{"id":113,"date":"2022-11-16T10:51:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T10:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2023\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:54:01","slug":"detailed-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2026\/detailed-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Detailed Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monday, September 7<\/span><\/h2>\n
Welcome Reception @ Puebla Convention Center \u201cOutside the Salon La Constancia\u201d (7:00PM)<\/h5>\n
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Tuesday, September 8<\/span><\/h2>\n
Opening Remarks and Program Overview (8:30AM \u2013 9:00AM)<\/h5>\n

ACII & IVA General Chairs<\/p>\n

Conformaci\u00f3n de Presidium<\/p>\n

La Luz Room<\/p>\n

Keynote 1 (9:00AM \u2013 10:30AM)<\/h5>\n

Dr. Batja Mesquita<\/p>\n

University of Leuven, Director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology<\/p>\n

\u201cMINE and OURS emotions<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Session Chair: Ali Etemad<\/p>\n

La Luz Room<\/p>\n

Coffee Break (10:30AM \u2013 11:00AM)<\/h5>\n
Session 1: Dialogue and Multimodality (11:00AM \u2013 12:40PM)<\/span><\/h5>\n

Session Chair: Florian Pecune<\/p>\n

\u201cConversational Style in Open Domain Dialogue Systems: What Do You Think Makes a Response Sound Natural?\u201d Vrindavan Harrison and Marilyn Walker<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Role of Gestures in the Perception of Creative One-Word References Produced by Humans and Virtual Agents\u201d Lisa Gottschalk, Alice Schirrmeister, Alon Fishman, Joana Cholin and Stefan Kopp<\/p>\n

\u201cPassing the Pact: Comparing Common Ground Building and Audience Design In Multiparty Human and Human-Agent Collaborative Communication\u201d Rhys Jacka, Paola R. Pe\u00f1a, Megan Nyhan, Kate Walsh, Sophie Leonard, Holly Branigan, Vincent Wade and Benjamin R. Cowan<\/p>\n

\u201cPreparing Citizens for Emergency Calls with a Hybrid FSM-LLM Dialogue Agent\u201d Sean Klein and Jane Jean Kiam<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Effects of Physical Settings on Privacy and Interaction with Virtual Conversational Agents in Public Spaces\u201d Kien Duong, Jussi Wright, Imtiaj Ahmed, Sasu Tarkoma, Andrea Bellucci and Giulio Jacucci<\/p>\n

Lunch @ Puebla Convention Center \u201cTerrace of the Luz Room\u201d (1:00PM \u2013 2:30PM)<\/h5>\n
Session 2: Trust and Agent Design (2:30PM \u2013 4:10PM)<\/span><\/h5>\n

Session Chair: Michael Neff<\/p>\n

\u201cDesigning Beyond Anthropomorphism: Human- and Robot-Like Error Recovery for Robot Navigation Errors\u201d Hideki Garcia Goo, Bob Schadenberg, Sebastian Schneider and Vanessa Evers<\/p>\n

\u201cExamining How Explanations from Multiple AI Agents Affect User Trust After AI Refusal\u201d Kohei Yamamoto, Chi-Lan Yang, Takuji Narumi, Tomohiro Tanikawa and Hideaki Kuzuoka<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonality-Profiled Virtual Agents Are More Predictable: The Constraint-Entropy Tradeoff for Trustworthy Agent Design\u201d Carlos Toxtli and Manuel Delaflor<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018It Seems Like There Was a Mistake:\u2019 How Perceived Gender and Error Shape Trust in Intelligent Voice Assistants\u201d Madia Fahim, Emmanuel Syrmoudis and Jens Grossklags<\/p>\n

\u201cTowards Trust Calibration in Socially Interactive Agents: Investigating Gendered Multimodal Behaviors Generation with LLMs\u201d Lucie Galland, Chlo\u00e9 Clavel and Magalie Ochs<\/p>\n

Coffee Break, Demo & Poster Session (4:30PM \u2013 7:00PM)<\/h5>\n
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Wednesday, September 9<\/span><\/h2>\n
Keynote 2 (9:00AM \u2013 10:30AM)<\/h5>\n

Dr. Antonia Hamilton<\/p>\n

University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience<\/p>\n

\u201cMechanisms of Human Interactive Behaviour and Their Application to Virtual Interactions\u201d<\/p>\n

Coffee Break (10:30AM \u2013 11:00AM)<\/h5>\n
Session 3: Mental and Physical Health (11:00AM \u2013 12:40PM)<\/span><\/h5>\n

Session Chair: Sharon Mozgai<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond Passive Distraction: An Embodied Conversational Breathing Coach in VR for Acute Pain Reduction in Gynecological Procedures\u201d Zhuorui Yong, Michael Paasche-Orlow, Rebecca Perkins and Timothy Bickmore<\/p>\n

\u201cSeek and De-Stress: Matching Supporter Identity to Seeker Need in AI Emotional Support\u201d Benjamin M Wigler and Maria Tsfasman<\/p>\n

\u201cExperiential Knowledge in Multi-Agent Virtual Health Systems: The Value of an Expert Patient Agent\u201d Danish Nisar Ahmed Tamboli, Christopher You, Ryan Canales, Peter Reese, Vishnu Potluri and Benjamin Lok<\/p>\n

\u201cLife-Sized Virtual Health Coaches in VR: Rapport-Building Behaviors and Their Effects on Health Attitudes and Proxemics\u201d Zhuorui Yong, Chongyang Wang and Timothy Bickmore<\/p>\n

\u201cTowards Automatic ACT-Based Analysis of Chats\u201d Arndt Bieberstein, Stefano Gampe, Benjamin Schnitzer and Oliver Korn<\/p>\n

Lunch @ Puebla Convention Center \u201cTerrace of the Luz Room\u201d (1:00PM \u2013 2:30PM)<\/h5>\n
Session 4: Education (2:30PM \u2013 4:10PM)<\/span><\/h5>\n

Session Chair: Birgit Lugrin<\/p>\n

\u201cMore Than a Voice: The Role of Embodiment in LLM-Based Reading Tutors for Children\u201d Gerardo Aramis Ruiz Jasso, Dulce Adilene Hernandez Arvizu, Juan Mart\u00ednez-Miranda and Arturo Morales-Tellez<\/p>\n

\u201cAddressing Low Self Esteem in Pakistani University Students via an Embodied Conversational Agent\u201d Hafiz Muhammad Tahir, Deborah Richards and Maria Kangas<\/p>\n

\u201cBack to the museum: Investigation of the acceptance of Android Andrea with and without emotion simulation in a museum\u201d Christian Becker-Asano and Marcel Heisler<\/p>\n

\u201cDo Pedagogical Agent Roles Matter? Effects on Learning Performance, Motivation, and Agent Perception\u201d Anna Riedmann and Birgit Lugrin<\/p>\n

\u201cInferring Self-Efficacy and Growth Mindset from Student-Agent Interaction to Tailor Teacher Feedback\u201d Ariana Espinoza, Oleksiy Levchuk, Isabel Lopez and Jesus Favela<\/p>\n

Bus Tour of Puebla (5:30PM \u2013 7:00PM)<\/h5>\n
Gala Dinner @ Hotel Quinta Real Main Patio (8:00PM)<\/h5>\n
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Thursday, September 10<\/span><\/h2>\n
Keynote 3 (9:00AM \u2013 10:30AM)<\/h5>\n

Dr. Monica Tentori<\/p>\n

Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE)<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Interaction to Perception: Sensing and Shaping the Invisible\u201d<\/p>\n

Coffee Break (10:30AM \u2013 11:00AM)<\/h5>\n
Session 5: Personality and Individual Difference (11:00AM \u2013 12:40PM)<\/span><\/h5>\n

Session Chair: Lucie Galland<\/p>\n

\u201cStable Preferences, Different Decision Dynamics in Virtual Human Selection Across Age Groups\u201d Poonam Patil, Surej Mouli and Zhuangzhuang Dai<\/p>\n

\u201cReducing Racial Bias in Virtual Reality: Longitudinal Effects of Counter-Stereotypical Agents and the Role of Affective Responses\u201d Ohenewa Bediako Akuffo, Sophie Streit and Birgit Lugrin<\/p>\n

\u201cGender Stereotype Threat in AI-Assisted Negotiation\u201d James Hale, Mehran Bahmani and Jonathan Gratch<\/p>\n

\u201cFocusing on Individual Risk: Personality-Based Content Adaptation in Virtual Agents for Safety Education\u201d Shoma Nagao, Manato Nakamura, Masanori Hattori, Yuji Oku, Seiya Sano, Satoru Hayamizu and Kazunori Terada<\/p>\n

\u201cImpact of Companion Agent’s Self-Disclosure Levels on User Perception\u201d Rodrigo Calvo, Christopher Bowers, Alexander Barquero and Jaime Ruiz<\/p>\n

Lunch @ Puebla Convention Center \u201cTerrace of the Luz Room\u201d (1:00PM \u2013 2:30PM)<\/h5>\n
Session 6: Social Groups and Multi-Agent Interaction (2:30PM \u2013 4:10PM)<\/span><\/h5>\n

Session Chair: Catherine Pelachaud<\/p>\n

\u201cEvaluating LLM Social Cognition Through Multi-Agentic Strategic Games\u201d Kevin Kurian, Kevin Scroggins, Emmanuel Dorley and Christan Grant<\/p>\n

\u201cGames of Diplomacy: Eliciting Spite Against Automated Opponents Through Structured Game Environments\u201d Noah Ari, Darryl Roman, Nusrath Jahan, Hazan Deniz Marti, Gale Lucas and Johnathan Mell<\/p>\n

\u201cDiscrowd: Simulating Virtual Agent Communities for Modeling Opinion Dynamics\u201d Gavin Koonts, Madeleine Gagne, Nitish Pravin Talekar and Arnav Jhala<\/p>\n

\u201cIdentifying Interaction Dimensions and their Relation to Agent Behavior in Human-AI Teams\u201d In\u00eas Lobo, Janin Koch, Jennifer Renoux and Rui Prada<\/p>\n

\u201cTowards a virtual human improv troupe for social skills training\u201d Betul Dincer, Sofia Hirschmann and Stacy Marsella<\/p>\n

Closing Remarks (4:30PM \u2013 5:00PM)<\/h5>\n
AAAC\/IVA Meeting (5:00PM \u2013 7:00PM)<\/h5>\n
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Friday, September 11<\/span><\/h2>\n
Workshop (9:00AM \u2013 12:30PM)<\/h5>\n

\u201cPersuasion in Conversational Agents: Research Agendas, Tools and Frameworks\u201d<\/p>\n

Tutorial (9:00AM \u2013 12:30PM)<\/h5>\n

\u201cRunning Virtual Human Experiments in the LLM Era with the IAGO Research Platform\u201d<\/p>\n

Doctoral Consortium (9:00AM \u2013 4:00PM)<\/h5>\n

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