Intelligent Virtual Agents: 8th International Conference, IVA 2008, Tokyo, Japan, September 1-3, 2008. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
The Relation between Gaze Behavior and the Attribution of Emotion: An Empirical Study....Pages 1-14
Affect Simulation with Primary and Secondary Emotions....Pages 15-28
User Study of AffectIM, an Emotionally Intelligent Instant Messaging System....Pages 29-36
Expressions of Empathy in ECAs....Pages 37-44
Archetype-Driven Character Dialogue Generation for Interactive Narrative....Pages 45-58
Towards a Narrative Mind: The Creation of Coherent Life Stories for Believable Virtual Agents....Pages 59-72
Emergent Narrative as a Novel Framework for Massively Collaborative Authoring....Pages 73-80
Towards Real-Time Authoring of Believable Agents in Interactive Narrative....Pages 81-88
Male Bodily Responses during an Interaction with a Virtual Woman....Pages 89-96
A Virtual Agent for a Cooking Navigation System Using Augmented Reality....Pages 97-103
Social Perception and Steering for Online Avatars....Pages 104-116
Multi-party, Multi-issue, Multi-strategy Negotiation for Multi-modal Virtual Agents....Pages 117-130
A Granular Architecture for Dynamic Realtime Dialogue....Pages 131-138
Generating Dialogues for Virtual Agents Using Nested Textual Coherence Relations....Pages 139-145
Integrating Planning and Dialogue in a Lifestyle Agent....Pages 146-153
Audio Analysis of Human/Virtual-Human Interaction....Pages 154-161
Learning Smooth, Human-Like Turntaking in Realtime Dialogue....Pages 162-175
Predicting Listener Backchannels: A Probabilistic Multimodal Approach....Pages 176-190
IGaze: Studying Reactive Gaze Behavior in Semi-immersive Human-Avatar Interactions....Pages 191-199
Estimating User’s Conversational Engagement Based on Gaze Behaviors....Pages 200-207
The Effects of Agent Nonverbal Communication on Procedural and Attitudinal Learning Outcomes....Pages 208-214
Evaluating Data-Driven Style Transformation for Gesturing Embodied Agents....Pages 215-222
Culture-Specific First Meeting Encounters between Virtual Agents....Pages 223-236
Virtual Humans Elicit Skin-Tone Bias Consistent with Real-World Skin-Tone Biases....Pages 237-244
Cross-Cultural Evaluations of Avatar Facial Expressions Designed by Western Designers....Pages 245-252
Agreeable People Like Agreeable Virtual Humans....Pages 253-261
A Listening Agent Exhibiting Variable Behaviour....Pages 262-269
The Next Step towards a Function Markup Language....Pages 270-280
Extending MPML3D to Second Life....Pages 281-288
An Extension of MPML with Emotion Recognition Functions Attached....Pages 289-295
ITACO: Effects to Interactions by Relationships between Humans and Artifacts....Pages 296-307
Teaching a Pet Robot through Virtual Games....Pages 308-321
Modeling Self-deception within a Decision-Theoretic Framework....Pages 322-333
Modeling Appraisal in Theory of Mind Reasoning....Pages 334-347
Improving Adaptiveness in Autonomous Characters....Pages 348-355
The Embodiment of a DUAL/AMBR Based Cognitive Model in the RASCALLI Multi-agent Platform....Pages 356-363
BDI Model-Based Crowd Simulation....Pages 364-371
The Mood and Memory of Believable Adaptable Socially Intelligent Characters....Pages 372-379
Visualizing the Importance of Medical Recommendations with Conversational Agents....Pages 380-393
Evaluation of Justina: A Virtual Patient with PTSD....Pages 394-408
Elbows Higher! Performing, Observing and Correcting Exercises by a Virtual Trainer....Pages 409-416
A Virtual Therapist That Responds Empathically to Your Answers....Pages 417-425
IDEAS4Games: Building Expressive Virtual Characters for Computer Games....Pages 426-440
Context-Aware Agents to Guide Visitors in Museums....Pages 441-455
Virtual Institutions: Normative Environments Facilitating Imitation Learning in Virtual Agents....Pages 456-464
Enculturating Conversational Agents Based on a Comparative Corpus Study....Pages 465-467
The Reactive-Causal Architecture: Towards Development of Believable Agents....Pages 468-469
Gesture Recognition in Flow in the Context of Virtual Theater....Pages 470-471
Automatic Generation of Conversational Behavior for Multiple Embodied Virtual Characters: The Rules and Models behind Our System....Pages 472-473
Implementing Social Filter Rules in a Dialogue Manager Using Statecharts....Pages 474-475
Towards Realistic Real Time Speech-Driven Facial Animation....Pages 476-478
Avatar Customization and Emotions in MMORPGs....Pages 479-480
Impact of the Agent’s Localization in Human-Computer Conversational Interaction....Pages 481-483
Evolving Expression of Emotions in Virtual Humans Using Lights and Pixels....Pages 484-485
Motivations and Personality Traits in Decision-Making....Pages 486-487
A Flexible Behavioral Planner in Real-Time....Pages 488-489
Face to Face Interaction with an Intelligent Virtual Agent: The Effect on Learning Tactical Picture Compilation....Pages 490-491
Creating and Scripting Second Life Bots Using MPML3D....Pages 492-493
Piavca: A Framework for Heterogeneous Interactions with Virtual Characters....Pages 494-495
Interpersonal Impressions of Agents for Developing Intelligent Systems....Pages 496-497
Comparing an On-Screen Agent with a Robotic Agent in Non-Face-to-Face Interactions....Pages 498-504
Sustainability and Predictability in a Lasting Human–Agent Interaction....Pages 505-506
Social Effects of Virtual Assistants. A Review of Empirical Results with Regard to Communication....Pages 507-508
SoNa: A Multi-agent System to Support Human Navigation in a Community, Based on Social Network Analysis....Pages 509-510
Animating Unstructured 3D Hand Models....Pages 511-513
Verification of Expressiveness of Procedural Parameters for Generating Emotional Motions....Pages 514-515
Individualised Product Portrayals in the Usability of a 3D Embodied Conversational Agent in an eBanking Scenario....Pages 516-517
Multi-agent Negotiation System in Electronic Environments....Pages 518-519
A Study of the Use of a Virtual Agent in an Ambient Intelligence Environment....Pages 520-521
Automatic Torso Engagement for Gesturing Characters....Pages 522-523
Modeling the Dynamics of Virtual Agent’s Social Relations....Pages 524-525
Proposal of an Artificial Emotion Expression System Based on External Stimulus and Emotional Elements....Pages 526-527
A Reactive Architecture Integrating an Associative Memory for Sensory-Driven Intelligent Behavior....Pages 528-529
Social Responses to Virtual Humans: Automatic Over-Reliance on the \"Human\" Category....Pages 530-532
Adaptive Self-feeding Natural Language Generator Engine....Pages 533-534
A Model of Motivation for Virtual-Worlds Avatars....Pages 535-536
Towards Virtual Emotions and Emergence of Social Behaviour....Pages 537-538
Using Virtual Agents for the Teaching of Requirements Elicitation in GSD....Pages 539-540
A Virtual Agent’s Behavior Selection by Using Actions for Focusing of Attention....Pages 541-542
Emergent Narrative and Late Commitment....Pages 543-544
“I Would Like to Trust It but” Perceived Credibility of Embodied Social Agents: A Proposal for a Research Framework....Pages 545-546
Acceptable Dialogue Start Supporting Agent for Avatar-Mediated Multi-tasking Online Communication....Pages 547-547
Do You Know How I Feel? Evaluating Emotional Display of Primary and Secondary Emotions....Pages 548-549
Comparing Emotional vs. Envelope Feedback for ECAs....Pages 550-551
Intelligent Agents Living in Social Virtual Environments – Bringing Max into Second Life....Pages 552-553
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