Intelligent Virtual Agents

1. Nonverbal Behavior

   1. Estimating User’s Conversational Engagement Based on Gaze Behaviors

      • Ryo Ishii, Yukiko I. Nakano

      Pages 200-207

   2. The Effects of Agent Nonverbal Communication on Procedural and Attitudinal Learning Outcomes

      • Amy L. Baylor, Soyoung Kim

      Pages 208-214

   3. Evaluating Data-Driven Style Transformation for Gesturing Embodied Agents

      • Alexis Heloir, Michael Kipp, Sylvie Gibet, Nicolas Courty

      Pages 215-222

2. Models of Culture and Personality

   1. Culture-Specific First Meeting Encounters between Virtual Agents

      • Matthias Rehm, Yukiko Nakano, Elisabeth André, Toyoaki Nishida

      Pages 223-236

   2. Virtual Humans Elicit Skin-Tone Bias Consistent with Real-World Skin-Tone Biases

      • Brent Rossen, Kyle Johnsen, Adeline Deladisma, Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok

      Pages 237-244

   3. Cross-Cultural Evaluations of Avatar Facial Expressions Designed by Western Designers

      • Tomoko Koda, Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André

      Pages 245-252

   4. Agreeable People Like Agreeable Virtual Humans

      • Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, James H. Watt

      Pages 253-261

   5. A Listening Agent Exhibiting Variable Behaviour

      • Elisabetta Bevacqua, Maurizio Mancini, Catherine Pelachaud

      Pages 262-269

3. Markup and Representation Languages

   1. The Next Step towards a Function Markup Language

      • Dirk Heylen, Stefan Kopp, Stacy C. Marsella, Catherine Pelachaud, Hannes Vilhjálmsson

      Pages 270-280

   2. Extending MPML3D to Second Life

      • Sebastian Ullrich, Klaus Bruegmann, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

      Pages 281-288

   3. An Extension of MPML with Emotion Recognition Functions Attached

      • Xia Mao, Zheng Li, Haiyan Bao

      Pages 289-295

4. Architectures for Robotic Agents

   1. ITACO: Effects to Interactions by Relationships between Humans and Artifacts

      • Kohei Ogawa, Tetsuo Ono

      Pages 296-307

   2. Teaching a Pet Robot through Virtual Games

      • Anja Austermann, Seiji Yamada

      Pages 308-321

5. Cognitive Architectures

   1. Modeling Self-deception within a Decision-Theoretic Framework

      • Jonathan Y. Ito, David V. Pynadath, Stacy C. Marsella

      Pages 322-333

   2. Modeling Appraisal in Theory of Mind Reasoning

      • Mei Si, Stacy C. Marsella, David V. Pynadath

      Pages 334-347

   3. Improving Adaptiveness in Autonomous Characters

      • Mei Yii Lim, João Dias, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva

      Pages 348-355

   4. The Embodiment of a DUAL/AMBR Based Cognitive Model in the RASCALLI Multi-agent Platform

      • Stefan Kostadinov, Maurice Grinberg

      Pages 356-363

   5. BDI Model-Based Crowd Simulation

      • Kenta Cho, Naoki Iketani, Masaaki Kikuchi, Keisuke Nishimura, Hisashi Hayashi, Masanori Hattori

      Pages 364-371

   6. The Mood and Memory of Believable Adaptable Socially Intelligent Characters

      • Mark Burkitt, Daniela M. Romano

      Pages 372-379

6. Agents for Healthcare and Training

   1. Visualizing the Importance of Medical Recommendations with Conversational Agents

      • Gersende Georg, Marc Cavazza, Catherine Pelachaud

      Pages 380-393

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2008, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2008. The 18 revised full papers and 28 revised short papers presented together 42 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on motion and empathy; narrative and augmented reality; conversation and negotiation; nonverbal behavior; models of culture and personality; markup and representation languages; architectures for robotic agents; cognitive architectures; agents for healthcare and training; and agents in games, museums and virtual worlds.

• Intelligent Virtual Agents
• agents
• augmented reality
• avatar
• behavior description
• conversation
• emotion
• empathy
• game
• narrative
• narrative reality
• negotiation
• nonverbal behavior
• robot
• virtual world

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