Accepted Papers and Demos

• Conversational Style in Open Domain Dialogue Systems: What Do You Think Makes a Response Sound Natural?
  Vrindavan Harrison and Marilyn Walker
• The Role of Gestures in the Perception of Creative One-Word References Produced by Humans and Virtual Agents
  Lisa Gottschalk, Alice Schirrmeister, Alon Fishman, Joana Cholin and Stefan Kopp
• Passing the Pact: Comparing Common Ground Building and Audience Design In Multiparty Human and Human-Agent Collaborative Communication
  Rhys Jacka, Paola R. Peña, Megan Nyhan, Kate Walsh, Sophie Leonard, Holly Branigan, Vincent Wade and Benjamin R. Cowan
• Preparing Citizens for Emergency Calls with a Hybrid FSM-LLM Dialogue Agent
  Sean Klein and Jane Jean Kiam
• The Effects of Physical Settings on Privacy and Interaction with Virtual Conversational Agents in Public Spaces
  Kien Duong, Jussi Wright, Imtiaj Ahmed, Sasu Tarkoma, Andrea Bellucci and Giulio Jacucci
• Designing Beyond Anthropomorphism: Human- and Robot-Like Error Recovery for Robot Navigation Errors
  Hideki Garcia Goo, Bob Schadenberg, Sebastian Schneider and Vanessa Evers
• Examining How Explanations from Multiple AI Agents Affect User Trust After AI Refusal
  Kohei Yamamoto, Chi-Lan Yang, Takuji Narumi, Tomohiro Tanikawa and Hideaki Kuzuoka
• Personality-Profiled Virtual Agents Are More Predictable: The Constraint-Entropy Tradeoff for Trustworthy Agent Design
  Carlos Toxtli and Manuel Delaflor
• ‘It Seems Like There Was a Mistake:’ How Perceived Gender and Error Shape Trust in Intelligent Voice Assistants
  Madia Fahim, Emmanuel Syrmoudis and Jens Grossklags
• Towards Trust Calibration in Socially Interactive Agents: Investigating Gendered Multimodal Behaviors Generation with LLMs
  Lucie Galland, Chloé Clavel and Magalie Ochs
• Beyond Passive Distraction: An Embodied Conversational Breathing Coach in VR for Acute Pain Reduction in Gynecological Procedures
  Zhuorui Yong, Michael Paasche-Orlow, Rebecca Perkins and Timothy Bickmore
• Seek and De-Stress: Matching Supporter Identity to Seeker Need in AI Emotional Support
  Benjamin M Wigler and Maria Tsfasman
• Experiential Knowledge in Multi-Agent Virtual Health Systems: The Value of an Expert Patient Agent
  Danish Nisar Ahmed Tamboli, Christopher You, Ryan Canales, Peter Reese, Vishnu Potluri and Benjamin Lok
• Life-Sized Virtual Health Coaches in VR: Rapport-Building Behaviors and Their Effects on Health Attitudes and Proxemics
  Zhuorui Yong, Chongyang Wang and Timothy Bickmore
• Towards Automatic ACT-Based Analysis of Chats
  Arndt Bieberstein, Stefano Gampe, Benjamin Schnitzer and Oliver Korn
• More Than a Voice: The Role of Embodiment in LLM-Based Reading Tutors for Children
  Gerardo Aramis Ruiz Jasso, Dulce Adilene Hernandez Arvizu, Juan Martínez-Miranda and Arturo Morales-Tellez
• Addressing Low Self Esteem in Pakistani University Students via an Embodied Conversational Agent
  Hafiz Muhammad Tahir, Deborah Richards and Maria Kangas
• Back to the museum: Investigation of the acceptance of Android Andrea with and without emotion simulation in a museum
  Christian Becker-Asano and Marcel Heisler
• Do Pedagogical Agent Roles Matter? Effects on Learning Performance, Motivation, and Agent Perception
  Anna Riedmann and Birgit Lugrin
• Inferring Self-Efficacy and Growth Mindset from Student-Agent Interaction to Tailor Teacher Feedback
  Ariana Espinoza, Oleksiy Levchuk, Isabel Lopez and Jesus Favela
• Stable Preferences, Different Decision Dynamics in Virtual Human Selection Across Age Groups
  Poonam Patil, Surej Mouli and Zhuangzhuang Dai
• Reducing Racial Bias in Virtual Reality: Longitudinal Effects of Counter-Stereotypical Agents and the Role of Affective Responses
  Ohenewa Bediako Akuffo, Sophie Streit and Birgit Lugrin
• Gender Stereotype Threat in AI-Assisted Negotiation
  James Hale, Mehran Bahmani and Jonathan Gratch
• Focusing on Individual Risk: Personality-Based Content Adaptation in Virtual Agents for Safety Education
  Shoma Nagao, Manato Nakamura, Masanori Hattori, Yuji Oku, Seiya Sano, Satoru Hayamizu and Kazunori Terada
• Impact of Companion Agent’s Self-Disclosure Levels on User Perception
  Rodrigo Calvo, Christopher Bowers, Alexander Barquero and Jaime Ruiz
• Evaluating LLM Social Cognition Through Multi-Agentic Strategic Games
  Kevin Kurian, Kevin Scroggins, Emmanuel Dorley and Christan Grant
• Games of Diplomacy: Eliciting Spite Against Automated Opponents Through Structured Game Environments
  Noah Ari, Darryl Roman, Nusrath Jahan, Hazan Deniz Marti, Gale Lucas and Johnathan Mell
• Discrowd: Simulating Virtual Agent Communities for Modeling Opinion Dynamics
  Gavin Koonts, Madeleine Gagne, Nitish Pravin Talekar and Arnav Jhala
• Identifying Interaction Dimensions and their Relation to Agent Behavior in Human-AI Teams
  Inês Lobo, Janin Koch, Jennifer Renoux and Rui Prada
• Towards a virtual human improv troupe for social skills training
  Betul Dincer, Sofia Hirschmann and Stacy Marsella

Accepted posters

• Collaborative Coaches and Relational Cues for Behaviour Change
  Sana Salman, Deborah Richards and Peter Busch
• A Preliminary Analysis of Situation and Personality in LLM-Generated Gesture Representations for Virtual Agents
  Bin Han and Jonathan Gratch
• Consistent Conversational State for Virtual Agents: Slot-Based Memory for Accurate Fact Retrieval
  Erica Butts and Salam Daher
• Evaluating the Cognitive Impact of Interacting with an Embodied Conversational Agent for Sleep Disorders: A Comparison Between Clinical and General Populations
  Lou Thual, Charlotte Menard and Florian Pécune
• Grounding Player Intent in Game Commands: A Study of Compact Language Model Adaptation
  Ez Zwall, Kedong Chen, Helen Zhou and Mei Si
• Beyond Rational Concession: Designing an Emotion-Driven “Monster Parent” Agent for Teacher Training
  Kosuke Tsurumaki and Hung-Hsuan Huang
• Evaluating Prompt Robustness in Text-to-Audio Systems for Adaptive Virtual Agents and Game Soundtracks
  Jiahui Wu and Mei Si
• French translation of the Artificial-Social-Agent questionnaire (ASAq) instrument for evaluating human-agent interactions
  Charlotte Menard, Lou Thual, Pierre Philip and Florian Pécune
• Multimodal Sequential Local-to-Root Diffusion for 3D Gesture Generation in Virtual Human
  Jiahui Wu and Mei Si
• Design and Evaluation of a Culturally Adapted Multimodal Virtual Agent for PTSD Screening (Poster)
  Cengiz Ozel, Waleed Nadeem, Samuel Potter, Yahya Bokhari, Bdour Alwuqaysi, Wejdan Alotaibi, Rahaf Alnufaie, Sabri Boughorbel, Abdulrhman Aljouie, Rakan Altasan and Ehsan Hoque
• Digital Human Debate: Designing and Observing Intelligent Virtual Agents
  Ichiro Matsuda, Komichi Takezawa, Katsuhito Muroi, Kensuke Katori, Jing Jing Li and Yoichi Ochiai

Accepted demos

• Evaluating retrieval-augmented generation strategies with a virtual human application
  R. Boumans
• Demonstrating the Open Virtual Human Toolkit: Any character, any technology, anywhere
  A. Hartholt, E. Fast, A. Leeds and S. Mozgai
• A pedagogical agent toolkit for K-12 education contexts
  S. Hum, J. Lee, J. R. Gladstone, J. Ginger, J. Martinez, N. L. Schroeder, E. Dorley and H. C. Lane
• Kizuna: An affective virtual agent for strengthening resilience in children
  M. J. Martínez-Castro, A. Morales-Téllez and J. K. Martínez-Miranda
• ATLAS: An agent-based training and learning analytics system for rapid deployment of virtual agent studies
  N. Parekh and E. Dorley
• Lumière: A holographic Polaroid camera for creating multiplatform object-grounded intelligent virtual agents
  S. Lin, K. Shieh, T. Jewell-Alibhai, S. Mozgai, S. Fisher and S. Lin
• Kongque: An interactive conversational virtual agent based on LA Chinatown oral and written histories
  S. Lin, I. Fowlkes, K. Shieh, S. Lin, S. Mozgai and S. Fisher