Schedule
Day 1: |
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |
| 8:00 | Registration desk opens |
| 9:00-9:10 | Welcome |
| 9:10-10:10 | Keynote 1: Rolf Pfeifer |
| 10:10-10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40-12:00 | Session 1: IVAs for Learning Environments |
| Chair: Ruth Aylett, Heriot Watt University | |
| 20 | Fully Automated Generation of Question-Answer Pairs for Scripted Virtual Instruction Pascal Kuyten, Timothy Bickmore, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Paul Piwek, Helmut Prendinger, and Mitsuru Ishizuka |
| 20 |
The Virtual Apprentice |
| 10 | The City of Uruk: Teaching Ancient History in a Virtual World Anton Bogdanovych, Kiran Ijaz, and Simeon Simoff |
| 10 | An Analysis of the Dialogic Complexities in Designing a Question/Answering Based Conversational Agent for Preschoolers Anuj Tewari, Ingrid Liu, Carrie Cai, and John Canny |
| 10 | Building Autonomous Social Partners for Autistic Children Sara Bernardini, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Tim J. Smith, and Katerina Avramides |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Session 2: Emotion and Personality |
| Chair: Radislaw Niewiadowski, France Telecom | |
| 20 | The Effect of Virtual Agents' Emotion Displays and Appraisals on People's Decision Making in Negotiation Celso M. de Melo, Peter Carnevale, and Jonathan Gratch |
| 20 | First Impressions: Users' Judgments of Virtual Agents' Personality and Interpersonal Attitude in First Encounters Angelo Cafaro, Hannes Hogni Vilhjalmsson, Timothy Bickmore, Dirk Heylen, Kamilla Run Johannsdottir, and Gunnar Steinn Valgardsson |
| 10 | A Study of Emotional Contagion with Virtual Characters Jason Tsai, Emma Bowring, Stacy Marsella, Wendy Wood, and Milind Tambe |
| 10 | Longitudinal Affective Computing: Virtual Agents That Respond to User Mood Lazlo Ring, Timothy Bickmore, and Daniel Schulman |
| 10 | Generating Norm-Related Emotions in Virtual Agents Nuno Ferreira, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva, Frank Dignum, John Mc Breen, Nick Degens, and Gert Jan Hofstede |
| 10 | Virtual Agents in Conflict Henrique Campos, Joana Campos, Carlos Martinho, and Ana Paiva |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Session 3: Evaluation and Empirical Studies (1) |
| Chair: Dominic Massaro, UCSC | |
| 20 | How Do You Like Me in This: User Embodiment Preferences for Companion Agents Elena Marquez Segura, Michael Kriegel, Ruth Aylett, Amol Deshmukh, and Henriette Cramer |
| 20 | 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, and Stefan Kopp |
| 10 | Spatial Misregistration of Virtual Human Audio: Implications of the Precedence Effect David M. Krum, Evan A. Suma, and Mark Bolas |
| 10 | Virtual Human Personality Masks: A Human Computation Approach to Modeling Verbal Personalities in Virtual Humans Vaishnavi Krishnan, Adriana Foster, Regis Kopper, and Benjamin Lok |
| 10 | The Effect of Visual Gender on Abuse in Conversation with ECAs Annika Silvervarg, Kristin Raukola, Magnus Haake, and Agneta Gulz |
| 10 | A Formal Architecture of Shared Mental Models for Computational Improvisational Agents Rania Hodhod, Andreya Piplica, and Brian Magerko |
| 17:15-20:00 | Opening Reception / Posters / Demos |
| 1 | Synthesising and Evaluating Cross-Modal Emotional Ambiguity in Virtual Agents Matthew P. Aylett and Blaise Potard |
| 2 | Immersive Interfaces for Building Parameterized Motion Databases Yazhou Huang, Carlo Camporesi, and Marcelo Kallmann |
| 3 | Creating Personalized and Distributed Virtual Learning Spaces through the Use of i-Collaboration 3.0 Eduardo A. Oliveira, Patricia Tedesco, and Thun Pin T.F. Chiu |
| 4 | Eliciting Gestural Feedback in Chinese and Swedish Informal Interactions Jia Lu |
| 5 | Locus of Control in Conversational Agent Design: Effects on Older Users' Interactivity and Social Presence Veena Chattaraman, Wi-Suk Kwon, Juan Gilbert, and Shelby Darnell |
| 6 | Online Behavior Evaluation with the Switching Wizard of Oz Ronald Poppe, Mark ter Maat, and Dirk Heylen |
| 7 | Modeling the Multi-modal Behaviors of a Virtual Instructor in Tutoring Ballroom Dance Hung-Hsuan Huang, Yuki Seki, Masaki Uejo, Joo-Ho Lee, and Kyoji Kawagoe |
| 8 | Hospital Buddy: A Persistent Emotional Support Companion Agent for Hospital Patients Timothy Bickmore, Laila Bukhari, Laura Pfeifer Vardoulakis, Michael Paasche-Orlow, and Christopher Shanahan |
| 9 | Towards Assessing the Communication Responsiveness of People with Dementia Yuko Nonaka, Yoichi Sakai, Kiyoshi Yasuda, and Yukiko Nakano |
| 10 | A Conversational Agent for Social Support: Validation of Supportive Dialogue Sequences Janneke M. van der Zwaan, Virginia Dignum, and Catholijn M. Jonker |
| 11 | Rich Computational Model of Conflict for Virtual Characters Reid Swanson and Arnav Jhala |
| 12 | A Model for Embodied Cognition in Autonomous Agents Marco Vala, Tiago Ribeiro, and Ana Paiva |
| 13 | Evaluation of an Affective Model: COR-E Sabrina Campano, Etienne de Sevin, Vincent Corruble, and Nicolas Sabouret |
| 14 | Evaluation of the Uncanny Valley in CG Characters Vanderson Dill, Laura Mattos Flach, Rafael Hocevar, Christian Lykawka, Soraia R. Musse, and Marcio Sarroglia Pinho |
| 15 | Full-Body Gesture Interaction with Improvisational Narrative Agents Andreya Piplica, Christopher DeLeon, and Brian Magerko |
| 16 | Understanding How Well You Understood. Context-Sensitive Interpretation of Multimodal User Feedback Hendrik Buschmeier and Stefan Kopp |
| 17 | Toward a Computational Model for the Automatic Generation of Character Personality in Interactive Narrative Julio César Bahamón and R. Michael Young |
| 18 | Efficient Cultural Models of Verbal Behavior for Communicative Agents Alicia Sagae, Jerry R. Hobbs, Suzanne Wertheim, Michael H. Agar, Emily Ho, and W. Lewis Johnson |
| A list of the demos that will be shown can be found here. | |
Day 2: |
Thursday, September 13, 2012 |
| 8:30 | Registration desk opens |
| 9:00-10:30 | Session 4: Multimodal Perception and Expression |
| Chair: Jan Allbeck, George Mason University | |
| 20 | Modeling Speaker Behavior: A Comparison of Two Approaches Jina Lee and Stacy Marsella |
| 20 | An Incremental Multimodal Realizer for Behavior Co-Articulation and Coordination Herwin van Welbergen, Dennis Reidsma, and Stefan Kopp |
| 10 | Thalamus: Closing the Mind-Body Loop in Interactive Embodied Characters Tiago Ribeiro, Marco Vala, and Ana Paiva |
| 10 | Lip-Reading: Furhat Audio Visual Intelligibility of a Back Projected Animated Face Samer Al Moubayed, Gabriel Skantze, and Jonas Beskow |
| 10 | Subjective Optimization Chung-Cheng Chiu and Stacy Marsella |
| 10 | Understanding the Nonverbal Behavior of Socially Anxious People during Intimate Self-disclosure Sin-Hwa Kang, Albert (Skip) Rizzo, and Jonathan Gratch |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Keynote 2: Jeremy Bailenson |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Session 5: Narrative and Interactive Applications |
| Chair: Reid Swanson, UCSC | |
| 20 | Virtual Reality Negotiation Training Increases Negotiation Knowledge and Skill Joost Broekens, Maaike Harbers, Willem-Paul Brinkman, Catholijn M. Jonker, Karel Van den Bosch, and John-Jules Meyer |
| 20 | Towards Multimodal Expression of Laughter Radosław Niewiadomski and Catherine Pelachaud |
| 10 | Ada and Grace: Direct Interaction with Museum Visitors David Traum, Priti Aggarwal, Ron Artstein, Susan Foutz, Jillian Gerten, Athanasios Katsamanis, Anton Leuski, Dan Noren, and William Swartout |
| 10 | Spatial Cues in Hamlet Christine Talbot and G. Michael Youngblood |
| 10 | Interactive Stories and Motivation to Read in the Raft Dyslexia Fluency Tutor Arthur Ward, Margaret McKeown, Carol Utay, Olga Medvedeva, and Rebecca Crowley |
| 10 | Integrating Backchannel Prediction Models into Embodied Conversational Agents Iwan de Kok and Dirk Heylen |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:50 | Session 6: Social Interaction |
| Chair: Dirk Heylen | |
| 20 | Incremental Dialogue Understanding and Feedback for Multiparty, Multimodal Conversation David Traum, David DeVault, Jina Lee, Zhiyang Wang, and Stacy Marsella |
| 20 | Designing Relational Agents as Long Term Social Companions for Older Adults Laura Pfeifer Vardoulakis, Lazlo Ring, Barbara Barry, Candace L. Sidner, and Timothy Bickmore |
| 10 | A Cognitive Model for Social Role Compliant Behavior of Virtual Agents Jeroen de Man, Annerieke Heuvelink, and Karel van den Bosch |
| 10 | A Cognitive Social Agent Architecture for Cooperation in Social Simulations Jackeline Spinola and Ricardo Imbert |
| 10 | A Model for Social Regulation of User-Agent Relationships Sandra Gama, Gabriel Barata, Daniel Goncalves, Rui Prada, and Ana Paiva |
| 17:00-17:30 | GALA |
| 19:00 | Banquet: Dream Inn, Santa Cruz |
Day 3: |
Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| 9:00-10:00 | Keynote 3: Noah Wardrip-Fruin |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:50 | Session 7: Authoring and Tools |
| Chair: David Traum USC, ICT | |
| 20 | Using Collaborative Discourse Theory to Partially Automate Dialogue Tree Authoring Charles Rich and Candace L. Sidner |
| 20 | Authoring Rules for Bodily Interaction: From Example Clips to Continuous Motions Klaus Forger, Tapio Takala, and Roberto Pugliese |
| 10 | Expressive Body Animation Pipeline for Virtual Agent Jing Huang and Catherine Pelachaud |
| 10 | The Turning, Stretching and Boxing Technique: A Step in the Right Direction Mark Dunne, Brian Mac Namee, and John Kelleher |
| 10 | From Their Environment to Their Behavior: A Procedural Approach to Model Groups of Virtual Agents Rafael Hocevar, Fernando Marson, Vinicius Cassol, Henry Braun, Rafael Bidarra, and Soraia R. Musse |
| 11:50-13:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20-14:40 | Session 8: Evaluation and Empirical Studies (2) |
| Chair: Yukiko Nakano, Seikei University | |
| 20 | Social Evaluation of Artificial Agents by Language Varieties Brigitte Krenn, Stephanie Schreitter, Friedrich Neubarth, and Gregor Sieber |
| 20 | Empirical Validation of an Accommodation Theory-Based Model of User-Agent Relationship Timothy Bickmore and Daniel Schulman |
| 10 | Cultural Study on Speech Duration and Perception of Virtual Agent's Nodding Tomoko Koda, Haruka Kishi, Takanori Hamamoto, and Yota Suzuki |
| 10 | Cultural Behaviors of Virtual Agents in an Augmented Reality Environment Mohammad Obaid, Ionut Damian, Felix Kistler, Birgit Endrass, Johannes Wagner, and Elisabeth Andre |
| 10 | Frown More, Talk More: Effects of Facial Expressions in Establishing Conversational Rapport with Virtual Agents Joshua Wong Wei-Ern and Kevin McGee |
| 14:40-15:10 | Coffee break |
| 15:10-16:05 | Session 9: Conceptual Frameworks |
| Chair: Candy Sidner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute | |
| 20 | Characters with Personality! Karel Van den Bosch, Arjen Brandenburgh, Tijmen Joppe Muller, and Annerieke Heuvelink |
| 10 | A Reasoning Module to Select ECA's Communicative Intention Jeremy Riviere, Carole Adam, and Sylvie Pesty |
| 10 | Perception Markup Language: Towards a Standardized Representation of Perceived Nonverbal Behaviors Stefan Scherer, Stacy Marsella, Giota Stratou, Yuyu Xu, Fabrizio Morbini, Alesia Egan, Albert (Skip) Rizzo, and Louis-Philippe Morency |
| 10 | Flexible Conversation Management Using a BDI Agent Approach Wilson Wong, Lawrence Cavedon, John Thangarajah, and Lin Padgham |
| 16:05-16:20 | Closing Session |
| Conference Organizers: Michael Neff, Marilyn Walker, Yukiko Nakano, Ana Paiva |