Intelligent Virtual Agents

1. Front Matter

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2. Using Virtual Doppelgängers to Increase Personal Relevance of Health Risk Communication

   • Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Jesse Fox, Jung Min Hahm

   Pages 1-12

3. Luke, I am Your Father: Dealing with Out-of-Domain Requests by Using Movies Subtitles

   • David Ameixa, Luisa Coheur, Pedro Fialho, Paulo Quaresma

   Pages 13-21

4. Animated Faces, Abstractions and Autism

   • Diana Arellano, Volker Helzle, Ulrich Max Schaller, Reinhold Rauh

   Pages 22-25

5. Is That How Everyone Really Feels? Emotional Contagion with Masking for Virtual Crowds

   • Tim Balint, Jan M. Allbeck

   Pages 26-35

6. Narrative Scenarios as a Testbed for Moral Agents

   • Cristina Battaglino, Rossana Damiano

   Pages 36-39

7. On the Sociability of a Game-Playing Agent: A Software Framework and Empirical Study

   • Morteza Behrooz, Charles Rich, Candace Sidner

   Pages 40-53

8. Effects of Coupling in Human-Virtual Agent Body Interaction

   • Elisabetta Bevacqua, Igor Stanković, Ayoub Maatallaoui, Alexis Nédélec, Pierre De Loor

   Pages 54-63

9. Improving Motion Classifier Robustness by Estimating Output Confidence

   • Durell Bouchard

   Pages 64-66

10. A Method to Evaluate Response Models

    • Merijn Bruijnes, Sjoerd Wapperom, Rieks op den Akker, Dirk Heylen

    Pages 67-70

11. When to Elicit Feedback in Dialogue: Towards a Model Based on the Information Needs of Speakers

    • Hendrik Buschmeier, Stefan Kopp

    Pages 71-80

12. Representing Communicative Functions in SAIBA with a Unified Function Markup Language

    • Angelo Cafaro, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Timothy Bickmore, Dirk Heylen, Catherine Pelachaud

    Pages 81-94

13. An Exploratory Analysis of ECA Characteristics

    • Adriana Camacho, Alex Rayon, Ivan Gris, David Novick

    Pages 95-98

14. Motion Parameterization and Adaptation Strategies for Virtual Therapists

    • Carlo Camporesi, Anthony Popelar, Marcelo Kallmann, Jay Han

    Pages 99-108

15. Corpus Creation and Perceptual Evaluation of Expressive Theatrical Gestures

    • Pamela Carreno-Medrano, Sylvie Gibet, Caroline Larboulette, Pierre-François Marteau

    Pages 109-119

16. From Non-verbal Signals Sequence Mining to Bayesian Networks for Interpersonal Attitudes Expression

    • Mathieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud

    Pages 120-133

17. ERiSA: Building Emotionally Realistic Social Game-Agents Companions

    • Andry Chowanda, Peter Blanchfield, Martin Flintham, Michel Valstar

    Pages 134-143

18. Building Virtual Humans with Back Stories: Training Interpersonal Communication Skills in Medical Students

    • Andrew Cordar, Michael Borish, Adriana Foster, Benjamin Lok

    Pages 144-153

19. Agents Behavior Semi-automatic Analysis through Their Comparison to Human Behavior Clustering

    • Kévin Darty, Julien Saunier, Nicolas Sabouret

    Pages 154-163

20. Upper Body Animation Synthesis for a Laughing Character

    • Yu Ding, Jing Huang, Nesrine Fourati, Thierry Artières, Catherine Pelachaud

    Pages 164-173

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2014, held in Boston, MA, USA, in August 2014. The 14 full and 24 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. In addition, the volume includes 25 demo and poster papers which were on display during the conference. The papers cover many aspects of intelligent virtual agent theory and application with a special focus on their use in healthcare.

• animation
• artificial intelligence
• computing methodologies
• consumer health
• discourse, dialogue and pragmatics
• distributed artificial intelligence
• health care information systems
• health informatics

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

  Timothy Bickmore, Stacy Marsella

• Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA

  Candace Sidner

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