Intelligent Virtual Agents 14th International Conference, IVA 2014, Boston, MA, USA, August 27-29, 2014. Proceedings - Bickmore, Timothy; Marsella, Stacy; Sidner, Candace (Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2014)
Using Virtual Doppelgängers to Increase Personal Relevance of Health Risk Communication -- Luke, I am Your Father: Dealing with Out-of-Domain Requests by Using Movies Subtitles -- Animated Faces, Abstractions and Autism -- Is That How Everyone Really Feels? Emotional Contagion with Masking for Virtual Crowds -- Narrative Scenarios as a Testbed for Moral Agents -- On the Sociability of a Game-Playing Agent: A Software Framework and Empirical Study -- Effects of Coupling in Human-Virtual Agent Body Interaction -- Improving Motion Classifier Robustness by Estimating Output Confidence -- A Method to Evaluate Response Models -- When to Elicit Feedback in Dialogue: Towards a Model Based on the Information Needs of Speakers -- Representing Communicative Functions in SAIBA with a Unified Function Markup Language -- An Exploratory Analysis of ECA Characteristics -- Motion Parameterization and Adaptation Strategies for Virtual Therapists -- Corpus Creation and Perceptual Evaluation of Expressive Theatrical Gestures -- From Non-verbal Signals Sequence Mining to Bayesian Networks for Interpersonal Attitudes Expression -- ERiSA: Building Emotionally Realistic Social Game-Agents Companions -- Building Virtual Humans with Back Stories: Training Interpersonal Communication Skills in Medical Students -- Agents Behavior Semi-automatic Analysis through Their Comparison to Human Behavior Clustering -- Upper Body Animation Synthesis for a Laughing Character -- Simulating Deceptive Cues of Joy in Humanoid Robots -- Recommendations for Designing Maximally Effective and Persuasive Health Agents -- Recorded Speech, Virtual Environments, and the Effectiveness of Embodied Conversational Agents -- Exploring the Difference of the Impression on Human and Agent Listeners in Active Listening Dialog -- Planning Motions for Virtual Demonstrators -- With Us or Against Us: Simulated Social Touch by Virtual Agents in a Cooperative or Competitive Setting -- A Step towards Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous Synthetic Characters -- Dynamical Systems to Account for Turn-Taking in Spoken Interactions -- Virtual Reflexes -- Ascribed Gender and Characteristics of a Visually Androgynous Teachable Agent -- Full Body Interaction with Virtual Characters in an Interactive Storytelling Scenario -- Effects of an Agent's Displaying Self-adaptors during a Serious Conversation -- Let's Be Serious and Have a Laugh: Can Humor Support Cooperation with a Virtual Agent? -- Towards Realistic Female Avatar Creation: A Tool for Virtual Actor Design and Player Choice -- Metaphoric Gestures: Towards Grounded Mental Spaces -- From Data to Storytelling Agents -- Building Community and Commitment with a Virtual Coach in Mobile Wellness Programs -- Look on the Bright Side: A Model of Cognitive Change in Virtual Agents -- Naturalistic Pain Synthesis for Virtual Patients -- Generative Models of Cultural Decision Making for Virtual Agents Based on User's Reported Values -- Mapping Personality to the Appearance of Virtual Characters Using Interactive Genetic Algorithms -- Towards a Computational Architecture of Dyadic Rapport Management for Virtual Agents -- A Cognitive Model of Social Relations for Artificial Companions -- An Eye Tracking Evaluation of a Virtual Pediatric Patient Training System for Nurses -- Personalization and Personification: A Constructive Approach Based on Parametric Agents -- Interpersonal Attitude of a Speaking Agent in Simulated Group Conversations -- Birth Control, Drug Abuse, or Domestic Violence? What Health Risk Topics Are Women Willing to Discuss with a Virtual Agent? -- Evaluating the Impact of Anticipation on the Efficiency and Believability of Virtual Agents -- Developing Interactive Embodied Characters Using the Thalamus Framework: A Collaborative Approach -- The Right Agent for the Job? The Effects of Agent Visual Appearance on Task Domain -- Exploring Gender Biases with Virtual Patients for High Stakes Interpersonal Skills Training -- A Qualitative Evaluation of Behavior during Conflict with an Authoritative Virtual Human -- Steps towards a Challenging Teachable Agent -- Large-Scale Collection and Analysis of Personal Question-Answer Pairs for Conversational Agents -- Design Guidelines for a Virtual Coach for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Patients -- A Virtual Therapist for Speech and Language Therapy -- AsapRealizer 2.0: The Next Steps in Fluent Behavior Realization for ECAs -- A Data-Driven Method for Real-Time Character Animation in Human-Agent Interaction -- Compound Gesture Generation: A Model Based on Ideational Units -- Statistical Dialog Manager Design Tool for Health Screening and Assessments -- Towards Learning Nonverbal Identities from the Web: Automatically Identifying Visually Accentuated Words -- Maintaining Continuity in Longitudinal, Multi-method Health Interventions Using Virtual Agents: The Case of Breastfeeding Promotion -- Towards a Dyadic Computational Model of Rapport Management for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction -- Agent-User Concordance and Satisfaction with a Virtual Hospital Discharge Nurse.
Keywords: Computer science; Health informatics; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence