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Detailed Program<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

All paper oral presentations consist of 15 minute presentation + 3 minute Q&A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday, Sep 16<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Workshops<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Tutorial<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Doctoral Consortium<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Wednesday, Sep 17<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Opening (09:00-09:30)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Keynote 1 \u2013 Ginevra Castellano<\/a> (09:30-10:30)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

From Human-Like to Human-Centric Robots: What Type of Alignment to Humans Do We Need?<\/strong> (Room G001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 1 – LLMs (11:00-12:30)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Session Chair: Brian Ravenet<\/strong> (Room G001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Joint Personality-Emotion Framework for Personality-Consistent Conversational Agents, Nikola Kovacevic, Christian Holz, Markus Gross and Rafael Wampfler<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evaluating Theory-of-Mind in Large Language Models Through Opponent Modeling, Ahmet Emre Kuru, An\u0131l Do\u011fru, Merve Do\u011fan and Reyhan Aydo\u011fan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Controlled Yet Natural: A Hybrid BDI-LLM Conversational Agent for Child Helpline Training, Mohammed Al Owayyed, Adarsh Denga and Willem-Paul Brinkman<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can LLMs Generate Behaviors for Embodied Virtual Agents Based on Personality Traits?, Bin Han, Deuksin Kwon, Spencer Lin, Kaleen Shrestha and Jonathan Gratch<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 2 –<\/strong> Interaction & Art (14:00-15:30)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Session chair: <\/strong>Willem-Paul Brinkman<\/strong> (Room G001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My AI is My (Virtual) Friend: The Effects of Anthropomorphic Design Cues in Human-Chatbot Interactions, Nicole Kr\u00e4mer, Tristan K\u00fchn and Aike Horstmann<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greta 2.0: Social Interactive Agent system, optimized for neural network integration, Takeshi Saga, Lucie Galland, Nezih Younsi and Catherine Pelachaud<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Double Jeopardy? \u2013 An Investigation of the Cumulative Disadvantage of Intersectional Bias in Virtual Reality, Ohenewa Bediako Akuffo and Birgit Lugrin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who Am I Talking To? Critical Reflections on Socially Interactive Agents in Current Media Art, Maja Stark, Dagmar Sch\u00fcrrer and Andrea Knaut<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posters and Scientific Demos (16:00-17:30)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

(Room G007\/G008)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type<\/td>Authors<\/td>Title<\/td>ID \/ Booth<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Marian McDonnell and Niamh Fahy<\/td>Exploring the Impact of Gendered Virtual Pedagogical Agents on Women’s Emotional Responses and Perceptions of Agent Effectiveness<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Bernardo Marques, Andr\u00e9 Santos, Samuel Silva, F\u00e1bio Barros, Paulo Dias and Beatriz Sousa-Santos<\/td>Annotate, Repeat, Succeed: Influence of Agent Representation on Reusable Augmented Reality Instructions for Remote Assistance<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Ian Steenstra and Timothy Bickmore<\/td>A Risk Taxonomy for Evaluating AI-Powered Psychotherapy Virtual Agents<\/td>24<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Monique Dittrich, Seunghui Ko and Tobias Rieger<\/td>Impact of Voice Assistants\u2019 Conversational Style on Cognitive Driver Distraction<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Shashank Ahire<\/td>Designing for Inclusion: Key Considerations for Voice Interfaces for Emergent Users<\/td>20<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Daksitha Withanage, Florian Lingenfelser, Johanna Kuch,
Otto Grothe, Ruben Schlagowski, Elisabeth Andr\u00e9 and Silvan Mertes<\/td>		VoiceX as a Design Tool for Virtual Agents’ Voices<\/td>7<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Annika Silvervarg<\/td>Body Types\u2019 Effects on Perception of Virtual Agents\u2019 Personalities<\/td>17<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Jacob Sharp and Ulysses Bernardet<\/td>Evaluating Perceived Realism of Micro-Movement Strategies in Artificial Social Agents<\/td>11<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Nevio Kavuza, Hideki Garcia Goo and Khiet Truong<\/td>Do I Sound as Capable as I Look? Impact of Robot Communication Style and Appearance on User Perception<\/td>21<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Zimu Cheng, Marco Gillies and Xueni Pan<\/td>Reducing Foreign Language Anxiety in Icebreaker Sessions Using LLM-Controlled Multilingual Virtual Agents in VR<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Mina Ameli, Tanja Schneeberger, Janet Wessler, Michael
Dietz, Elisabeth Andr\u00e9 and Patrick Gebhard<\/td>		SIA-Lab: A Platform for Exploring Assistive and Supportive Socially Interactive Agents<\/td>27<\/td><\/tr>
Doctoral Consortium<\/td>Sagar Ashok Vankit<\/td>A Cohesive Research Program on Multimodal Conversations with Embodied Agents in 2D and VR Platforms<\/td>16<\/td><\/tr>
Doctoral Consortium<\/td>Natali Chavez<\/td>Emotion-Driven Virtual Actors: EEG and Multimodal Data from Live Actor Performances<\/td>10<\/td><\/tr>
Doctoral Consortium<\/td>Leonard Block Santos<\/td>Social Roles of Digital GenAI Assistants<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Doctoral Consortium<\/td>Oliver Chojnowski<\/td>Nonverbal Behavior Generation for Socially Interactive Agents<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr>
Doctoral Consortium<\/td>Lisa Gottshalk<\/td>A Cognitive-Computational Model for Multimodal Creativity in Speech-Gesture Production<\/td>26<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Demo<\/td>Konstantin W. K\u00fchlem, Jonathan Ehret, Torsten W. Kuhlen and Andrea B\u00f6nsch<\/td>A Latency-Optimized LLM-based Multimodal Dialogue System for Embodied Conversational Agents in VR<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Demo<\/td>Nick van Apeldoorn, Niels Voskens and Dennis K\u00fcster<\/td>Expressive Agents in Psychology Research: A Study on Nuanced Emotional Signaling with Dynamic Tears<\/td>29<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Demo<\/td>Arno Hartholt, Ed Fast, Kevin Kim, Andrew Leeds, Edwin
Sookiassian and Sharon Mozgai<\/td>		Multi-Platform Intelligent Agents with the Virtual Human Toolkit<\/td>32<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Artistic Demos (16:00-17:30)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

(Room H006)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type<\/td>Authors<\/td>Title<\/td>ID \/ Booth<\/td><\/tr>
Artistic Demo<\/td>Andrea Familari<\/td>RELATE – Talk With Me<\/td>35<\/td><\/tr>
Artistic Demo<\/td>Nadja Verena Marcin<\/td>#SOPHYGRAY \u2013 A Feminist Voice Bot<\/td>34<\/td><\/tr>
Artistic Demo<\/td>Michael Wallinger<\/td>ITERATIVE BODY SYNTHESIS<\/td>33<\/td><\/tr>
Artistic Demo<\/td>Chantal Pisarzowski<\/td>n\u22601<\/td>36<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thursday, Sep 18<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Keynote 2 \u2013 Michael Wallinger<\/a> (9:30-10:30)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Algorithmic Gaze and Hyper-Embodiment:\u00a0Reverse Engineering Algorithmically Reinforced Body Representations in Social Media<\/strong> (Room G001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 3 – Motion (11:00-12:30)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Session chair: Catherine Pelachaud<\/strong> (Room G001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perception of Virtual Audiences: Influence of Gender and Nonverbal Behavior, Sarah Saufnay and Michael Schyns<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multimodal Social Signal Processing for Real-time Cohesion Estimation in Hybrid Groups, Mathilde Sassier-Roublin, Julien Saunier and Alexandre Pauchet<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which way do I go? Synthetic Visual Attention Guiding Agents Through Dynamic Environments, Julia Melgare, Rubens Montanha and Soraia Raupp Musse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Real-Time Inverse Kinematics for Generating Multi-Constrained Movements of Virtual Human Characters, Hendric Vo\u00df and Stefan Kopp<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 4 – Dialogue (14:00-15:30)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Session chair: Timothy Bickmore<\/strong> (Room G001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BEE: Belief-Value-Aligned, Explainable, and Extensible Cognitive Framework for Conversational Social Agents, Chen Yang, Markus Gross and Rafael Wampfler<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collaboration Under Uncertainty: Perspective Asymmetry and Reference Production of Homophone Objects in Human-Agent Collaborative Communication, Paola R. Pe\u00f1a and Benjamin R. Cowan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inceptor: Automated Generation of Social Scenarios in Virtual Reality, Dan Pollak, Ranit Maimon, Maya Shekel, Jonathan Giron and Friedman Doron<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Adaptive Emotion-Aware Strategy for Human-Agent Negotiation: Insights from Real-World Human-Robot Experiments, Mehmet Onur Keskin, Umut \u00c7akan and Reyhan Aydogan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interactive Social Agent Behaviors of Politeness and Compromise in Collaborative Decision-making, Jihyun Jeong and Guy Hoffman<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posters and Scientific Demos (16:00-17:30)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

(Room G007\/G008)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type<\/td>Authors<\/td>Title<\/td>ID \/ Booth<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Jaime Banks, Jianghui Li, Zhixin Li and Caleb T. Carr<\/td>Operationalizing Machine Companionship: Exploring Topics in Discussions of Companion AI<\/td>25<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Thomas Kiderle, Cristina Georgiana Dobre, Jauwairia Nasir, Carlos Gonzales Diaz, Hannes Ritschel, Stina Klein, Silvan Mertes and Elisabeth Andr\u00e9<\/td>Multimodal Generation of Contextualized Jokes for a Real-Time Virtual Character<\/td>12<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Marion Ristorcelli, Elodie Etienne, Micha\u00ebl Schyns, R\u00e9my
Casanova and Magalie Ochs<\/td>		Evaluating Multimodal Behavioral Features for Public Speaking Assessment in Virtual Reality<\/td>23<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Alice Delbosc, Nicolas Sabouret, Brian Ravenet, St\u00e9phane
Ayache and Magalie Ochs<\/td>		Automatic Objective Metric for the Optimization of Nonverbal Behavior Generative Models<\/td>14<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Elodie Etienne, Ang\u00e9lique Remacle, Anne-Lise Leclercq and Michael Schyns<\/td>EVE: Emotional Validated Expressions, an Acted Audiovisual Corpus<\/td>18<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Victor Araujo, Gabriel Silva, Catherine Pelachaud, Angelo
Costa and Soraia Musse<\/td>		Evaluating the Gender Label in Virtual Babies Using an Interactive Environment<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Poster<\/td>Gwendal Paton, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Brian Ravenet and
Nathalie Le Bigot<\/td>		Enhancing Narrative Engagement Through Virtual Crowd Modulation in VR Storytelling<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>
Doctoral Consortium<\/td>Charlotte Menard<\/td>Understanding the Therapeutic Alliance with an Embodied Conversational Agent for Mental Health<\/td>8<\/td><\/tr>
Doctoral Consortium<\/td>Ohenewa Akuffo<\/td>Investigating the Effects and Potential of VR Interventions to Reduce Real-World Racial Biases using Intelligent Virtual Agents<\/td>22<\/td><\/tr>
Doctoral Consortium<\/td>Daksitha Don<\/td>How Much Context is Too Much Context? Rethinking Contextual Boundaries for Engagement-Aware Turn-Taking in Embodied Conversational Agents<\/td>19<\/td><\/tr>
Doctoral Consortium<\/td>Zimu Cheng<\/td>Status-aware Conversation Behaviour Generation for Virtual Agents<\/td>6<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Demo<\/td>Neal Shankar and Emmanuel Dorley<\/td>Leveraging LLMs to streamline the process of building Virtual Agent based Career Coaches<\/td>28<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Demo<\/td>Gwendal Paton, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Brian Ravenet and
Nathalie Le Bigot<\/td>		An Experimental Environment for Narrative Cue Evaluation in Virtual Reality<\/td>30<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Demo<\/td>Mina Ameli, Chirag Bhuvaneshwara, Janet Wessler, Michael Dietz, Tanja Schneeberger, Elisabeth Andr\u00e9 and Patrick Gebhard<\/td>CO-PARLEY: A Co-Regulative Socially Interactive Agent for Emotion Regulation Support<\/td>31<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Artistic Demos (16:00-17:30)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

(Room H006)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type<\/td>Authors<\/td>Title<\/td>ID \/ Booth<\/td><\/tr>
Artistic Demo<\/td>Andrea Familari<\/td>RELATE – Talk With Me<\/td>35<\/td><\/tr>
Artistic Demo<\/td>Nadja Verena Marcin<\/td>#SOPHYGRAY \u2013 A Feminist Voice Bot<\/td>34<\/td><\/tr>
Artistic Demo<\/td>Michael Wallinger<\/td>ITERATIVE BODY SYNTHESIS<\/td>33<\/td><\/tr>
Artistic Demo<\/td>Chantal Pisarzowski<\/td>n\u22601<\/td>36<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Friday, Sep 19<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Keynote 3 \u2013 Benjamin Cowan<\/a> (09:30-10:30)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perspective taking, partner modelling and the quest for collaborative conversational agents<\/strong> (Room G001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 5 – Health (11:00-12:30)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Session chair: Florian Pecune<\/strong> (Room G001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using Virtual Agents and LLMs to Generate Tailored Health Education Pamphlets, Mina Fallah, Farnaz Nouraei and Timothy Bickmore<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocal Modulation and Engagement Effects in Virtual Health Assistant-Guided Gratitude Journaling Among Young Adults, Andrew Maxim, Courtny Franco, Roshan Venkatakrishnan and Benjamin Lok<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exploring the Influence of Multiple Virtual Agents for Addressing Barriers to Cancer Clinical Trial Participation, Rashi Ghosh, Christopher You, Roshan Venkatakrishnan and Benjamin Lok<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 6 – Trust (13:00-15:00)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Session chair: Rachel McDonnell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Impact of the Race of Intelligent Virtual Agents on the Trust in AI-Based Recommendations, Annika Rittmann, Susanne Schmidt and Frank Steinicke<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing is Trusting! The Influence of Familiarity on the Perception of Intelligent Virtual Agents, Anastasia Poletaykina, Lucie Kruse and Frank Steinicke<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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