6. IVA 2006: Marina Del Rey, CA, USA

Social Impact of IVAs

• Henriette C. van Vugt, Elly A. Konijn, Johan F. Hoorn, Jolanda Veldhuis:
  Why Fat Interface Characters Are Better e-Health Advisors. 1-13
  
• Jonathan Gratch, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Francois Lamothe, Stacy Marsella, Mathieu Morales, Rick J. van der Werf, Louis-Philippe Morency:
  Virtual Rapport. 14-27
  

IVAs Recognizing Human Behavior

• Stefan Kopp, Olaf Graeser:
  Imitation Learning and Response Facilitation in Embodied Agents. 28-41
  
• Mohammed E. Hoque, Mohammed Yeasin, Max M. Louwerse:
  Robust Recognition of Emotion from Speech. 42-53
  
• Sidney K. D'Mello, Arthur C. Graesser:
  Affect Detection from Human-Computer Dialogue with an Intelligent Tutoring System. 54-67
  
• Li Zhang, John A. Barnden, Robert J. Hendley, Alan M. Wallington:
  Exploitation in Affect Detection in Improvisational E-Drama. 68-79
  

Human Interpretation of IVA Behavior

• Stacy Marsella, Sharon Marie Carnicke, Jonathan Gratch, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Albert A. Rizzo:
  An Exploration of Delsarte's Structural Acting System. 80-92
  
• Stéphanie Buisine, Sarkis Abrilian, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Jean-Claude Martin, Laurence Devillers, Catherine Pelachaud:
  Perception of Blended Emotions: From Video Corpus to Expressive Agent. 93-106
  
• Zhigang Deng, Jeremy N. Bailenson, John P. Lewis, Ulrich Neumann:
  Perceiving Visual Emotions with Speech. 107-120
  

Embodied Conversational Agents

• Ronakkumar Patel, Anton Leuski, David R. Traum:
  Dealing with Out of Domain Questions in Virtual Characters. 121-131
  
• Lee McCauley, Sidney K. D'Mello:
  MIKI: A Speech Enabled Intelligent Kiosk. 132-144
  
• Jean-Paul Sansonnet, David Leray, Jean-Claude Martin:
  Architecture of a Framework for Generic Assisting Conversational Agents. 145-156
  
• Norbert Pfleger, Markus Löckelt:
  A Comprehensive Context Model for Multi-party Interactions with Virtual Characters. 157-168
  
• Sabarish Babu, Stephen Schmugge, Tiffany Barnes, Larry F. Hodges:
  "What Would You Like to Talk About?" An Evaluation of Social Conversations with a Virtual Receptionist. 169-180
  

Characteristics of Nonverbal Behavior

• Nicolas Ech Chafai, Catherine Pelachaud, Danielle Pelé, Gaspard Breton:
  Gesture Expressivity Modulations in an ECA Application. 181-192
  
• Erdan Gu, Norman I. Badler:
  Visual Attention and Eye Gaze During Multiparty Conversations with Distractions. 193-204
  

Behavior Representation Languages

• Stefan Kopp, Brigitte Krenn, Stacy Marsella, Andrew N. Marshall, Catherine Pelachaud, Hannes Pirker, Kristinn R. Thórisson, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson:
  Towards a Common Framework for Multimodal Generation: The Behavior Markup Language. 205-217
  
• Michael Nischt, Helmut Prendinger, Elisabeth André, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
  MPML3D: A Reactive Framework for the Multimodal Presentation Markup Language. 218-229
  

Generation of Nonverbal Behavior with Speech

• Michael Kipp:
  Creativity Meets Automation: Combining Nonverbal Action Authoring with Rules and Machine Learning. 230-242
  
• Jina Lee, Stacy Marsella:
  Nonverbal Behavior Generator for Embodied Conversational Agents. 243-255
  
• Karlo Smid, Goranka Zoric, Igor S. Pandzic:
  [HUGE]: Universal Architecture for Statistically Based HUman GEsturing. 256-269
  
• Celso de Melo, Ana Paiva:
  A Story About Gesticulation Expression. 270-281
  

IVAs in Serious Games

• Ning Wang, Stacy Marsella:
  Introducing EVG: An Emotion Evoking Game. 282-291
  
• Zsófia Ruttkay, Job Zwiers, Herwin van Welbergen, Dennis Reidsma:
  Towards a Reactive Virtual Trainer. 292-303
  
• Ruth Aylett, Rui Figueiredo, Sandy Louchart, João Dias, Ana Paiva:
  Making It Up as You Go Along - Improvising Stories for Pedagogical Purposes. 304-315
  

Cognition and Emotion I

• Stephen J. Read, Lynn C. Miller, Brian Monroe, Aaron Brownstein, Wayne Zachary, Jean-Christophe Le Mentec, Vassil Iordanov:
  A Neurobiologically Inspired Model of Personality in an Intelligent Agent. 316-328
  
• Benny Ping-Han Lee, Edward Chao-Chun Kao, Von-Wun Soo:
  Feeling Ambivalent: A Model of Mixed Emotions for Virtual Agents. 329-342
  
• Patrick Gebhard, Kerstin H. Kipp:
  Are Computer-Generated Emotions and Moods Plausible to Humans?. 343-356
  
• Jennifer Sandercock, Lin Padgham, Fabio Zambetta:
  Creating Adaptive and Individual Personalities in Many Characters Without Hand-Crafting Behaviors. 357-368
  

Cognition and Emotion II

• Mei Si, Stacy Marsella, David V. Pynadath:
  Thespian: Modeling Socially Normative Behavior in a Decision-Theoretic Framework. 369-382
  
• Wan Ching Ho, Scott Watson:
  Autobiographic Knowledge for Believable Virtual Characters. 383-394
  
• Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Cynthia Breazeal:
  Teachable Characters: User Studies, Design Principles, and Learning Performance. 395-406
  

Applications of IVAs

• Lynne E. Hall, Marco Vala, Marc Hall, Marc Webster, Sarah Woods, Adrian Gordon, Ruth Aylett:
  FearNot's Appearance: Reflecting Children's Expectations and Perspectives. 407-419
  
• Wei Shao, Demetri Terzopoulos:
  Populating Reconstructed Archaeological Sites with Autonomous Virtual Humans. 420-433
  
• Michael Kipp, Kerstin H. Kipp, Alassane Ndiaye, Patrick Gebhard:
  Evaluating the Tangible Interface and Virtual Characters in the Interactive COHIBIT Exhibit. 434-444
  

Invited Talks

• Rod Humble:
  Invited Talk: Rule Systems and Video Games. 445
  
• Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern:
  Façade: Architecture and Authorial Idioms for Believable Agents in Interactive Drama. 446-448
  
• Brian Parkinson:
  Invited Talk: Social Effects of Emotion: Two Modes of Relation Alignment. 449
  

Posters

• Dilyana Budakova, Lyudmil Dakovski:
  Computer Model of Emotional Agents. 450
  
• Giovanni Cozzolongo, Berardina De Carolis:
  Affective Robots as Mediators in Smart Environments. 451
  
• Elizabeth A. Crane, M. Melissa Gross, Barbara L. Fredrickson:
  Expression of Emotion in Body and Face. 452
  
• Pablo Lucas dos Anjos, Ruth Aylett:
  Towards Primate-Like Synthetic Sociability. 453
  
• Todd Furmanski:
  Here Be Dragons: Integrating Agent Behaviors with Procedural Emergent Landscapes and Structures. 454
  
• Agneta Gulz, Magnus Haake:
  Virtual Pedagogical Agents: Naturalism vs. Stylization. 455
  
• Johan F. Hoorn, Henriette C. van Vugt:
  The Role of Social Norm in User-Engagement and Appreciation of the Web Interface Agent Bonzi Buddy. 456
  
• Yu-Cheng Hsu, Paul Hsueh-Min Chang, Von-Wun Soo:
  Countering Adversarial Strategies in Multi-agent Virtual Scenarios. 457
  
• Ryo Ishii, Toshimitsu Miyajima, Kinya Fujita, Yukiko I. Nakano:
  Avatar's Gaze Control to Facilitate Conversational Turn-Taking in Virtual-Space Multi-user Voice Chat System. 458
  
• Patrick Jeuniaux, Max M. Louwerse, Xiangen Hu:
  The Role of Discourse Structure and Response Time in Multimodal Communication. 459-460
  
• Lynn C. Miller, Stephen J. Read, Wayne Zachary, Jean-Christophe Le Mentec, Vassil Iordanov, Andrew Rosoff, James Eilbert:
  The PAC Cognitive Architecture. 461
  
• Toshimitsu Miyajima, Kinya Fujita:
  Control of Avatar's Facial Expression Using Fundamental Frequency in Multi-user Voice Chat System. 462
  
• David Panzoli, Hervé Luga, Yves Duthen:
  Modeling Cognition with a Human Memory Inspired Advanced Neural Controller. 463
  
• Guilherme Raimundo, João Cabral, Celso de Melo, Luís C. Oliveira, Ana Paiva:
  Storytelling - The Difference Between Fantasy and Reality. 464
  
• Matthias Rehm, Birgit Endraß, Elisabeth André:
  A Plug-and-Play Framework for Theories of Social Group Dynamics. 465-466
  
• Stéphane Sanchez, Hervé Luga, Yves Duthen:
  Learning Classifier Systems and Behavioural Animation of Virtual Characters. 467
  
• Thomas Santarelli, Charles Barba, Floyd A. Glenn, Daphne Bogert:
  Using Intelligent Agents to Facilitate Game Based Cultural Familiarization Training. 468
  
• Marco Vala, João Dias, Ana Paiva:
  Mind the Body. 469
  
• Jean-Christophe Le Mentec, Wayne Zachary:
  CAB: A Tool for Interoperation Among Cognitive Architectures. 470