Detailed Program
All paper oral presentations consist of 15 minute presentation + 3 minute Q&A.
Tuesday, Sep 16
Workshops
Tutorial
Doctoral Consortium
Wednesday, Sep 17
Opening (09:00-09:30)
Keynote 1 – Ginevra Castellano (09:30-10:30)
From Human-Like to Human-Centric Robots: What Type of Alignment to Humans Do We Need? (Room G001)
Session 1 – LLMs (11:00-12:30)
Session Chair: Brian Ravenet (Room G001)
A Joint Personality-Emotion Framework for Personality-Consistent Conversational Agents, Nikola Kovacevic, Christian Holz, Markus Gross and Rafael Wampfler
Evaluating Theory-of-Mind in Large Language Models Through Opponent Modeling, Ahmet Emre Kuru, Anıl Doğru, Merve Doğan and Reyhan Aydoğan
SMART-DREAM: To Condition or Not to Condition;A Study on the Impact of LLM Conditioning on Motivational Interview Dialog Virtual Agent, Lucie Galland, Catherine Pelachaud and Florian Pecune
Controlled Yet Natural: A Hybrid BDI-LLM Conversational Agent for Child Helpline Training, Mohammed Al Owayyed, Adarsh Denga and Willem-Paul Brinkman
Can LLMs Generate Behaviors for Embodied Virtual Agents Based on Personality Traits?, Bin Han, Deuksin Kwon, Spencer Lin, Kaleen Shrestha and Jonathan Gratch
Session 2 – Interaction & Art (14:00-15:30)
Session chair: Willem-Paul Brinkman (Room G001)
My AI is My (Virtual) Friend: The Effects of Anthropomorphic Design Cues in Human-Chatbot Interactions, Nicole Krämer, Tristan Kühn and Aike Horstmann
Greta 2.0: Social Interactive Agent system, optimized for neural network integration, Takeshi Saga, Lucie Galland, Nezih Younsi and Catherine Pelachaud
Double Jeopardy? – An Investigation of the Cumulative Disadvantage of Intersectional Bias in Virtual Reality, Ohenewa Bediako Akuffo and Birgit Lugrin
Who Am I Talking To? Critical Reflections on Socially Interactive Agents in Current Media Art, Maja Stark, Dagmar Schürrer and Andrea Knaut
Seeing and Speaking with Culture: How Visitor Profiles Shape Multimodal Interaction in a VR Art Exhibition, Delaram Javdani Rikhtehgar, Shenghui Wang, Stefan Schlobach and Dirk Heylen
Posters and Scientific Demos (16:00-17:30)
(Room G007/G008)
| Type | Authors | Title | ID / Booth |
| Scientific Poster | Marian McDonnell and Niamh Fahy | Exploring the Impact of Gendered Virtual Pedagogical Agents on Women’s Emotional Responses and Perceptions of Agent Effectiveness | 1 |
| Scientific Poster | Bernardo Marques, André Santos, Samuel Silva, Fábio Barros, Paulo Dias and Beatriz Sousa-Santos | Annotate, Repeat, Succeed: Influence of Agent Representation on Reusable Augmented Reality Instructions for Remote Assistance | 15 |
| Scientific Poster | Ian Steenstra and Timothy Bickmore | A Risk Taxonomy for Evaluating AI-Powered Psychotherapy Virtual Agents | 24 |
| Scientific Poster | Monique Dittrich, Seunghui Ko and Tobias Rieger | Impact of Voice Assistants’ Conversational Style on Cognitive Driver Distraction | 9 |
| Scientific Poster | Shashank Ahire | Designing for Inclusion: Key Considerations for Voice Interfaces for Emergent Users | 20 |
| Scientific Poster | Daksitha Withanage, Florian Lingenfelser, Johanna Kuch, Otto Grothe, Ruben Schlagowski, Elisabeth André and Silvan Mertes | VoiceX as a Design Tool for Virtual Agents’ Voices | 7 |
| Scientific Poster | Annika Silvervarg | Body Types’ Effects on Perception of Virtual Agents’ Personalities | 17 |
| Scientific Poster | Jacob Sharp and Ulysses Bernardet | Evaluating Perceived Realism of Micro-Movement Strategies in Artificial Social Agents | 11 |
| Scientific Poster | Nevio Kavuza, Hideki Garcia Goo and Khiet Truong | Do I Sound as Capable as I Look? Impact of Robot Communication Style and Appearance on User Perception | 21 |
| Scientific Poster | Zimu Cheng, Marco Gillies and Xueni Pan | Reducing Foreign Language Anxiety in Icebreaker Sessions Using LLM-Controlled Multilingual Virtual Agents in VR | 5 |
| Scientific Poster | Mina Ameli, Tanja Schneeberger, Janet Wessler, Michael Dietz, Elisabeth André and Patrick Gebhard | SIA-Lab: A Platform for Exploring Assistive and Supportive Socially Interactive Agents | 27 |
| Doctoral Consortium | Sagar Ashok Vankit | A Cohesive Research Program on Multimodal Conversations with Embodied Agents in 2D and VR Platforms | 16 |
| Doctoral Consortium | Natali Chavez | Emotion-Driven Virtual Actors: EEG and Multimodal Data from Live Actor Performances | 10 |
| Doctoral Consortium | Leonard Block Santos | Social Roles of Digital GenAI Assistants | |
| Doctoral Consortium | Oliver Chojnowski | Nonverbal Behavior Generation for Socially Interactive Agents | 2 |
| Doctoral Consortium | Lisa Gottshalk | A Cognitive-Computational Model for Multimodal Creativity in Speech-Gesture Production | 26 |
| Scientific Demo | Konstantin W. Kühlem, Jonathan Ehret, Torsten W. Kuhlen and Andrea Bönsch | A Latency-Optimized LLM-based Multimodal Dialogue System for Embodied Conversational Agents in VR | |
| Scientific Demo | Nick van Apeldoorn, Niels Voskens and Dennis Küster | Expressive Agents in Psychology Research: A Study on Nuanced Emotional Signaling with Dynamic Tears | 29 |
| Scientific Demo | Arno Hartholt, Ed Fast, Kevin Kim, Andrew Leeds, Edwin Sookiassian and Sharon Mozgai | Multi-Platform Intelligent Agents with the Virtual Human Toolkit | 32 |
Artistic Demos (16:00-17:30)
(Room H006)
| Type | Authors | Title | ID / Booth |
| Artistic Demo | Andrea Familari | RELATE – Talk With Me | 35 |
| Artistic Demo | Nadja Verena Marcin | #SOPHYGRAY – A Feminist Voice Bot | 34 |
| Artistic Demo | Michael Wallinger | ITERATIVE BODY SYNTHESIS | 33 |
| Artistic Demo | Chantal Pisarzowski | n≠1 | 36 |
Thursday, Sep 18
Keynote 2 – Michael Wallinger (9:30-10:30)
The Algorithmic Gaze and Hyper-Embodiment: Reverse Engineering Algorithmically Reinforced Body Representations in Social Media (Room G001)
Session 3 – Motion (11:00-12:30)
Session chair: Catherine Pelachaud (Room G001)
Perception of Virtual Audiences: Influence of Gender and Nonverbal Behavior, Sarah Saufnay and Michael Schyns
Multimodal Social Signal Processing for Real-time Cohesion Estimation in Hybrid Groups, Mathilde Sassier-Roublin, Julien Saunier and Alexandre Pauchet
Synthetically Expressive: Evaluating gesture and voice for emotion and empathy in VR and 2D scenarios, Haoyang Du, Kiran Chhatre, Christopher Peters, Brian Keegan, Rachel McDonnell and Cathy Ennis
Which way do I go? Synthetic Visual Attention Guiding Agents Through Dynamic Environments, Julia Melgare, Rubens Montanha and Soraia Raupp Musse
Real-Time Inverse Kinematics for Generating Multi-Constrained Movements of Virtual Human Characters, Hendric Voß and Stefan Kopp
Session 4 – Dialogue (14:00-15:30)
Session chair: Timothy Bickmore (Room G001)
BEE: Belief-Value-Aligned, Explainable, and Extensible Cognitive Framework for Conversational Social Agents, Chen Yang, Markus Gross and Rafael Wampfler
Collaboration Under Uncertainty: Perspective Asymmetry and Reference Production of Homophone Objects in Human-Agent Collaborative Communication, Paola R. Peña and Benjamin R. Cowan
Inceptor: Automated Generation of Social Scenarios in Virtual Reality, Dan Pollak, Ranit Maimon, Maya Shekel, Jonathan Giron and Friedman Doron
An Adaptive Emotion-Aware Strategy for Human-Agent Negotiation: Insights from Real-World Human-Robot Experiments, Mehmet Onur Keskin, Umut Çakan and Reyhan Aydogan
Interactive Social Agent Behaviors of Politeness and Compromise in Collaborative Decision-making, Jihyun Jeong and Guy Hoffman
Posters and Scientific Demos (16:00-17:30)
(Room G007/G008)
| Type | Authors | Title | ID / Booth |
| Scientific Poster | Jaime Banks, Jianghui Li, Zhixin Li and Caleb T. Carr | Operationalizing Machine Companionship: Exploring Topics in Discussions of Companion AI | 25 |
| Scientific Poster | Thomas Kiderle, Cristina Georgiana Dobre, Jauwairia Nasir, Carlos Gonzales Diaz, Hannes Ritschel, Stina Klein, Silvan Mertes and Elisabeth André | Multimodal Generation of Contextualized Jokes for a Real-Time Virtual Character | 12 |
| Scientific Poster | Marion Ristorcelli, Elodie Etienne, Michaël Schyns, Rémy Casanova and Magalie Ochs | Evaluating Multimodal Behavioral Features for Public Speaking Assessment in Virtual Reality | 23 |
| Scientific Poster | Alice Delbosc, Nicolas Sabouret, Brian Ravenet, Stéphane Ayache and Magalie Ochs | Automatic Objective Metric for the Optimization of Nonverbal Behavior Generative Models | 14 |
| Scientific Poster | Elodie Etienne, Angélique Remacle, Anne-Lise Leclercq and Michael Schyns | EVE: Emotional Validated Expressions, an Acted Audiovisual Corpus | 18 |
| Scientific Poster | Victor Araujo, Gabriel Silva, Catherine Pelachaud, Angelo Costa and Soraia Musse | Evaluating the Gender Label in Virtual Babies Using an Interactive Environment | 4 |
| Scientific Poster | Gwendal Paton, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Brian Ravenet and Nathalie Le Bigot | Enhancing Narrative Engagement Through Virtual Crowd Modulation in VR Storytelling | 3 |
| Doctoral Consortium | Charlotte Menard | Understanding the Therapeutic Alliance with an Embodied Conversational Agent for Mental Health | 8 |
| Doctoral Consortium | Ohenewa Akuffo | Investigating the Effects and Potential of VR Interventions to Reduce Real-World Racial Biases using Intelligent Virtual Agents | 22 |
| Doctoral Consortium | Daksitha Don | How Much Context is Too Much Context? Rethinking Contextual Boundaries for Engagement-Aware Turn-Taking in Embodied Conversational Agents | 19 |
| Doctoral Consortium | Zimu Cheng | Status-aware Conversation Behaviour Generation for Virtual Agents | 6 |
| Scientific Demo | Neal Shankar and Emmanuel Dorley | Leveraging LLMs to streamline the process of building Virtual Agent based Career Coaches | 28 |
| Scientific Demo | Gwendal Paton, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Brian Ravenet and Nathalie Le Bigot | An Experimental Environment for Narrative Cue Evaluation in Virtual Reality | 30 |
| Scientific Demo | Mina Ameli, Chirag Bhuvaneshwara, Janet Wessler, Michael Dietz, Tanja Schneeberger, Elisabeth André and Patrick Gebhard | CO-PARLEY: A Co-Regulative Socially Interactive Agent for Emotion Regulation Support | 31 |
Artistic Demos (16:00-17:30)
(Room H006)
| Type | Authors | Title | ID / Booth |
| Artistic Demo | Andrea Familari | RELATE – Talk With Me | 35 |
| Artistic Demo | Nadja Verena Marcin | #SOPHYGRAY – A Feminist Voice Bot | 34 |
| Artistic Demo | Michael Wallinger | ITERATIVE BODY SYNTHESIS | 33 |
| Artistic Demo | Chantal Pisarzowski | n≠1 | 36 |
Friday, Sep 19
Keynote 3 – Benjamin Cowan (09:30-10:30)
Perspective taking, partner modelling and the quest for collaborative conversational agents (Room G001)
Session 5 – Health (11:00-12:30)
Session chair: Florian Pecune (Room G001)
Voice and Choice: Voice Equivalence and Representational Choice in Virtual Health Assistants for Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Black American Adults, Andrew Maxim, Eric Cooks, Janice Krieger and Benjamin Lok
Multimodal Reinforcement in Screen-Based ECA Health Interactions: Effects on Memory Retention, Dietary Attitudes, and Cognitive Load, Sagar Ashok Vankit, Nafisa Sabnam Shama, Deyrel Diaz and Matias Volonte
Using Virtual Agents and LLMs to Generate Tailored Health Education Pamphlets, Mina Fallah, Farnaz Nouraei and Timothy Bickmore
Vocal Modulation and Engagement Effects in Virtual Health Assistant-Guided Gratitude Journaling Among Young Adults, Andrew Maxim, Courtny Franco, Roshan Venkatakrishnan and Benjamin Lok
Exploring the Influence of Multiple Virtual Agents for Addressing Barriers to Cancer Clinical Trial Participation, Rashi Ghosh, Christopher You, Roshan Venkatakrishnan and Benjamin Lok
Session 6 – Trust (13:00-15:00)
Session chair: Rachel McDonnell
Enhancing Trust in Intelligent Virtual Agents: The Role of Acoustic Cues, Lexical Style, and Listener Characteristics in the Perception of Synthesized Speech, Yuwen Yu and Sarah Ita Levitan
How Should Your Artificial Teammate Tell You How Much It Trusts You?, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Elena Dumitrescu, Catholijn Jonker, Razvan Loghin, Sahar Marossi, Elena Uleia and Myrthe Tielman
Judged by a Chatbot? An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Expectancy Violations on Users’ Trust in AI-based Chatbots, Emily Herter and Aike C. Horstmann
The Impact of the Race of Intelligent Virtual Agents on the Trust in AI-Based Recommendations, Annika Rittmann, Susanne Schmidt and Frank Steinicke
Knowing is Trusting! The Influence of Familiarity on the Perception of Intelligent Virtual Agents, Anastasia Poletaykina, Lucie Kruse and Frank Steinicke