Monday, November 5
| 9:00 – 9:30 | REGISTRATION | |
| 9:30 – 11:00 | WORKSHOP SESSION 1 | “Replicating the replication crisis” – The workshop on Methodology and/of Evaluation of IVAs Keynote – Alex Holcombe: Boosting reproducibility and the robustness of results: Lessons from experimental psychology Location: PC 1.6.21 Graphical and Robotic Embodied Agents for Therapeutic Systems (GREATS) Invited Speaker – Timothy Bickmore: Health Counselling Agents: Promise and Peril Location: PC 1.6.31 |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | WORKSHOP SESSION 2 | “Replicating the replication crisis” – The workshop on Methodology and/of Evaluation of IVAs Location: PC 1.6.21 Graphical and Robotic Embodied Agents for Therapeutic Systems (GREATS) Location: PC 1.6.31 |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 13:30 – 15:30 | WORKSHOP SESSION 3 | “Replicating the replication crisis” – The workshop on Methodology and/of Evaluation of IVAs Location: PC 1.6.21Agents and Models in Serious Games for Change and Social Good Invited speaker – Prof. Sisi Zlatanova: 3D City Modelling: What Models for Whom? Location: PC.1.6.53 |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | WORKSHOP SESSION 4 | “Replicating the replication crisis” – The workshop on Methodology and/of Evaluation of IVAs Location: PC 1.6.21 Agents and Models in Serious Games for Change and Social Good Location: PC.1.6.53 |
Tuesday, November 6
| 8:00 – 9:00 | REGISTRATION | |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | WELCOME REMARKS | |
| 9:15 – 10:15 | KEYNOTE 1: LIKO-PAUL PINSONNAULT | |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:45 – 12:20 | PAPER SESSION 1: EVALUATION | |
| Mathieu Chollet, Pranav Ghate, Catherine Neubauer and Stefan Scherer | Influence of Individual Differences when Training Public Speaking with Virtual Audiences and After-Action Feedback | |
| Ha Trinh, Ameneh Shamekhi, Everlyne Kimani and Timothy Bickmore | Predicting User Engagement in Longitudinal Interventions with Virtual Agents | |
| Nahal Norouzi, Kangsoo Kim, Jason Hochreiter, Myungho Lee, Salam Daher, Gerd Bruder and Gregory Welch | A Systematic Survey of 15 Years of User Studies Published in the Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference | |
| Johnathan Mell, Jonathan Gratch, Tim Baarslag, Reyhan Aydogan and Catholijn M. Jonker | Results of the First Annual Human-Agent League of the Automated Negotiating Agents Competition | |
| Annika Silvervarg and Kristian Månsson | How do you introduce an agent? – The effect of introduction type on how a teachable agent is experienced by students | |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | DEMOS | |
| 12:40 – 13:20 | LUNCH AND DEMOS | |
| 13:20 – 14:20 | KEYNOTE 2: MIKE SEYMOUR | |
| 14:20 – 14:50 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 14:50 – 16:35 | PAPER SESSION 2: DIALOGUE | |
| Deborah Richards, Ayse Aysin Bilgin and Hedieh Ranjbartabar | Users’ perceptions of empathic dialogue cues: A data-driven approach to provide tailored empathy | |
| Jelte van Waterschoot, Merijn Bruijnes, Jan Flokstra, Dennis Reidsma, Daniel Davison, Mariet Theune and Dirk Heylen | Flipper 2.0: A Pragmatic Dialogue Engine for Embodied Conversational Agents | |
| Gale Lucas, David Traum, Ron Artstein, Jonathan Gratch, Jill Boberg, Alesia Gainer, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski and Mikio Nakano | Culture, Errors, and Rapport-building Dialogue in Social Agents | |
| Birgit Lugrin, Benjamin Eckstein, Kirsten Bergmann and Corinna Heindl | Adapted Foreigner-directed Communication towards Virtual Agents | |
| Stephanie Carnell and Benjamin Lok | The Effects of Author Identity on Dialogue for Virtual Human Communication Skills Training | |
| 16:35 – 16:55 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:55 – 18:00 | PAPER SESSION 3: GENERATION | |
| Dai Hasegawa, Naoshi Kaneko, Shinichi Shirakawa, Hiroshi Sakuta and Kazuhiko Sumi | Evaluation of Speech-to-Gesture Generation Using Bi-Directional LSTM Network | |
| Ryo Ishii, Taichi Katayama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Junji Tomita | Generating Body Motions using Spoken Language in Dialogue | |
| Ylva Ferstl and Rachel McDonnell | Investigating the use of recurrent motion modelling for speech gesture generation | |
| Bhargavi Paranjape, Yubin Ge, Zhen Bai, Jessica Hammer and Justine Cassell | Towards Automatic Generation of Peer-Targeted Science Talk in Curiosity-Evoking Virtual Agent | |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | GALA |
Wednesday, November 7
| 8:00 – 9:00 | REGISTRATION | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | KEYNOTE 3: HIROSHI ISHIGURO | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:30 – 11:40 | PAPER SESSION 4: HEALTH | |
| Salam Daher, Jason Hochreiter, Nahal Norouzi, Laura Gonzalez, Gerd Bruder and Gregory Welch | Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation | |
| Martin Luerssen and Tim Hawke | Virtual Agents as a Service: Applications in Healthcare | |
| Zhe Zhang and Timothy Bickmore | Medical Shared Decision Making with a Virtual Agent | |
| Timothy Bickmore, Everlyne Kimani, Ha Trinh, Alexandra Pusateri, Michael Paasche-Orlow and Jared Magnani | Managing Chronic Conditions with a Smartphone-based Conversational Virtual Agent | |
| 11:40 – 12:40 | POSTER SESSION | |
| Deborah Richards, Hedieh Ranjbartabar and Anupam Makhija | Virtual Humans to Manage Epistemic Emotions in Educational Virtual Worlds: Gender, Personality and Academic Ability Differences | |
| Sam Thellman, William Hagman, Emma Jonsson, Lisa Nilsson, Emma Samulesson, Charlie Simonsson, Julia Skönvall, Anna Westin and Annika Silvervarg | He is not more persuasive than her – No gender biases toward robots giving speeches | |
| Mohan Zalake, Julia Woodward, Amanpreet Kapoor and Benjamin Lok | Assessing the Impact of Virtual Humans Appearance on Users’ Trust Levels | |
| Heike Brock, Shigeaki Nishina and Kazuhiro Nakadai | To animate or anime-te? Investigating sign avatar comprehensibility | |
| Amal Abdulrahman, Deborah Richards and Samuel Mascarenhas | Shared Planning for Building Human-agent Therapeutic Alliance | |
| Patrick Nalepka, Maurice Lamb, Rachel W. Kallen and Michael J. Richardson | Emergence of efficient, coordinated solutions despite differences in agent ability during human-machine interaction | |
| Philipp Hahn, Susana Castillo and Douglas W. Cunningham | Look Me in the Lines: The Impact of Stylization on the Recognition of Expressions and Perceived Personality | |
| Roshni Ramnani, Shubhashis Sengupta and Poulami Debnath | Intelligent Travel Advisor : A Goal Oriented Virtual agent with Task Modeling , Planning and User Personalization | |
| Diogo Schaffer, Conrado Boeira, Gabriel Rockenbach, Guilherme Maurer, André Antonitsch and Soraia Musse | Simulating the Evacuation of Virtual Humans Crowds in Facilities | |
| David Novick, Mahdokht Afravi, Adriana Camacho, Laura J. Hinojos and Aaron E. Rodriguez | Inducing rapport-building behaviors in interaction with an embodied conversational agent | |
| Mohan Zalake and Benjamin Lok | Non-Responsive Virtual Humans for Self-Report Assessments | |
| Kathrin Janowski and Elisabeth André | Decision-Theoretic Personality-Based Reasoning about Turn-Taking Conflicts | |
| Shuo Zhou, Timothy Bickmore, Amy Rubin, Catherine Yeksigian, Molly Sawdy and Steven Simon | User Gaze Behavior while Discussing Substance Use with a Virtual Agent | |
| Masato Fukuda, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Kazuhiro Kuwabara and Toyoaki Nishida | Proposal of a Multi-purpose and Modular Virtual Classroom Framework for Teacher Training | |
| Gilbert Michaël, Demarchi Samuel and Isabel Urdapilleta | FACSHuman a Software to Create Experimental Material by Modeling 3D Facial Expression | |
| 12:40 – 13:40 | LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION | |
| 13:40 – 15:30 | PAPER SESSION 5: SYSTEM | |
| Johnathan Mell, Gale Lucas, Sharon Mozgai, Jill Boberg, Ron Artstein and Jonathan Gratch | Towards a Repeated Negotiating Agent that Treats People Individually: Cooperation, Social Value Orientation, & Machiavellianism | |
| Alankar Jain, Florian Pecune, Yoichi Matsuyama and Justine Cassell | A User Simulator Architecture for Socially-Aware Conversational Agents | |
| Jessica Falk, Steven Poulakos, Mubbasir Kapadia and Robert W. Sumner | PICA: Proactive Intelligent Conversational Agent for Interactive Narratives | |
| Mojgan Hashemian, Rui Prada, Pedro A. Santos and Samuel Mascarenhas | Enhancing Social Believability of Virtual Agents using Social Power Dynamics | |
| Prasanth Murali, Lazlo Ring, Ha Trinh, Reza Asadi and Timothy Bickmore | Speaker Hand-Offs in Collaborative Human-Agent Oral Presentations | |
| Stef van der Struijk, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Maryam Sadat Mirzaei and Toyoaki Nishida | FACSvatar: An Open Source Modular Framework for Real-Time FACS based Facial Animation | |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 15:50 – 17:30 | PAPER SESSION 6: DIALOGUE & PERCEPTION | |
| Potdevin Delphine, Clavel Céline and Sabouret Nicolas | Virtual Intimacy, this little something between us. An experimental study about Human perception of intimate behaviors in ECAs. | |
| Jason Wu, Sayan Ghosh, Mathieu Chollet, Steven Ly, Sharon Mozgai and Stefan Scherer | NADiA – Neural Network Driven Virtual Human Conversation Agents | |
| Jamie Fraser, Ioannis Papaioannou and Oliver Lemon | Spoken Conversational AI in Video Games – Emotional Dialogue Management Increases User Engagement | |
| Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson and Claudio Pedica | Study of Nine People in a Hallway: Some Simulation Challenges | |
| Chengjie Li, Theofronia Androulakaki, Yuan Gao, Fangkai Yang, Himangshu Saikia, Christopher Peters and Gabriel Skantze | Effects of Posture and Embodiment on Social Distance in Human-Agent Interaction in Mixed Reality | |
| Ronan Querrec, Joanna Taoum, Nakhal Bilal and Elisabetta Bevacqua | Model for Verbal Interaction between an Embodied Tutor and a Learner in Virtual Environments | |
| 19:30 – 22:30 | BANQUET CRUISE AND AWARDS |
Thursday, November 8
| 8:00 – 9:00 | REGISTRATION | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | KEYNOTE 4: MARK SAGAR | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:30 – 12:40 | PAPER SESSION 7: PERSONALITY AND DIALOGUE | |
| Ning Wang, David Schwartz, Gabrielle Lewine, Ari Shapiro, Andrew Feng and Cindy Zhuang | Addressing Sexist Attitudes on a College Campus through Virtual Role-Play with Digital Doppelgangers | |
| Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Junya Karasaki and Toyoaki Nishida | Inducing and maintaining the intentional stance by showing interactions between multiple agents | |
| Peter McKenna, Ayan Ghosh, Ruth Aylett, Frank Broz and Thusha Rajendran | Cultural Social Signal Interplay with an Expressive Robot | |
| Susana Castillo, Philipp Hahn, Katharina Legde and Douglas W. Cunningham | Personality Analysis of Embodied Conversational Agents | |
| Paulo Knob, Marcio Balotin and Soraia Musse | Simulating Crowds with OCEAN Personality Traits | |
| Ran Zhao, Oscar J Romero and Alexander Rudnicky | SOGO: A Social Intelligent Negotiation Dialogue System | |
| 12:40 – 13:40 | LUNCH | |
| 13:40 – 15:30 | PAPER SESSION 8: PERCEPTION | |
| Gale Lucas, Nicole Krämer, Clara Peters, Lisa-Sophie Taesch, Johnathan Mell and Jon Gratch | Effects of Perceived Agency and Message Tone in Responding to a Virtual Personal Trainer | |
| Reshmashree Bangalore Kantharaju, Dominic De Franco, Alison Pease and Catherine Pelachaud | Is Two Better than One? Effects of Multiple Agents on User Persuasion | |
| Sebastian Loth, Gernot Horstmann, Corinna Osterbrink and Stefan Kopp | Accuracy of Perceiving Precisely Gazing Virtual Agents | |
| Fangkai Yang, Himangshu Saikia and Christopher Peters | Who are my neighbors? A perception model for selecting neighbors of pedestrians in crowds | |
| Rens Hoegen, Job van der Schalk, Gale Lucas and Jonathan Gratch | The impact of agent facial mimicry on social behavior in a prisoner’s dilemma | |
| Ylva Ferstl and Rachel McDonnell | A perceptual study on the manipulation of facial features for trait portrayal in virtual agents | |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 15:45 – 17:25 | PAPER SESSION 9: SIMULATION & CURIOSITY | |
| Daniel Veutgen, Marco Massetti, Joy Rossi, Leonardo Veroli, Valdimar Laenen and Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson | Interpreting Social Commitment in a Simulated Theater | |
| Gabriel Rockenbach, Conrado Boeira, Diogo Schaffer, André Antonitsch and Soraia Musse | Simulating Crowd Evacuation: From Comfort to Panic Situations | |
| Dhaval Parmar, Stefan Olafsson, Dina Utami and Timothy Bickmore | Looking the Part: The Effect of Attire and Setting on Perceptions of a Virtual Health Counselor | |
| Naresh Balaji Ravichandran, Fangkai Yang, Pawel Herman, Anders Lansner and Christopher Peters | Pedestrian simulation as multi-objective reinforcement learning | |
| Fangkai Yang, Jack Shabo, Adam Qureshi and Christopher Peters | Do you see groups? The impact of crowd density and viewpoint on the perception of groups | |
| Andre Antakli, Erik Hermann, Ingo Zinnikus, Han Du and Klaus Fischer | Intelligent Distributed Human Motion Simulation in Human-Robot Collaboration Environments | |
| 17:25 – 17:45 | CLOSING REMARKS | |
| 17:45 – 18:45 | SOCIAL EVENT |