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The conference will be located in the Promenade Room at: Marina Del Rey Marriott Hotel: 4100 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, California 90292 USA
There is parking at the hotel (~$20/day) and across the street ($6/day) Invited speakersBrian Parkinson: Department of Social Psychology, University of Oxford Abstract of Talk:Social effects of emotion: Two modes of relation alignment
This talk proposes that a central function of many emotions is to configure and reconfigure the relational positions of two or more social agents with respect to some intentional object. This process of relation alignment can proceed at two levels (often in parallel). At one level, there is implicit
Rod Humble: Vice President, Head of The Sims Studio - Electronic Arts
Rod Humble has been in the games industry for over 16 years. His first original game design “The Humans” was released by GameTek in 1991. Since then he has worked on and released well over a hundred games as designer, producer and executive producer. Before coming to Electronic Arts in 2004 he was Vice President of Product Development heading up the EverQuest studio for Sony Online Entertainment.
Rule Systems and Computer Games In this talk I will examine the different kinds of rule systems which have been used historically within games. I will then explore the emerging field of self modifying rule systems within computer games. In conclusion I will cover various techniques which maybe applied and how games relating to everyday life such as “The Sims” can benefit from such systems.
Conference Accepted Paper List Download the list of Accepted papers, Long, Short and Posters
ICT Tour Information Dear IVA Registrants,
The University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) would like to invite any IVA attendees who will be in town on the evening of August 23rd to visit ICT for a brief tour and demonstration of some of our projects related to the scope of the conference. ICT is located in Marina del Rey not far from the IVA venue (see http://www.ict.usc.edu/content/view/70/128/ for directions). The tour will start at 3:30pm on Wednesday, August 23rd (the last day of IVA, after the conference wraps up) and will run until 6:00pm. We can accommodate up to 35 guests, which will be filled first come/first served. We will provide shuttle service from and to the conference venue for those who do not have their own transportation. Please email iva06@ict.usc.edu to reserve your spot. The cutoff is July 21. The Institute for Creative Technologies address is: ICT address: 13274 Fiji Way, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Thank you very much,
The IVA Local Organizing Committee
Breakfast is at 7:30 each day outside the Promenade room. Lunch is on the 10th Floor Monday and Tuesday, Bayview Room. Wednesday Lunch is on your own.
Program Information
Monday, August 21 0845-0900 Welcome, Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California
0900-1000 INVITED TALK: Social Effects of Emotion: Two Modes of Relation Alignment Brian Parkinson
Session: Social Impact of IVAs (Chair: Stephen Read) 1000-1030 Why fat interface characters are better e-health advisors Henriette van Vugt, Elly Konijn, Johan Hoorn, Jolanda Veldhuis 1030-1100 Virtual Rapport Jonathan Gratch, Anna Okhmatovskaia, François Lamothe, Stacy Marsella, Mathieu Morales, Rick van der Werf, Louis-Philippe Morency
Coffee (30 min)
Session: IVAs Recognizing Human Behavior (Chair: Helmut Prendinger) 1130-1200 Imitation Learning and Response Facilitation in Embodied Agents Stefan Kopp, Olaf Graeser 1200-1230 Robust Recognition of Emotion from Speech Mohammed Hoque, Mohammed Yeasin, Max Louwerse 1230-1300 Affect Detection from Human-Computer Dialogue with an Intelligent Tutoring System Sidney D'Mello, Art Graesser 1300-1310 Towards a Reactive Virtual Trainer Zsófia Ruttkay, Job Zwiers, Herwin van Welbergen, Dennis Reidsma 1300-1310 Exploitation in Affect Detection in Improvisational E-drama (Paper will not be presented) Li Zhang, John A. Barnden, Robert J. Hendley, Alan M. Wallington
1310-1430 Lunch (80 min) - Bayview Room 10th Floor, Marriott
Session: Human Interpretation of IVA behavior (Chair: Mark Riedl) 1430-1500 An exploration of Delsarte’s structural acting system Stacy Marsella, Sharon Carnicke, Jonathan Gratch, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Albert Rizzo 1500-1530 Perception of Blended Emotions: from Video Corpus to Expressive Agent Stéphanie Buisine, Sarkis Abrilian, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Jean-Claude Martin, Laurence Devillers, Catherine Pelachaud 1530-1600 Perceiving Visual Emotions With Speech Deng Zhigang, Jeremy Bailenson, J.P. Lewis, Ulrich Neumann
Coffee (30 min)
Session: Embodied Conversational Agents (Chair: Stefan Kopp) 1630-1645 Dealing with Out of Domain Questions in Virtual Characters Ronakkumar Patel, Anton Leuski, David Traum 1645-1715 MIKI: A Speech Enabled Intelligent Kiosk Lee McCauley, Sidney D'Mello 1715-1725 Architecture of a Framework for Generic Assisting Conversational Agents Jean-Paul Sansonnet, David Leray, Jean-Claude Martin 1725-1735 A Comprehensive Context Model for Multi-party Interactions with Virtual Characters Norbert Pfleger, Markus Loeckelt 1735-1745 “What Would You Like to Talk About?” An Evaluation of Social Conversations with a Virtual Receptionist Sabarish Babu, Stephen Schmugge, Tiffany Barnes, Larry Hodges
1900-2200 Dinner (Harbor House Restaurant)
Tuesday, August 22
Session: Characteristics of Nonverbal Behavior (Tentative Chair: Lynn Miller) 0845-0915 Gesture expressivity modulations in an ECA application Nicolas Ech Chafai, Catherine Pelachaud, Danielle Pelé, Gaspard Breton 0915-0945 Visual Attention and Eye Gaze during Multiparty Conversations with Distractions Erdan Gu, Norman Badler Session: Behavior Representation Languages (Chair: Thomas Rist) 0945-1015 Towards a Common Framework for Multimodal Generation: The Behavior Markup Language Stefan Kopp, Brigitte Krenn, Stacy Marsella, Andrew Marshall, Catherine Pelachaud, Hannes Pirker, Kris Thórisson, Hannes Vilhjalmsson 1015-1045 MPML3D: a Reactive Framework for the Multimodal Presentation Markup Language Michael Nischt, Helmut Prendinger, Elizabeth André, Mitsuru Ishizuka 1045-1110 Coffee (25 min) Session: Generation of Nonverbal Behavior with Speech (Chair: David Traum) 1110-1140 Creativity meets Automation: Combining Nonverbal Action Authoring with Rules and Machine Learning Michael Kipp 1140-1210 Nonverbal Behavior Generator for Embodied Conversational Agents Jina Lee, Stacy Marsella 1210-1240 [HUGE]: Universal Architecture for Statistically Based HUman GEsturing Karlo Smid, Goranka Zoric, Igor Pandzic 1240-1250 A Story about Gesticulation Expression Celso de Melo, Ana Paiva 1250-1420 Lunch (90 min) - Bayview Room 10th Floor, Mariott
1420-1510 INVITED TALK: Rule Systems and Video Games Rod Humble (50 min) Session: IVAs in Serious Games (Chair: Michael Mateas) 1510-1520 Introducing EVG: An Emotion Evoking Game Ning Wang, Stacy Marsella 1520-1530 Making it up as you go along - improvising stories for pedagogical purposes Ruth Aylett, Rui Figueiredo, Sandy Louchart, João Dias, Ana Paiva 1530-1600 Coffee (30 min) Session: Cognition and Emotion I (Tentative Chair: Elizabeth André) 1600-1630 A Neurobiologically Inspired Model of Personality in an Intelligent Agent Stephen Read, Lynn Miller, Brian Monroe, Aaron Brownstein, Wayne Zachary, Jean-Christophe LeMentec, Vassil Iordanov 1630-1700 Feeling Ambivalent: A Model of Mixed Emotions for Virtual Agents Benny Lee, Edward Kao, Von-Wun Soo 1700-1730 Are computer-generated emotions and moods plausible to humans? Patrick Gebhard, Kerstin H. Kipp 1730-1740 Creating Adaptive and Individual Personalities in Many Characters Without Hand-Crafting Behaviors Jennifer Sandercock, Lin Padgham, Fabio Zambetta 1745-1815 Break 1815-1915 GALA 1915-2100 Reception (DEMO and POSTER session) – Bayview Room 10th Floor, Mariott
Wednesday, August 23
Session: Cognition and Emotion II (Chair: Jean-Claude Martin) 0900-0930 Thespian: Modeling Socially Normative Behavior in a Decision-Theoretic Framework Mei Si, Stacy Marsella, David Pynadath 0930-1000 Autobiographic Knowledge for Believable Virtual Characters Wan Ching (Steve) Ho, Scott Watson 1000-1030 Teachable Characters: User Studies, Design Principles, and Learning Performance Andrea Thomaz, Cynthia Breazeal
1030-1050 Coffee (20min)
INVITED TALK: Façade: Architecture and Authorial Idioms for Believable Agents in Interactive Drama Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern (45 min)
Session: Applications of IVAs (Tentative Chair: Igor Pandzic) 1135-1205 FearNot’s Appearance: Reflecting children’s expectations and perspectives Lynne Hall, Marco Vala, Marc Hall, Marc Webster, Sarah Woods, Adrian Gordon, Ruth Aylett 1205-1235 Populating Reconstructed Archaeological Sites with Autonomous Virtual Humans Wei Shao, Demetri Terzopoulos 1235-1245 Evaluating the Tangible Interface and Virtual Characters in the Interactive Michael Kipp, Kerstin H. Kipp, Alassane Ndiaye, Patrick Gebhard
1245-1415 Lunch (On your own)
1415-1500 Wrap-up and Future Plans
1500- ICT Tour (Optional – Reserve spot in advance)
Posters (Tuesday from 1915—2045) Computer Model of Emotional Agents Dilyana Budakova, Lyudmil Dakovski Affective Robots as Mediators in Smart Environments Giovanni Cozzolongo, Berardina De Carolis Expression of Emotion in Body and Face Elizabeth Crane, M. Melissa Gross, Barbara Fredrickson Towards primate-like synthetic sociability Pablo dos Anjos Here Be Dragons: Integrating Agent Behaviors with Emergent Landscapes and Structures Todd Furmanski Visual Design of Virtual Pedagogical Agents: Naturalism versus Stylization in Static Appearance Agneta Gulz, Magnus Haake The Role of Social Norm in User-engagement and Appreciation of the Web Interface Agent Bonzi Buddy Johan Hoorn, Henriette van Vugt Countering Adversarial Strategies in Multi-agent Virtual Scenarios Yu-Cheng Hsu, Paul Chang, Von-Wun Soo Avatar's Gaze Control to Facilitate Conversational Turn-taking in Virtual-Space Multi-User Voice Cha Ryo Ishii, Toshimitsu Miyajima, Kinya Fujita, Yukiko Nakano The Role of Discourse Structure and Response Time in Multimodal Communication Patrick Jeuniaux, Max Louwerse, Xiangen Hu The PAC Cognitive Architecture Lynn Miller, Stephen Read, Wayne Zachary, Jean-Christophe LeMentec, Vassil Iordanov, Andrew Rosoff, James Eilbert Control of avatar's facial expression using fundamental frequency in multi-user voice chat system Toshimitsu Miyajima, Kinya Fujita Modeling cognition with a human memory inspired advanced neural controller David Panzoli, Hervé Luga, Yves Duthen Storytelling - The difference between Fantasy and Reality Guilherme Raimundo, Joáo Cabral, Celso de Melo, Luís Oliveira, Ana Paiva A Plug-and-Play Framework for Theories of Social Group Dynamics Matthias Rehm, Birgit Endraß, Elizabeth André Learning Classifier Systems and behavioural animation of virtual characters Stephane Sanchez, Hervé Luga, Yves Duthen Using Intelligent Agents to Facilitate Game Based Cultural Familiarization Training Thomas Santarelli, Charles Barba, Floyd Glenn, Daphne Bogert Mind the Body - Filling the Gap between Minds and Bodies in Synthetic Characters Marco Vala, Joáo Dias, Ana Paiva CAB: A Tool for Interoperation Among Cognitive Architectures Wayne Zachary, Jean-Christophe LeMentec |