Session 1: Mon., Sep. 28, 13:00 GMT
Session Chair: Brigitte Krenn
- Paper 108: Marcel Finkel on “Does the Robot Get the Credit? An Empirical Investigation on the Acquisition of Idiosyncrasy Credit by a Humanoid Robot in the Context of Negative Expectancy Violations” (Full Paper)
- Paper 139: Bart Knijnenburg on “Human-Centric Preference Modeling for Virtual Agents” (Extended Abstract)
- Paper 146: Chaona Chen on “Dynamic Face Movement Texture Enhances the Perceived Realism of Facial Expressions of Emotion” (Extended Abstract)
Session 2: Mon., Sep. 28, 17:00 GMT
Session Chair: Aline Normoyle
Topic: Evaluation Methods and Studies
- Paper 72: Procheta Nag on “Gender Stereotypes in Virtual Agents” (Full Paper)
- Paper 124: Deepali Aneja on “Conversational Error Analysis in Human-Agent Interaction” (Full Paper)
- Paper 148: Chaona Chen on “Building Culturally-Valid Dynamic Facial Expressions for a Conversational Virtual Agent Using Human Perception” (Extended Abstract)
Session 3: Tues., Sep. 29, 09:00 GMT
Session Chair: Brigitte Krenn
Topic: Agent Design and Modeling
- Paper 118: Laura Hensel on “Psychologically Valid Social Face Features for Virtual Agents” (Extended Abstract)
- Paper 114: Matthew McConnell on “Two Dimensional Sign Language Agent” (Extended Abstract)
- Paper 112: Joanna Mania on “Towards Understanding the Effect of Voice on Human-Agent Negotiation” (Full Paper)
Session 4: Tues., Sep. 29, 13:00 GMT
Session Chair: Jonas Nolle
- Paper 38: Timothy Bickmore on “Substance Use Screening using Virtual Agents: Towards Automated Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)” (Full Paper)
- Paper 7: Taras Kucherenko on “Can we trust online crowdworkers? Comparing online and offline participants in a preference test of virtual agents” (Full Paper)
- Paper 94: Andrea Bönsch on “Immersive Sketching to Author Crowd Movements in Real-time” (Extended Abstract)
Session 5: Wed., Sep. 30, 17:00 GMT
Session Chair: Joost Broekens
Topic: Evaluation Methods and Studies
- Paper 106: Crystal Butler on “Human-in-the-Loop AI for Analysis of Free Response Facial Expression Label Sets” (Full Paper)
- Paper 109: Emmanuel Johnson on “The impact of implicit information exchange in human-agent negotiation” (Full Paper)
- Paper 127: Meng Liu on “Building a Generative Space of Facial Expressions of Emotions Using Psychological Data-driven Methods” (Extended Abstract)
Session 6: Thurs., Oct. 1, 13:00 GMT
Session Chair: Antonia Hamilton
Topic: Multimodal Interaction
- Paper 136: Xutong Ren on “Can Prediction of Turn-management Willingness Improve Turn-changing Modeling?” (Full Paper)
- Paper 99: Philippe Blache on “An integrated model for predicting backhannels” (Extended Abstract)
Session 7: Thurs., Oct. 1, 17:00 GMT
Session Chair: Candy Sidner
Topic: Applications
- Paper 44: Han Duy Phan on “Feedback Strategies for Embodied Agents to Enhance Sign Language Vocabulary Learning” (Full Paper)
- Paper 102: Nancie Gunson on “It’s Good to Chat? Evaluation and Design Guidelines for Combining Open-Domain Social Conversation with Task-Based Dialogue in Intelligent Buildings” (Full Paper)
- Paper 113: Nilay Yalcin on “Social Prescribing Across the Lifespan with Virtual Humans” (Extended Abstract)
Session 8: Fri., Oct. 2, 13:00 GMT
Session Chair: Anna Esposito
Topic: Evaluation Methods and Studies
- Paper 16: Jonathan Ehret on “Evaluating the Influence of Phoneme-Dependent Dynamic Speaker Directivity of Embodied Conversational Agents’ Speech” (Full Paper)
- Paper 98: Sofia Petisca on “The effect of a robotic agent on dishonest behavior” (Full Paper)
- Paper 47: Siska Fitrianie on “The 19 Unifying Questionnaire Constructs of Artificial Social Agents: An IVA Community Analysis” (Full Paper)
Session 9: Fri., Oct. 2, 17:00 GMT
Session Chair: Jonathan Gratch
- Paper 128: Dan Feng on “An Improvisational Approach to Acquire Social Interactions” (Full Paper)
- Paper 140: James Pustejovsky on “Embodied Human-Computer Interactions through Situated Grounding” (Extended Abstract)
Session 10: Mon., Oct. 5, 13:00 GMT
Session Chair: Hendrik Buschmeier
- Paper 132: Clara Strathmann on ““She talks to me as if she were alive”: Assessing the social reactions and perceptions of children toward voice assistants and their appraisal of the appropriateness of these reactions" (Full Paper)
- Paper 82: Manuel Guimarães on “The Impact of Virtual Reality in the Social Presence of a Virtual Agent” (Full Paper)
- Paper 77: Florian Pecune on “A framework to co-optimize task and social dialogue policies using Reinforcement Learning” (Full Paper)
Session 11: Mon., Oct. 5, 17:00 GMT
Session Chair: Jonathan Gratch
- Paper 34: Ning Wang on “The Design of Charismatic Behaviors for Virtual Humans” (Full Paper)
- Paper 55: Simon Alexanderson on “Generating coherent spontaneous speech and gesture from text” (Extended Abstract)
- Paper 83: Arno Hartholt on “Introducing Canvas: Combining Nonverbal Behavior Generation with User-Generated Content to Rapidly Create Educational Videos” (Extended Abstract)
Session 12: Tues., Oct. 6, 17:00 GMT
Session Chair: Joost Broekens
- Paper 151: Stefan Olafsson on “Motivating Health Behavior Change with Humorous Virtual Agents” (Full Paper)
- Paper 101: Andrea Bönsch on “The Impact of a Virtual Agent’s Non-Verbal Emotional Expression on a User’s Personal Space Preferences” (Full Paper)
- Paper 13: Andrea Bönsch on “Inferring a User’s Intent on Joining or Passing by Social Groups” (Full Paper)
Session 13: Tues., Oct. 6, 21:00 GMT
Session Chair: Ruth Aylett
Topic: Agent Design and Modeling
- Paper 131: Samiha Samrose on “Mitigating Boredom Using An Empathetic Conversational Agent” (Full Paper)
- Paper 32: Johnathan Mell on “Varied Magnitude Favor Exchange in Human-Agent Negotiation” (Full Paper)
- Paper 10: Matthew Law on “Design Intention Inference for Virtual Co-Design Agents” (Full Paper)
Session 14: Wed., Oct. 7, 09:00 GMT
Session Chair: Hendrik Buschmeier
Topic: Multimodal Interaction
- Paper 97: Nils Axelsson on “Using knowledge graphs and behaviour trees for feedback-aware presentation agents” (Full Paper)
- Paper 157: Sahba Zojaji on “Influence of virtual agent politeness behaviors on how users join small conversational groups” (Full Paper)
- Paper 145: Patrik Jonell on “Let’s face it: Probabilistic multi-modal interlocutor-aware generation of facial gestures in dyadic settings” (Full Paper)
Session 15: Wed., Oct. 7, 13:00 GMT
Session Chair: Mathieu Chollet
Topic: Applications
- Paper 29: Ananth Shreekumar on “Incorporating Autonomous Bargaining Capabilities into E-Commerce Systems” (Full Paper)
- Paper 156: Heng Yao on “Toward Automated Evaluation of Empathetic Responses in Virtual Human Interaction Systems for Mental Health ScenariosToward Automated Evaluation of Empathetic Responses in Virtual Human Interaction Systems for Mental Health Scenarios” (Full Paper)
- Paper 17: Karl Daher on “Empathic Chatbot Response for Medical Assistance” (Extended Abstract)
Session 16: Thurs., Oct. 8, 13:00 GMT
Session Chair: Aline Normoyle
Topic: Applications
- Paper 120: Mohammad Rafayet Ali on “A Virtual Conversational Agent for Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Experimental Results and Design Lessons” (Full Paper)
- Paper 130: Yvain Tisserand on “Real-time simulation of virtual humans’ emotional facial expressions, harnessing autonomic physiological and musculoskeletal control” (Full Paper)
- Paper 105: Luisa Pätzold on “Gone But Not Forgotten: Evaluating Performance and Scalability of Real-Time Mesoscopic Agents” (Extended Abstract)
Session 17: Thurs., Oct. 8, 17:00 GMT
Session Chair: Ruth Aylett
- Paper 46: Pieter Blomsma on “Intrapersonal dependencies in multimodal behavior” (Full Paper)
- Paper 107: Pieter Blomsma on “Spontaneous Facial Behavior Revolves Around Neutral Facial Displays” (Full Paper)
- Paper 103: Guy Laban on “The Effect of Personalization Techniques in Users’ Perceptions of Conversational Recommender Systems” (Extended Abstract)
Session 18: Thurs., Oct. 8, 21:00 GMT
Session Chair: Candy Sidner
Topic: Agent Design and Modeling
- Paper 78: Guido M. Linders on “Zipf’s Law in Human-Machine Dialog” (Full Paper)
- Paper 85: Bahar Irfan on “Dynamic Emotional Language Adaptation in Multiparty Interactions with Agents” (Full Paper)
- Paper 138: Ryo Ishii on “Impact of Personality on Nonverbal Behavior Generation” (Full Paper)
Session 19: Fri., Oct. 9, 13:00 GMT
Session Chair: Hannes Hogni Vilhjalmsson
Topic: Agent Design and Modeling
- Paper 42: Masamune Kawasaki on “Assessing Users’ Mental Status from their Journaling Behavior through Chatbots” (Full Paper)
- Paper 35: Maurizio Mancini on “Go with the Flow: Reinforcement Learning in Turn-based Battle Video Games” (Full Paper)
- Paper 90: Ylva Ferstl on “Understanding the Predictability of Gesture Parameters from Speech and Their Perceptual Importance” (Full Paper)
Session 20: Fri., Oct. 9, 17:00 GMT
Session Chair: Anna Esposito
Topic: Agent Design and Modeling, Applications
- Paper 71: Teresa O’Leary on “Community-Based Cultural Tailoring of Virtual Agents” (Full Paper)
- Paper 5: Delphine Potdevin on “An intimate virtual counselor for a better user experience” (Extended Abstract)
- Paper 150: Jiayu Zhan on “A Generative Model of Cultural Face Attractiveness” (Extended Abstract)