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Accepted Papers<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Accepted Long Papers<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/strong><\/td>Authors<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Multimodal Reinforcement in Screen-Based ECA Health Interactions: Effects on Memory Retention, Dietary Attitudes, and Cognitive Load<\/td>Sagar Ashok Vankit, Nafisa Sabnam Shama, Deyrel Diaz and Matias Volonte<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Can LLMs Generate Behaviors for Embodied Virtual Agents Based on Personality Traits?<\/td>Bin Han, Deuksin Kwon, Spencer Lin, Kaleen Shrestha and Jonathan Gratch<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Inceptor: Automated Generation of Social Scenarios in Virtual Reality<\/td>Dan Pollak, Ranit Maimon, Maya Shekel, Jonathan Giron and Friedman Doron<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
SMART-DREAM: To Condition or Not to Condition;A Study on the Impact of LLM Conditioning on Motivational Interview Dialog Virtual Agent<\/td>Lucie Galland, Catherine Pelachaud and Florian Pecune<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Exploring the Influence of Multiple Virtual Agents for Addressing Barriers to Cancer Clinical Trial Participation<\/td>Rashi Ghosh, Christopher You, Roshan Venkatakrishnan and Benjamin Lok<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Vocal Modulation and Engagement Effects in Virtual Health Assistant-Guided Gratitude Journaling Among Young Adults<\/td>Andrew Maxim, Courtny Franco, Roshan Venkatakrishnan and Benjamin Lok<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Voice and Choice: Voice Equivalence and Representational Choice in Virtual Health Assistants for Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Black American Adults<\/td>Andrew Maxim, Eric Cooks, Janice Krieger and Benjamin Lok<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Real-Time Inverse Kinematics for Generating Multi-Constrained Movements of Virtual Human Characters<\/td>Hendric Vo\u00df and Stefan Kopp<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
BEE: Belief-Value-Aligned, Explainable, and Extensible Cognitive Framework for Conversational Social Agents<\/td>Chen Yang, Markus Gross and Rafael Wampfler<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Which way do I go? Synthetic Visual Attention Guiding Agents Through Dynamic Environments<\/td>Julia Melgare, Rubens Montanha and Soraia Raupp Musse<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Enhancing Trust in Intelligent Virtual Agents: The Role of Acoustic Cues, Lexical Style, and Listener Characteristics in the Perception of Synthesized Speech<\/td>Yuwen Yu and Sarah Ita Levitan<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
A Joint Personality-Emotion Framework for Personality-Consistent Conversational Agents<\/td>Nikola Kovacevic, Christian Holz, Markus Gross and Rafael Wampfler<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Collaboration Under Uncertainty: Perspective Asymmetry and Reference Production of Homophone Objects in Human-Agent Collaborative Communication<\/td>Paola R. Pe\u00f1a and Benjamin R. Cowan<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Knowing is Trusting! The Influence of Familiarity on the Perception of Intelligent Virtual Agents<\/td>Anastasia Poletaykina, Lucie Kruse and Frank Steinicke<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Interactive Social Agent Behaviors of Politeness and Compromise in Collaborative Decision-making<\/td>Jihyun Jeong and Guy Hoffman<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Synthetically Expressive: Evaluating gesture and voice for emotion and empathy in VR and 2D scenarios<\/td>Haoyang Du, Kiran Chhatre, Christopher Peters, Brian Keegan, Rachel McDonnell and Cathy Ennis<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Controlled Yet Natural: A Hybrid BDI-LLM Conversational Agent for Child Helpline Training<\/td>Mohammed Al Owayyed, Adarsh Denga and Willem-Paul Brinkman<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Double Jeopardy? \u2013 An Investigation of the Cumulative Disadvantage of Intersectional Bias in Virtual Reality<\/td>Ohenewa Bediako Akuffo and Birgit Lugrin<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
My AI is My (Virtual) Friend: The Effects of Anthropomorphic Design Cues in Human-Chatbot Interactions<\/td>Nicole Kr\u00e4mer, Tristan K\u00fchn and Aike Horstmann<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Who Am I Talking To? Critical Reflections on Socially Interactive Agents in Current Media Art<\/td>Maja Stark, Dagmar Sch\u00fcrrer and Andrea Knaut<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Judged by a Chatbot? An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Expectancy Violations on Users’ Trust in AI-based Chatbots.<\/td>Emily Herter and Aike C. Horstmann<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Multimodal Social Signal Processing for Real-time Cohesion Estimation in Hybrid Groups<\/td>Mathilde Sassier-Roublin, Julien Saunier and Alexandre Pauchet<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Evaluating Theory-of-Mind in Large Language Models Through Opponent Modeling<\/td>Ahmet Emre Kuru, An\u0131l Do\u011fru, Merve Do\u011fan and Reyhan Aydo\u011fan<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Greta 2.0: Social Interactive Agent system, optimized for neural network integration<\/td>Takeshi Saga, Lucie Galland, Nezih Younsi and Catherine Pelachaud<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
The Impact of the Race of Intelligent Virtual Agents on the Trust in AI-Based Recommendations<\/td>Annika Rittmann, Susanne Schmidt and Frank Steinicke<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Seeing and Speaking with Culture: How Visitor Profiles Shape Multimodal Interaction in a VR Art Exhibition<\/td>Delaram Javdani Rikhtehgar, Shenghui Wang, Stefan Schlobach and Dirk Heylen<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Perception of Virtual Audiences: Influence of Gender and Nonverbal Behavior<\/td>Sarah Saufnay and Michael Schyns<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
How Should Your Artificial Teammate Tell You How Much It Trusts You?<\/td>Carolina Centeio Jorge, Elena Dumitrescu, Catholijn Jonker, Razvan Loghin, Sahar Marossi, Elena Uleia and Myrthe Tielman<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
An Adaptive Emotion-Aware Strategy for Human-Agent Negotiation: Insights from Real-World Human-Robot Experiments<\/td>Mehmet Onur Keskin, Umut \u00c7akan and Reyhan Aydogan<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Using Virtual Agents and LLMs to Generate Tailored Health Education Pamphlets<\/td>Mina Fallah, Farnaz Nouraei and Bickmore Timothy<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Accepted Posters<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/strong><\/td>Authors<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Annotate, Repeat, Succeed: Influence of AgentRepresentation on Reusable Augmented Reality Instructionsfor Remote Assistance<\/td>Bernardo Marques, Andr\u00e9 Santos, Samuel Silva, F\u00e1bio Barros,Paulo Dias and Beatriz Sousa-Santos<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
A Risk Taxonomy for Evaluating AI-Powered PsychotherapyVirtual Agents<\/td>Ian Steenstra and Timothy Bickmore<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Impact of Voice Assistants\u2019 Conversational Style onCognitive Driver Distraction<\/td>Monique Dittrich, Seunghui Ko and Tobias Rieger<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Designing for Inclusion: Key Considerations for VoiceInterfaces for Emergent Users<\/td>Shashank Ahire<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
VoiceX as a Design Tool for Virtual Agents’ Voices<\/td>Daksitha Withanage, Florian Lingenfelser, Johanna Kuch,Otto Grothe, Ruben Schlagowski, Elisabeth Andr\u00e9 and Silvan Mertes<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Body types\u2019 effects on perception of virtual agents\u2019personalities<\/td>Annika Silvervarg<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Operationalizing Machine Companionship: Exploring Topics inDiscussions of Companion AI<\/td>Jaime Banks, Jianghui Li, Zhixin Li and Caleb T. Carr<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Multimodal Generation of Contextualized Jokes for aReal-Time Virtual Character<\/td>Thomas Kiderle, Cristina Georgiana Dobre, Jauwairia Nasir,Carlos Gonzales Diaz, Hannes Ritschel, Stina Klein, Silvan Mertes and Elisabeth Andr\u00e9<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Exploring the Impact of Gendered Virtual Pedagogical Agentson Women’s Emotional Responses and Perceptions of AgentEffectiveness<\/td>Marian McDonnell and Niamh Fahy<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Evaluating Multimodal Behavioral Features for PublicSpeaking Assessment in Virtual Reality<\/td>Marion Ristorcelli, Elodie Etienne, Micha\u00ebl Schyns, R\u00e9my Casanova and Magalie Ochs<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Automatic objective metric for the optimization ofnonverbal behavior generative models<\/td>Alice Delbosc, Nicolas Sabouret, Brian Ravenet, St\u00e9phane Ayache and Magalie Ochs<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
EVE: Emotional Validated Expressions, an acted audiovisualcorpus<\/td>Elodie Etienne, Ang\u00e9lique Remacle, Anne-Lise Leclercq and Michael Schyns<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Evaluating Perceived Realism of Micro-Movement Strategiesin Artificial Social Agents<\/td>Jacob Sharp and Ulysses Bernardet<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Do I Sound as Capable as I Look? Impact of RobotCommunication Style and Appearance on User Perception<\/td>Nevio Kavuza, Hideki Garcia Goo and Khiet Truong<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Evaluating the Gender Label in Virtual Babies Using anInteractive Environment<\/td>Victor Araujo, Gabriel Silva, Catherine Pelachaud, Angelo Costa and Soraia Musse<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Enhancing Narrative Engagement Through Virtual CrowdModulation in VR Storytelling<\/td>Gwendal Paton, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Brian Ravenet and Nathalie Le Bigot<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Reducing Foreign Language Anxiety in Icebreaker SessionsUsing LLM-Controlled Multilingual Virtual Agents in VR<\/td>Zimu Cheng, Marco Gillies and Xueni Pan<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
SIA-Lab: A Platform for Exploring Assistive and SupportiveSocially Interactive Agents<\/td>Mina Ameli, Tanja Schneeberger, Janet Wessler, Michael Dietz, Elisabeth Andr\u00e9 and Patrick Gebhard<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Accepted Demos<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
A Latency-Optimized LLM-based Multimodal Dialogue System for Embodied Conversational Agents in VR<\/td>Konstantin W. K\u00fchlem, Jonathan Ehret, Torsten W. Kuhlen and Andrea B\u00f6nsch<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Expressive Agents in Psychology Research: A Study on Nuanced Emotional Signaling with Dynamic Tears<\/td>Nick van Apeldoorn, Niels Voskens and Dennis K\u00fcster<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
RELATE – Talk With Me<\/td>Andrea Familari<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
#SOPHYGRAY \u2013 A Feminist Voice Bot<\/td>Nadja Verena Marcin<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
ITERATIVE BODY SYNTHESIS<\/td>Michael Wallinger<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Leveraging LLMs to streamline the process of building Virtual Agent based Career Coaches<\/td>Neal Shankar and Emmanuel Dorley<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
Multi-Platform Intelligent Agents with the Virtual Human Toolkit<\/td>Arno Hartholt, Ed Fast, Kevin Kim, Andrew Leeds, Edwin Sookiassian and Sharon Mozgai<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
An Experimental Environment for Narrative Cue Evaluation in Virtual Reality<\/td>Gwendal Paton, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Brian Ravenet and Nathalie Le Bigot<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
CO-PARLEY: A Co-Regulative Socially Interactive Agent for Emotion Regulation Support<\/td>Mina Ameli, Chirag Bhuvaneshwara, Janet Wessler, Michael Dietz, Tanja Schneeberger, Elisabeth Andr\u00e9 and Patrick Gebhard<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
n\u22601<\/td>Chantal Pisarzowski<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accepted Papers Accepted Long Papers Title Authors 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 Can LLMs Generate Behaviors for Embodied Virtual Agents Based on Personality Traits? Bin Han, Deuksin Kwon, Spencer Lin, Kaleen Shrestha and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-584","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}