Accepted Papers
Accepted long papers
Effect of Avatar Facial Expressiveness on Team Collaboration in Virtual Reality – Hugo Le Tarnec, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Olivier Augereau and Pierre De Loor
Who’s next? Integrating Non-Verbal Turn-Taking Cues for Embodied Conversational Agents – Jonathan Ehret, Andrea Bönsch, Patrick Nossol, Cosima A. Ermert, Chinthusa Mohanathasan, Sabine J. Schlittmeier, Janina Fels and Torsten W. Kuhlen
Changing Parent Attitudes Towards HPV Vaccination by Including Adolescents in Multiparty Counseling using Virtual Agents – Ian Steenstra, Prasanth Murali, Rebecca Perkins, Natalie Joseph, Michael Paasche-Orlow and Timothy Bickmore
Fast Friends: Generating Interpersonal Closeness between Humans and Socially Interactive Agents – Tanja Schneeberger, Anna Lea Reinwarth, Robin Wensky, Manuel Silvio Anglet, Patrick Gebhard and Janet Wessler
A Study on the Benefits and Drawbacks of Adaptivity in AI-generated Explanations – Amelie Robrecht, Markus Rothgänger and Stefan Kopp
XAI to Increase the Effectiveness of an Intelligent Pedagogical Agent – John Hostetter, Cristina Conati, Xi Yang, Mark Abdelshiheed, Tiffany Barnes and Min Chi
Evaluating a Model of Pathological Affect based on Pedagogical Situations for a Virtual Patient – Amine Benamara, Jean-Claude Martin, Prigent Elise and Brian Ravenet
Emotional mimicry as a proxy measurement for pro-social indicators of trust, empathy, liking and altruism – Nora Elizabeth Joby and Hiroyuki Umemuro
Prompting for Socially Intelligent Agents with ChatGPT – Ana Antunes, Joana Campos, Manuel Guimarães, Pedro A. Santos and João Dias
Generation of speech and facial animation with controllable articulatory effort for amusing conversational characters – Joakim Gustafson, Éva Székely and Jonas Beskow
Augmented Co-Speech Gesture Generation: Including Form and Meaning Features to Guide Learning-Based Gesture Synthesis – Hendric Voß and Stefan Kopp
Accomodating User Expressivity while Maintaining Safety for a Virtual Alcohol Misuse Counselor – Stefán Ólafsson, Paola Pedrelli, Byron Wallace and Timothy Bickmore
Impact of Multimodal Communication on Persuasiveness and Perceived Politeness of Virtual Agents in Small Groups – Sahba Zojaji, Adam Červeň and Christopher Peters
The Impact of Virtual Human Vocal Personality on Establishing Rapport: A Study on Promoting Mental Wellness Through Extroversion and Vocalics – Andrew Maxim, Mohan Zalake and Benjamin Lok
Alexa, I Do Not Want to Be Patronized! A Qualitative Interview Study to Explore Older Adults’ Attitudes Towards Intelligent Voice Assistants – Aike C. Horstmann, Till Schubert, Lea Lambrich and Clara Strathmann
Socially Interactive Agents as Cobot Avatars: Developing a Model to Support Flow Experiences and Well-Being in the Workplace – Sebastian Beyrodt, Matteo Lavit Nicora, Fabrizio Nunnari, Lara Chehayeb, Pooja Prajod, Tanja Schneeberger, Elisabeth Andre, Matteo Malosio, Patrick Gebhard and Dimitra Tsovaltzi
Conversational Assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment with Virtual Agents – Emily Hurstak, Teresa O’Leary, Stefan Olafsson, Michael Paasche-Orlow, Howard Cabral and Timothy Bickmore
A virtual coach with more or less empathy: impact on older adults’ engagement to exercise – Rachel Chauvin, Brian Ravenet, Céline Clavel and Nicolas Sabouret
Effect of Appearance and Animation Realism on the Perception of Emotionally Expressive Virtual Humans – Nabila Amadou, Kazi Injamamul Haque and Zerrin Yumak
Effects of Agent’s Embodiment in Human-Agent Negotiations – Umut Çakan, Mehmet Onur Keskin and Reyhan Aydogan
Sushi with Einstein: Enhancing Hybrid Live Events with LLM-based Virtual Humans – Alon Shoa, Ramon Oliva, Mel Slater and Doron Friedman
Evaluation of embodied conversational agents designed with ethical principles and personality for cybersecurity ethics training – Muhammad Hassan Ali Bajwa, Deborah Richards and Paul Formosa
Traversing the Pass: Improving the Knowledge Retention of Serious Games Using a Pedagogical Agent – Philipp Krop, Sebastian Oberdörfer and Marc Erich Latoschik
IAVA: Interactive and Adaptive Virtual Agent for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Jieyeon Woo, Michele Grimaldi, Catherine Pelachaud and Catherine Achard
Alexa, What’s Inside of You? A Qualitative Study to Explore Users’ Mental Models of Intelligent Voice Assistants – Aike C. Horstmann, Clara Strathmann, Lea Lambrich and Nicole C. Krämer
The Influence of Avatar Interfaces on Argumentative Dialogues – Annalena Aicher, Klaus Weber, Elisabeth André, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes
Predicting Interaction Quality Aspects Using Level-Based Scores for Conversational Agents – Merle Reimann, Catharine Oertel, Florian Kunneman and Koen Hindriks
Towards Real-time Co-speech Gesture Generation in Online Interaction in Social XR – Niklas Krome and Stefan Kopp
Accepted extendend abstracts
Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum: A Follow-Up Study on the Human-Likeness of an AI Othello Player – Beatrice Biancardi, Enrico Lauletta, Antonio Norelli, Alessandro Panconesi and Maurizio Mancini
Depressive Virtual Agents: Development of a Playful VR Application for the Training of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Students – Linda Graf, Gertraud Gradl-Dietsch and Maic Masuch
Posture Parameters for Personality-Enhanced Virtual Audiences – Jean-Luc Lugrin, Jessica Topel, Yann Glémarec, Birgit Lugrin and Marc Erich Latoschik
Influence of conversational agents’ role and behaviors on narrative experiences – Remi Poivet, Catherine Pelachaud and Malika Auvray
Nonverbal Markers of Empathy in Virtual Healthcare Professionals – Audrey Marcoux, Marie-Hélène Tessier and Philip L. Jackson
Behavioural Adaptation Towards Foreign Virtual Agents in VR – the Impact of Non-Native Speech – David Obremski, Eva Brucker, Paula Friedrich and Birgit Lugrin
The Effects of Avatar Visual Similarity on Antecedents of Self-Awareness for Socially Interactive Agents – Claudio Alves da Silva, Bernhard Hilpert, Leon Christidis, Patrick Gebhard, Fabrizio Nunnari and Dimitra Tsovaltzi
Stop Copying Me: Evaluating Nonverbal Mimicry in Embodied Motivational Agents – Isaac Wang, Rodrigo Calvo, Heting Wang and Jaime Ruiz
How Emoji and Explanations Influence Adherence to AI Recommendations – Samuel Kernan Freire, Ji-Youn Jung, Chaofan Wang, Evangelos Niforatos and Alessandro Bozzon
How far in ahead can model predict nonverbal behavior from speech and text? – Ryo Ishii, Akira Morikawa, Shinichiro Eitoku, Atsushi Fukayama and Takao Nakamura
Toward a human-like sound perception for reactive virtual agents – Gauthier Couzon, Audrey Pichard, Eliott Zimmermann and Pierre Raimbaud
Where Do They Go? Overhearing Conversing Pedestrian Groups during Scene Exploration – Andrea Bönsch, Till Sittart, Jonathan Ehret and Torsten W. Kuhlen
Generating Social Contexts with Virtual Agents to Foster Interruptibility Research for Socially Interactive Agents – Elisabeth Ganal and Birgit Lugrin
A System for Building Wizard-of-Oz-based Interactive Scenarios with Mixed-Cultural Intelligent Virtual Agents – David Obremski and Birgit Lugrin
A Minecraft Based Simulated Task Environment for Human AI Teaming – Ashish Amresh, Nancy Cooke, Adam Fouse, Rahul Salla and Edward Weiss
Whom Do You Follow? Pedestrian Flows Constraining the User’s Navigation during Scene Exploration – Andrea Bönsch, Lukas B. Zimmermann, Jonathan Ehret and Torsten W. Kuhlen
Now or When? Interruption timing prediction in dyadic interaction – Liu Yang, Catherine Achard and Catherine Pelachaud
Augmenting virtual characters with multimodal irony – Thomas Kiderle, Hannes Ritschel, Silvan Mertes and Elisabeth André
Towards Virtual Audience Simulation For Speech Therapy – Yann Glémarec, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Amelie Hörmann, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Cédric Buche, Marc Erich Latoschik and Norina Lauer
Towards an Adaptive Pedagogical Agent in a Reading Intervention Using Reinforcement Learning – Anna Riedmann and Birgit Lugrin
Towards Realistic Sign Language Animations – Inês Lacerda, Hugo Nicolau and Luísa Coheur
TAI: Triad Affect Interpretation Method to Understand Emotional Expression – Taíssa Ribeiro, Ricardo Rodrigues and Carlos Martinho
Prototypes of a Migrating Receptionist in Physical and Virtual Space – Emma Mainza Chilufya, Mattias Arvola and Tom Ziemke
The Effect of Rapport on Delegation to Virtual Agents – Ningyuan Sun, Jean Botev and Pieter Simoens
MHeVA – Mental Health Virtual Assistant for High Education Students – André Antunes, Manuel Guimarães, Pedro A. Santos, Joao Dias, Carla Boura and Joana Campos
Improving multiparty interactions through individual and group-related emotional feedbacks – Sandratra Rasendrasoa, Julien Saunier, Alexandre Pauchet and Sébastien Adam
Using Interactive Virtual Agents to Represent Non-prototypical Facial Configurations – Marie-Hélène Tessier, Audrey Marcoux and Philip L. Jackson
Prediction of Various Backchannel Utterances Based on Multimodal Information – Toshiki Onishi, Naoki Azuma, Shunichi Kinoshita, Ryo Ishii, Atsushi Fukayama, Takao Nakamura and Akihiro Miyata
Who Said That? Selecting the Correct Persona from Conversational Text – Rui Ribeiro, Joao P. Carvalho and Luísa Coheur
A Study of Prediction of Listener’s Comprehension Based on Multimodal Information – Shunichi Kinoshita, Toshiki Onishi, Naoki Azuma, Ryo Ishii, Atsushi Fukayama, Takao Nakamura and Akihiro Miyata
Intent and Entity Detection with Data Augmentation for a Mental Health Virtual Assistant Chatbot – Ali Zamani, Matthew Reeson, Tyler Marshall, Mohamad Ali Gharaat, Alex Lambe Foster, Jasmine Noble and Osmar R. Zaiane
Portraying Emotions on Digital Humans through Emotive Colour Maps – Agathe Boudry, Joey Relouw, Alexander van Buggenum, Carlos Pereira Santos and Igor Mayer
Virtual Reality Applications for Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction: A Gesture Recognition Perspective – Sandeep Reddy Sabbella, Sara Kaszuba, Francesco Leotta and Daniele Nardi
CUBE: Conversational User-Interface-Based Embodiment – Carlos Pereira Santos, Phil de Groot, Jens Hagen, Agathe Boudry and Igor Mayer
Accepted demos
The Affective Bar Piano – Hannes Ritschel, Silvan Mertes, Florian Lingenfelser, Thomas Kiderle and Elisabeth André
DIVIS: Digital Interactive Victim Intake Simulator – Alesia Gainer, David Nelson, David Cobbins and David Traum
Conducting Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with an Adaptive Virtual Agent – Jieyeon Woo, Michele Grimaldi, Catherine Pelachaud and Catherine Achard
The Virtual Maze: a Tool for Measuring Trust towards Virtual Humans – Jinghuai Lin, Johrine Cronjé, Ivo Käthner, Paul Pauli and Marc Erich Latoschik
Evaluation of embodied conversational agents designed with ethical principles and personality for cybersecurity ethics training – Muhammad Hassan Ali Bajwa
Posture Parameters for Personality-Enhanced Virtual Audiences – Jean-Luc Lugrin, Jessica Topel, Yann Glémarec, Birgit Lugrin and Marc Erich Latoschik
Towards Virtual Audience Simulation For Speech Therapy – Yann Glémarec, Amelie Hörmann, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Norina Lauer, Cédric Buche, Marc Erich Latoschik
A Minecraft Based Simulated Task Environment for Human AI Teaming – Amresh, Cooke, Fouse, Salla and Weiss
Sushi with Einstein: Enhancing Hybrid Live Events with Virtual Humans – Alon Shoa, Ramon Oliva, Doron Friedman and Mel Slater
Towards Realistic Sign Language Animations – Inês Lacerda, Hugo Nicolau and Luísa Coheur
Towards Real-time Co-speech Gesture Generation in Online Interaction in Social XR – Niklas Krome
The Effects of Avatar Visual Similarity on Antecedents of Self-Awareness for Socially Interactive Agents – Claudio Alves da Silva, Bernhard Hilpert, Leon Christidis, Chirag Bhuvaneshwara, Patrick Gebhard, Fabrizio Nunnari and Dimitra Tsovaltzi