Intelligent Virtual Agents: 4th International Workshop, IVA 2003, Kloster Irsee, Germany, September 15-17, 2003, Proceedings

by Rist, Thomas; Aylett, Ruth; Ballin, Daniel; Rickel, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9783540200031
• ISBN10: 3540200037
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2003, held in Kloster Irsee, Germany in September 2003.The 63 revised papers and abstracts presented together with a keynote paper were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on interface agents and conversational agents; emotion and believability; expressive animation; embodiment and situatedness; motion planning; models, architectures, and tools; mobile and portable IVAs; narration and storytelling; evaluation and design methodologies; and education and training.

Table of Contents

Keynote Speech
Interactive Pedagogical Drama: Carmen's Bright IDEAS Assessed	1	(4)
S.C. Marsella
Interface Agents and Conversational Agents
Happy Chatbot, Happy User	5	(8)
G. Tatai
A. Csordas
A. Kiss
A. Szalo
L. Laufer
Interactive Agents Learning Their Environment	13	(5)
M. Hildebrand
A. Eliens
Z. Huang
C. Visser
Socialite in derSpittelberg: Incorporating Animated Conversation into a Web-Based Community-Building Tool	18	(5)
B. Krenn
B. Neumayr
FlurMax: An Interactive Virtual Agent for Entertaining Visitors in a Hallway	23	(4)
B. Jung
S. Kopp
When H.C. Andersen Is Not Talking Back	27	(4)
N.O. Bernsen
Emotion and Believability
Emotion in Intelligent Virtual Agents: The Flow Model of Emotion	31	(8)
L. Morgado
G. Gaspar
The Social Credit Assignment Problem	39	(9)
W. Mao
J. Gratch
Adding the Emotional Dimension to Scripting Character Dialogues	48	(9)
P. Gebhard
M. Kipp
M. Klesen
T. Rist
Synthetic Emotension	57	(5)
C. Martinho
M. Gomes
A. Paiva
FantasyA -- The Duel of Emotions	62	(5)
R. Prada
M. Vala
A. Paiva
K. Hook
A. Bullock
Double Bind Situations in Man-Machine Interaction under Contexts of Mental Therapy	67	(5)
T. Nomura
Expressive Animation
Happy Characters Don't Feel Well in Sad Bodies!	72	(8)
M. Vala
A. Paiva
M.R. Gomes
Reusable Gestures for Interactive Web Agents	80	(8)
Z. Ruttkay
Z. Huang
A. Eliens
A Model of Interpersonal Attitude and Posture Generation	88	(5)
M. Gillies
D. Ballin
Modelling Gaze Behaviour for Conversational Agents	93	(8)
C. Pelachaud
M. Bilvi
A Layered Dynamic Emotion Representation for the Creation of Complex Facial Expressions	101	(5)
E. Tanguy
P. Willis
J. Bryson
Eye-Contact Based Communication Protocol in Human-Agent Interaction	106	(5)
H. Nonaka
M. Kurihara
Embodiment and Situatedness
Embodied in a Look: Bridging the Gap between Humans and Avatars	111	(8)
N. Courty
G. Breton
D. Pele
Modelling Accessibility of Embodied Agents for Multi-modal Dialogue in Complex Virtual Worlds	119	(8)
D. Sampath
J. Rickel
Bridging the Gap between Language and Action	127	(9)
T. Takenobu
K. Tomofumi
S. Suguru
O. Manabu
VideoDIMs as a Framework for Digital Immortality Applications	136	(5)
D. DeGroot
Motion Planning
Motion Path Synthesis for Intelligent Avatar	141	(9)
F. Liu
R. Liang
``Is It Within My Reach?'' -- An Agents Perspective	150	(9)
Z. Huang
A. Eliens
C. Visser
Simulating Virtual Humans Across Diverse Situations	159	(5)
B. Mac Namee
S. Dobbyn
P. Cunningham
C. O'Sullivan
A Model for Generating and Animating Groups of Virtual Agents	164	(6)
M. Becker Villamil
S. Raupp Musse
L.P. Luna de Oliveira
Scripting Choreographies	170	(5)
S.M. Grunvogel
S. Schwichtenberg
Behavioural Animation of Autonomous Virtual Agents Helped by Reinforcement Learning	175	(6)
T. Conde
W. Tambellini
D. Thalmann
Modells, Architectures, and Tools
Designing Commercial Applications with Life-like Characters	181	(1)
A. Reinecke
Comparing Different Control Architectures for Autobiographic Agents in Static Virtual Environments	182	(10)
W.C. Ho
K. Dautenhahn
C.L. Nehaniv
KGBot: A BDI Agent Deploying within a Complex 3D Virtual Environment	192	(5)
I.-C. Kim
Using the BDI Architecture to Produce Autonomous Characters in Virtual Worlds	197	(5)
J.A. Torres
L.P. Nedel
R.H. Bordini
Programmable Agent Perception in Intelligent Virtual Environments	202	(5)
S. Vosinakis
T. Panayiotopoulos
Mediating Action and Music with Augmented Grammars	207	(5)
P. Casella
A. Paiva
Charisma Cam: A Prototype of an Intelligent Digital Sensory Organ for Virtual Humans	212	(5)
M. Bechinie
K. Grammer
Mobile and Portable IVAs
Life-like Characters for the Personal Exploration of Active Cultural Heritage	217	(1)
A. Kruger
Agent Chameleons: Virtual Agents Real Intelligence	218	(8)
G.M.P. O'Hare
B.R. Duffy
B. Schon
A.N. Martin
J.F. Bradley
A Scripting Language for Multimodal Presentation on Mobile Phones	226	(5)
S. Saeyor
S. Mukherjee
K. Uchiyama
M. Ishizuka
Narration and Storytelling
Interacting with Virtual Agents in Mixed Reality Interactive Storytelling	231	(5)
M. Cavazza
O. Martin
F. Charles
S.J. Mead
X. Marichal
An Autonomous Real-Time Camera Agent for Interactive Narratives and Games	236	(8)
A. Hornung
G. Lakemeyer
G. Trogemann
Solving the Narrative Paradox in VEs -- Lessons from RPGs	244	(5)
S. Louchart
R. Aylett
That's My Point! Telling Stories from a Virtual Guide Perspective	249	(5)
J. Ibanez
R. Aylett
R. Ruiz-Rodarte
Virtual Actors in Interactivated Storytelling	254	(5)
I.A. Iurgel
Symbolic Acting in a Virtual Narrative Environment	259	(5)
L. Schafer
B. Bokan
A. Oldroyd
Enhancing Believability Using Affective Cinematograhy	264	(5)
J. Laaksolathi
N. Bergmark
E. Hedlund
Agents with No Aims: Motivation-Driven Continous Planning	269	(5)
N. Avradinis
R. Aylett
Evaluation and Design Methodologies
Analysis of Virtual Agent Communities by Means of AI Techniques and Visualization	274	(9)
D. Kadlecek
D. Rehor
P. Nahodil
P. Slavik
Persona Effect Revisited	283	(9)
H. Prendinger
S. Mayer
J. Mori
M. Ishizuka
Effects of Embodied Interface Agents and Their Gestural Activity	292	(9)
N.C. Kramer
B. Tietz
G. Bente
Embodiment and Interaction Guidelines for Designing Credible, Trustworthy Embodied Conversational Agents	301	(9)
A.J. Cowell
K.M. Stanney
Animated Characters in Bullying Intervention	310	(5)
S. Woods
L. Hall
D. Sobral
K. Dautenhahn
D. Wolke
Embodied Conversational Agents: Effects on Memory Performance and Anthropomorphisation	315	(5)
R.-J. Beun
E. de Vos
C. Witteman
Agents across Cultures	320	(5)
S. Payr
R. Trappl
Education and Training
Steve Meets Jack: The Integration of an Intelligent Tutor and a Virtual Environment with Planning Capabilities	325	(8)
G. Mendez
J. Rickel
A. de Antonio
Machiavellian Characters and the Edutainment Paradox	333	(8)
D. Sobral
I. Machado
A. Paiva
Socially Intelligent Tutor Agents	341	(7)
D. Heylen
A. Nijholt
R. op den Akker
M. Vissers
Multimodal Training Between Agents	348	(6)
M. Rehm
Posters
Intelligent Camera Direction in Virtual Storytelling	354	(1)
B. Bokan
L. Schafer
Exploring an Agent-Driven 3D Learning Environment for Computer Graphics Education	355	(1)
W. Hu
J. Zhu
Z.G. Pan
An Efficient Synthetic Vision System for 3D Multi-character Systems	356	(2)
M. Lozano
R. Lucia
F. Barber
F. Grimaldo
A. Lucas
A. Fornes
Avatar Arena: Virtual Group-Dynamics in Multi-character Negotiation Scenarios	358	(1)
M. Schmitt
T. Rist
Emotional Behaviour Animation of Virtual Humans in Intelligent Virtual Environments	359	(1)
Z. Liu
Z.G. Pan
Empathic Virtual Agents	360	(1)
C. Zoll
S. Enz
H. Schaub
Improving Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Using Emotions in a Multi-agent System	361	(2)
R. Daneshvar
C. Lucas
Author Index	363