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Intelligent Virtual Agents

16th International Conference, IVA 2016, Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 20–23, 2016, Proceedings

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  1. David Traum

    1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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  2. William Swartout

    1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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  3. Peter Khooshabeh

    1. US Army Research Laboratory, Los Angeles, USA

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  4. Stefan Kopp

    1. Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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  5. Stefan Scherer

    1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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  6. Anton Leuski

    1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10011)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2016, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in September 2016. The 12 full papers, 18 short papers, and 37 demo and poster papers accepted were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. IVA 2016 also includes three workshops: Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agents (WOCHAT), Can you feel me now? Creating Physiologically Aware Virtual Agents (PAVA), and Graphical and Robotic Embodied Agents for Therapeutic Systems, GREATS16.
Intelligent Virtual Aspects (IVAs) are intelligent digital interactive characters that can communicate with humans and other agents using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech, gestures, and movement. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments. Constructing and studying IVAs requires tools from a wide range of fields such as computer science, psychology, cognitive science, communication, linguistics, interactive media, human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. 

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Table of contents (67 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Interacting with Virtual Agents in Shared Space: Single and Joint Effects of Gaze and Proxemics

    • Jan Kolkmeier, Jered Vroon, Dirk Heylen
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Effect of an Intelligent Virtual Agent’s Nonverbal Behavior with Regard to Dominance and Cooperativity

    • Carolin Straßmann, Astrid Rosenthal von der Pütten, Ramin Yaghoubzadeh, Raffael Kaminski, Nicole Krämer
    Pages 15-28

  4. Increasing Engagement with Virtual Agents Using Automatic Camera Motion

    • Lazlo Ring, Dina Utami, Stefan Olafsson, Timothy Bickmore
    Pages 29-39

  5. An Exploratory Study Toward the Preferred Conversational Style for Compatible Virtual Agents

    • Ameneh Shamekhi, Mary Czerwinski, Gloria Mark, Margeigh Novotny, Gregory A. Bennett
    Pages 40-50

  6. Talk to Me: Verbal Communication Improves Perceptions of Friendship and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interaction

    • Elena Corina Grigore, Andre Pereira, Ian Zhou, David Wang, Brian Scassellati
    Pages 51-63

  7. Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language

    • Natasha Jaques, Daniel McDuff, Yoo Lim Kim, Rosalind Picard
    Pages 64-74

  8. The Effect of Embodiment and Competence on Trust and Cooperation in Human–Agent Interaction

    • Philipp Kulms, Stefan Kopp
    Pages 75-84

  9. Playing with Social and Emotional Game Companions

    • Andry Chowanda, Martin Flintham, Peter Blanchfield, Michel Valstar
    Pages 85-95

  10. This Is What’s Important – Using Speech and Gesture to Create Focus in Multimodal Utterance

    • Farina Freigang, Stefan Kopp
    Pages 96-109

  11. An Enhanced Intelligent Agent with Image Description Generation

    • Ben Fielding, Philip Kinghorn, Kamlesh Mistry, Li Zhang
    Pages 110-119

  12. A Smartphone-Based Virtual Agent for Atrial Fibrillation Education and Counseling

    • Everlyne Kimani, Timothy Bickmore, Ha Trinh, Lazlo Ring, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Jared W. Magnani
    Pages 120-127

  13. What Kind of Stories Should a Virtual Human Swap?

    • Setareh Nasihati Gilani, Kraig Sheetz, Gale Lucas, David Traum
    Pages 128-140

  14. Using Multiple Storylines for Presenting Large Information Networks

    • Zev Battad, Mei Si
    Pages 141-153

  15. Virtual Agents in the Classroom: Experience Fielding a Co-presenter Agent in University Courses

    • Timothy Bickmore, Ha Trinh, Michael Hoppmann, Reza Asadi
    Pages 154-163

  16. Manipulating the Perception of Virtual Audiences Using Crowdsourced Behaviors

    • Mathieu Chollet, Nithin Chandrashekhar, Ari Shapiro, Louis-Philippe Morency, Stefan Scherer
    Pages 164-174

  17. Using Temporal Association Rules for the Synthesis of Embodied Conversational Agents with a Specific Stance

    • Thomas Janssoone, Chloé Clavel, Kévin Bailly, Gaël Richard
    Pages 175-189

  18. Cross Modal Evaluation of High Quality Emotional Speech Synthesis with the Virtual Human Toolkit

    • Blaise Potard, Matthew P. Aylett, David A. Baude
    Pages 190-197

  19. Bidirectional LSTM Networks Employing Stacked Bottleneck Features for Expressive Speech-Driven Head Motion Synthesis

    • Kathrin Haag, Hiroshi Shimodaira
    Pages 198-207

  20. Fast-Forwarding Crowd Simulations

    • Cliceres Mack Dal Bianco, Adriana Braun, Soraia Raupp Musse, Claudio Jung, Norman Badler
    Pages 208-217
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  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    David Traum, William Swartout, Stefan Scherer, Anton Leuski

  • US Army Research Laboratory, Los Angeles, USA

    Peter Khooshabeh

  • Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

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