Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references.; Description based on print version record.; Based on publisher-provided data. Table of Contents: Behavior Modeling -- Constraints-Based Complex Behavior in Rich Environments / Jan M. Allbeck, Hadas Kress-Gazit -- Smart Events and Primed Agents / Catherine Stocker, Libo Sun, Pengfei Huang, Wenhu Qin, Jan M. Allbeck, Norman I. Badler -- Using Artificial Team Members for Team Training in Virtual Environments / Jurriaan van Diggelen, Tijmen Muller, Karel van den Bosch -- 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 -- The Impact of a Mixed Reality Display Configuration on User Behavior with a Virtual Human / Kyle Johnsen, Diane Beck, Benjamin Lok -- A Multimodal Real-Time Platform for Studying Human-Avatar Interactions / Hui Zhang, Damian Fricker, Chen Yu -- Realizing Multimodal Behavior: Closing the Gap between Behavior Planning and Embodied Agent Presentation / Michael Kipp, Alexis Heloir, Marc Schroder, Patrick Gebhard -- Gesture and Expression -- Designing an Expressive Avatar of a Real Person / Sangyoon Lee, Gordon Carlson, Steve Jones, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot -- Interactive Motion Modeling and Parameterization by Direct Demonstration / Carlo Camporesi, Yazhou Huang, Marcelo Kallmann -- Speed Dating with an Affective Virtual Agent - Developing a Testbed for Emotion Models / Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar Siddiqui, Johan F. Hoorn -- Individualized Gesturing Outperforms Average Gesturing - Evaluating Gesture Production in Virtual Humans / Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp, Friederike Eyssel -- Level of Detail Based Behavior Control for Virtual Characters / Felix Kistler, Michael Winer, Elisabeth Andre -- Virtual Agents Based Simulation for Training Healthcare Workers in Hand Hygiene Procedures / Jeffrey Bertrand, Sabarish V. Babu, Philip Polgreen, Alberto Segre -- Modeling Behavioral Manifestations of Coordination and Rapport over Multiple Conversations: Speaking Rate as a Relational Indicator for a Virtual Agent / Daniel Schulman, Timothy Bickmore -- DelsArtMap: Applying Delsarte's Aesthetic System to Virtual Agents / Michael Nixon, Philippe Pasquier, Magy Seif El-Nasr -- Backchannels and Simulation -- Backchannel Strategies for Artificial Listeners / Ronald Poppe, Khiet P. Truong, Dennis Reidsma, Dirk Heylen -- Learning Backchannel Prediction Model from Parasocial Consensus Sampling: A Subjective Evaluation / Lixing Huang, Louis-Philippe Morency, Jonathan Gratch -- RIDE: A Simulator for Robotic Intelligence Development / HyunRyong Jung, Meongchul Song -- A Velocity-Based Approach for Simulating Human Collision Avoidance / Ioannis Karamouzas, Mark Overmars -- Influence of Personality Traits on Backchannel Selection / Etienne de Sevin, Sylwia Julia Hyniewska, Catherine Pelachaud -- Multimodal Backchannels for Embodied Conversational Agents / Elisabetta Bevacqua, Sathish Pammi, Sylwia Julia Hyniewska, Marc Schroder, Catherine Pelachaud -- A Virtual Interpreter fox the Italian Sign Language / Vincenzo Lombardo, Fabrizio Nunnari, Rossana Damiano -- Personality -- How Our Personality Shapes Our Interactions with Virtual Characters - Implications for Research and Development / Astrid M. von der Putten, Nicole C. Kramer, Jonathan Gratch -- Evaluating the Effect of Gesture and Language on Personality Perception in Conversational Agents / Michael Neff, Yingying Wang, Rob Abbott, Marilyn Walker -- Developing Interpersonal Relationships with Virtual Agents through Social Instructional Dialog / Amy Ogan, Vincent Aleven, Julia Kim, Christopher Jones -- Multiple Agent Roles in an Adaptive Virtual Classroom Environment / Gregor Mehlmann, Markus Haring, Rene Buhling, Michael Winer, Elisabeth Andre -- Creating Individual Agents through Personality Traits / Tiago Doce, Joao Dias, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva -- Bossy or Wimpy: Expressing Social Dominance by Combining Gaze and Linguistic Behaviors / Nikolaus Bee, Colin Pollock, Elisabeth Andre, Marilyn Walker -- Interaction Strategies -- Warmth, Competence, Believability and Virtual Agents / Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Virginie Demeure, Catherine Pelachaud -- Ada and Grace: Toward Realistic and Engaging Virtual Museum Guides / William Swartout, David Traum, Ron Artstein, Dan Noren, Paul Debevec, Kerry Bronnenkant, Josh Williams, Anton Leuski, Shrikanth Narayanan, Diane Piepol, Chad Lane, Jacquelyn Morie, Priti Aggarwal, Matt Liewer, Jen-Yuan Chiang, Jillian Gerten, Selina Chu, Kyle White -- Interaction Strategies for an Affective Conversational Agent / Cameron Smith, Nigel Crook, Johan Boye, Daniel Charlton, Simon Dobnik, David Pizzi, Marc Cavazza, Stephen Pulman, Raul Santos de la Camara, Markku Turunen -- Why Can't We Be Friends? An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction / Iolanda Leite, Samuel Mascarenhas, Andre Pereira, Carlos Martinho, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva -- Towards an Episodic Memory for Companion Dialogue / Gregor Sieber, Brigitte Krenn -- Generating Culture-Specific Gestures for Virtual Agent Dialogs / Birgit Endrass, Ionut Damian, Peter Huber, Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth Andre -- Avatars in Conversation: The Importance of Simulating Territorial Behavior / Claudio Pedica, Hannes Hogni Vilhjalmsson, Marta Larusdottir -- The Impact of Linguistic and Cultural Congruity on Persuasion by Conversational Agents / Langxuan Yin, Timothy Bickmore, Dharma E. Cortes -- A Multiparty Multimodal Architecture for Realtime Turntaking / Kristinn R. Thorisson, Olafur Gislason, Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir, Hrafn Th. Thorisson -- Emotion -- The Influence of Emotions in Embodied Agents on Human Decision-Making / Celso M. de Melo, Peter Carnevale, Jonathan Gratch -- Dimensional Emotion Prediction from Spontaneous Head Gestures for Interaction with Sensitive Artificial Listeners / Hatice Gunes, Maja Pontic -- An Intelligent Virtual Agent to Increase Involvement in Financial Services / Tibor Bosse, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui, Jan Treur -- Exploration on Affect Sensing from Improvisational Interaction / Li Zhang -- Using Virtual Humans to Bootstrap the Creation of Other Virtual Humans / Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Benjamin Lok -- Making It Personal: End-User Authoring of Health Narratives Delivered by Virtual Agents / Timothy Bickmore, Lazlo Ring -- MAY: My Memories Are Yours / Joana Campos, Ana Paiva -- Expression of Behaviors in Assistant Agents as Influences on Rational Execution of Plans / Jean-Paul Sansonnet, Francois Bouchet -- Reflecting User Faces in Avatars / Rossana Baptista, Adriana Braun, Juliano Lucas Marcelo, Marcelo Cohen, Soraia Raupp Musse, Marcelo Resende Thielo, Ramin Samadani -- User Studies -- How a Virtual Agent Should Smile? Morphological and Dynamic Characteristics of Virtual Agentss Smiles / Magalic Ochs, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pelachaud -- How Turn-Taking Strategies Influence Users' Impressions of an Agent / Mark ter Maat, Khiet P. Truong, Dirk Heylen -- That Avatar is Looking at Me! Social Inhibition in Virtual Worlds / Austen L. Hayes, Amy C. Ulinski, Larry F. Hodges -- Know Your Users! Empirical Results for Tailoring an Agent's Nonverbal Behavior to Different User Groups / Nicole C. Kramer, Laura Hoffmann, Stefan Kopp -- The Persona Zero-Effect: Evaluating Virtual Character Benefits on a Learning Task with Repeated Interactions / Jan Miksatko, Kerstin H. Kipp, Michael Kipp -- High Score! - Motivation Strategies for User Participation in Virtual Human Development / Shivashankar Halan, Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Benjamin Lok -- Author Index.

Contributor Bio:  Allbeck, Jan University of PennsylvaniaContributor Bio:  Badler, Norman University of Pennsylvania