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Intelligent Virtual Agents

13th International Conference, IVA 2013, Edinburgh, UK, August 29-31, 2013, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Ruth Aylett

    1. MACS, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

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  2. Brigitte Krenn

    1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Vienna, Austria

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  3. Catherine Pelachaud

    1. CNRS-LTCI, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris, France

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  4. Hiroshi Shimodaira

    1. School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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  • Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2013

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8108)

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

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2013, held in Edinburgh, UK, in August 2013. There was a total of 94 submissions. The 18 full and 18 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. In addition, the volume lists the 34 posters which were on display during the conference. The papers are organized in topical sections named: cognitive models; applications; dialogue, language, speech; non-verbal behaviour; and social, cultural models and agents.

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Table of contents (36 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Cognitive Models

    1. Using a Parameterized Memory Model to Modulate NPC AI

      • Weizi (Philip) Li, Tim Balint, Jan M. Allbeck
      Pages 1-14

    2. DyBaNeM: Bayesian Episodic Memory Framework for Intelligent Virtual Agents

      • Rudolf Kadlec, Cyril Brom
      Pages 15-28

    3. Self-organizing Cognitive Models for Virtual Agents

      • Yilin Kang, Ah-Hwee Tan
      Pages 29-43

    4. Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? An Evaluation of a Simplified Theory of Mind

      • David V. Pynadath, Ning Wang, Stacy C. Marsella
      Pages 44-57

    5. Censys: A Model for Distributed Embodied Cognition

      • Tiago Ribeiro, Marco Vala, Ana Paiva
      Pages 58-67

  3. Applications

    1. Automated Promotion of Technology Acceptance by Clinicians Using Relational Agents

      • Timothy Bickmore, Laura Vardoulakis, Brian Jack, Michael Paasche-Orlow
      Pages 68-78

    2. Virtual Agents as Daily Assistants for Elderly or Cognitively Impaired People

      • Ramin Yaghoubzadeh, Marcel Kramer, Karola Pitsch, Stefan Kopp
      Pages 79-91

    3. Modeling Brief Alcohol Intervention Dialogue with MDPs for Delivery by ECAs

      • Ugan Yasavur, Christine Lisetti, Napthali Rishe
      Pages 92-105

    4. Gendering the Machine: Preferred Virtual Assistant Gender and Realism in Self-Service

      • Jeunese Payne, Andrea Szymkowiak, Paul Robertson, Graham Johnson
      Pages 106-115

    5. Cicero - Towards a Multimodal Virtual Audience Platform for Public Speaking Training

      • Ligia Batrinca, Giota Stratou, Ari Shapiro, Louis-Philippe Morency, Stefan Scherer
      Pages 116-128

    6. A Question-answering Agent Using Speech Driven Non-linear Machinima

      • Anuj Tewari, Timothy Brown, John Canny
      Pages 129-138

    7. A Virtual Agent as Vocabulary Trainer: Iconic Gestures Help to Improve Learners’ Memory Performance

      • Kirsten Bergmann, Manuela Macedonia
      Pages 139-148

    8. Using Linguistic Alignment to Enhance Learning Experience with Pedagogical Agents: The Special Case of Dialect

      • Vivien Kühne, Astrid Marieke Rosenthal-von der Pütten, Nicole C. Krämer
      Pages 149-158

    9. A Virtual Patient to Assess Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Nurses’ Pain Assessment and Intervention Practices

      • Sangyoon Lee, Cynthia M. LaFond, Andrew E. Johnson, Catherine Vincent, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot
      Pages 159-167

  4. Dialogue, Language, Speech

    1. Controlling the Listener Response Rate of Virtual Agents

      • Iwan de Kok, Dirk Heylen
      Pages 168-179

    2. The Influence of Prosody on the Requirements for Gesture-Text Alignment

      • Yingying Wang, Michael Neff
      Pages 180-188

    3. Prediction of Visual Backchannels in the Absence of Visual Context Using Mutual Influence

      • Derya Ozkan, Louis-Philippe Morency
      Pages 189-202

    4. Modeling the Semantic Coordination of Speech and Gesture under Cognitive and Linguistic Constraints

      • Kirsten Bergmann, Sebastian Kahl, Stefan Kopp
      Pages 203-216

    5. Modeling Multimodal Behaviors from Speech Prosody

      • Yu Ding, Catherine Pelachaud, Thierry Artières
      Pages 217-228
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Editors and Affiliations

  • MACS, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

    Ruth Aylett

  • Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Vienna, Austria

    Brigitte Krenn

  • CNRS-LTCI, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris, France

    Catherine Pelachaud

  • School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Hiroshi Shimodaira

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intelligent Virtual Agents

  • Book Subtitle: 13th International Conference, IVA 2013, Edinburgh, UK, August 29-31, 2013, Proceedings

  • Editors: Ruth Aylett, Brigitte Krenn, Catherine Pelachaud, Hiroshi Shimodaira

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40415-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40414-6Published: 08 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40415-3Published: 16 August 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 493

  • Number of Illustrations: 113 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Simulation and Modeling

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