Detailed Program
Monday, September 7
Welcome Reception @ Puebla Convention Center “Outside the Salon La Constancia” (7:00PM)
Tuesday, September 8
Opening Remarks and Program Overview (8:30AM – 9:00AM)
ACII & IVA General Chairs
Conformación de Presidium
La Luz Room
Keynote 1 (9:00AM – 10:30AM)
Dr. Batja Mesquita
University of Leuven, Director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology
“MINE and OURS emotions”
Session Chair: Ali Etemad
La Luz Room
Coffee Break (10:30AM – 11:00AM)
Session 1: Dialogue and Multimodality (11:00AM – 12:40PM)
Session Chair: Florian Pecune
“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
Lunch @ Puebla Convention Center “Terrace of the Luz Room” (1:00PM – 2:30PM)
Session 2: Trust and Agent Design (2:30PM – 4:10PM)
Session Chair: Michael Neff
“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
Coffee Break, Demo & Poster Session (4:30PM – 7:00PM)
Wednesday, September 9
Keynote 2 (9:00AM – 10:30AM)
Dr. Antonia Hamilton
University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
“Mechanisms of Human Interactive Behaviour and Their Application to Virtual Interactions”
Coffee Break (10:30AM – 11:00AM)
Session 3: Mental and Physical Health (11:00AM – 12:40PM)
Session Chair: Sharon Mozgai
“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
Lunch @ Puebla Convention Center “Terrace of the Luz Room” (1:00PM – 2:30PM)
Session 4: Education (2:30PM – 4:10PM)
Session Chair: Birgit Lugrin
“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
Bus Tour of Puebla (5:30PM – 7:00PM)
Gala Dinner @ Hotel Quinta Real Main Patio (8:00PM)
Thursday, September 10
Keynote 3 (9:00AM – 10:30AM)
Dr. Monica Tentori
Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE)
“From Interaction to Perception: Sensing and Shaping the Invisible”
Coffee Break (10:30AM – 11:00AM)
Session 5: Personality and Individual Difference (11:00AM – 12:40PM)
Session Chair: Lucie Galland
“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
Lunch @ Puebla Convention Center “Terrace of the Luz Room” (1:00PM – 2:30PM)
Session 6: Social Groups and Multi-Agent Interaction (2:30PM – 4:10PM)
Session Chair: Catherine Pelachaud
“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
Closing Remarks (4:30PM – 5:00PM)
AAAC/IVA Meeting (5:00PM – 7:00PM)
Friday, September 11
Workshop (9:00AM – 12:30PM)
“Persuasion in Conversational Agents: Research Agendas, Tools and Frameworks”
Tutorial (9:00AM – 12:30PM)
“Running Virtual Human Experiments in the LLM Era with the IAGO Research Platform”
Doctoral Consortium (9:00AM – 4:00PM)