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Intelligent Virtual Agents

14th International Conference, IVA 2014, Boston, MA, USA, August 27-29, 2014, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Timothy Bickmore

    1. College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

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  2. Stacy Marsella

    1. College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

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  3. Candace Sidner

    1. Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8637)

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

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2014, held in Boston, MA, USA, in August 2014. The 14 full and 24 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. In addition, the volume includes 25 demo and poster papers which were on display during the conference. The papers cover many aspects of intelligent virtual agent theory and application with a special focus on their use in healthcare.

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Table of contents (63 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Using Virtual Doppelgängers to Increase Personal Relevance of Health Risk Communication

    • Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Jesse Fox, Jung Min Hahm
    Pages 1-12

  3. Luke, I am Your Father: Dealing with Out-of-Domain Requests by Using Movies Subtitles

    • David Ameixa, Luisa Coheur, Pedro Fialho, Paulo Quaresma
    Pages 13-21

  4. Animated Faces, Abstractions and Autism

    • Diana Arellano, Volker Helzle, Ulrich Max Schaller, Reinhold Rauh
    Pages 22-25

  5. Is That How Everyone Really Feels? Emotional Contagion with Masking for Virtual Crowds

    • Tim Balint, Jan M. Allbeck
    Pages 26-35

  6. Narrative Scenarios as a Testbed for Moral Agents

    • Cristina Battaglino, Rossana Damiano
    Pages 36-39

  7. On the Sociability of a Game-Playing Agent: A Software Framework and Empirical Study

    • Morteza Behrooz, Charles Rich, Candace Sidner
    Pages 40-53

  8. Effects of Coupling in Human-Virtual Agent Body Interaction

    • Elisabetta Bevacqua, Igor Stanković, Ayoub Maatallaoui, Alexis Nédélec, Pierre De Loor
    Pages 54-63

  9. Improving Motion Classifier Robustness by Estimating Output Confidence

    • Durell Bouchard
    Pages 64-66

  10. A Method to Evaluate Response Models

    • Merijn Bruijnes, Sjoerd Wapperom, Rieks op den Akker, Dirk Heylen
    Pages 67-70

  11. When to Elicit Feedback in Dialogue: Towards a Model Based on the Information Needs of Speakers

    • Hendrik Buschmeier, Stefan Kopp
    Pages 71-80

  12. Representing Communicative Functions in SAIBA with a Unified Function Markup Language

    • Angelo Cafaro, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Timothy Bickmore, Dirk Heylen, Catherine Pelachaud
    Pages 81-94

  13. An Exploratory Analysis of ECA Characteristics

    • Adriana Camacho, Alex Rayon, Ivan Gris, David Novick
    Pages 95-98

  14. Motion Parameterization and Adaptation Strategies for Virtual Therapists

    • Carlo Camporesi, Anthony Popelar, Marcelo Kallmann, Jay Han
    Pages 99-108

  15. Corpus Creation and Perceptual Evaluation of Expressive Theatrical Gestures

    • Pamela Carreno-Medrano, Sylvie Gibet, Caroline Larboulette, Pierre-François Marteau
    Pages 109-119

  16. From Non-verbal Signals Sequence Mining to Bayesian Networks for Interpersonal Attitudes Expression

    • Mathieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud
    Pages 120-133

  17. ERiSA: Building Emotionally Realistic Social Game-Agents Companions

    • Andry Chowanda, Peter Blanchfield, Martin Flintham, Michel Valstar
    Pages 134-143

  18. Building Virtual Humans with Back Stories: Training Interpersonal Communication Skills in Medical Students

    • Andrew Cordar, Michael Borish, Adriana Foster, Benjamin Lok
    Pages 144-153

  19. Agents Behavior Semi-automatic Analysis through Their Comparison to Human Behavior Clustering

    • Kévin Darty, Julien Saunier, Nicolas Sabouret
    Pages 154-163

  20. Upper Body Animation Synthesis for a Laughing Character

    • Yu Ding, Jing Huang, Nesrine Fourati, Thierry Artières, Catherine Pelachaud
    Pages 164-173
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Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

    Timothy Bickmore, Stacy Marsella

  • Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA

    Candace Sidner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intelligent Virtual Agents

  • Book Subtitle: 14th International Conference, IVA 2014, Boston, MA, USA, August 27-29, 2014, Proceedings

  • Editors: Timothy Bickmore, Stacy Marsella, Candace Sidner

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09766-4Published: 01 August 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09767-1Published: 12 August 2014

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 545

  • Number of Illustrations: 164 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Health Informatics

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