9. IVA 2009: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Keynote Talks

• Marilyn A. Walker:
  Endowing Virtual Characters with Expressive Conversational Skills. 1-2
  
• Steve DiPaola:
  Intelligent Expression-Based Character Agent Systems. 3-4
  
• Casey Hudson:
  Past and Future Challenges in Creating Emotionally-Engaging Real-Time Digital Actors in Videogames. 5
  

Personality and Memory

• Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman, Langxuan Yin:
  Engagement vs. Deceit: Virtual Humans with Human Autobiographies. 6-19
  
• Mei Yii Lim, Ruth Aylett, Wan Ching Ho, Sibylle Enz, Patricia Vargas:
  A Socially-Aware Memory for Companion Agents. 20-26
  
• Margaret McRorie, Ian Sneddon, Etienne de Sevin, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Catherine Pelachaud:
  A Model of Personality and Emotional Traits. 27-33
  
• Michal P. Sindlar, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer:
  BDI-Based Development of Virtual Characters with a Theory of Mind. 34-41
  
• Cyril Brom, Tomás Korenko, Jirí Lukavský:
  How Do Place and Objects Combine? "What-Where" Memory for Human-Like Agents. 42-48
  
• Martin Rumpler:
  EXSTASIS - An Extended Status Model for Social Interactions. 49-55
  
• Antonio A. Sánchez-Ruiz-Granados, David Llansó, Marco Antonio Gómez-Martín, Pedro A. González-Calero:
  Authoring Behaviour for Characters in Games Reusing Abstracted Plan Traces. 56-62
  

Gesture and Bodily Behavior

• Nhung Nguyen, Ipke Wachsmuth:
  Modeling Peripersonal Action Space for Virtual Humans Using Touch and Proprioception. 63-75
  
• Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp:
  GNetIc - Using Bayesian Decision Networks for Iconic Gesture Generation. 76-89
  
• Amir Sadeghipour, Stefan Kopp:
  A Probabilistic Model of Motor Resonance for Embodied Gesture Perception. 90-103
  
• Axel Tidemann, Pinar Öztürk, Yiannis Demiris:
  A Groovy Virtual Drumming Agent. 104-117
  
• Gengdai Liu, Zhigeng Pan, Ling Li:
  Motion Synthesis Using Style-Editable Inverse Kinematics. 118-124
  
• Sander E. M. Jansen, Herwin van Welbergen:
  Methodologies for the User Evaluation of the Motion of Virtual Humans. 125-131
  

Evaluation

• Maaike Harbers, Karel van den Bosch, John-Jules Ch. Meyer:
  A Study into Preferred Explanations of Virtual Agent Behavior. 132-145
  
• Cristina Conati, Micheline Manske:
  Evaluating Adaptive Feedback in an Educational Computer Game. 146-158
  
• Laura Hoffmann, Nicole C. Krämer, Anh Lam-chi, Stefan Kopp:
  Media Equation Revisited: Do Users Show Polite Reactions towards an Embodied Agent? 159-165
  
• Hung-Hsuan Huang, Takuya Furukawa, Hiroki Ohashi, Aleksandra Cerekovic, Yuji Yamaoka, Igor S. Pandzic, Yukiko I. Nakano, Toyoaki Nishida:
  The Lessons Learned in Developing Multi-user Attentive Quiz Agents. 166-173
  
• Patrick Gebhard, Susanne Karsten:
  On-Site Evaluation of the Interactive COHIBIT Museum Exhibit. 174-180
  
• Werner Breitfuss, Ielka van der Sluis, Saturnino Luz, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
  Evaluating an Algorithm for the Generation of Multimodal Referring Expressions in a Virtual World: A Pilot Study. 181-187
  

Facial Expression and Gaze

• Celso de Melo, Jonathan Gratch:
  Expression of Emotions Using Wrinkles, Blushing, Sweating and Tears. 188-200
  
• Matthieu Courgeon, Stéphanie Buisine, Jean-Claude Martin:
  Impact of Expressive Wrinkles on Perception of a Virtual Character's Facial Expressions of Emotions. 201-214
  
• Wijnand van Tol, Arjan Egges:
  Real-Time Crying Simulation. 215-228
  
• Nikolaus Bee, Elisabeth André, Susanne Tober:
  Breaking the Ice in Human-Agent Communication: Eye-Gaze Based Initiation of Contact with an Embodied Conversational Agent. 229-242
  
• Meeri Mäkäräinen, Tapio Takala:
  An Approach for Creating and Blending Synthetic Facial Expressions of Emotion. 243-249
  
• Angelo Cafaro, Raffaele Gaito, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson:
  Animating Idle Gaze in Public Places. 250-256
  

Culture, Affect and Empathy

• Anton Bogdanovych, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, Simeon J. Simoff, Alex Cohen:
  Virtual Agents and 3D Virtual Worlds for Preserving and Simulating Cultures. 257-271
  
• Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva:
  One for All or One for One? The Influence of Cultural Dimensions in Virtual Agents' Behaviour. 272-286
  
• Céline Clavel, Justine Plessier, Jean-Claude Martin, Laurent Ach, Benoît Morel:
  Combining Facial and Postural Expressions of Emotions in a Virtual Character. 287-300
  
• Celso M. de Melo, Liang Zheng, Jonathan Gratch:
  Expression of Moral Emotions in Cooperating Agents. 301-307
  
• Yueh-Hung Lin, Chia-Yang Liu, Hung-Wei Lee, Shwu-Lih Huang, Tsai-Yen Li:
  Evaluating Emotive Character Animations Created with Procedural Animation. 308-315
  
• Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Sylwia Hyniewska, Catherine Pelachaud:
  Modeling Emotional Expressions as Sequences of Behaviors. 316-322
  
• Julien Saunier, Hazaël Jones, Domitile Lourdeaux:
  I Feel What You Feel: Empathy and Placebo Mechanisms for Autonomous Virtual Humans. 323-329
  
• Jennifer L. Robison, Jonathan P. Rowe, Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester:
  Predicting User Psychological Characteristics from Interactions with Empathetic Virtual Agents. 330-336
  
• Mohammed E. Hoque, Rana El Kaliouby, Rosalind W. Picard:
  When Human Coders (and Machines) Disagree on the Meaning of Facial Affect in Spontaneous Videos. 337-343
  

Agents in Virtual Worlds and Games

• Claudio Pedica, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson:
  Spontaneous Avatar Behavior for Human Territoriality. 344-357
  
• Rafael Araújo Rodrigues, Alessandro de Lima Bicho, Marcelo Paravisi, Cláudio Rosito Jung, Léo Pini Magalhães, Soraia Raupp Musse:
  Tree Paths: A New Model for Steering Behaviors. 358-371
  
• Dusan Jan, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Jackie Morie, David R. Traum:
  A Virtual Tour Guide for Virtual Worlds. 372-378
  
• Christopher Mumme, Niels Pinkwart, Frank Loll:
  Design and Implementation of a Virtual Salesclerk. 379-385
  
• María Arinbjarnar, Daniel Kudenko:
  Duality of Actor and Character Goals in Virtual Drama. 386-392
  

Tools and Motion Capture

• Alexis Heloir, Michael Kipp:
  EMBR - A Realtime Animation Engine for Interactive Embodied Agents. 393-404
  
• Pengcheng Luo, Michael Kipp, Michael Neff:
  Augmenting Gesture Animation with Motion Capture Data to Provide Full-Body Engagement. 405-417
  
• Marco Vala, Guilherme Raimundo, Pedro Sequeira, Pedro Cuba, Rui Prada, Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva:
  ION Framework - A Simulation Environment for Worlds with Virtual Agents. 418-424
  
• Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman, George Shaw:
  DTask and LiteBody: Open Source, Standards-Based Tools for Building Web-Deployed Embodied Conversational Agents. 425-431
  
• Charly Awad, Nicolas Courty, Kyle Duarte, Thibaut Le Naour, Sylvie Gibet:
  A Combined Semantic and Motion Capture Database for Real-Time Sign Language Synthesis. 432-438
  
• Gabriella Giannachi, Marco Gillies, Nick Kaye, David Swapp:
  Mediating Performance through Virtual Agents. 439-445
  

Speech and Dialogue

• Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir, Kristinn R. Thórisson:
  Teaching Computers to Conduct Spoken Interviews: Breaking the Realtime Barrier with Learning. 446-459
  
• Laura M. Pfeifer, Timothy W. Bickmore:
  Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents. 460-466
  
• Mark ter Maat, Dirk Heylen:
  Turn Management or Impression Management? 467-473
  
• Brent Rossen, Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok:
  Human-Centered Distributed Conversational Modeling: Efficient Modeling of Robust Virtual Human Conversations. 474-481
  

Posters

• Annelies Braffort, Jean-Paul Sansonnet, Cyril Verrecchia:
  Issues in Dynamic Generation of Sign Language Utterances for a Web 2.0 Virtual Signer. 482-483
  
• Cyril Brom, Jirí Lukavský:
  Towards More Human-Like Episodic Memory for More Human-Like Agents. 484-485
  
• Aleksandra Cerekovic, Tomislav Pejsa, Igor S. Pandzic:
  RealActor: Character Animation and Multimodal Behavior Realization System. 486-487
  
• Sung June Chang, Byung Tae Choi:
  Locomotion Animation by Using Riding Motion. 488-489
  
• Joon Hao Chuah, Brent Rossen, Benjamin Lok:
  Automated Generation of Emotive Virtual Humans. 490-491
  
• Secundino Correia, Sandra Pedrosa, Juliana Costa, Marco Estanqueiro:
  Little Mozart: Establishing Long Term Relationships with (Virtual) Companions. 492-493
  
• Etienne de Sevin, Catherine Pelachaud:
  Real-Time Backchannel Selection for ECAs According to User's Level of Interest. 494-495
  
• Lydie Edward, Domitile Lourdeaux, Jean-Paul A. Barthès:
  Virtual Autonomous Agents in an Informed Environment for Risk Prevention. 496-497
  
• Lynne E. Hall, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva:
  An Immersive Approach to Evaluating Role Play. 498-499
  
• Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, Lori Weiss, The Gunslinger Team:
  At the Virtual Frontier: Introducing Gunslinger, a Multi-Character, Mixed-Reality, Story-Driven Experience. 500-501
  
• Wan Ching Ho, Kerstin Dautenhahn:
  Designing an Educational Game Facilitating Children's Understanding of the Development of Social Relationships Using IVAs with Social Group Dynamics. 502-503
  
• Yvonne Jung, Christine Weber, Jens Keil, Tobias Franke:
  Real-Time Rendering of Skin Changes Caused by Emotions. 504-505
  
• Rudolf Kadlec, Jakub Gemrot, Michal Bída, Ondrej Burkert, Jan Havlícek, Lukás Zemcák, Radek Pibil, Radim Vansa, Cyril Brom:
  Extensions and Applications of Pogamut 3 Platform. 506-507
  
• Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch:
  Interactants' Most Intimate Self-disclosure in Interactions with Virtual Humans. 508-510
  
• Patrick G. Kenny, Thomas D. Parsons, Jonathan Gratch, Albert A. Rizzo:
  Evaluation of Novice and Expert Interpersonal Interaction Skills with a Virtual Patient. 511-512
  
• Kiyhoshi Nosu, Tomoya Kurokawa, Hiroto Horita, Yoshitarou Ohhazama, Hiroki Takeda:
  Voice Feed-Backing for Video Game Players by Real-Time Sequential Emotion Estimation from Facial Expression. 513-514
  
• Tina Klüwer:
  RMRSBot - Using Linguistic Information to Enrich a Chatbot. 515-516
  
• Tomoko Koda, Zsófia Ruttkay:
  Cultural Differences in Using Facial Parts as Cues to Recognize Emotions in Avatars. 517-518
  
• Brigitte Krenn, Marcin Skowron, Gregor Sieber, Erich Gstrein, Jörg Irran:
  Adaptive Mind Agent. 519-520
  
• Ladislav Kunc, Pavel Slavík:
  Study on Sensitivity to ECA Behavior Parameters. 521-522
  
• António Leonardo, António Brisson, Ana Paiva:
  Influence of Music and Sounds in an Agent-Based Storytelling Environment. 523-524
  
• Brian Mac Namee, Mark Dunne:
  Widening the Evaluation Net. 525-526
  
• Irene Mazzotta, Nicole Novielli, Berardina De Carolis:
  Are ECAs More Persuasive than Textual Messages? 527-528
  
• Ana Cristina Mendes, Rui Prada, Luísa Coheur:
  Adapting a Virtual Agent to Users' Vocabulary and Needs. 529-530
  
• Yukiko I. Nakano, Yuji Yamaoka:
  Information State Based Multimodal Dialogue Management: Estimating Conversational Engagement from Gaze Information. 531-532
  
• Ary Fagundes Bressane Neto, Flávio S. Corrêa da Silva:
  Synthetic Characters with Personality and Emotion. 533-534
  
• Andrew Nicolson:
  Modelling and Implementing Irrational and Subconscious Interpersonal and Intra-personal Processes. 535-536
  
• Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Takashi Miyake, Toyoaki Nishida:
  A Method to Detect an Atmosphere of "Involvement, Enjoyment, and/or Excitement" in Multi-user Interaction. 537-538
  
• Paola Rizzo, Michael Kriegel, Rui Figueiredo, Mei Yii Lim, Ruth Aylett:
  Want to Know How to Play the Game? Ask the ORACLE! 539-540
  
• Michael Rushforth, Sudeep Gandhe, Ron Artstein, Antonio Roque, Sarrah Ali, Nicolle Whitman, David R. Traum:
  Varying Personality in Spoken Dialogue with a Virtual Human. 541-542
  
• Fahad Shah, Philip Bell, Gita Sukthankar:
  Agent-Assisted Navigation for Virtual Worlds. 543-544
  
• Yingying She, Peter Grogono:
  A Real-Time Transfer and Adaptive Learning Approach for Game Agents in a Layered Architecture. 545-546
  
• D. W. F. van Krevelen:
  Intelligent Tutoring Games with Agent Modeling. 547-548
  
• Astrid von der Pütten, Christian Reipen, Antje Wiedmann, Stefan Kopp, Nicole C. Krämer:
  The Impact of Different Embodied Agent-Feedback on Users' Behavior. 549-551
  
• Benjamin Weiss, Christine Kühnel, Ina Wechsung, Sebastian Möller, Sascha Fagel:
  Web-Based Evaluation of Talking Heads: How Valid Is It? 552-553
  

GALA Papers

• Charly Awad, Kyle Duarte, Thibaut Le Naour:
  Gérard. 554-555
  
• Eric Chance, Jacki Morie:
  Method for Custom Facial Animation and Lip-Sync in an Unsupported Environment, Second Life^TM. 556-557
  
• Ionut Damian, Kathrin Janowski, Dominik Sollfrank:
  Spectators, a Joy to Watch. 558-559
  
• Ivan Gregor, Michael Kipp, Jan Miksatko:
  IVAN - Intelligent Interactive Virtual Agent Narrators. 560-561
  
• Ido Iurgel, Rogério E. da Silva, Pedro R. Ribeiro, Abel B. Soares, Manuel Filipe dos Santos:
  CREACTOR - An Authoring Framework for Virtual Actors. 562-563
  
• György Kovács, Csaba Makara, Attila Fazekas:
  The Multi-modal Rock-Paper-Scissors Game. 564-565
  
• Quan Nguyen, Michael Kipp:
  A Gesture Analysis and Modeling Tool for Interactive Embodied Agents. 566-568