Intelligent Virtual Agents : 13th International Conference, IVA 2013, Edinburgh, UK, August 29-31, 2013 : proceedings /

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2013, held in Edinburgh, UK, in August 2013. There was a total of 94 submissions. The 18 full and 18 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion...

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Corporate Authors: IVA (Conference) Edinburgh, Scotland); SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Aylett, Ruth, 1951-; Krenn, Brigitte; Pelachaud, Catherine; Shimodaira, Hiroshi
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: Heidelberg :
Publication Dates: [2013]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Lecture notes in computer science, Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, 8108
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40415-3
Summary: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2013, held in Edinburgh, UK, in August 2013. There was a total of 94 submissions. The 18 full and 18 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. In addition, the volume lists the 34 posters which were on display during the conference. The papers are organized in topical sections named: cognitive models; applications; dialogue, language, speech; non-verbal behaviour; and social, cultural models and agents.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xviii, 493 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9783642404153 (electronic bk.)
3642404154 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: QA76
CLC: TP18-532
TP391.9-532
Contents: Cognitive Models.
Using a Parameterized Memory Model to Modulate NPC AI /
DyBaNeM: Bayesian Episodic Memory Framework for Intelligent Virtual Agents /
Self-organizing Cognitive Models for Virtual Agents /
Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? An Evaluation of a Simplified Theory of Mind /
Censys: A Model for Distributed Embodied Cognition /
Applications.
Automated Promotion of Technology Acceptance by Clinicians Using Relational Agents /
Virtual Agents as Daily Assistants for Elderly or Cognitively Impaired People /
Modeling Brief Alcohol Intervention Dialogue with MDPs for Delivery by ECAs /
Gendering the Machine: Preferred Virtual Assistant Gender and Realism in Self-Service /
Cicero - Towards a Multimodal Virtual Audience Platform for Public Speaking Training /
A Question-answering Agent Using Speech Driven Non-linear Machinima /
A Virtual Agent as Vocabulary Trainer: Iconic Gestures Help to Improve Learners' Memory Performance /
Using Linguistic Alignment to Enhance Learning Experience with Pedagogical Agents: The Special Case of Dialect /
A Virtual Patient to Assess Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Nurses' Pain Assessment and Intervention Practices /
Dialogue, Language, Speech.
Controlling the Listener Response Rate of Virtual Agents /
The Influence of Prosody on the Requirements for Gesture-Text Alignment /
Prediction of Visual Backchannels in the Absence of Visual Context Using Mutual Influence /
Modeling the Semantic Coordination of Speech and Gesture under Cognitive and Linguistic Constraints /
Modeling Multimodal Behaviors from Speech Prosody /
An Examination of Whether People Prefer Agents Whose Gestures Mimic Their Own /
Impact of Varying Vocabularies on Controlling Motion of a Virtual Actor /
Non-verbal Behaviour.
Conversational Gaze Aversion for Virtual Agents /
From a User-created Corpus of Virtual Agent's Non-verbal Behavior to a Computational Model of Interpersonal Attitudes /
Explaining the Variability of Human Nonverbal Behaviors in Face-to-Face Interaction /
Head Motion Analysis and Synthesis over Different Tasks /
Using Virtual Agents to Guide Attention in Multi-task Scenarios /
Gesture with Meaning /
Social, Cultural Models and Agents.
Conceptualizing Social Power for Agents /
Social Importance Dynamics: A Model for Culturally-Adaptive Agents /
Looking Real and Making Mistakes /
What's Going on? Multi-sense Attention for Virtual Agents /
A Qualitative Evaluation of Social Support by an Empathic Agent /
Tools and Techniques.
All Together Now /
Real-Time Behavioral Animation of Humanoid Non-Player Characters with a Computational Ecosystem /
Judging IVA Personality Using an Open-Ended Question /
An Affective Virtual Agent Providing Embodied Feedback in the Paired Associate Task: System Design and Evaluation /