Intelligent Virtual Agents

1. Front Matter

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2. Emotion and Empathy

   1. The Relation between Gaze Behavior and the Attribution of Emotion: An Empirical Study

      • Brent Lance, Stacy C. Marsella

      Pages 1-14

   2. Affect Simulation with Primary and Secondary Emotions

      • Christian Becker-Asano, Ipke Wachsmuth

      Pages 15-28

   3. User Study of AffectIM, an Emotionally Intelligent Instant Messaging System

      • Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

      Pages 29-36

   4. Expressions of Empathy in ECAs

      • Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud

      Pages 37-44

3. Narrative and Augmented Reality

   1. Archetype-Driven Character Dialogue Generation for Interactive Narrative

      • Jonathan P. Rowe, Eun Young Ha, James C. Lester

      Pages 45-58

   2. Towards a Narrative Mind: The Creation of Coherent Life Stories for Believable Virtual Agents

      • Wan Ching Ho, Kerstin Dautenhahn

      Pages 59-72

   3. Emergent Narrative as a Novel Framework for Massively Collaborative Authoring

      • Michael Kriegel, Ruth Aylett

      Pages 73-80

   4. Towards Real-Time Authoring of Believable Agents in Interactive Narrative

      • Martin van Velsen

      Pages 81-88

   5. Male Bodily Responses during an Interaction with a Virtual Woman

      • Xueni Pan, Marco Gillies, Mel Slater

      Pages 89-96

   6. A Virtual Agent for a Cooking Navigation System Using Augmented Reality

      • Kenzaburo Miyawaki, Mutsuo Sano

      Pages 97-103

4. Conversation and Negotiation

   1. Social Perception and Steering for Online Avatars

      • Claudio Pedica, Hannes Vilhjálmsson

      Pages 104-116

   2. Multi-party, Multi-issue, Multi-strategy Negotiation for Multi-modal Virtual Agents

      • David Traum, Stacy C. Marsella, Jonathan Gratch, Jina Lee, Arno Hartholt

      Pages 117-130

   3. A Granular Architecture for Dynamic Realtime Dialogue

      • Kristinn R. Thórisson, Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir

      Pages 131-138

   4. Generating Dialogues for Virtual Agents Using Nested Textual Coherence Relations

      • Hugo Hernault, Paul Piwek, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

      Pages 139-145

   5. Integrating Planning and Dialogue in a Lifestyle Agent

      • Cameron Smith, Marc Cavazza, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen

      Pages 146-153

   6. Audio Analysis of Human/Virtual-Human Interaction

      • Harold Rodriguez, Diane Beck, David Lind, Benjamin Lok

      Pages 154-161

5. Nonverbal Behavior

   1. Learning Smooth, Human-Like Turntaking in Realtime Dialogue

      • Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir, Kristinn R. Thorisson, Eric Nivel

      Pages 162-175

   2. Predicting Listener Backchannels: A Probabilistic Multimodal Approach

      • Louis-Philippe Morency, Iwan de Kok, Jonathan Gratch

      Pages 176-190

   3. IGaze: Studying Reactive Gaze Behavior in Semi-immersive Human-Avatar Interactions

      • Michael Kipp, Patrick Gebhard

      Pages 191-199

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2008, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2008. The 18 revised full papers and 28 revised short papers presented together 42 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on motion and empathy; narrative and augmented reality; conversation and negotiation; nonverbal behavior; models of culture and personality; markup and representation languages; architectures for robotic agents; cognitive architectures; agents for healthcare and training; and agents in games, museums and virtual worlds.

• Intelligent Virtual Agents
• agents
• augmented reality
• avatar
• behavior description
• conversation
• emotion
• empathy
• game
• narrative
• narrative reality
• negotiation
• nonverbal behavior
• robot
• virtual world

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