IVA 2020 Schedule
Here are The IVA’20 ACM Proceedings. (“Article No.” is the number of the paper in the proceedings)
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Session 1: Tues., Oct. 20, 08:00 GMT
Session chair: Hannes VilhjálmssonThe 19 Unifying Questionnaire Constructs of Artificial Social Agents: An IVA Community Analysis (Article No.: 21, Full Paper) [Nominated for Best Paper]
Siska Fitrianie, Merijn Bruijnes, Deborah Richards, Andrea Bönsch and Willem-Paul Brinkman
Assessing Users’ Mental Status from their Journaling Behavior through Chatbots (Article No.: 32, Full Paper)
Masamune Kawasaki, Naomi Yamashita, Yi-Chieh Lee and Kayoko Nohara
Gone But Not Forgotten: Evaluating Performance and Scalability of Real-Time Mesoscopic Agents (Article No.: 50, Extended Abstract)
Sven Seele, Luisa Pätzold and Rainer Herpers
Salons 1: Tues., Oct. 20, 09:00 GMT
Antonia Hamilton: Junior-Senior
Rachael Jack: Junior-Senior
Hannes Vilhjálmsson: Game Engine Tools
Session 2: Tues., Oct. 20, 10:00 GMT
Session chair: Anna EspositoIntrapersonal dependencies in multimodal behavior (Article No.: 7, Full Paper)
Pieter Blomsma, Guido Linders, Julija Vaitonyte and Max Louwerse
Inferring a User’s Intent on Joining or Passing by Social Groups (Article No.: 10, Full Paper)
Andrea Bönsch, Alexander R. Bluhm, Jonathan Ehret and Torsten W. Kuhlen
Substance Use Screening using Virtual Agents: Towards Automated Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referralto Treatment (SBIRT) (Article No.: 5, Full Paper)
Timothy Bickmore, Amy Rubin and Steven Simon
Session 3: Tues., Oct. 20, 12:00 GMT
Session chair: Hendrik Buschmeier“Wow, You Are Terrible at This!” – An Intercultural Study on Virtual Agents Giving Mixed Feedback (Article No.: 55, Full Paper)
Isaac Wang, Lea Buchweitz, Jesse Smith, Lara-Sophie Bornholdt, Jonas Grund, Jaime Ruiz and Oliver Korn
Towards Understanding the Effect of Voice on Human-Agent Negotiation (Article No.: 38, Full Paper)
Joanna Mania, Fieke Miedema, Rose Browne, Joost Broekens and Catharine Oertel
The Effect of Personalization Techniques in Users’ Perceptions of Conversational Recommender Systems (Article No.: 34, Extended Abstract)
Guy Laban and Theo Araujo
Posters 1: Tues., Oct. 20, 13:00 GMT
Guy Laban: The Effect of Personalization Techniques in Users’ Perceptions of Conversational Recommender Systems (Location: B3)
Willem-Paul Brinkman: The 19 Unifying Questionnaire Constructs of Artificial Social Agents: An IVA Community Analysis (Location: C1)
Andrea Bönsch, Jonathan Ehret: Inferring a User’s Intent on Joining or Passing by Social Groups (Location: D1)
Joanna Mania: Towards Understanding the Effect of Voice on Human-Agent Negotiation (Location: E3)
Session 4: Tues., Oct. 20, 14:00 GMT
Session chair: Anna EspositoThe Impact of Implicit Information Exchange in Human-agent Negotiations (Article No.: 22, Full Paper)
Jonathan Gratch and Emmanuel Johnson
A framework to co-optimize task and social dialogue policies using Reinforcement Learning (Article No.: 45, Full Paper) [Nominated for Best Paper]
Florian Pecune and Stacy Marsella
Building Culturally-Valid Dynamic Facial Expressions for a Conversational Virtual Agent Using Human Perception (Article No.: 14, Extended Abstract)
Chaona Chen, Oliver G. B. Garrod, Robin A. A. Ince, Mary Ellen Foster, Philippe G. Schyns and Rachael E. Jack
Invited Panel: Tues., Oct. 20, 16:00 GMT
Emotive Matter: Affective Computing from Fashion to Architecture
Behnaz Farahi, Ph.D.
Persuasion Machines: Networked Architectures in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Güvenç Özel
Session 5: Tues., Oct. 20, 18:00 GMT
Session chair: Hannes VilhjálmssonInfluence of virtual agent politeness behaviors on how users join small conversational groups (Article No.: 59, Full Paper)
Sahba Zojaji, Christopher Peters and Catherine Pelachaud
Community-Based Cultural Tailoring of Virtual Agents (Article No.: 43, Full Paper)
Teresa O’Leary, Elizabeth Stowell, Everlyne Kimani, Dhaval Parmar, Stefan Olafsson, Jessica Hoffman, Andrea Parker, Michael Paasche-Orlow and Timothy Bickmore
Embodied Human-Computer Interactions through Situated Grounding (Article No.: 48, Extended Abstract)
James Pustejovsky and Nikhil Krishnaswamy
Posters 2: Tues., Oct. 20, 19:00 GMT
Sahba Zojaji: Influence of virtual agent politeness behaviors on how users join small conversational groups (Location: E2)
James Pustejovsky, Nikhil Krishnaswamy: Embodied Human-Computer Interactions through Situated Grounding (Location: E6)
Sean Andrist, Dan Bohus: Platform for Situated Intelligence (Exhibit) (Location: F3)
Session 6: Tues., Oct. 20, 20:00 GMT
Session chair: Candy SidnerAn Improvisational Approach to Acquire Social Interactions (Article No.: 18, Full Paper)
Dan Feng and Stacy Marsella
Go with the Flow: Reinforcement Learning in Turn-based Battle Video Games (Article No.: 44, Full Paper)
Elinga Pagalyte, Maurizio Mancini and Laura Climent
Varied Magnitude Favor Exchange in Human-Agent Negotiation (Article No.: 40, Full Paper)
Johnathan Mell, Gale Lucas and Jonathan Gratch
Session 7: Tues., Oct. 20, 22:00 GMT
Session chair: Hendrik BuschmeierConversational Error Analysis in Human-Agent Interaction (Article No.: 3, Full Paper)
Deepali Aneja, Daniel Mcduff and Mary Czerwinski
Human-in-the-Loop AI for Analysis of Free Response Facial Expression Label Sets (Article No.: 9, Full Paper)
Crystal Butler, Harriet Oster and Julian Togelius
Introducing Canvas: Combining Nonverbal Behavior Generation with User-Generated Content to Rapidly Create Educational Videos (Article No.: 25, Extended Abstract)
Arno Hartholt, Ed Fast, Adam Reilly and Sharon Mozgai
Posters 3: Tues., Oct. 20, 23:00 GMT
Arno Hartholt, Adam Reilly, Ed Fast, Sharon Mozgai: Introducing Canvas: Combining Nonverbal Behavior Generation with User-Generated Content to Rapidly Create Educational Videos (Location: D2)
Salons 2: Tues., Oct. 20, 23:59 GMT
Pedro Sequeira: Using Machine Learning to acquire agent models
Tim Bickmore: Agents in Healthcare
Candy Sidner: Dialog Modeling
Session 8: Wed., Oct. 21, 08:00 GMT
Session chair: Jonas NölleLet’s face it: Probabilistic multi-modal interlocutor-aware generation of facial gestures in dyadic settings (Article No.: 31, Full Paper) [Nominated for Best Paper]
Patrik Jonell, Taras Kucherenko, Gustav Eje Henter and Jonas Beskow
“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 (Article No.: 52, Full Paper)
Clara Strathmann, Nicole Krämer and Jessica Szczuka
Motivating Health Behavior Change with Humorous Virtual Agents (Article No.: 42, Full Paper)
Stefan Olafsson, Teresa O’Leary and Timothy Bickmore
Salons 3: Wed., Oct. 21, 09:00 GMT
Birgitte Krenn: Collaborative Robots as Communicative AgentsRachael Jack: Junior-Senior
Hannes Vilhjálmsson: AR/VR, Is it useful yet?
Session 9: Wed., Oct. 21, 10:00 GMT
Session chair: Antonia HamiltonCan we trust online crowdworkers? Comparing online and offline participants in a preference test of virtual agents (Article No.: 30, Full Paper)
Patrik Jonell, Taras Kucherenko, Ilaria Torre and Jonas Beskow
Incorporating Autonomous Bargaining Capabilities into E-Commerce Systems (Article No.: 51, Full Paper)
Ananth Shreekumar, Biswesh Mohapatra and Shrisha Rao
Two Dimensional Sign Language Agent (Article No.: 39, Extended Abstract)
Matthew McConnell and Mary Ellen Foster
Session 10: Wed., Oct. 21, 12:00 GMT
Session chair: Stacy MarsellaAn integrated model for predicting backhannels (Article No.: 6, Extended Abstract)
Philippe Blache, Massina Abderrahmane, Stéphane Rauzy and Roxane Bertrand
Human-Centric Preference Modeling for Virtual Agents (Article No.: 33, Extended Abstract)
Bart Knijnenburg and Nina Hubig
An intimate virtual counselor for a better user experience (Article No.: 16, Extended Abstract)
Potdevin Delphine, Nicolas Sabouret and Céline Clavel
Posters 4: Wed., Oct. 21, 13:00 GMT
Philippe Blache: An Integrated Model for Predicting Backchannel Feedbacks (Location: A3)
Bart P. Knijnenburg, Nina Hubig: Human-Centric Preference Modeling for Virtual Agents (Location: B5)
Ananth Shreekumar, Biswesh Mohapatra: Incorporating Autonomous Bargaining Capabilities into E-Commerce Systems (Location: B6)
Matthew McConnell: Two Dimensional Sign Language Agent (Location: D3)
Clara Strathmann, Jessica Szczuka, Nicole Krämer: “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 (Location: E1)
Stefan Olafsson: Motivating Health Behavior Change with Humorous Virtual Agents (Location: E7)
Session 11: Wed., Oct. 21, 14:00 GMT
Session chair: Brigitte KrennZipf’s Law in Human-Machine Dialog (Article No.: 36, Full Paper)
Guido M. Linders and Max M. Louwerse
Can Prediction of Turn-management Willingness Improve Turn-changing Modeling? (Article No.: 28, Full Paper)
Ryo Ishii, Xutong Ren, Michal Muszynski and Louis-Philippe Morency
A Virtual Conversational Agent for Teens with Autism SpectrumDisorder: Experimental Results and Design Lessons (Article No.: 2, Full Paper)
Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Seyedeh Zahra Razavi, Raina Langevin, Abdullah AlMamun, Benjamin Kane, Reza Rawassizadeh, Lenhart Schubert and Ehsan Hoque
Invited Talk: Wed., Oct. 21, 16:00 GMT
HRI and HAI: Merging Perspectives from Two Fields
Professor Jodi Forlizzi
Salons 4: Wed., Oct. 21, 17:00 GMT
Justine Cassell: Building Children
Jonathan Gratch: Affective Computing
Catherine Pelachaud: Junior-Senior
Session 12: Wed., Oct. 21, 18:00 GMT
Session chair: Jonathan GratchDynamic Emotional Language Adaptation in Multiparty Interactions with Agents (Article No.: 27, Full Paper)
Bahar Irfan, Anika Narayanan and James Kennedy
A Generative Model of Cultural Face Attractiveness (Article No.: 58, Extended Abstract)
Jiayu Zhan, Meng Liu, Oliver G. B. Garrod, Rachael E. Jack and Philippe G. Schyns
Social Prescribing Across the Lifespan with Virtual Humans (Article No.: 56, Extended Abstract)
Özge Nilay Yalçın, Sylvain Moreno and Steve Dipaola
Posters 5: Wed., Oct. 21, 19:00 GMT
Mohammad Rafayet Ali: Virtual Conversational Agent for Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Experimental Results and Design Lessons (Location: B4)
Xutong Ren, Ryo Ishii: Can Prediction of Turn-management Willingness Improve Turn-changing Modeling? (Location: E9)
Session 13: Wed., Oct. 21, 20:00 GMT
Session chair: Aline NormoyleFeedback Strategies for Embodied Agents to Enhance Sign Language Vocabulary Learning (Article No.: 47, Full Paper)
Han Duy Phan, Kirsten Ellis, Alan Dorin and Patrick Olivier
Impact of Personality on Nonverbal Behavior Generation (Article No.: 29, Full Paper)
Ryo Ishii, Chaitanya Ahuja, Yukiko Nakano and Louis-Philippe Morency
Generating coherent spontaneous speech and gesture from text (Article No.: 1, Extended Abstract)
Simon Alexanderson, Éva Székely, Gustav Henter, Taras Kucherenko and Jonas Beskow
Session 14: Wed., Oct. 21, 22:00 GMT
Session chair: Emily CrossThe Design of Charismatic Behaviors for Virtual Humans (Article No.: 54, Full Paper)
Ning Wang, Luz Pacheco, Chirag Merchant, Kristian Skistad and Aayushi Jethwani
Mitigating Boredom Using An Empathetic Conversational Agent (Article No.: 49, Full Paper)
Samiha Samrose, Kavya Anbarasu, Ajjen Joshi and Taniya Mishra
Gender Stereotypes in Virtual Agents (Article No.: 41, Full Paper)
Procheta Nag and Özge Nilay Yalçın
Posters 6: Wed., Oct. 21, 23:00 GMT
Dr Han Duy Phan: Feedback Strategies for Embodied Agents to Enhance Sign Language Vocabulary Learning (Location: B1)
Procheta Nag, Ӧ. Nilay Yalçın: Gender Stereotypes in Virtual Agents (Location: E8)
Ryo Ishii: Impact of Personality on Nonverbal Behavior Generation (Location: F1)
Samiha Samrose: Mitigating Boredom Using An Empathetic Conversational Agent (Location: F2)
Sean Andrist, Dan Bohus: Platform for Situated Intelligence (Exhibit) (Location: F3)
Salons 5: Wed., Oct. 21, 23:59 GMT
Emily Cross: Psychology In VR/Robotics
Tim Bickmore: Remote Subject Studies
Jonathan Gratch: Casual
Pedro Sequeira: Causal
David Traum: Junior-Senior
Session 15: Thurs., Oct. 22, 08:00 GMT
Session chair: Antonia HamiltonEvaluating the Influence of Phoneme-Dependent Dynamic Speaker Directivity of Embodied Conversational Agents’ Speech (Article No.: 17, Full Paper)
Jonathan Ehret, Jonas Stienen, Chris Brozdowski, Andrea Bönsch, Irene Mittelberg, Michael Vorländer and Torsten W. Kuhlen
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 (Article No.: 20, Full Paper)
Marcel Finkel, Jessica Szczuka and Nicole Kraemer
Building a Generative Space of Facial Expressions of Emotions Using Psychological Data-driven Methods (Article No.: 37, Extended Abstract)
Meng Liu, Yaocong Duan, Robin A. A. Ince, Chaona Chen, Oliver G. B. Garrod, Philippe G. Schyns and Rachael E. Jack
Salons 6: Thurs., Oct. 22, 09:00 GMT
Hannes Vilhjálmsson: Ethics
Rachael Jack: Designing social signals using psychological science
Dirk Heylen: Junior-Senior
Antonia Hamilton: Junior-Senior
Session 16: Thurs., Oct. 22, 10:00 GMT
Session chair: Candy SidnerThe Impact of a Virtual Agent’s Non-Verbal Emotional Expression on a User’s Personal Space Preferences (Article No.: 12, Full Paper)
Andrea Bönsch, Sina Radke, Jonathan Ehret, Ute Habel and Torsten W. Kuhlen
Spontaneous Facial Behavior Revolves Around Neutral Facial Displays (Article No.: 8, Full Paper)
Pieter Blomsma, Julija Vaitonyte, Maryam Alimardani and Max Louwerse
Immersive Sketching to Author Crowd Movements in Real-time (Article No.: 11, Extended Abstract)
Andrea Bönsch, Sebastian J. Barton, Jonathan Ehret and Torsten W. Kuhlen
Towards Understanding the Effect of Voice on Human-Agent Negotiation (Article No.: 38, Full Paper)
Joanna Mania, Fieke Miedema, Rose Browne, Joost Broekens and Catharine Oertel
Session 17: Thurs., Oct. 22, 12:00 GMT
Session chair: Hannes VilhjálmssonThe effect of a robotic agent on dishonest behavior (Article No.: 46, Full Paper)
Sofia Petisca, Ana Paiva and Francisco Esteves
Psychologically Valid Social Face Features for Virtual Agents (Article No.: 26, Extended Abstract)
Laura B. Hensel, Jiayu Zhan, R. Thora Bjornsdottir, Oliver G.B. Garrod, Philippe G. Schyns and Rachael E. Jack
Dynamic Face Movement Texture Enhances the Perceived Realism of Facial Expressions of Emotion (Article No.: 13, Extended Abstract)
Chaona Chen, Oliver G. B. Garrod, Philippe G. Schyns and Rachael E. Jack
Posters 7: Thurs., Oct. 22, 13:00 GMT
Sofia Petisca: The effect of a robotic agent on dishonest behavior (Location: A2)
Jonathan Ehret, Andrea Bönsch: Evaluating the Influence of Phoneme-Dependent Dynamic Speaker Directivity of Embodied Conversational Agents’ Speech (Location: B2)
Andrea Bönsch, Jonathan Ehret: The Impact of a Virtual Agent’s Non-Verbal Emotional Expression on a User’s Personal Space Preferences (Location: C2)
Marcel Finkel, Jessica Szczuka & Nicole Krämer: 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 (Location: E4)
Session 18: Thurs., Oct. 22, 14:00 GMT
Session chair: Jonathan GratchReal-time simulation of virtual humans’ emotional facialexpressions, harnessing autonomic physiological and musculoskeletal control (Article No.: 53, Full Paper)
Yvain Tisserand, Ruth Aylett, Marcello Mortillaro and David Rudrauf
Understanding the Predictability of Gesture Parameters from Speech and Their Perceptual Importance (Article No.: 19, Full Paper)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff and Rachel McDonnell
Empathic Chatbot Response for Medical Assistance (Article No.: 15, Extended Abstract)
Karl Daher, Jacky Casas, Omar Abou Khaled and Elena Mugellini
Invited Talk: Thurs., Oct. 22, 16:00 GMT
Emotions and other contextual signals in early visual cortex and the computational role for AI
Professor Lars Muckli
Salons 7: Thurs., Oct. 22, 17:00 GMT
Michael Neff: Nonverbal Behavior
Alessandro Vinciarelli & Monika Harvey: Social AI
Candy Sidner: Junior
Session 19: Thurs., Oct. 22, 18:00 GMT
Session chair: Aline NormoyleUsing knowledge graphs and behaviour trees for feedback-aware presentation agents (Article No.: 4, Full Paper)
Nils Axelsson and Gabriel Skantze
Design Intention Inference for Virtual Co-Design Agents (Article No.: 35, Full Paper)
Matthew V. Law, Amritansh Kwatra, Nikhil Dhawan, Matthew Einhorn, Amit Rajesh and Guy Hoffman
It’s Good to Chat? Evaluation and Design Guidelines forCombining Open-Domain Social Conversation with Task-Based Dialogue in Intelligent Buildings (Article No.: 24, Full Paper)
Nancie Gunson, Weronika Sieinska, Christopher Walsh, Christian Dondrup and Oliver Lemon
Posters 8: Thurs., Oct. 22, 19:00 GMT
Nils Axelsson: Using Knowledge Graphs and Behaviour Trees for Feedback-Aware Presentation Agents (Location: A1)
Andrea Bönsch, Jonathan Ehret: Immersive Sketching to Author Crowd Movements in Real-time (Location: C3)
Sean Andrist, Dan Bohus: Platform for Situated Intelligence (Exhibit) (Location: F3)
Session 20: Thurs., Oct. 22, 20:00 GMT
Session chair: Emily CrossToward Automated Evaluation of Empathetic Responses in Virtual Human Interaction Systems for Mental Health Scenarios (Article No.: 57, Full Paper)
Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Adriana Foster, Igor Galynker and Benjamin Lok
The Impact of Virtual Reality in the Social Presence of a Virtual Agent (Article No.: 23, Full Paper)
Manuel Guimarães, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos, Rui Prada, Samuel Mascarenhas and Arnav Jhala
Closing Event: Thurs., Oct. 22, 21:00 GMT
Best Paper Award
IVA 2021 Reveal
Concluding Remarks