Accepted Papers and Demos
Accepted long papers
Let me finish first – The effect of interruption-handling strategy on the perceived personality of a social agent. Ronald Cumbal, Reshmashree Kantharaju, Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann and James Kennedy
GeSTICS: A Multimodal Corpus for Studying Gesture Synthesis in Two-party Interactions with Contextualized Speech. Gaoussou Youssouf Kebe, Mehmet Deniz Birlikci, Auriane Boudin, Ryo Ishii, Jeffrey M. Girard and Louis-Philippe Morency
Focus Agent: LLM-Powered Virtual Focus Group. Taiyu Zhang, Xuesong Zhang, Robbe Cools and Adalberto Simeone
The Case of the Curious Robot: On the Social Viability of Curious Behavior in Non-Human Agents. Kevin Weatherwax, Douglas Dooley, Elin Carstensdottir and Leila Takayama
Virtual agents for studying the effect of emotional feedback on motor learning: a feasibility study. Tal Krasovsky, Michal Kafri, Moshe H. Aharoni and Arik Cheshin
Keeping Users Engaged During Repeated Interviews by a Virtual Agent: Using Large Language Models to Reliably Diversify Questions. Hye Sun Yun, Mehdi Arjmand, Phillip Sherlock, Michael Paasche-Orlow, James Griffith and Timothy Bickmore
Modifying Gesture Style with Impression Words. Jie Zeng, Yoshiki Takahashi, Yukiko Nakano, Tatsuya Sakato and Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson
BEST PAPER AWARD: Virtual Agents for Alcohol Use Counseling: Exploring LLM-Powered Motivational Interviewing. Ian Steenstra, Farnaz Nouraei, Mehdi Arjmand and Timothy Bickmore
A Gaze into Argumentative Chatbots: Exploring the Influence of Challenger Arguments on Reflection and Attention. Klaus Weber, Natalie Hogh, Cristina Conati and Elisabeth Andre
A Systematic Review on the Socio-affective Perception of IVAs’ Multi-modal behaviour. Elodie Etienne, Marion Ristorcelli, Sarah Saufnay, Aurélien Quilez, Rémy Casanova, Michael Schyns and Magalie Ochs
Enhancing Trust towards the Police through Interaction with Virtual Agents – Investigating the Ingroup Effect with Mixed-Cultural Individuals. Birgit Lugrin, Elisabeth Ganal, Maximilian Baumann, Anastasia Fiolka and Tobias Haase
BEST PAPER NOMINEE: An Intelligent Pedagogical Agent for In-The-Wild Interaction in an Open-Ended Learning Environment for Computational Thinking. Rohit Murali, Sébastien Lallé and Cristina Conati
Empathic Grounding – Explorations using Multimodal Interaction and Large Language Models with Conversational Agents. Mehdi Arjmand, Farnaz Nouraei, Ian Steenstra and Timothy Bickmore
BEST PAPER NOMINEE: The Applicability of Using Virtual Social Contexts as Stimuli and Training Material for Social Context Research. Elisabeth Ganal, Anastasia Fiolka, Anika Christen and Birgit Lugrin
Conformity and Trust in Multi-party vs. Individual Human-Robot Interaction. Alireza M. Kamelabad, Olov Engwall and Gabriel Skantze
Exploring the Potential of Virtual Agents in Atrial Fibrillation Management: Insights from a Randomized Trial. Mina Fallah, Timothy Bickmore, Stefan Olafsson, Michael Paasche-Orlow, Andrew Joseph Mrkva and Jared W. Magnani
Pitfalls of Embodiment in Human-Agent Experiment Design. James Hale, Lindsey Schweitzer and Jonathan Gratch
Exploring Theory of Mind in Large Language Models through Multimodal Negotiation. Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Tobias Thejll-Madsen and Stacy Marsella
Effect of a Virtual Agent’s Appearance and Voice on Uncanny Valley and Trust in Human-Agent Collaboration. Maryam Alimardani, Robyn de Roode, Julija Vaitonytė and Max M. Louwerse
Investigating the Impact of Multimodal Feedback on User-Perceived Latency and Immersion with LLM-Powered Socially Interactive Agents in Virtual Reality. Morad Elfleet and Mathieu Chollet
On LLM Wizards: Identifying Large Language Models’ Behaviors for Wizard of Oz Experiments. Jingchao Fang, Nikos Arechiga, Keiichi Namikoshi, Nayeli Bravo, Candice Hogan and David A. Shamma
Accepted extendend abstracts with oral presentation
Building Conversational Agents for Stroke Rehabilitation: An Evaluation of Large Language Models and Retrieval Augmented Generation. Alexandra Retevoi, Giada Devittori, Tobias Kowatsch and Olivier Lambercy
Memory with Meaning: Enabling Value-Centric Long-Term Human-Agent Dialogue. Tom Saveur, Agnes Axelsson, Franziska Burger, Mark Neerincx and Catharine Oertel
2D or not 2D: How Does the Dimensionality of Gesture Representation Affect 3D Co-Speech Gesture Generation?. Téo Guichoux, Laure Soulier, Nicolas Obin and Catherine Pelachaud
Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the acceptability of an Embodied Conversational Agent for insomnia screening. Charlotte Menard, Julien Coelho, Etienne De Sevin, Yannick Levavasseur, Pierre Philip and Florian Pecune
LittleGenius: Co-Designing a GPT-4 Enhanced VR Pedagogical Framework with Teachers for Primary Education. Laduona Dai, Merel M. Jung, Marie Šafář Postma, Janneke van der Loo and Max M. Louwerse
Exploring Influence of Social Anxiety on Embodied Face Perception during Affective Social Interactions in VR. Damla Kuleli, Fred Charles, Liucheng Guo, Laura Vuillier, Chang Hong Liu, Nicola Gregory and Xun He
Viv: A Stanislavskian Performance System for Nonplayer Characters through Defeasible Logic. Kyle Mitchell and Joshua McCoy
Investigating User Perceptions of Collaborative Agenda Setting in Virtual Health Counseling Session. Mina Fallah, Farnaz Nouraei, Hye Sun Yun and Timothy Bickmore
Enhancing Empathic Communication in Healthcare Education Through Virtual Human Interactions: Leveraging Large Language Models for Real-Time Feedback. Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Margeaux Johnson, Roberta Pileggi, Amy Blue, Michael D. Bumbach, Rene Love and Benjamin Lok
Accepted posters
A Computational Study on Sentence-based Next Speaker Prediction in Multiparty Conversations. Meng-Chen Lee, Wu Angela Li and Zhigang Deng
A Study on Integrating Representational Gestures into Automatically Generated Embodied Explanations. Amelie Sophie Robrecht, Hendric Voss, Lisa Gottschalk and Stefan Kopp
Simulating Patient Oral Dialogues: A Study on Naturalness and Coherence of Conditioned Large Language Models. Lucie Galland, Catherine Pelachaud and Florian Pecune
Training Social Skills With a Social Robot: An Experimental Study on the Perception of a Virtual Robot’s Different Training Styles and Roles. Aike Horstmann
German and Dutch Translations of the Artificial-Social-Agent Questionnaire Instrument for Evaluating Human-Agent Interactions. Nele Albers, Andrea Bönsch, Jonathan Ehret, Boleslav A. Khodakov and Willem-Paul Brinkman
Is That True? Toward Real-Time Speech Indicators of Trust in Child-Robot Interaction. Ella Velner, Thomas Beelen, Bob Schadenberg, Roeland Ordelman, Theo Huibers, Khiet P. Truong, and Vanessa Evers
Towards situated behavior generation in virtual agents. Anna Deichler, Simon Alexanderson and Jonas Beskow
Interaction with a Virtual Human Alters Human’s Real-life Social Network Structure. Ming-Cheng Miao, Shu-Ye Chen, Qi Chang, Yi-He Gu, Chen Zhou and Shu-Guang Kuai
Designing Conversational Agents to Empower Active Aging. Stefano Valtolina, Paolo Zanotti and Stefano Mandelli
Empathic Dialog Systems for Patient Intake: Balancing Task-Completion and Emotional Support using RAGs. Minoo Shayaninasab, Maryiam Zahoor and Özge Nilay Yalçın
Towards Asynchronous VR Collaboration with Virtual Agents as Placeholder Users. Sharmistha Bhattacharya
The Problem of Emotional Induction Across Online Subject Populations: A Case Study in Guilt and Anger. Harris Layson, Nusrath Jahan and Johnathan Mell
Aware Intelligent Virtual Agent’s Effect on Social Presence and Empathy of Caregivers. Asif Ahmmed, Erica Butts, Kimia Naeiji, Ladda Thiamwong, Julie Ancis and Salam Daher
Exploring the Impact of Non-Verbal Virtual Agent Behavior on User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues. Annalena Aicher, Yuki Matsuda, Keiichi Yasumoto, Wolfgang Minker, Elisabeth André and Stefan Ultes
A Virtual Agent as a Commensal Companion. Maurizio Mancini, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Gabriele De Lucia and Francesco Maria Longobardi
Case study in choosing a graphical character to support reminiscence therapy for those living with dementia. Matthew Aylett, Katerina Pappa, Mei Yii Lim, Ruth Aylett, Bruce Wilson and Mario Parra
A Holistic Evaluation Methodology for Multi-Party Spoken Conversational Agents. Nancie Gunson, Angus Addlessee, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Marta Romeo, Christian Dondrup and Oliver Lemon
Accepted demos
A Linguistically Motivated Approach to Hybrid Conversational AI with the FANTASIA Plugin
Antonio Origlia, Maria Di Maro
Estuary: A Multimodal Framework For Building Low-Latency Real-Time Socially Interactive Agents
Spencer Lin, Andy Artze, Basem Rizk, Caitlín Sullivan, Scott Fisher, Miru Jun, Sharon Mozgai
OUTCOME Virtual: a tOol for aUTomatically creating virtual Character animatiOns’ from huMan vidEos
Auriane Boudin, Jean-Marie Pergandi, Ivan Derban, Philippe Blache, Alexandre D’Ambra Magalie Ochs
A Cognitive Conversational Agent for Training Child Helpline Volunteers
Mohammed Al Owayyed, Myrthe Tielman, Alex Despan, Willem-Paul Brinkman
Demonstration of the AMPER System for Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease
Bruce W. Wilson, Matthew Aylett, Mei Yii Lim, Mario Parra Rodriguez, Katerina Pappa, Ruth S. Aylett
REVITALISE: viRtual bEhaVioral skIlls TrAining for pubLIc SpEaking
Magalie Ochs, Manon Vessiot, Marion Ristorcelli, Rémy Casanova, Alexandre D’Ambra, Jean-Marie Pergandi
Demo: Integration of LLMs with Virtual Character Embodiment
James Hale, Lindsey Schweitzer, Jonathan Gratch
A virtual agent as a friendly neighbor
Roel Boumans, Tibor Bosse