{"id":646,"date":"2023-09-12T13:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2023\/?page_id=646"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:28:53","slug":"doctoral-consortium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2025\/doctoral-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Doctoral Consortium<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled for Tuesday, 16 September, in Room C356 (Building C<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:00 Welcome & Introductions<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
09:10 – Session 1 – Multimodal Interaction<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Cohesive Research Program on Multimodal Conversations with Embodied Agents in 2D and VR Platforms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sagar Ashok Vankit<\/strong>  – Mentor: Doron Friedman<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nonverbal Behavior Generation for Socially Interactive Agents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oliver Chojnowski<\/strong> – Mentor: Matias Volonte<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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How Much Context is Too Much Context? Rethinking Contextual Boundaries for Engagement-Aware Turn-Taking in Embodied Conversational Agents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daksitha Don<\/strong> – Mentor: Catherine Pelachaud<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Cognitive-Computational Model for Multimodal Creativity in Speech-Gesture Production <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa Gottshalk<\/strong> – Mentor: Brian Ravenet<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

10:30 Coffee Break<\/strong> (30 min)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
11:00 – Session 2 – Adaptive and Contextual IVAs<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Empowering Generative AI with Environmental Awareness for Virtual Instruction in Immersive Training<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nour Benzeid<\/strong> – Mentor: Evelien Heyslaar<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Investigating the Effects and Potential of VR Interventions to Reduce Real-World Racial Biases using Intelligent Virtual Agents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohenewa Akuffo<\/strong> – Mentor: Jonathan Gratch<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

11:40 Panel Discussion<\/strong> – “A career in research” <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

moderated by Zerrin Yumak, Monique Dittrich and Aike Hortsmann<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30 Lunch<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
13:30 – Session 3 – Social aspects of IVAs<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Context-Aware Virtual Agents: Modeling Emotion and Behavior with Large Language Models<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bin Han<\/strong> – Mentor: Elisabeth Andr\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cognitive Framework for Believable Social Virtual Agents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chen Yang<\/strong> – Mentor: Patrick Gebhard<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Towards Emotionally Authentic Virtual Actors: Investigating Stanislavski\u2019s Method through EEG-based Emotional Modeling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natali Chavez<\/strong> – Mentor: Ralf Schmaelzle<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Social Roles of Digital GenAI Assistants<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonard Block Santos<\/strong> – Mentor: Dirk Heylen<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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14:50 Open Science Discussion: Tanja Schneeberger & Nina Knieriemen (40min)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
15:30 Coffee Break<\/strong> (30 min)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
16:00 Session 4 – Social Impact and Health<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Understanding the Therapeutic Alliance with an Embodied Conversational Agent for Mental Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlotte Menard<\/strong> – Mentor: Willem Paul Brinkman<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Status-aware Conversation Behaviour Generation for Virtual Agents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zimu Cheng<\/strong> – Mentor: Florian P\u00e9cune<\/em>
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16:40 Mentor meeting<\/strong>

17:40 Closing<\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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