Intelligent Virtual Agents

1. Front Matter

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2. Behavior Modeling

   1. Constraints-Based Complex Behavior in Rich Environments

      • Jan M. Allbeck, Hadas Kress-Gazit

      Pages 1-14

   2. Smart Events and Primed Agents

      • Catherine Stocker, Libo Sun, Pengfei Huang, Wenhu Qin, Jan M. Allbeck, Norman I. Badler

      Pages 15-27

   3. Using Artificial Team Members for Team Training in Virtual Environments

      • Jurriaan van Diggelen, Tijmen Muller, Karel van den Bosch

      Pages 28-34

   4. A Comprehensive Taxonomy of Human Motives: A Principled Basis for the Motives of Intelligent Agents

      • Stephen J. Read, Jennifer Talevich, David A. Walsh, Gurveen Chopra, Ravi Iyer

      Pages 35-41

   5. The Impact of a Mixed Reality Display Configuration on User Behavior with a Virtual Human

      • Kyle Johnsen, Diane Beck, Benjamin Lok

      Pages 42-48

   6. A Multimodal Real-Time Platform for Studying Human-Avatar Interactions

      • Hui Zhang, Damian Fricker, Chen Yu

      Pages 49-56

   7. Realizing Multimodal Behavior

      • Michael Kipp, Alexis Heloir, Marc Schröder, Patrick Gebhard

      Pages 57-63

3. Gesture and Expression

   1. Designing an Expressive Avatar of a Real Person

      • Sangyoon Lee, Gordon Carlson, Steve Jones, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot

      Pages 64-76

   2. Interactive Motion Modeling and Parameterization by Direct Demonstration

      • Carlo Camporesi, Yazhou Huang, Marcelo Kallmann

      Pages 77-90

   3. Speed Dating with an Affective Virtual Agent - Developing a Testbed for Emotion Models

      • Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar Siddiqui, Johan F. Hoorn

      Pages 91-103

   4. Individualized Gesturing Outperforms Average Gesturing – Evaluating Gesture Production in Virtual Humans

      • Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp, Friederike Eyssel

      Pages 104-117

   5. Level of Detail Based Behavior Control for Virtual Characters

      • Felix Kistler, Michael Wißner, Elisabeth André

      Pages 118-124

   6. Virtual Agents Based Simulation for Training Healthcare Workers in Hand Hygiene Procedures

      • Jeffrey Bertrand, Sabarish V. Babu, Philip Polgreen, Alberto Segre

      Pages 125-131

   7. Modeling Behavioral Manifestations of Coordination and Rapport over Multiple Conversations

      • Daniel Schulman, Timothy Bickmore

      Pages 132-138

   8. DelsArtMap: Applying Delsarte’s Aesthetic System to Virtual Agents

      • Michael Nixon, Philippe Pasquier, Magy Seif El-Nasr

      Pages 139-145

4. Backchannels and Simulation

   1. Backchannel Strategies for Artificial Listeners

      • Ronald Poppe, Khiet P. Truong, Dennis Reidsma, Dirk Heylen

      Pages 146-158

   2. Learning Backchannel Prediction Model from Parasocial Consensus Sampling: A Subjective Evaluation

      • Lixing Huang, Louis-Philippe Morency, Jonathan Gratch

      Pages 159-172

   3. RIDE: A Simulator for Robotic Intelligence Development

      • HyunRyong Jung, Meongchul Song

      Pages 173-179

   4. A Velocity-Based Approach for Simulating Human Collision Avoidance

      • Ioannis Karamouzas, Mark Overmars

      Pages 180-186

th Welcome to the proceedings of the 10 International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), held 20-22 September, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Intelligent Virtual Agents are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as behavior, gesture, and speech. IVAs are capable of real-time perception, cognition, and action that allow them to participate in a dynamic physical and social environment. IVA 2010 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum for prese- ing research on modeling, developing, and evaluating Intelligent Virtual Agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. The development of IVAs - quires expertise in multimodal interaction and several AI fields such as cognitive modeling, planning, vision, and natural language processing. Computational models are typically based on experimental studies and theories of human-human and hum- robot interaction; conversely, IVA technology may provide interesting lessons for these fields. Visualizations of IVAs require computer graphics and animation te- niques, and in turn supply significant realism problem domains for these fields. The realization of engaging IVAs is a challenging task, so reusable modules and tools are of great value. The fields of application range from robot assistants, social simulation, and tutoring to games and artistic exploration. The enormous challenges and diversity of possible applications of IVAs have - sulted in an established annual conference.

• Emotion
• Simulation
• augmented reality
• cultural awareness
• design
• emotional communicative behavior
• learning
• model
• modeling
• multi-agent systems
• perception
• portability
• robot
• structured analysis
• virtual agent

• Department of Comupter Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

  Jan Allbeck

• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

  Norman Badler

• College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

  Timothy Bickmore

• CNRS-LTCI, Institut Télécom - Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France

  Catherine Pelachaud

• Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

  Alla Safonova

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