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Intelligent Virtual Agents

11th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15-17, 2011. Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6895)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): IVA: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Conference proceedings info: IVA 2011.

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Table of contents (70 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Social and Dramatic Interaction

    1. Culture-Related Topic Selection in Small Talk Conversations across Germany and Japan

      • Birgit Endrass, Yukiko Nakano, Afia Akhter Lipi, Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André
      Pages 1-13
    2. Virtual Clones: Data-Driven Social Navigation

      • Doron Friedman, Peleg Tuchman
      Pages 28-34
    3. Tilt Riders: Improvisational Agents Who Know What the Scene Is about

      • António Brisson, Brian Magerko, Ana Paiva
      Pages 35-41
    4. Digital Improvisational Theatre: Party Quirks

      • Brian Magerko, Christopher DeLeon, Peter Dohogne
      Pages 42-47
    5. Where to Sit? The Study and Implementation of Seat Selection in Public Places

      • Elin Carstensdottir, Kristin Gudmundsdottir, Gunnar Valgardsson, Hannes Vilhjalmsson
      Pages 48-54
  3. Guides and Relational Agents

    1. Relational Agents Improve Engagement and Learning in Science Museum Visitors

      • Timothy Bickmore, Laura Pfeifer, Daniel Schulman
      Pages 55-67
    2. Virtual Rapport 2.0

      • Lixing Huang, Louis-Philippe Morency, Jonathan Gratch
      Pages 68-79
    3. It’s in Their Eyes: A Study on Female and Male Virtual Humans’ Gaze

      • Philipp Kulms, Nicole C. Krämer, Jonathan Gratch, Sin-Hwa Kang
      Pages 80-92
    4. Get Involved in an Interactive Virtual Tour of Brest Harbour: Follow the Guide and Participate

      • Mukesh Barange, Pierre De Loor, Vincent Louis, Ronan Querrec, Julien Soler, Thanh-Hai Trinh et al.
      Pages 93-99
    5. Using Virtual Tour Behavior to Build Dialogue Models for Training Review

      • Antonio Roque, Dusan Jan, Mark Core, David Traum
      Pages 100-105
    6. Posture, Relationship, and Discourse Structure

      • Daniel Schulman, Timothy Bickmore
      Pages 106-112
  4. Nonverbal Behavior

    1. Sign Language Avatars: Animation and Comprehensibility

      • Michael Kipp, Alexis Heloir, Quan Nguyen
      Pages 113-126
    2. How to Train Your Avatar: A Data Driven Approach to Gesture Generation

      • Chung-Cheng Chiu, Stacy Marsella
      Pages 127-140
    3. Nonverbal Action Selection for Explanations Using an Enhanced Behavior Net

      • Javier Snaider, Andrew M. Olney, Natalie Person
      Pages 141-147
    4. Providing Gender to Embodied Conversational Agents

      • Marco Vala, Gabriel Blanco, Ana Paiva
      Pages 148-154
    5. Modeling Gaze Behavior for Virtual Demonstrators

      • Yazhou Huang, Justin L. Matthews, Teenie Matlock, Marcelo Kallmann
      Pages 155-161
    6. A Framework for Motion Based Bodily Enaction with Virtual Characters

      • Roberto Pugliese, Klaus Lehtonen
      Pages 162-168
  5. Adaptation and Coordination

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2011, held in Reykjavik, Island, in September 2011. The 18 revised full papers and 27 revised short papers presented together with 25 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on social and dramatic interaction; guides and relational agents; nonverbal behavior; adaptation and coordination; listening and feedback; frameworks and tools; cooperation and copresence; emotion; poster abstracts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson

  • Bielefeld University, CITEC, Bielefeld, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

  • Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Playa Vista, USA

    Stacy Marsella

  • Reykjavik University, CADIA, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Kristinn R. Thórisson

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