Intelligent Virtual Agents: 14th International Conference, IVA 2014, Boston, MA, USA, August 27-29, 2014, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8637)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2014, held in Boston, MA, USA, in August 2014. The 14 full and 24 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. In addition, the volume includes 25 demo and poster papers which were on display during the conference. The papers cover many aspects of intelligent virtual agent theory and application with a special focus on their use in healthcare. Front Matter....Pages - Using Virtual Doppelgängers to Increase Personal Relevance of Health Risk Communication....Pages 1-12 Luke, I am Your Father: Dealing with Out-of-Domain Requests by Using Movies Subtitles....Pages 13-21 Animated Faces, Abstractions and Autism....Pages 22-25 Is That How Everyone Really Feels? Emotional Contagion with Masking for Virtual Crowds....Pages 26-35 Narrative Scenarios as a Testbed for Moral Agents....Pages 36-39 On the Sociability of a Game-Playing Agent: A Software Framework and Empirical Study....Pages 40-53 Effects of Coupling in Human-Virtual Agent Body Interaction....Pages 54-63 Improving Motion Classifier Robustness by Estimating Output Confidence....Pages 64-66 A Method to Evaluate Response Models....Pages 67-70 When to Elicit Feedback in Dialogue: Towards a Model Based on the Information Needs of Speakers....Pages 71-80 Representing Communicative Functions in SAIBA with a Unified Function Markup Language....Pages 81-94 An Exploratory Analysis of ECA Characteristics....Pages 95-98 Motion Parameterization and Adaptation Strategies for Virtual Therapists....Pages 99-108 Corpus Creation and Perceptual Evaluation of Expressive Theatrical Gestures....Pages 109-119 From Non-verbal Signals Sequence Mining to Bayesian Networks for Interpersonal Attitudes Expression....Pages 120-133 ERiSA: Building Emotionally Realistic Social Game-Agents Companions....Pages 134-143 Building Virtual Humans with Back Stories: Training Interpersonal Communication Skills in Medical Students....Pages 144-153 Agents Behavior Semi-automatic Analysis through Their Comparison to Human Behavior Clustering....Pages 154-163 Upper Body Animation Synthesis for a Laughing Character....Pages 164-173 Simulating Deceptive Cues of Joy in Humanoid Robots....Pages 174-177 Recommendations for Designing Maximally Effective and Persuasive Health Agents....Pages 178-181 Recorded Speech, Virtual Environments, and the Effectiveness of Embodied Conversational Agents....Pages 182-185 Exploring the Difference of the Impression on Human and Agent Listeners in Active Listening Dialog....Pages 186-189 Planning Motions for Virtual Demonstrators....Pages 190-203 With Us or Against Us: Simulated Social Touch by Virtual Agents in a Cooperative or Competitive Setting....Pages 204-213 A Step towards Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous Synthetic Characters....Pages 214-217 Dynamical Systems to Account for Turn-Taking in Spoken Interactions....Pages 218-221 Virtual Reflexes....Pages 222-231 Ascribed Gender and Characteristics of a Visually Androgynous Teachable Agent....Pages 232-235 Full Body Interaction with Virtual Characters in an Interactive Storytelling Scenario....Pages 236-239 Effects of an Agent’s Displaying Self-adaptors during a Serious Conversation....Pages 240-249 Let’s Be Serious and Have a Laugh: Can Humor Support Cooperation with a Virtual Agent?....Pages 250-259 Towards Realistic Female Avatar Creation....Pages 260-263 Metaphoric Gestures: Towards Grounded Mental Spaces....Pages 264-274 From Data to Storytelling Agents....Pages 275-278 Building Community and Commitment with a Virtual Coach in Mobile Wellness Programs....Pages 279-284 Look on the Bright Side: A Model of Cognitive Change in Virtual Agents....Pages 285-294 Naturalistic Pain Synthesis for Virtual Patients....Pages 295-309 Generative Models of Cultural Decision Making for Virtual Agents Based on User’s Reported Values....Pages 310-315 Mapping Personality to the Appearance of Virtual Characters Using Interactive Genetic Algorithms....Pages 316-319 Towards a Computational Architecture of Dyadic Rapport Management for Virtual Agents....Pages 320-324 A Cognitive Model of Social Relations for Artificial Companions....Pages 325-328 An Eye Tracking Evaluation of a Virtual Pediatric Patient Training System for Nurses....Pages 329-338 Personalization and Personification: A Constructive Approach Based on Parametric Agents....Pages 339-344 Interpersonal Attitude of a Speaking Agent in Simulated Group Conversations....Pages 345-349 Birth Control, Drug Abuse, or Domestic Violence? What Health Risk Topics Are Women Willing to Discuss with a Virtual Agent?....Pages 350-359 Evaluating the Impact of Anticipation on the Efficiency and Believability of Virtual Agents....Pages 360-363 Developing Interactive Embodied Characters Using the Thalamus Framework: A Collaborative Approach....Pages 364-373 The Right Agent for the Job?....Pages 374-384 Exploring Gender Biases with Virtual Patients for High Stakes Interpersonal Skills Training....Pages 385-396 A Qualitative Evaluation of Behavior during Conflict with an Authoritative Virtual Human....Pages 397-409 Steps towards a Challenging Teachable Agent....Pages 410-419 Large-scale Collection and Analysis of Personal Question-Answer Pairs for Conversational Agents....Pages 420-433 Design Guidelines for a Virtual Coach for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Patients....Pages 434-437 A Virtual Therapist for Speech and Language Therapy....Pages 438-448 AsapRealizer 2.0: The Next Steps in Fluent Behavior Realization for ECAs....Pages 449-462 A Data-Driven Method for Real-Time Character Animation in Human-Agent Interaction....Pages 463-476 Compound Gesture Generation: A Model Based on Ideational Units....Pages 477-491 Statistical Dialog Manager Design Tool for Health Screening and Assessments....Pages 492-495 Towards Learning Nonverbal Identities from the Web: Automatically Identifying Visually Accentuated Words....Pages 496-503 Maintaining Continuity in Longitudinal, Multi-method Health Interventions Using Virtual Agents: The Case of Breastfeeding Promotion....Pages 504-513 Towards a Dyadic Computational Model of Rapport Management for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction....Pages 514-527 Agent-User Concordance and Satisfaction with a Virtual Hospital Discharge Nurse....Pages 528-541 Back Matter....Pages -