E-raamat: Intelligent Virtual Agents: 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, August 27-30, 2017, Proceedings

Pedagogical Agents to Support Embodied, Discovery-based Learning.-
WalkNet: A Neural-Network-Based Interactive Walking Controller.- A Virtual
Poster Presenter using Mixed Reality.- Multiparty Interactions for
Coordination in a Mixed Human-Agent Teamwork.- A Dynamic Speech Breathing
System for Virtual Characters.- To Plan or Not to Plan: Lessons Learned from
Building Large Scale Social Simulations.- Giving Emotional Contagion Ability
to Virtual Agents in Crowds.- Selecting and expressing communicative
functions in a SAIBACompliant Agent Framework.- Racing Heart and Sweaty
Palms: What Influences Users' Self-Assessments and Physiological Signals When
Interacting With Virtual Audiences.- Effects of Social Priming on Social
Presence with Intelligent Virtual Agents.- Predicting Future Crowd Motion
Including Event Treatment.- The Intelligent Coaching Space: A Demonstration.-
Get One or Create One: The Impact of Graded Involvement in a Selection
Procedure for a Virtual Agent on Satisfaction and Suitability Ratings.-
Virtual reality negotiation training system with virtual cognitions.- Do We
Need Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Agents? First Results of Human
Perceptions of Emotional Intelligence in Humans Compared to Robots.-
Pragmatic multimodality: Effects of nonverbal cues of focus and certainty in
a virtual human.- Simulating listener gaze and evaluating its effect on human
speakers.- Predicting Head Pose in Dyadic Conversation.- Negative Feedback In
Your Face: Examining the Effects of Proxemics and Gender on Learning.- A
psychotherapy training environment with virtual patients implemented using
the Furhat robot platform.- Crowd-Powered Design of Virtual Attentive
Listeners.- Learning and Reusing Dialog for Repeated Interactions with a
Situated Social Agent.- Personality Projection in a Social Mediator: The
Moveable Facial Features in Robotic Systems.- Recipe Hunt: Engaging with
Cultural Food Knowledge using Multiple Embodied Conversational Agents.-
Development and Perception Evaluation of Culture-specific Gaze Behaviors of
Virtual Agents.- Development and Perception Evaluation of Culture- specific
Gaze Behaviors of Virtual Agents.- A demonstration of the ASAP
Realizer-Unity3D Bridge for Virtual and Mixed Reality Applications.- An ASAP
Realizer-Unity3D Bridge for Virtual and Mixed Reality Applications.- Moral
Conflicts in VR: Addressing Grade Disputes with a Virtual Trainer.- Evaluated
by a Machine. Effects of Negative Feedback by a Computer or Human Boss.-
Gratch: A Web-Based Platform for Annotating Sentiment-Related Phenomena in
Human-Agent Conversations.- Does a robot tutee increase engagement in a
learning-by-teaching situation.- The Expression of Mental States in a
Humanoid Robot.- You Can Leave Your Head On - Attention Management and
Turn-Taking in Multi-party Interaction with a Virtual Human/Robot Duo.- Say
Hi to Eliza.- A computational model of power in collaborative negotiation
dialogues.- Prestige Questions, Online Agents, and Gender-Driven Differences
in Disclosure.- To Tell the Truth: Virtual Agents and Morning Morality.-
Fixed-pie Lie in Action.- Generation of Virtual Characters from Personality
Traits.- Effect of Visual Feedback Caused by Changing Mental States of the
Avatar based on the Operator's Mental States using Physiological Indices.-
That's a Rap: Increasing Engagement with Rap Music Performance by Virtual
Agents.- Design of an Emotion Elicitation Tool using VR for Human-Avatar
Interaction Studies.- Toward an Automatic Classification of Negotiation
Styles using Natural Language Processing.- Interactive Narration with a
Child: Avatar versus Human in Video-Conference.- Who, Me? How Virtual Agents
Can Shape Conversational Footing in Virtual Reality.- Cubus: Autonomous
Embodied Characters to Stimulate Creative Idea Generation in Groups of
Children.- Interacting with a semantic affective ECA.- Towards Believable
Interactions between Synthetic Characters.- Joint Learning of Speech-Driven
Facial Motion with Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory.- Integration of
Multi-modal Cues in Synthetic Attention Processes to Drive Virtual Agent
Behavior.- Categorizing a virtual agent's visual appearance and discovering
age-related user preferences - a qualitative interview study.- Towards
Reasoned Modality Selection in an Embodied Conversation Agent.- Lay causal
explanations of human vs. humanoid behavior.- Generating Situation-Based
Motivational Feedback in a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder E-health System.-
Talk About Death: End of Life Planning with a Virtual Agent.- Social Gaze
Model for an Interactive Virtual Character.- Studying Gender Bias and Social
Backlash via Simulated Negotiations with Virtual Agents.- The Dynamics of
Human-Agent Trust with POMDP-Generated Explanations.- Virtual Role-Play with
Rapid Avatars.- Motion Capture Synthesis with Adversarial Learning.