Intelligent Virtual Agents: 7th International Conference, IVA 2007 Paris, France, September 17-19, 2007 Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Simulation Level of Detail for Virtual Humans....Pages 1-14
Towards Natural Gesture Synthesis: Evaluating Gesture Units in a Data-Driven Approach to Gesture Synthesis....Pages 15-28
3D Audiovisual Rendering and Real-Time Interactive Control of Expressivity in a Talking Head....Pages 29-36
Semantic Segmentation of Motion Capture Using Laban Movement Analysis....Pages 37-44
A Computational Model of Culture-Specific Conversational Behavior....Pages 45-56
Ethnic Identity and Engagement in Embodied Conversational Agents....Pages 57-63
Neuroticism – A Competitive Advantage (Also) for IVAs?....Pages 64-71
Emotionally Expressive Head and Body Movement During Gaze Shifts....Pages 72-85
Fuzzy Similarity of Facial Expressions of Embodied Agents....Pages 86-98
The Behavior Markup Language: Recent Developments and Challenges....Pages 99-111
Dynamic Behavior Qualifiers for Conversational Agents....Pages 112-124
Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents....Pages 125-138
Incremental Multimodal Feedback for Conversational Agents....Pages 139-146
Searching for Prototypical Facial Feedback Signals....Pages 147-153
Fluid Semantic Back-Channel Feedback in Dialogue: Challenges and Progress....Pages 154-160
T2D: Generating Dialogues Between Virtual Agents Automatically from Text....Pages 161-174
So Let’s See: Taking and Keeping the Initiative in Collaborative Dialogues....Pages 175-182
Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents....Pages 183-196
Virtual Patients for Clinical Therapist Skills Training....Pages 197-210
Integrating a Virtual Agent into the Real World: The Virtual Anatomy Assistant Ritchie....Pages 211-224
Proactive Authoring for Interactive Drama: An Author’s Assistant....Pages 225-237
The Effects of an Embodied Conversational Agent’s Nonverbal Behavior on User’s Evaluation and Behavioral Mimicry....Pages 238-251
Spatial Social Behavior in Second Life....Pages 252-263
Generating Embodied Descriptions Tailored to User Preferences....Pages 264-271
Scrutinizing Natural Scenes: Controlling the Gaze of an Embodied Conversational Agent....Pages 272-282
Attentive Presentation Agents....Pages 283-295
The Rickel Gaze Model: A Window on the Mind of a Virtual Human....Pages 296-303
Embodied Creative Agents: A Preliminary Social-Cognitive Framework....Pages 304-316
Feel the Difference: A Guide with Attitude!....Pages 317-330
It’s All in the Anticipation....Pages 331-338
Incorporating Emotion Regulation into Virtual Stories....Pages 339-347
Endowing Emotional Agents with Coping Strategies: From Emotions to Emotional Behaviour....Pages 348-349
From IVAs to Comics Generating Comic Strips from Emergent Stories with Autonomous Characters....Pages 350-351
Emotional Agents with Team Roles to Support Human Group Training....Pages 352-353
Context Awareness in Mobile Relational Agents....Pages 354-355
Implicit Training of Virtual Agents....Pages 356-357
Human Actors and Virtual Agents Playing Together to Transform Stage Direction Practices....Pages 358-359
Towards Characters with a Full Episodic Memory....Pages 360-361
Towards Fast Prototyping of IVAs Behavior: Pogamut 2....Pages 362-363
Towards a Multicultural ECA Tour Guide System....Pages 364-365
Towards the Specification of an ECA with Variants of Gestures....Pages 366-367
AI-RPG Toolkit: Towards A Deep Model Implementation for Improvisational Virtual Drama....Pages 368-368
Attention Based, Naive Strategies, for Guiding Intelligent Virtual Agents....Pages 369-370
Behavioural Reactive Agents for Video Game Opponents with Personalities....Pages 371-372
Adapting Hierarchical Social Organisation by Introducing Fear into an Agent Architecture....Pages 373-374
Roles of a Talking Head in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System....Pages 375-376
Modeling Imitational Behavior Via Social Comparison Theory....Pages 377-378
Social Animation in Complex Environments....Pages 379-380
A Script Driven Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agent Based on a Generic Framework....Pages 381-382
A Quiz Game Console Based on a Generic Embodied Conversational Agent Framework....Pages 383-384
AVSML: An XML-Based Markup Language for Web Information Integration in 3D Virtual Space....Pages 385-386
Simulation Environment for Anticipatory Behaving Agents from the Artificial Life Domain....Pages 387-388
Towards an Architecture for Aligned Speech and Gesture Production....Pages 389-390
Avatar Puppetry Using Real-Time Audio and Video Analysis....Pages 391-392
Double Appraisal for Synthetic Characters....Pages 393-394
An Expressive Avatar for Instant Messaging Endowed with Emotional Intelligence....Pages 395-396
ALICIA....Pages 397-398
Towards a Unified Model of Social and Environment-Directed Agent Gaze Behaviour....Pages 399-400
Automatic Generation of Expressive Gaze in Virtual Animated Characters: From Artists Craft to a Behavioral Animation Model....Pages 401-402
Analyzing Gaze During Face-to-Face Interaction....Pages 403-404
Affect and Metaphor in an ICA: Further Developments....Pages 405-406
A Case-Based Approach to Intelligent Virtual Agent’s Interaction Experience Representation....Pages 407-408
Modeling Spatiotemporal Uncertainty in Dynamic Virtual Environments....Pages 409-410
Avatars Contributions to Commercial Applications with Living Actor TM Technology....Pages 411-412
The CereVoice Characterful Speech Synthesiser SDK....Pages 413-414
VirtuOz Interactive Agents....Pages 415-416
Finger Tracking for Virtual Agents....Pages 417-419
Techniques of Dialogue Simulation....Pages 420-421
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