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Intelligent Virtual Agents

7th International Working Conference, IVA 2007, Paris, France, September 17-19, 2007, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4722)

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

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

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Table of contents (68 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Rendering and Analysis

    1. Simulation Level of Detail for Virtual Humans

      • Cyril Brom, Ondřej Šerý, Tomáš Poch
      Pages 1-14
    2. Towards Natural Gesture Synthesis: Evaluating Gesture Units in a Data-Driven Approach to Gesture Synthesis

      • Michael Kipp, Michael Neff, Kerstin H. Kipp, Irene Albrecht
      Pages 15-28
    3. 3D Audiovisual Rendering and Real-Time Interactive Control of Expressivity in a Talking Head

      • Jean-Claude Martin, Christophe d’Alessandro, Christian Jacquemin, Brian Katz, Aurélien Max, Laurent Pointal et al.
      Pages 29-36
  3. Culture and Identity

    1. A Computational Model of Culture-Specific Conversational Behavior

      • Dušan Jan, David Herrera, Bilyana Martinovski, David Novick, David Traum
      Pages 45-56
    2. Ethnic Identity and Engagement in Embodied Conversational Agents

      • Francisco Iacobelli, Justine Cassell
      Pages 57-63
    3. Neuroticism – A Competitive Advantage (Also) for IVAs?

      • Christoph Hermann, Helmuth Melcher, Stefan Rank, Robert Trappl
      Pages 64-71
  4. Behavior Models

    1. Emotionally Expressive Head and Body Movement During Gaze Shifts

      • Brent Lance, Stacy C. Marsella
      Pages 72-85
    2. Fuzzy Similarity of Facial Expressions of Embodied Agents

      • Radosław Niewiadomski, Catherine Pelachaud
      Pages 86-98
    3. The Behavior Markup Language: Recent Developments and Challenges

      • Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Nathan Cantelmo, Justine Cassell, Nicolas E. Chafai, Michael Kipp, Stefan Kopp et al.
      Pages 99-111
    4. Dynamic Behavior Qualifiers for Conversational Agents

      • Maurizio Mancini, Catherine Pelachaud
      Pages 112-124
  5. Feedback Models

    1. Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents

      • Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Jillian Gerten, Edward Fast, Robin Duffy
      Pages 125-138
    2. Incremental Multimodal Feedback for Conversational Agents

      • Stefan Kopp, Thorsten Stocksmeier, Dafydd Gibbon
      Pages 139-146
    3. Searching for Prototypical Facial Feedback Signals

      • Dirk Heylen, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Marion Tellier, Catherine Pelachaud
      Pages 147-153
    4. Fluid Semantic Back-Channel Feedback in Dialogue: Challenges and Progress

      • Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir, Jonathan Gratch, Edward Fast, Kristinn R. Thórisson
      Pages 154-160
  6. Dialogues

    1. T2D: Generating Dialogues Between Virtual Agents Automatically from Text

      • Paul Piwek, Hugo Hernault, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka
      Pages 161-174
  7. Applications

    1. Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents

      • Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow
      Pages 183-196
    2. Virtual Patients for Clinical Therapist Skills Training

      • Patrick Kenny, Thomas D. Parsons, Jonathan Gratch, Anton Leuski, Albert A. Rizzo
      Pages 197-210

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Keywords

  • BDI agents
  • Puppet
  • Second life
  • animation systems
  • architecture
  • artificial life
  • autonom
  • behavior description
  • emotional agents
  • intelligent tutoring systems
  • interactive agents
  • mobile agents
  • modeling
  • organization
  • speech synthesis

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