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Intelligent Virtual Agents

12th International Conference, IVA 2012, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, September, 12-14, 2012. Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Yukiko Nakano

    1. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Michael Neff

    1. Department of Computer Science and Program for Technocultural Studies, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.

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  3. Ana Paiva

    1. Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA

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  4. Marilyn Walker

    1. Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7502)

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Table of contents (66 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. IVAs for Learning Environments

    1. Fully Automated Generation of Question-Answer Pairs for Scripted Virtual Instruction

      • Pascal Kuyten, Timothy Bickmore, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Paul Piwek, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka
      Pages 1-14

    2. The Virtual Apprentice

      • Weizi Li, Jan M. Allbeck
      Pages 15-27

    3. The City of Uruk: Teaching Ancient History in a Virtual World

      • Anton Bogdanovych, Kiran Ijaz, Simeon Simoff
      Pages 28-35

    4. An Analysis of the Dialogic Complexities in Designing a Question/Answering Based Conversational Agent for Preschoolers

      • Anuj Tewari, Ingrid Liu, Carrie Cai, John Canny
      Pages 36-45

    5. Building Autonomous Social Partners for Autistic Children

      • Sara Bernardini, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Tim J. Smith, Katerina Avramides
      Pages 46-52

  3. Emotion and Personality

    1. The Effect of Virtual Agents’ Emotion Displays and Appraisals on People’s Decision Making in Negotiation

      • Celso M. de Melo, Peter Carnevale, Jonathan Gratch
      Pages 53-66

    2. First Impressions: Users’ Judgments of Virtual Agents’ Personality and Interpersonal Attitude in First Encounters

      • Angelo Cafaro, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Timothy Bickmore, Dirk Heylen, Kamilla Rún Jóhannsdóttir, Gunnar Steinn Valgarðsson
      Pages 67-80

    3. A Study of Emotional Contagion with Virtual Characters

      • Jason Tsai, Emma Bowring, Stacy Marsella, Wendy Wood, Milind Tambe
      Pages 81-88

    4. Longitudinal Affective Computing

      • Lazlo Ring, Timothy Bickmore, Daniel Schulman
      Pages 89-96

    5. Generating Norm-Related Emotions in Virtual Agents

      • Nuno Ferreira, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva, Frank Dignum, John Mc Breen, Nick Degens et al.
      Pages 97-104

    6. Virtual Agents in Conflict

      • Henrique Campos, Joana Campos, Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva
      Pages 105-111

  4. Evaluation and Empirical Studies (1)

    1. How Do You Like Me in This: User Embodiment Preferences for Companion Agents

      • Elena Márquez Segura, Michael Kriegel, Ruth Aylett, Amol Deshmukh, Henriette Cramer
      Pages 112-125

    2. A Second Chance to Make a First Impression? How Appearance and Nonverbal Behavior Affect Perceived Warmth and Competence of Virtual Agents over Time

      • Kirsten Bergmann, Friederike Eyssel, Stefan Kopp
      Pages 126-138

    3. Spatial Misregistration of Virtual Human Audio: Implications of the Precedence Effect

      • David M. Krum, Evan A. Suma, Mark Bolas
      Pages 139-145

    4. Virtual Human Personality Masks: A Human Computation Approach to Modeling Verbal Personalities in Virtual Humans

      • Vaishnavi Krishnan, Adriana Foster, Regis Kopper, Benjamin Lok
      Pages 146-152

    5. The Effect of Visual Gender on Abuse in Conversation with ECAs

      • Annika Silvervarg, Kristin Raukola, Magnus Haake, Agneta Gulz
      Pages 153-160

  5. Multimodal Perception and Expression

    1. Modeling Speaker Behavior: A Comparison of Two Approaches

      • Jina Lee, Stacy Marsella
      Pages 161-174

    2. An Incremental Multimodal Realizer for Behavior Co-Articulation and Coordination

      • Herwin van Welbergen, Dennis Reidsma, Stefan Kopp
      Pages 175-188

    3. Thalamus: Closing the Mind-Body Loop in Interactive Embodied Characters

      • Tiago Ribeiro, Marco Vala, Ana Paiva
      Pages 189-195
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2012, held in Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in September 2012. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 31 short papers and 18 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on IVAs on learning environments; emotion and personality; evaluation and empirical studies; multimodal perception and expression; narrative and interactive applications; social interaction; authoring and tools; conceptual frameworks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yukiko Nakano

  • Department of Computer Science and Program for Technocultural Studies, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.

    Michael Neff

  • Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA

    Ana Paiva, Marilyn Walker

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