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Intelligent Virtual Agents

6th International Conference, IVA 2006, Marina Del Rey, CA; USA, August 21-23, 2006, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4133)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): IVA: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Conference proceedings info: IVA 2006.

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Table of contents (57 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Social Impact of IVAs

    1. Why Fat Interface Characters Are Better e-Health Advisors

      • H. C. van Vugt, E. A. Konijn, J. F. Hoorn, J. Veldhuis
      Pages 1-13
    2. Virtual Rapport

      • Jonathan Gratch, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Francois Lamothe, Stacy Marsella, Mathieu Morales, R. J. van der Werf et al.
      Pages 14-27
  3. IVAs Recognizing Human Behavior

    1. Robust Recognition of Emotion from Speech

      • Mohammed E. Hoque, Mohammed Yeasin, Max M. Louwerse
      Pages 42-53
    2. Exploitation in Affect Detection in Improvisational E-Drama

      • Li Zhang, John A. Barnden, Robert J. Hendley, Alan M. Wallington
      Pages 68-79
  4. Human Interpretation of IVA Behavior

    1. An Exploration of Delsarte’s Structural Acting System

      • Stacy C. Marsella, Sharon Marie Carnicke, Jonathan Gratch, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Albert Rizzo
      Pages 80-92
    2. Perception of Blended Emotions: From Video Corpus to Expressive Agent

      • Stéphanie Buisine, Sarkis Abrilian, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Jean-Claude Martin, Laurence Devillers, Catherine Pelachaud
      Pages 93-106
    3. Perceiving Visual Emotions with Speech

      • Zhigang Deng, Jeremy Bailenson, J. P. Lewis, Ulrich Neumann
      Pages 107-120
  5. Embodied Conversational Agents

    1. Dealing with Out of Domain Questions in Virtual Characters

      • Ronakkumar Patel, Anton Leuski, David Traum
      Pages 121-131
    2. MIKI: A Speech Enabled Intelligent Kiosk

      • Lee McCauley, Sidney D’Mello
      Pages 132-144
    3. Architecture of a Framework for Generic Assisting Conversational Agents

      • Jean-Paul Sansonnet, David Leray, Jean-Claude Martin
      Pages 145-156
    4. “What Would You Like to Talk About?” An Evaluation of Social Conversations with a Virtual Receptionist

      • Sabarish Babu, Stephen Schmugge, Tiffany Barnes, Larry F. Hodges
      Pages 169-180
  6. Characteristics of Nonverbal Behavior

    1. Gesture Expressivity Modulations in an ECA Application

      • Nicolas Ech Chafai, Catherine Pelachaud, Danielle Pelé, Gaspard Breton
      Pages 181-192
  7. Behavior Representation Languages

    1. Towards a Common Framework for Multimodal Generation: The Behavior Markup Language

      • Stefan Kopp, Brigitte Krenn, Stacy Marsella, Andrew N. Marshall, Catherine Pelachaud, Hannes Pirker et al.
      Pages 205-217
    2. MPML3D: A Reactive Framework for the Multimodal Presentation Markup Language

      • Michael Nischt, Helmut Prendinger, Elisabeth André, Mitsuru Ishizuka
      Pages 218-229
  8. Generation of Nonverbal Behavior with Speech

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About this book

The origin of the Intelligent Virtual Agents conference dates from a successful workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments held in Brighton, UK at the 13th European Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (ECAI’98). This workshop was followed by a second one held in Salford in Manchester, UK in 1999.Subsequent events took place in Madrid, Spain in 2001, Isree, Germany in 2003 and Kos, Greece in 2005. Starting in 2006, Intelligent Virtual Agents moved from being a biennial to an annual event and became a full ?edged international conference, hosted in California. This volume contains the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2006, held in Marina del Rey, California, USA from August 21–23.For the second year in a row,IVA also hosted the Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents (GALA 2006), an annual festival to showcase the latest animated lifelike agents created by university students and academic or industrial research groups. IVA 2006 received 73 submissions from Europe, the AmericasandAsia.Thepaperspublishedherearethe24fullpapersand11short papers presented at the conference, as well as one-page descriptions of posters and the featured invited talks by Brian Parkinson of Oxford University, Rod Humble of Electronic Arts, and Michael Mateas of the University of California, Santa Cruz and Andrew Stern of Procedural Arts.

Keywords

  • Alignment
  • MAS
  • Serious Games
  • animation systems
  • behavior description
  • cognition
  • emotional agents
  • intelligent agents
  • intelligent interfaces
  • intelligent tutoring systems
  • learning
  • machine learning
  • mobile agents
  • modeling
  • robot

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, USA

    Jonathan Gratch

  • Music Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

    Michael Young

  • School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  • BT plc, Ipswich, UK

    Daniel Ballin

  • School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Patrick Olivier

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