Intelligent Virtual Agents: 7th International Working Conference, IVA 2007, Paris, France, September 17-19, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4722)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2007, held in Paris, France, September 2007. The 19 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with five invited talks and the abstracts of 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on rendering and analysis, culture and identity, behavior models, feedback models, dialogues, applications, evaluation, gaze models and emotions. Front Matter....Pages - Simulation Level of Detail for Virtual Humans....Pages 1-14 Towards Natural Gesture Synthesis: Evaluating Gesture Units in a Data-Driven Approach to Gesture Synthesis....Pages 15-28 3D Audiovisual Rendering and Real-Time Interactive Control of Expressivity in a Talking Head....Pages 29-36 Semantic Segmentation of Motion Capture Using Laban Movement Analysis....Pages 37-44 A Computational Model of Culture-Specific Conversational Behavior....Pages 45-56 Ethnic Identity and Engagement in Embodied Conversational Agents....Pages 57-63 Neuroticism – A Competitive Advantage (Also) for IVAs?....Pages 64-71 Emotionally Expressive Head and Body Movement During Gaze Shifts....Pages 72-85 Fuzzy Similarity of Facial Expressions of Embodied Agents....Pages 86-98 The Behavior Markup Language: Recent Developments and Challenges....Pages 99-111 Dynamic Behavior Qualifiers for Conversational Agents....Pages 112-124 Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents....Pages 125-138 Incremental Multimodal Feedback for Conversational Agents....Pages 139-146 Searching for Prototypical Facial Feedback Signals....Pages 147-153 Fluid Semantic Back-Channel Feedback in Dialogue: Challenges and Progress....Pages 154-160 T2D: Generating Dialogues Between Virtual Agents Automatically from Text....Pages 161-174 So Let’s See: Taking and Keeping the Initiative in Collaborative Dialogues....Pages 175-182 Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents....Pages 183-196 Virtual Patients for Clinical Therapist Skills Training....Pages 197-210 Integrating a Virtual Agent into the Real World: The Virtual Anatomy Assistant Ritchie....Pages 211-224 Proactive Authoring for Interactive Drama: An Author’s Assistant....Pages 225-237 The Effects of an Embodied Conversational Agent’s Nonverbal Behavior on User’s Evaluation and Behavioral Mimicry....Pages 238-251 Spatial Social Behavior in Second Life....Pages 252-263 Generating Embodied Descriptions Tailored to User Preferences....Pages 264-271 Scrutinizing Natural Scenes: Controlling the Gaze of an Embodied Conversational Agent....Pages 272-282 Attentive Presentation Agents....Pages 283-295 The Rickel Gaze Model: A Window on the Mind of a Virtual Human....Pages 296-303 Embodied Creative Agents: A Preliminary Social-Cognitive Framework....Pages 304-316 Feel the Difference: A Guide with Attitude!....Pages 317-330 It’s All in the Anticipation....Pages 331-338 Incorporating Emotion Regulation into Virtual Stories....Pages 339-347 Endowing Emotional Agents with Coping Strategies: From Emotions to Emotional Behaviour....Pages 348-349 From IVAs to Comics Generating Comic Strips from Emergent Stories with Autonomous Characters....Pages 350-351 Emotional Agents with Team Roles to Support Human Group Training....Pages 352-353 Context Awareness in Mobile Relational Agents....Pages 354-355 Implicit Training of Virtual Agents....Pages 356-357 Human Actors and Virtual Agents Playing Together to Transform Stage Direction Practices....Pages 358-359 Towards Characters with a Full Episodic Memory....Pages 360-361 Towards Fast Prototyping of IVAs Behavior: Pogamut 2....Pages 362-363 Towards a Multicultural ECA Tour Guide System....Pages 364-365 Towards the Specification of an ECA with Variants of Gestures....Pages 366-367 AI-RPG Toolkit: Towards A Deep Model Implementation for Improvisational Virtual Drama....Pages 368-368 Attention Based, Naive Strategies, for Guiding Intelligent Virtual Agents....Pages 369-370 Behavioural Reactive Agents for Video Game Opponents with Personalities....Pages 371-372 Adapting Hierarchical Social Organisation by Introducing Fear into an Agent Architecture....Pages 373-374 Roles of a Talking Head in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System....Pages 375-376 Modeling Imitational Behavior Via Social Comparison Theory....Pages 377-378 Social Animation in Complex Environments....Pages 379-380 A Script Driven Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agent Based on a Generic Framework....Pages 381-382 A Quiz Game Console Based on a Generic Embodied Conversational Agent Framework....Pages 383-384 AVSML: An XML-Based Markup Language for Web Information Integration in 3D Virtual Space....Pages 385-386 Simulation Environment for Anticipatory Behaving Agents from the Artificial Life Domain....Pages 387-388 Towards an Architecture for Aligned Speech and Gesture Production....Pages 389-390 Avatar Puppetry Using Real-Time Audio and Video Analysis....Pages 391-392 Double Appraisal for Synthetic Characters....Pages 393-394 An Expressive Avatar for Instant Messaging Endowed with Emotional Intelligence....Pages 395-396 ALICIA....Pages 397-398 Towards a Unified Model of Social and Environment-Directed Agent Gaze Behaviour....Pages 399-400 Automatic Generation of Expressive Gaze in Virtual Animated Characters: From Artists Craft to a Behavioral Animation Model....Pages 401-402 Analyzing Gaze During Face-to-Face Interaction....Pages 403-404 Affect and Metaphor in an ICA: Further Developments....Pages 405-406 A Case-Based Approach to Intelligent Virtual Agent’s Interaction Experience Representation....Pages 407-408 Modeling Spatiotemporal Uncertainty in Dynamic Virtual Environments....Pages 409-410 Avatars Contributions to Commercial Applications with Living Actor TM Technology....Pages 411-412 The CereVoice Characterful Speech Synthesiser SDK....Pages 413-414 VirtuOz Interactive Agents....Pages 415-416 Finger Tracking for Virtual Agents....Pages 417-419 Techniques of Dialogue Simulation....Pages 420-421 Back Matter....Pages - 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. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2007, held in Paris, France, September 17-19, 2007. The 19 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with 5 invited talks and the abstracts of 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Rendering and Analysis, Culture and Identity, Behavior Models, Feedback Models, Dialogues, Applications, Evaluation, Gaze models and Emotions