Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 20-21, 2010 Proceedings

by Allbeck, Jan; Badler, Norman; Bickmore, Timothy; Pelachaud, Catherine; Safonova, Alla

• ISBN13: 9783642158919
• ISBN10: 3642158919
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-27
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2010, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in September 2010. The 18 revised full papers and 34 revised short papers presented together with 26 poster papers, 3 keynote talks, and 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Behavior Modeling, Gesture and Expression, Backchannels and Simulation, Personality, Interaction Strategies, Emotion as well as User Studies

Table of Contents

Behavior Modeling
Constraints-Based Complex Behavior in Rich Environments	p. 1
Smart Events and Primed Agents	p. 15
Using Artificial Team Members for Team Training in Virtual Environments	p. 28
A Comprehensive Taxonomy of Human Motives: A Principled Basis for the Motives of Intelligent Agents	p. 35
The Impact of a Mixed Reality Display Configuration on User Behavior with a Virtual Human	p. 42
A Multimodal Real-Time Platform for Studying Human-Avatar Interactions	p. 49
Realizing Multimodal Behavior: Closing the Gap between Behavior Planning and Embodied Agent Presentation	p. 57
Gesture and Expression
Designing an Expressive Avatar of a Real Person	p. 64
Interactive Motion Modeling and Parameterization by Direct Demonstration	p. 77
Speed Dating with an Affective Virtual Agent - Developing a Testbed for Emotion Models	p. 91
Individualized Gesturing Outperforms Average Gesturing - Evaluating Gesture Production in Virtual Humans	p. 104
Level of Detail Based Behavior Control for Virtual Characters	p. 118
Virtual Agents Based Simulation for Training Healthcare Workers in Hand Hygiene Procedures	p. 125
Modeling Behavioral Manifestations of Coordination and Rapport over Multiple Conversations: Speaking Rate as a Relational Indicator for a Virtual Agent	p. 132
DelsArtMap: Applying Delsarte's Aesthetic System to Virtual Agents	p. 139
Backchannels and Simulation
Backchannel Strategies for Artificial Listeners	p. 146
Learning Backchannel Prediction Model from Parasocial Consensus Sampling: A Subjective Evaluation	p. 159
RIDE: A Simulator for Robotic Intelligence Development	p. 173
A Velocity-Based Approach for Simulating Human Collision Avoidance	p. 180
Influence of Personality Traits on Backchannel Selection	p. 187
Multimodal Backchannels for Embodied Conversational Agents	p. 194
A Virtual Interpreter fox the Italian Sign Language	p. 201
Personality
How Our Personality Shapes Our Interactions with Virtual Characters - Implications for Research and Development	p. 208
Evaluating the Effect of Gesture and Language on Personality Perception in Conversational Agents	p. 222
Developing Interpersonal Relationships with Virtual Agents through Social Instructional Dialog	p. 236
Multiple Agent Roles in an Adaptive Virtual Classroom Environment	p. 250
Creating Individual Agents through Personality Traits	p. 257
Bossy or Wimpy: Expressing Social Dominance by Combining Gaze and Linguistic Behaviors	p. 265
Interaction Strategies
Warmth, Competence, Believability and Virtual Agents	p. 272
Ada and Grace: Toward Realistic and Engaging Virtual Museum Guides	p. 286
Interaction Strategies for an Affective Conversational Agent	p. 301
"Why Can't We Be Friends?" An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction	p. 315
Towards an Episodic Memory for Companion Dialogue	p. 322
Generating Culture-Specific Gestures for Virtual Agent Dialogs	p. 329
Avatars in Conversation: The Importance of Simulating Territorial Behavior	p. 336
The Impact of Linguistic and Cultural Congruity on Persuasion by Conversational Agents	p. 343
A Multiparty Multimodal Architecture for Realtime Turntaking	p. 350
Emotion
The Influence of Emotions in Embodied Agents on Human Decision-Making	p. 357
Dimensional Emotion Prediction from Spontaneous Head Gestures for Interaction with Sensitive Artificial Listeners	p. 371
An Intelligent Virtual Agent to Increase Involvement in Financial Services	p. 378
Exploration on Affect Sensing from Improvisational Interaction	p. 385
Using Virtual Humans to Bootstrap the Creation of Other Virtual Humans	p. 392
Making It Personal: End-User Authoring of Health Narratives Delivered by Virtual Agents	p. 399
MAY: My Memories Are Yours	p. 406
Expression of Behaviors in Assistant Agents as Influences on Rational Execution of Plans	p. 413
Reflecting User Faces in Avatars	p. 420
User Studies
How a Virtual Agent Should Smile? Morphological and Dynamic Characteristics of Virtual Agent¿s Smiles	p. 427
How Turn-Taking Strategies Influence Users' Impressions of an Agent	p. 441
That Avatar is Looking at Me! Social Inhibition in Virtual Worlds	p. 454
Know Your Users! Empirical Results for Tailoring an Agent's Nonverbal Behavior to Different User Groups	p. 468
The Persona Zero-Effect: Evaluating Virtual Character Benefits on a Learning Task with Repeated Interactions	p. 475
High Score! - Motivation Strategies for User Participation in Virtual Human Development	p. 482
Author Index	p. 489
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