Paper Sessions

Paper Sessions

All paper oral presentations consist of 15 minute presentation + 5 minute Q&A. All sessions will be in the Botanic room.

Gesture (Monday, Sept 16th 11:00-12:00)

Session chair: Jonas Beskow

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

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

Modifying Gesture Style with Impression Words. Jie Zeng, Yoshiki Takahashi, Yukiko Nakano, Tatsuya Sakato and Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson


LLMs (Monday, Sept 16th 13:30-15:10)

Session chair: Stefán Ólafsson

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

Focus Agent: LLM-Powered Virtual Focus Group. Taiyu Zhang, Xuesong Zhang, Robbe Cools and Adalberto Simeone

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

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

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


Health (Monday, Sept 16th 15:30-17:10)

Session chair: Patrick Gebhard

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

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

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

BEST PAPER AWARD: Virtual Agents for Alcohol Use Counseling: Exploring LLM-Powered Motivational Interviewing. Ian Steenstra, Farnaz Nouraei, Mehdi Arjmand and Timothy Bickmore

Investigating User Perceptions of Collaborative Agenda Setting in Virtual Health Counseling Session. Mina Fallah, Farnaz Nouraei, Hye Sun Yun and Timothy Bickmore


Dialogue (Tuesday, Sept 17th 11:00-12:00)

Session chair: Stefan Kopp

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

Memory with Meaning: Enabling Value-Centric Long-Term Human-Agent Dialogue. Tom Saveur, Agnes Axelsson, Franziska Burger, Mark Neerincx and Catharine Oertel

Empathic Grounding – Explorations using Multimodal Interaction and Large Language Models with Conversational Agents. Mehdi Arjmand, Farnaz Nouraei, Ian Steenstra and Timothy Bickmore


Social Behavior & Perception (Tuesday, Sept 17th 13:30-15:10)

Session chair: Rachael Jack

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

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

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

Exploring Theory of Mind in Large Language Models through Multimodal Negotiation. Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Tobias Thejll-Madsen and Stacy Marsella


Trust (Wednesday, Sept 18th 11:00-12:00)

Session chair: Beatrice Biancardi

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

Conformity and Trust in Multi-party vs. Individual Human-Robot Interaction. Alireza M. Kamelabad, Olov Engwall and Gabriel Skantze

Pitfalls of Embodiment in Human-Agent Experiment Design. James Hale, Lindsey Schweitzer and Jonathan Gratch


Applications (Wednesday, Sept 18th 13:30-15:30)

Session chair: Hannes Vilhjálmsson

Viv: A Stanislavskian Performance System for Nonplayer Characters through Defeasible Logic. Kyle Mitchell and Joshua McCoy

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

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

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

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