Intelligent Virtual Agents: 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, August 27-30, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 10498)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2017, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2017. The 30 regular papers and 31 demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The annual IVA conference represents the main interdisciplinary scientic forum for presenting research on modeling, developing, and evaluating intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. Read more... Abstract: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2017, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2017. The 30 regular papers and 31 demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The annual IVA conference represents the main interdisciplinary scientic forum for presenting research on modeling, developing, and evaluating intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior Front Matter ....Pages I-XVI Pedagogical Agents to Support Embodied, Discovery-Based Learning (Ahsan Abdullah, Mohammad Adil, Leah Rosenbaum, Miranda Clemmons, Mansi Shah, Dor Abrahamson et al.)....Pages 1-14 WalkNet: A Neural-Network-Based Interactive Walking Controller (Omid Alemi, Philippe Pasquier)....Pages 15-24 A Virtual Poster Presenter Using Mixed Reality (Vanya Avramova, Fangkai Yang, Chengjie Li, Christopher Peters, Gabriel Skantze)....Pages 25-28 Multiparty Interactions for Coordination in a Mixed Human-Agent Teamwork (Mukesh Barange, Julien Saunier, Alexandre Pauchet)....Pages 29-42 A Dynamic Speech Breathing System for Virtual Characters (Ulysses Bernardet, Sin-hwa Kang, Andrew Feng, Steve DiPaola, Ari Shapiro)....Pages 43-52 To Plan or Not to Plan: Lessons Learned from Building Large Scale Social Simulations (Anton Bogdanovych, Tomas Trescak)....Pages 53-62 Giving Emotional Contagion Ability to Virtual Agents in Crowds (Amyr Borges Fortes Neto, Catherine Pelachaud, Soraia Raupp Musse)....Pages 63-72 Selecting and Expressing Communicative Functions in a SAIBA-Compliant Agent Framework (Angelo Cafaro, Merijn Bruijnes, Jelte van Waterschoot, Catherine Pelachaud, Mariët Theune, Dirk Heylen)....Pages 73-82 Racing Heart and Sweaty Palms (Mathieu Chollet, Talie Massachi, Stefan Scherer)....Pages 83-86 Effects of Social Priming on Social Presence with Intelligent Virtual Agents (Salam Daher, Kangsoo Kim, Myungho Lee, Ryan Schubert, Gerd Bruder, Jeremy Bailenson et al.)....Pages 87-100 Predicting Future Crowd Motion Including Event Treatment (Cliceres Mack Dal Bianco, Soraia Raupp Musse, Adriana Braun, Rodrigo Poli Caetani, Claudio Jung, Norman Badler)....Pages 101-104 The Intelligent Coaching Space: A Demonstration (Iwan de Kok, Felix Hülsmann, Thomas Waltemate, Cornelia Frank, Julian Hough, Thies Pfeiffer et al.)....Pages 105-108 Get One or Create One: the Impact of Graded Involvement in a Selection Procedure for a Virtual Agent on Satisfaction and Suitability Ratings (Charlotte Diehl, Birte Schiffhauer, Friederike Eyssel, Jascha Achenbach, Sören Klett, Mario Botsch et al.)....Pages 109-118 Virtual Reality Negotiation Training System with Virtual Cognitions (Ding Ding, Franziska Burger, Willem-Paul Brinkman, Mark A. Neerincx)....Pages 119-128 Do We Need Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Agents? First Results of Human Perceptions of Emotional Intelligence in Humans Compared to Robots (Lisa Fan, Matthias Scheutz, Monika Lohani, Marissa McCoy, Charlene Stokes)....Pages 129-141 Pragmatic Multimodality: Effects of Nonverbal Cues of Focus and Certainty in a Virtual Human (Farina Freigang, Sören Klett, Stefan Kopp)....Pages 142-155 Simulating Listener Gaze and Evaluating Its Effect on Human Speakers (Laura Frädrich, Fabrizio Nunnari, Maria Staudte, Alexis Heloir)....Pages 156-159 Predicting Head Pose in Dyadic Conversation (David Greenwood, Stephen Laycock, Iain Matthews)....Pages 160-169 Negative Feedback In Your Face: Examining the Effects of Proxemics and Gender on Learning (David C. Jeong, Dan Feng, Nicole C. Krämer, Lynn C. Miller, Stacy Marsella)....Pages 170-183 A Psychotherapy Training Environment with Virtual Patients Implemented Using the Furhat Robot Platform (Robert Johansson, Gabriel Skantze, Arne Jönsson)....Pages 184-187 Crowd-Powered Design of Virtual Attentive Listeners (Patrik Jonell, Catharine Oertel, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Jonas Beskow, Joakim Gustafson)....Pages 188-191 Learning and Reusing Dialog for Repeated Interactions with a Situated Social Agent (James Kennedy, Iolanda Leite, André Pereira, Ming Sun, Boyang Li, Rishub Jain et al.)....Pages 192-204 Moveable Facial Features in a Social Mediator (Muhammad Sikandar Lal Khan, Shafiq ur Réhman, Yongcui Mi, Usman Naeem, Jonas Beskow, Haibo Li)....Pages 205-208 Recipe Hunt: Engaging with Cultural Food Knowledge Using Multiple Embodied Conversational Agents (Sabiha Khan, Adriana Camacho, David Novick)....Pages 209-212 Development and Perception Evaluation of Culture-Specific Gaze Behaviors of Virtual Agents (Tomoko Koda, Taku Hirano, Takuto Ishioh)....Pages 213-222 A Demonstration of the ASAP Realizer-Unity3D Bridge for Virtual and Mixed Reality Applications (Jan Kolkmeier, Merijn Bruijnes, Dennis Reidsma)....Pages 223-226 An ASAP Realizer-Unity3D Bridge for Virtual and Mixed Reality Applications (Jan Kolkmeier, Merijn Bruijnes, Dennis Reidsma, Dirk Heylen)....Pages 227-230 Moral Conflicts in VR: Addressing Grade Disputes with a Virtual Trainer (Jan Kolkmeier, Minha Lee, Dirk Heylen)....Pages 231-234 Evaluated by a Machine. Effects of Negative Feedback by a Computer or Human Boss (Nicole C. Krämer, Lilly-Marie Leiße, Andrea Hollingshead, Jonathan Gratch)....Pages 235-238 A Web-Based Platform for Annotating Sentiment-Related Phenomena in Human-Agent Conversations (Caroline Langlet, Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis, Chloé Clavel)....Pages 239-242 Does a Robot Tutee Increase Children’s Engagement in a Learning-by-Teaching Situation? (Markus Lindberg, Kristian Månsson, Birger Johansson, Agneta Gulz, Christian Balkenius)....Pages 243-246 The Expression of Mental States in a Humanoid Robot (Markus Lindberg, Hannes Sandberg, Marcus Liljenberg, Max Eriksson, Birger Johansson, Christian Balkenius)....Pages 247-250 You Can Leave Your Head on (Jeroen Linssen, Meike Berkhoff, Max Bode, Eduard Rens, Mariët Theune, Daan Wiltenburg)....Pages 251-254 Say Hi to Eliza (Gerard Llorach, Josep Blat)....Pages 255-258 A Computational Model of Power in Collaborative Negotiation Dialogues (Lydia Ould Ouali, Nicolas Sabouret, Charles Rich)....Pages 259-272 Prestige Questions, Online Agents, and Gender-Driven Differences in Disclosure (Johnathan Mell, Gale Lucas, Jonathan Gratch)....Pages 273-282 To Tell the Truth: Virtual Agents and Morning Morality (Sharon Mozgai, Gale Lucas, Jonathan Gratch)....Pages 283-286 Fixed-pie Lie in Action (Zahra Nazari, Gale Lucas, Jonathan Gratch)....Pages 287-300 Generation of Virtual Characters from Personality Traits (Fabrizio Nunnari, Alexis Heloir)....Pages 301-314 Effect of Visual Feedback Caused by Changing Mental States of the Avatar Based on the Operator’s Mental States Using Physiological Indices (Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Seiji Takeda, Toyoaki Nishida)....Pages 315-324 That’s a Rap (Stefan Olafsson, Everlyne Kimani, Reza Asadi, Timothy Bickmore)....Pages 325-334 Design of an Emotion Elicitation Tool Using VR for Human-Avatar Interaction Studies (P-H. Orefice, M. Ammi, M. Hafez, A. Tapus)....Pages 335-338 Toward an Automatic Classification of Negotiation Styles Using Natural Language Processing (Daniela Pacella, Elena Dell’Aquila, Davide Marocco, Steven Furnell)....Pages 339-342 Interactive Narration with a Child: Avatar versus Human in Video-Conference (Alexandre Pauchet, Ovidiu Şerban, Mélodie Ruinet, Adeline Richard, Émilie Chanoni, Mukesh Barange)....Pages 343-346 Who, Me? How Virtual Agents Can Shape Conversational Footing in Virtual Reality (Tomislav Pejsa, Michael Gleicher, Bilge Mutlu)....Pages 347-359 Cubus: Autonomous Embodied Characters to Stimulate Creative Idea Generation in Groups of Children (André Pires, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Carlos Martinho)....Pages 360-373 Interacting with a Semantic Affective ECA (Joaquín Pérez, Yanet Sánchez, Francisco J. Serón, Eva Cerezo)....Pages 374-384 Towards Believable Interactions Between Synthetic Characters (Ricardo Rodrigues, Carlos Martinho)....Pages 385-388 Joint Learning of Speech-Driven Facial Motion with Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory (Najmeh Sadoughi, Carlos Busso)....Pages 389-402 Integration of Multi-modal Cues in Synthetic Attention Processes to Drive Virtual Agent Behavior (Sven Seele, Tobias Haubrich, Tim Metzler, Jonas Schild, Rainer Herpers, Marcin Grzegorzek)....Pages 403-412 A Categorization of Virtual Agent Appearances and a Qualitative Study on Age-Related User Preferences (Carolin Straßmann, Nicole C. Krämer)....Pages 413-422 Towards Reasoned Modality Selection in an Embodied Conversation Agent (Carla Ten-Ventura, Roberto Carlini, Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Gerard Llorach Tó, Leo Wanner)....Pages 423-432 Lay Causal Explanations of Human vs. Humanoid Behavior (Sam Thellman, Annika Silvervarg, Tom Ziemke)....Pages 433-436 Generating Situation-Based Motivational Feedback in a PTSD E-health System (Myrthe Tielman, Mark Neerincx, Willem-Paul Brinkman)....Pages 437-440 Talk About Death: End of Life Planning with a Virtual Agent (Dina Utami, Timothy Bickmore, Asimina Nikolopoulou, Michael Paasche-Orlow)....Pages 441-450 Social Gaze Model for an Interactive Virtual Character (Bram van den Brink, Christyowidiasmoro, Zerrin Yumak)....Pages 451-454 Studying Gender Bias and Social Backlash via Simulated Negotiations with Virtual Agents (L. M. van der Lubbe, T. Bosse)....Pages 455-458 The Dynamics of Human-Agent Trust with POMDP-Generated Explanations (Ning Wang, David V. Pynadath, Susan G. Hill, Chirag Merchant)....Pages 459-462 Virtual Role-Play with Rapid Avatars (Ning Wang, Ari Shapiro, David Schwartz, Gabrielle Lewine, Andrew Wei-Wen Feng)....Pages 463-466 Motion Capture Synthesis with Adversarial Learning (Qi Wang, Thierry Artières)....Pages 467-470 Back Matter ....Pages 471-473