Intelligent Virtual Agents : 13th International Conference, IVA 2013, Edinburgh, UK, August 29-31, 2013 : proceedings

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. Front Matter....Pages - Using a Parameterized Memory Model to Modulate NPC AI....Pages 1-14 DyBaNeM: Bayesian Episodic Memory Framework for Intelligent Virtual Agents....Pages 15-28 Self-organizing Cognitive Models for Virtual Agents....Pages 29-43 Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? An Evaluation of a Simplified Theory of Mind....Pages 44-57 Censys: A Model for Distributed Embodied Cognition....Pages 58-67 Automated Promotion of Technology Acceptance by Clinicians Using Relational Agents....Pages 68-78 Virtual Agents as Daily Assistants for Elderly or Cognitively Impaired People....Pages 79-91 Modeling Brief Alcohol Intervention Dialogue with MDPs for Delivery by ECAs....Pages 92-105 Gendering the Machine: Preferred Virtual Assistant Gender and Realism in Self-Service....Pages 106-115 Cicero - Towards a Multimodal Virtual Audience Platform for Public Speaking Training....Pages 116-128 A Question-answering Agent Using Speech Driven Non-linear Machinima....Pages 129-138 A Virtual Agent as Vocabulary Trainer: Iconic Gestures Help to Improve Learners’ Memory Performance....Pages 139-148 Using Linguistic Alignment to Enhance Learning Experience with Pedagogical Agents: The Special Case of Dialect....Pages 149-158 A Virtual Patient to Assess Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Nurses’ Pain Assessment and Intervention Practices....Pages 159-167 Controlling the Listener Response Rate of Virtual Agents....Pages 168-179 The Influence of Prosody on the Requirements for Gesture-Text Alignment....Pages 180-188 Prediction of Visual Backchannels in the Absence of Visual Context Using Mutual Influence....Pages 189-202 Modeling the Semantic Coordination of Speech and Gesture under Cognitive and Linguistic Constraints....Pages 203-216 Modeling Multimodal Behaviors from Speech Prosody....Pages 217-228 An Examination of Whether People Prefer Agents Whose Gestures Mimic Their Own....Pages 229-238 Impact of Varying Vocabularies on Controlling Motion of a Virtual Actor....Pages 239-248 Conversational Gaze Aversion for Virtual Agents....Pages 249-262 From a User-created Corpus of Virtual Agent’s Non-verbal Behavior to a Computational Model of Interpersonal Attitudes....Pages 263-274 Explaining the Variability of Human Nonverbal Behaviors in Face-to-Face Interaction....Pages 275-284 Head Motion Analysis and Synthesis over Different Tasks....Pages 285-294 Using Virtual Agents to Guide Attention in Multi-task Scenarios....Pages 295-302 Gesture with Meaning....Pages 303-312 Conceptualizing Social Power for Agents....Pages 313-324 Social Importance Dynamics: A Model for Culturally-Adaptive Agents....Pages 325-338 Looking Real and Making Mistakes....Pages 339-348 What’s Going on? Multi-sense Attention for Virtual Agents....Pages 349-357 A Qualitative Evaluation of Social Support by an Empathic Agent....Pages 358-367 All Together Now....Pages 368-381 Real-Time Behavioral Animation of Humanoid Non-Player Characters with a Computational Ecosystem....Pages 382-395 Judging IVA Personality Using an Open-Ended Question....Pages 396-405 An Affective Virtual Agent Providing Embodied Feedback in the Paired Associate Task: System Design and Evaluation....Pages 406-415 Back Matter....Pages -