty Conversations with Distractions....Pages 193-204
Towards a Common Framework for Multimodal Generation: The Behavior Markup Language....Pages 205-217
MPML3D: A Reactive Framework for the Multimodal Presentation Markup Language....Pages 218-229
Creativity Meets Automation: Combining Nonverbal Action Authoring with Rules and Machine Learning....Pages 230-242
Nonverbal Behavior Generator for Embodied Conversational Agents....Pages 243-255
[HUGE]: Universal Architecture for Statistically Based HUman GEsturing....Pages 256-269
A Story About Gesticulation Expression....Pages 270-281
Introducing EVG: An Emotion Evoking Game....Pages 282-291
Towards a Reactive Virtual Trainer....Pages 292-303
Making It Up as You Go Along – Improvising Stories for Pedagogical Purposes....Pages 304-315
A Neurobiologically Inspired Model of Personality in an Intelligent Agent....Pages 316-328
Feeling Ambivalent: A Model of Mixed Emotions for Virtual Agents....Pages 329-342
Are Computer-Generated Emotions and Moods Plausible to Humans?....Pages 343-356
Creating Adaptive and Individual Personalities in Many Characters Without Hand-Crafting Behaviors....Pages 357-368
Thespian: Modeling Socially Normative Behavior in a Decision-Theoretic Framework....Pages 369-382
Autobiographic Knowledge for Believable Virtual Characters....Pages 383-394
Teachable Characters: User Studies, Design Principles, and Learning Performance....Pages 395-406
FearNot’s Appearance: Reflecting Children’s Expectations and Perspectives....Pages 407-419
Populating Reconstructed Archaeological Sites with Autonomous Virtual Humans....Pages 420-433
Evaluating the Tangible Interface and Virtual Characters in the Interactive COHIBIT Exhibit....Pages 434-444
Invited Talk: Rule Systems and Video Games....Pages 445-445
Invited Talk: Façade : Architecture and Authorial Idioms for Believable Agents in Interactive Drama....Pages 446-448
Invited Talk: Social Effects of Emotion: Two Modes of Relation Alignment....Pages 449-449
Computer Model of Emotional Agents....Pages 450-450
Affective Robots as Mediators in Smart Environments....Pages 451-451
Expression of Emotion in Body and Face....Pages 452-452
Towards Primate-Like Synthetic Sociability....Pages 453-453
Here Be Dragons: Integrating Agent Behaviors with Procedural Emergent Landscapes and Structures....Pages 454-454
Virtual Pedagogical Agents: Naturalism vs. Stylization....Pages 455-455
The Role of Social Norm in User-Engagement and Appreciation of the Web Interface Agent Bonzi Buddy....Pages 456-456
Countering Adversarial Strategies in Multi-agent Virtual Scenarios....Pages 457-457
Avatar’s Gaze Control to Facilitate Conversational Turn-Taking in Virtual-Space Multi-user Voice Chat System....Pages 458-458
The Role of Discourse Structure and Response Time in Multimodal Communication....Pages 459-460
The PAC Cognitive Architecture....Pages 461-461
Control of Avatar’s Facial Expression Using Fundamental Frequency in Multi-user Voice Chat System....Pages 462-462
Modeling Cognition with a Human Memory Inspired Advanced Neural Controller....Pages 463-463
Storytelling – The Difference Between Fantasy and Reality....Pages 464-464
A Plug-and-Play Framework for Theories of Social Group Dynamics....Pages 465-466
Learning Classifier Systems and Behavioural Animation of Virtual Characters....Pages 467-467
Using Intelligent Agents to Facilitate Game Based Cultural Familiarization Training....Pages 468-468
Mind the Body....Pages 469-469
CAB: A Tool for Interoperation Among Cognitive Architectures....Pages 470-470
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