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.
Using Virtual Doppelgängers to Increase Personal Relevance of Health
Risk Communication.- Luke, I am Your Father: Dealing with Out-of-Domain
Requests by Using Movies Subtitles.- Animated Faces, Abstractions and
Autism.- Is That How Everyone Really Feels? Emotional Contagion with Masking
for Virtual Crowds.- Narrative Scenarios as a Testbed for Moral Agents.- On
the Sociability of a Game-Playing Agent: A Software Framework and Empirical
Study.- Effects of Coupling in Human-Virtual Agent Body Interaction.-
Improving Motion Classifier Robustness by Estimating Output Confidence.- A
Method to Evaluate Response Models.- When to Elicit Feedback in Dialogue:
Towards a Model Based on the Information Needs of Speakers.- Representing
Communicative Functions in SAIBA with a Unified Function Markup Language.- An
Exploratory Analysis of ECA Characteristics.- Motion Parameterization and
Adaptation Strategies for Virtual Therapists.- Corpus Creation and Perceptual
Evaluation of Expressive Theatrical Gestures.- From Non-verbal Signals
Sequence Mining to Bayesian Networks for Interpersonal Attitudes Expression.-
ERiSA: Building Emotionally Realistic Social Game-Agents Companions.-
Building Virtual Humans with Back Stories: Training Interpersonal
Communication Skills in Medical Students.- Agents Behavior Semi-automatic
Analysis through Their Comparison to Human Behavior Clustering.- Upper Body
Animation Synthesis for a Laughing Character.- Simulating Deceptive Cues of
Joy in Humanoid Robots.- Recommendations for Designing Maximally Effective
and Persuasive Health Agents.- Recorded Speech, Virtual Environments, and the
Effectiveness of Embodied Conversational Agents.- Exploring the Difference of
the Impression on Human and Agent Listeners in Active Listening Dialog.-
Planning Motions for Virtual Demonstrators.- With Us or Against Us: Simulated
Social Touch by Virtual Agents in a Cooperative or Competitive Setting.- A
Step towards Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous SyntheticCharacters.-
Dynamical Systems to Account for Turn-Taking in Spoken Interactions.- Virtual
Reflexes.- Ascribed Gender and Characteristics of a Visually Androgynous
Teachable Agent.- Full Body Interaction with Virtual Characters in an
Interactive Storytelling Scenario.- Effects of an Agents Displaying
Self-adaptors during a Serious Conversation.- Lets Be Serious and Have a
Laugh: Can Humor Support Cooperation with a Virtual Agent?.- Towards
Realistic Female Avatar Creation: A Tool for Virtual Actor Design and Player
Choice.- Metaphoric Gestures: Towards Grounded Mental Spaces.- From Data to
Storytelling Agents.- Building Community and Commitment with a Virtual Coach
in Mobile Wellness Programs.- Look on the Bright Side: A Model of Cognitive
Change in Virtual Agents.- Naturalistic Pain Synthesis for Virtual Patients.-
Generative Models of Cultural Decision Making for Virtual Agents Based on
Users Reported Values.- Mapping Personality to the Appearance of Virtual
Characters Using Interactive Genetic Algorithms.- Towards a Computational
Architecture of Dyadic Rapport Management for Virtual Agents.- A Cognitive
Model of Social Relations for Artificial Companions.- An Eye Tracking
Evaluation of a Virtual Pediatric Patient Training System for Nurses.-
Personalization and Personification: A Constructive Approach Based on
Parametric Agents.- Interpersonal Attitude of a Speaking Agent in Simulated
Group Conversations.- Birth Control, Drug Abuse, or Domestic Violence? What
Health Risk Topics Are Women Willing to Discuss with a Virtual Agent?.-
Evaluating the Impact of Anticipation on the Efficiency and Believability of
Virtual Agents.- Developing Interactive Embodied Characters Using the
Thalamus Framework: A Collaborative Approach.-
The Right Agent for the Job? The Effects of Agent Visual Appearance on Task
Domain.- Exploring Gender Biases with Virtual Patients for High Stakes
Interpersonal Skills Training.- A Qualitative Evaluation of Behavior during
Conflict withan Authoritative Virtual Human.- Steps towards a Challenging
Teachable Agent.- Large-Scale Collection and Analysis of Personal
Question-Answer Pairs for Conversational Agents.- Design Guidelines for a
Virtual Coach for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Patients.- A Virtual
Therapist for Speech and Language Therapy.- AsapRealizer 2.0: The Next Steps
in Fluent Behavior Realization for ECAs.- A Data-Driven Method for Real-Time
Character Animation in Human-Agent Interaction.- Compound Gesture Generation:
A Model Based on Ideational Units.- Statistical Dialog Manager Design Tool
for Health Screening and Assessments.- Towards Learning Nonverbal Identities
from the Web: Automatically Identifying Visually Accentuated Words.-
Maintaining Continuity in Longitudinal, Multi-method Health Interventions
Using Virtual Agents: The Case of Breastfeeding Promotion.- Towards a Dyadic
Computational Model of Rapport Management for Human-Virtual Agent
Interaction.- Agent-User Concordance and Satisfaction with a Virtual Hospital
Discharge Nurse.
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