IVA 2011 Conference Program

DAY 1: Thursday, September 15th

07:45	Registration Desk Opens (closes at 17:00)

08:30-09:00	Welcome

09:00-10:00	Keynote 1: Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir		Chair: Hannes Vilhjalmsson

10:00-10:30	Coffee

10:30-12:00	Paper Session 1: Social and Dramatic Interaction		Chair: Ruth Aylett
	20	Culture-related topic selection in SmallTalk conversations across Germany and Japan	"Birgit Endrass, Yukiko Nakano, Afia Akhter Lipi, Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André"
	20	"""I like your shirt"" - Dialogue Acts for Enabling Social Talk in Conversational Agents"	Tina Kluewer
	10	Virtual clones: Data-driven social navigation	Doron Friedman
	10	Tilt Riders: Improvisational Agents Who Know What the Scene is About	"António Brisson, Brian Magerko, Ana Paiva"
	10	Digital Improvisational Theatre: Party Quirks	"Christopher DeLeon, Brian Magerko, Peter Dohogne"
	10	Where to Sit? The Study and Implementation of Seat Selection in Public Places	"Elín Carstensdóttir, Kristín Guðmundsdóttir, Gunnar Steinn Valgarðsson, Hannes Vilhjalmsson"

12:00-13:00	Lunch

13:00-14:50	Paper Session 2: Guides and Relational Agents		Chair: Ana Paiva
	20	Relational Agents Improve Engagement and Learning in Science Museum Visitors	"Timothy Bickmore, Laura Pfeifer, Daniel Schulman"
	20	Virtual Rapport 2.0	"Lixing Huang, Louis-Philippe Morency, Jonathan Gratch"
	20	It’s in their eyes: A study on female and male virtual humans’ gaze	"Philipp Kulms, Nicole Krämer, Jonathan Gratch, Sin-Hwa Kang"
	10	Get Involved in an Interactive Virtual Tour of Brest Harbour: Follow the guide and Participate	"Mukesh Barange, Pierre De Loor, Vincent Louis, Ronan Querrec, Julien Soler, Thanh-Hai Trinh, Eric Maisel, Pierre Chevaillier"
	10	Using virtual tour behavior to build dialogue models for training review	"Antonio Roque, Mark Core, Dusan Jan, David Traum"
	10	"Posture, Relationship, and Discourse Structure"	"Daniel Schulman, Timothy Bickmore"

14:50-15:20	Coffee

15:20-17:00	Paper Session 3: Nonverbal Behavior		Chair: Dirk Heylen
	20	Sign Language Avatars: Animation and Comprehensibility	"Michael Kipp, Alexis HELOIR, Quan Nguyen"
	20	How to train your avatar: a data driven approach to gesture generation	"Chung-Cheng Chiu, Stacy Marsella"
	10	Nonverbal Action Selection for Explanations Using an Enhanced Behavior Net	"Javier Snaider, Andrew Olney, Natalie Person"
	10	Providing Gender to Embodied Conversational Agents	"Marco Vala, Gabriel Blanco, Ana Paiva"
	10	Modeling Gaze Behavior for Virtual Demonstrators	"Yazhou Huang, Justin L Matthews, Teenie Matlock, Marcelo Kallmann"
	10	A Framework for Motion Based Bodily Enaction with Virtual Characters	"Pugliese Roberto, Klaus Lehtonen"

18:00-19:30	Reception / Posters / Demos (At Reykjavik University) - See Poster List below		Chair: Yngvi Björnsson
	1	ForgetMeNot: Users’ expectations of remembering and forgetting in IVAs	"Deborah Richards, Karla Bransky"
	2	Control of speech-related facial movements of an avatar from video	"Guillaume Gibert, Catherine Stevens"
	3	Realistic eyes model taking into account pupil dilation and corneal reflection	Guillaume Gibert
	4	Towards a Design Approach for Integrating BDI Agents in Virtual Environments	"Joost van Oijen, Frank Dignum"
	5	A BML-based Embodied Conversational Agent for a Personality Detection Program	Guillermo Solano (presented by Dennis Reidsma)
	6	Individualized Agent Interactions	"Ionut Damian, Birgit Endraß, Nikolaus Bee, Elisabeth André"
	7	Bots in Our Midst: Communicating with Automated Agents in Online Virtual Worlds	Doron Friedman
	8	The effects of virtual agent humor and gaze behavior on human-virtual agent proxemics	"Peter Khooshabeh, Sudeep Gandhe, Cade McCall, Jonathan Gratch, Jim J. Blascovich, David Traum"
	9	Source Orientation in communication with a conversational agent	"Yugo Hayashi, Victor Kryssanov, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Akira Urao, Kazuhisa Miwa, Hitoshi Ogawa"
	10	Towards effective virtual negotiation training	"Joost Broekens, Maaike Harbers, Willem-Paul Brinkman, Catholijn Jonker, Karel Van den Bosch, John-Jules Meyer (presented by Chao Qu)"
	11	Flipper: An Information State Component for Spoken Dialogue Systems	"Mark ter Maat, Dirk Heylen"
	12	Are Intelligent Pedagogical Agents Effective in Fostering Students' Note-Taking While Learning?	"Greg Trevors, Melissa Duffy, Roger Azevedo"
	13	Expressing Emotions on Robotic Companions with Limited Facial Expression Capabilities	"Tiago Ribeiro, Iolanda Leite, Ana Paiva, Jan Kedzierski, Adam Oleksy"
	14	Intelligent Virtual Environment Development with the REVE Platform: an Overview	"George Anastassakis, Themis Panayiotopoulos"
	15	Animating a conversational agent with user expressivity	"Manoj kumar Rajagopal, Patrick Horain, Catherine Pelachaud"
	16	"Teaching Her, Him ... or Hir – Challenges for a Cross-Cultural Study"	"Magnus Haake, Annika Silvervarg, Betty Tärning, Agneta Gulz"
	17	Toward a Conversational Virtual Instructor of Ballroom Dance	"Masaki Uejo, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Joo-Ho Lee, Kyoji Kawagoe"
	18	Checkpoint Exercise: Training with Virtual Actors in Virtual Worlds	"Dusan Jan, Eric Chance, Dinesh Rajpurohit, David DeVault, Anton Leuski, Jacki Morie, David Traum"
	19	Examining learners’ emotional responses to virtual pedagogical agents’ tutoring strategies	"Jason Harley, Francois BOUCHET, Roger Azevedo (presented by Gregory Trevors)"
	20	Interactive Characters for Cultural Training of Small Military Units	"Priti Aggarwal, Kevin Feeley, Fabrizio Morbini, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, David Traum, Julia Kim"
	21	The Mona Lisa gaze effect as an objective metric for perceived cospatiality	"Jens Edlund, Samer Al Moubayed, Jonas Beskow"
	22	CLARION as a Cognitive Framework for Intelligent Virtual Agents	"Michael Lynch, Ron Sun, Nicholas Wilson"
	23	Modeling Nonverbal Behavior of a Virtual Counselor during Intimate Self-Disclosure	"Sin-Hwa Kang, Candy Sidner, Jonathan Gratch, Ron Artstein, Lixing Hwang, and Louis-Philippe Morency"
	24	The BML Sequencer: A Tool for authoring multi-character animations.	"Priti Aggarwal, David Traum"
	25	Dynamic Planning for Agents in Games using Social Norms and Emotions	"Palli Thrainsson, Hannes Vilhjalmsson"

DAY 2: Friday, September 16th

08:30	Registration Desk Opens (closes at 17:00)

09:00-10:00	Keynote 2: Jens Edlund		Chair: Stefan Kopp

10:00-10:30	Coffee

10:30-12:30	Paper Session 4: Adaptation and Coordination		Chair: Elisabeth Andre
	20	Towards Conversational Agents That Attend to and Adapt to Communicative User Feedback	"Hendrik Buschmeier, Stefan Kopp"
	20	Quid Pro Quo? Reciprocal Self-disclosure and Communicative Accomodation Towards a Virtual Interviewe	"Astrid von der Pütten, Laura Hoffmann, Jennifer Klatt, Nicole Krämer"
	20	Multimodal Plan Representation for adaptable BML Scheduling	"Dennis Reidsma, Herwin van Welbergen, Job Zwiers"
	10	SPECIAL REPORT: The BML Development Meeting
	10	Creating familiarity through adaptive behavior generation in human-agent interaction	"Ramin Yaghoubzadeh, Stefan Kopp"
	10	Contextual Affordances for Intelligent Virtual Characters	"Frederick Heckel, Michael Youngblood"
	10	Negotiations in the Context of AIDS Prevention: an Agent-based Model using Theory of Mind	"Jennifer Klatt, Stacy Marsella, Nicole Krämer"

12:30-13:30	Lunch

13:30-15:00	Paper Session 5: Listening and Feedback		Chair: Timothy Bickmore
	20	Towards More Comprehensive Listening Behavior: Beyond the Bobble Head	"Zhiyang Wang, Jina Lee, Stacy Marsella"
	20	"Backchannels: Quantity, Type and Timing Matters"	"Ronald Poppe, Khiet Truong, Dirk Heylen"
	10	Modeling Side Participants and Bystanders: the Importance of Being a Laugh Track in Someone Else's	"Jina Lee, Stacy Marsella"
	10	Appropriate and Inappropriate Timing of Listener Responses from Multiple Perspectives	"Iwan de Kok, Dirk Heylen"
	10	Identifying Utterances Addressed to an Agent in Multiparty Human–Agent Conversations	"Naoya Baba, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Yukiko Nakano"
	10	Estimating User’s Conversational Engagement based on Head Pose Information	"Ryota Oko, Ryo Ishii, Yukiko Nakano"

15:00-15:30	Coffee

15:30-17:00	Paper Session 6: Frameworks and Tools		Chair: Michael Kipp
	20	Demonstrating and Testing the BML Compliance of BML Realizers	"Herwin van Welbergen, Yuyu Xu, Marcus Thiebaux, Wei-Wen Feng, Jingqiao Fu, Dennis Reidsma, Ari Shapiro"
	20	Robots meet IVAs: A Mind-Body Interface For Migrating Artificial Intelligent Agents	"Michael Kriegel, Ruth Aylett, Pedro Cuba, Marco Vala, Ana Paiva"
	10	Towards the rapid development of a natural language understanding module	"Catarina Moreira, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Bruno Martins"
	10	Expressive Multimodal Conversational Acts for SAIBA agents	"Jeremy Riviere, Carole Adam, Sylvie Pesty, Catherine Pelachaud, Nadine Guiraud, Dominique Longin, Emiliano Lorini"
	10	Continuous Interaction within the SAIBA framework	"Job Zwiers, Herwin van Welbergen, Dennis Reidsma"
	10	A Flexible Dual Task Paradigm for Evaluating an Embodied Conversational Agent	Catherine Stevens


17:00-17:30	GALA Film Screening and voting		Chair: Phil Heslop

19:00-22:00	Dinner at Reykjavik Restaurant (Downtown)

DAY 3: Saturday, September 17th

09:30	Registration Desk Opens (closes at 14:30)

10:00-10:30	Coffee

10:30-12:00	Paper Session 7: Cooperation and Copresence		Chair: Jonathan Gratch
	20	Did you notice? Artificial team-mates take risks for players	"Tim Merritt, Christopher Ong, Teong Leong Chuah, Kevin McGee"
	20	Sharing Emotions an Space - Empathy as a Basis for Cooperative Spatial Interaction	"Hana Boukricha, Nhung Nguyen, Ipke Wachsmuth"
	10	Perception of Spatial Relations and of Coexistence with Virtual Agents	"Mohammad Obaid, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pelachaud"
	10	Failure Detection and Reactive Teaming for Behavior-Based Subsumption	"Frederick Heckel, Michael Youngblood"
	10	Comparing Modes of Information Presentation: Text versus ECA and Single versus Two ECAs	"Svetlana Stoyanchev, Paul Piwek, Helmut Prendinger"

12:00-13:00	Lunch

13:00-14:10	Paper Session 8: Emotion		Chair: Catherine Pelachaud
	20	Empirical Evaluation of Computational Emotional Contagion Models	"Jason Tsai, Emma Bowring, Stacy Marsella, Milind Tambe"
	20	Don't Scratch! Self-adaptors Reflect Emotional Stability	"Michael Neff, Nicholas Toothman, Robeson Bowmani, Jean Fox Tree, Marilyn Walker"
	10	Exploration on Context-sensitive Affect Sensing in an Intelligent Agent	Li Zhang
	10	To date or not to date? A minimalist affect-modulated control architecture for dating virtual char.	"Michal Bida, Cyril Brom, Markéta Popelová"

14:10-14:30	Closing

15:00-21:30	Optional Nature Excursion: The Golden Circle (book at conference registration desk)