Doctoral Consortium Program

Sep 14
19:00-19:20 Introduction

19:20-20:40 Session1

• 19:20-20:00
  Adaptive Data-Driven Persuasive Communication for a Conversational Agent to Support Behavior Change
  Nele Albers (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)

• 20:00-20:40
  Human Aspects of Virtual Characters
  Radosław Sterna (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

<20 min break>

21:00-21:30 Session2

• Invited mentor talk
  Prof. Kristiina Jokinen

21:30-22:50 Session3

• 21:30-22:10
  Improving Collaborative Work in VR through an Expressive Avatar
  Hugo Le Tarnec (Institut de recherche technologique, France)

• 22:10-22:50
  Unification of Crowd Simulation Models
  Michelangelo Diamanti (Reykjavik University, Iceland)

23:00-23:40 Session4

• Break and Interactions among the speakers and mentors

23:30- DC concludes

Mentors:

• Kristiina Jokinen (AIST, Japan)

• Takanori Komatsu (Meiji University, Japan)

• Shogo Okada (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

• Daniel Rea (University of New Brunswick, Canada)