Intelligent Virtual Agents: 16th International Conference, IVA 2016, Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 20–23, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 10011)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2016, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in September 2016. The 12 full papers, 18 short papers, and 37 demo and poster papers accepted were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. IVA 2016 also includes three workshops: Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agents (WOCHAT), Can you feel me now? Creating Physiologically Aware Virtual Agents (PAVA), and Graphical and Robotic Embodied Agents for Therapeutic Systems, GREATS16. Intelligent Virtual Aspects (IVAs) are intelligent digital interactive characters that can communicate with humans and other agents using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech, gestures, and movement. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments. Constructing and studying IVAs requires tools from a wide range of fields such as computer science, psychology, cognitive science, communication, linguistics, interactive media, human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. Front Matter....Pages I-XVI Interacting with Virtual Agents in Shared Space: Single and Joint Effects of Gaze and Proxemics....Pages 1-14 The Effect of an Intelligent Virtual Agent’s Nonverbal Behavior with Regard to Dominance and Cooperativity....Pages 15-28 Increasing Engagement with Virtual Agents Using Automatic Camera Motion....Pages 29-39 An Exploratory Study Toward the Preferred Conversational Style for Compatible Virtual Agents....Pages 40-50 Talk to Me: Verbal Communication Improves Perceptions of Friendship and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 51-63 Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language....Pages 64-74 The Effect of Embodiment and Competence on Trust and Cooperation in Human–Agent Interaction....Pages 75-84 Playing with Social and Emotional Game Companions....Pages 85-95 This Is What’s Important – Using Speech and Gesture to Create Focus in Multimodal Utterance....Pages 96-109 An Enhanced Intelligent Agent with Image Description Generation....Pages 110-119 A Smartphone-Based Virtual Agent for Atrial Fibrillation Education and Counseling....Pages 120-127 What Kind of Stories Should a Virtual Human Swap?....Pages 128-140 Using Multiple Storylines for Presenting Large Information Networks....Pages 141-153 Virtual Agents in the Classroom: Experience Fielding a Co-presenter Agent in University Courses....Pages 154-163 Manipulating the Perception of Virtual Audiences Using Crowdsourced Behaviors....Pages 164-174 Using Temporal Association Rules for the Synthesis of Embodied Conversational Agents with a Specific Stance....Pages 175-189 Cross Modal Evaluation of High Quality Emotional Speech Synthesis with the Virtual Human Toolkit....Pages 190-197 Bidirectional LSTM Networks Employing Stacked Bottleneck Features for Expressive Speech-Driven Head Motion Synthesis....Pages 198-207 Fast-Forwarding Crowd Simulations....Pages 208-217 Socially-Aware Virtual Agents: Automatically Assessing Dyadic Rapport from Temporal Patterns of Behavior....Pages 218-233 Facial Expressions of Appraisals Displayed by a Virtual Storyteller for Children....Pages 234-244 Evaluating Social Attitudes of a Virtual Tutor....Pages 245-255 Robots or Agents – Neither Helps You More or Less During Second Language Acquisition....Pages 256-268 Impact of Individual Differences on Affective Reactions to Pedagogical Agents Scaffolding....Pages 269-282 The Benefits of Virtual Humans for Teaching Negotiation....Pages 283-294 An Architecture for Biologically Grounded Real-Time Reflexive Behavior....Pages 295-305 Thinking Outside the Box: Co-planning Scientific Presentations with Virtual Agents....Pages 306-316 CAAF: A Cognitive Affective Agent Programming Framework....Pages 317-330 Multi-party Language Interaction in a Fast-Paced Game Using Multi-keyword Spotting ....Pages 331-340 A Design Proposition for Interactive Virtual Tutors in an Informed Environment....Pages 341-350 Do Avatars that Look Like Their Users Improve Performance in a Simulation?....Pages 351-354 Managing Dialog and Joint Actions for Virtual Basketball Teammates....Pages 355-358 Shyness Level and Sensitivity to Gaze from Agents - Are Shy People Sensitive to Agent’s Gaze?....Pages 359-363 User Engagement Study with Virtual Agents Under Different Cultural Contexts....Pages 364-368 On Constrained Local Model Feature Normalization for Facial Expression Recognition....Pages 369-372 Familiarity Detection with the Component Process Model....Pages 373-377 Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations....Pages 378-382 Translating Player Dialogue into Meaning Representations Using LSTMs....Pages 383-386 Evaluating Presence Strategies of Temporarily Required Virtual Assistants....Pages 387-391 A Disclosure Intimacy Rating Scale for Child-Agent Interaction....Pages 392-396 Generating Needs, Goals and Plans for Virtual Agents in Social Simulations....Pages 397-401 Psychologically Based Virtual-Suspect for Interrogative Interview Training....Pages 402-406 Topic Switch Models for Dialogue Management in Virtual Humans....Pages 407-411 Physical vs. Virtual Agent Embodiment and Effects on Social Interaction....Pages 412-415 Acceptability of Embodied Conversational Agent in a Health Care Context....Pages 416-419 How Students Perceive the Gender and Personality of a Visually Androgynous Agent....Pages 420-423 Towards Personal Assistants that Can Help Users Plan....Pages 424-428 A Parameterized Schema for Representing Complex Gesture Forms....Pages 429-432 Blissful Agents: Adjuncts to Group Medical Visits for Chronic Pain and Depression....Pages 433-437 Making AutoTutor Agents Smarter: AutoTutor Answer Clustering and Iterative Script Authoring....Pages 438-441 The Effects of a Robot’s Nonverbal Behavior on Users’ Mimicry and Evaluation....Pages 442-446 Development of a Mobile Personal Health Guide for HIV-Infected African American MSM....Pages 447-450 A Deep Learning Methodology for Semantic Utterance Classification in Virtual Human Dialogue Systems....Pages 451-455 Simulink Toolbox for Real-Time Virtual Character Control....Pages 456-459 The LISSA Virtual Human and ASD Teens: An Overview of Initial Experiments....Pages 460-463 Virtual General Game Playing Agent....Pages 464-469 Exploring the Impact of Environmental Effects on Social Presence with a Virtual Human....Pages 470-474 A Distributed Intelligent Agent Approach to Context in Information Retrieval....Pages 475-478 Composing the Atmosphere of a Virtual Classroom with a Group of Student Agents....Pages 479-483 Assessing Agreement in Human-Robot Dialogue Strategies: A Tale of Two Wizards....Pages 484-488 Development of a Virtual Classroom for High School Teacher Training....Pages 489-493 Using Virtual Characters to Study Human Social Cognition....Pages 494-499 An Interactive Tangram Game for Children with Autism....Pages 500-504 Virtual Dreaming: Simulating Everyday Life of the Darug People....Pages 505-508 Using Virtual Agents and Interactive Media to Create an ElectronixTutor for the Office of Naval Research....Pages 509-512 Using Virtual Agents to Deliver Lessons in Reading Comprehension to Struggling Adult Learners....Pages 513-515 Back Matter....Pages 516-518 ....Pages 519-521