Intelligent Virtual Agents : 5th International Working Conference, IVA 2005, Kos, Greece, September 12-14, 2005, Proceedings / edited by Themis Panayiotopoulos, Jonathan Gratch, Ruth Aylett, Daniel Ballin, Patrick Olivier, Thomas Rist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Panayiotopoulos, Themistoklis, editor.

Gratch, Jonathan (Jonathan Matthew), 1963- editor.

Aylett, Ruth, 1951- editor.

Ballin, Daniel, editor.

Olivier, Patrick, 1966- editor.

Rist, Thomas, editor.

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Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 3661.

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 3661

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Application software.

Education--Data processing.

Education.

Artificial Intelligence.

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

Computers and Education.

Local Subjects:

Artificial Intelligence.

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

Computers and Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 506 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2005.

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Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.

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Summary:

The origin of the Intelligent Virtual Agents conference dates from a successful workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments held in Brighton at the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98). This workshop was followed by a second one held in Salford in Manchester in 1999. Subsequent events took place in Madrid, Spain in 2001 and Irsee, Germany in 2003 and attracted participants from both sides of the Atlantic as well as Asia. th This volume contains the proceedings of the 5 International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2005, held on Kos Island, Greece, September 12-14, 2005, which highlighted once again the importance and vigor of the research field. A half-day workshop under the title "Socially Competent IVA's: We are not alone in this (virtual) world!" also took place as part of this event. IVA 2005 received 69 submissions from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. The papers published here are the 26 full papers and 14 short papers presented at the conference, as well as one-page descriptions of the 15 posters and the descriptions of the featured invited talks by Prof. Justine Cassell, of Northwestern University and Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn, of the University of Hertfordshire. We would like to thank a number of people that have contributed to the success of this conference. First of all, we thank the authors for their high-quality work and their willingness to share their ideas.

Contents:

IVAs and Education

Training Agents: An Architecture for Reusability

Ask&Answer: An Educational Game Where It Pays to Endear Your Capricious Virtual Companion

Conversational Agents/NLP

Natural Behavior of a Listening Agent

Providing Computer Game Characters with Conversational Abilities

Fight, Flight, or Negotiate: Believable Strategies for Conversing Under Crisis

Dialog Simulation for Background Characters

IVA Architectures

INTERFACE Toolkit: A New Tool for Building IVAs

Autonomous Virtual Agents Learning a Cognitive Model and Evolving

Using Real Objects to Communicate with Virtual Characters

A Software Engineering Approach Combining Rational and Conversational Agents for the Design of Assistance Applications

Marve: A Prototype Virtual Human Interface Framework for Studying Human-Virtual Human Interaction

Cognition, Reasoning and Behaviour

A Knowledge-Based Scenario Framework to Support Intelligent Planning Characters

CAA: A Context-Sensitive Agent Architecture for Dynamic Virtual Environments

When Emotion Does Not Mean Loss of Control

Social Situated Agents in Virtual, Real and Mixed Reality Environments

Do You See What Eyes See? Implementing Inattentional Blindness

Social Causality and Responsibility: Modeling and Evaluation

NonVerbal Communication

Teaching Virtual Characters How to Use Body Language

Direction of Attention Perception for Conversation Initiation in Virtual Environments

A Model of Attention and Interest Using Gaze Behavior

Where Do They Look? Gaze Behaviors of Multiple Users Interacting with an Embodied Conversational Agent

Hierarchical Motion Controllers for Real-Time Autonomous Virtual Humans

Modeling Dynamic Perceptual Attention in Complex Virtual Environments

Storytelling/Interactive Narrative

An Objective Character Believability Evaluation Procedure for Multi-agent Story Generation Systems

Proactive Mediation in Plan-Based Narrative Environments

FearNot! - An Experiment in Emergent Narrative

Intelligent Virtual Agents in Collaborative Scenarios

Social Intelligence

A Conversational Agent as Museum Guide - Design and Evaluation of a Real-World Application

Using Ontology to Establish Social Context and Support Social Reasoning

Integrating Social Skills in Task-Oriented 3D IVA

Emotions/Affect/Personality

Emergent Affective and Personality Model

Judging Laura: Perceived Qualities of a Mediated Human Versus an Embodied Agent

The Significance of Textures for Affective Interfaces

Levels of Representation in the Annotation of Emotion for the Specification of Expressivity in ECAs

Extended Behavior Networks and Agent Personality: Investigating the Design of Character Stereotypes in the Game Unreal Tournament

Evaluation and Methodology

Direct Manipulation Like Tools for Designing Intelligent Virtual Agents

Social Communicative Effects of a Virtual Program Guide

Maintaining the Identity of Dynamically Embodied Agents

The Behavior Oriented Design of an Unreal Tournament Character

MyTutor: A Personal Tutoring Agent

Poster Session

Using Facial Expressions Depicting Emotions in a Human-Computer Interface Intended for People with Autism

A Survey of Computational Emotion Research

A Study on Generating and Matching Facial Control Point Using Radial Basis Function

A Platform Independent Architecture for Virtual Characters and Avatars

GAL: Towards Large Simulations with Tens of Agents

Virtual Agents in a Simulation of an ISO-Company

Appraisal for a Character-Based Story-World

Evolving Emotional Behaviour for Expressive Performance of Music

A Model of an Embodied Emotional Agent

Agent Assistance for 3D World Navigation

NeXuS: Delivering Perceptions to Situated Embodied Agents

Emotion in Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life Research: Facing Problems

A Synthetic Agent for Mentoring Novice Programmers Within a Desktop Computer Environment

vBroker: Agents Teaching Stock Market

Emergence of Representational Structures in Virtual Agents.

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978-3-540-28739-1

9783540287391

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