Full papers

• Factors predicting acceptance of a virtual companion providing screening and advices for sleep problems during COVID-19 crisis
  Lucile Dupuy, Etienne de Sevin, Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi and Pierre Philip

• Learning Speech-driven 3D Conversational Gestures from Video
  Ikhsanul Habibie, Weipeng Xu, Dushyant Mehta, Lingjie Liu, Hans-Peter Seidel, Gerard Pons-Moll, Mohamed Elgharib and Christian Theobalt

• Effect of politeness strategies in dialogue on negotiation outcomes
  Kazunori Terada, Mitsuki Okazoe and Jonathan Gratch

• Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems with Grammar-Based Evolution
  Dilini Samarasinghe, Michael Barlow, Erandi Lakshika and Kathryn Kasmarik

• Human or Robot? Investigating voice, appearance and gesture motion realism of conversational social agents
  Ylva Ferstl, Sean Thomas, Cédric Guiard, Cathy Ennis and Rachel McDonnell

• Being Guided or Having Exploratory Freedom: User Preferences of a Virtual Agent’s Behavior in a Museum
  Andrea Bönsch, David Hashem, Jonathan Ehret and Torsten Wolfgang Kuhlen

• EEG Model: Emotional Episode Generation for Social Sharing of Emotions
  Ana Antunes, Joana Campos, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos and Rui Prada

• Linking Theory of Mind in Human-Agent Interactions to Validated Evaluations
  Evelien Heyselaar and Tibor Bosse

• Enhancing Conversational Agents with Empathic Abilities
  Jacky Casas, Timo Spring, Karl Daher, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux

• Towards Understanding How Virtual Human’s Verbal Persuasion Strategies Influence User Intentions To Perform Health Behavior
  Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Krishna Vaddiparti, Pavlo Antonenko and Benjamin Lok

• Attention-Guidance Method Based on Conforming Behavior of Multiple Virtual Agents for Pedestrians
  Naoto Yoshida and Tomoko Yonezawa

• Using Intelligent Agents to Examine Gender in Negotiations
  Emmanuel Johnson, Jonathan Gratch, Jill Boberg, David DeVault, Peter Kim and Gale Lucas

• Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study
  Joy O. Egede, Maria J. Galvez Trigo, Adrian Hazzard, Martin Porcheron, Edgar Bodiaj, Joel E. Fischer, Chris Greenhalgh and Michel Valstar

• Agents United: An Open Platform for Multi-Agent Conversational Systems
  Tessa Beinema, Daniel Davison, Dennis Reidsma, Oresti Baños Legrán, Merijn Bruijnes, Brice Donval, Álvaro Fides Valero, Dirk Heylen, Dennis Hofs, Gerwin Huizing, Reshmashree B. Kantharaju, Randy Klaassen, Jan Kolkmeier, Kostas Konsolakis, Alison Pease, Catherine Pelachaud, Donatella Simonetti, Mark Snaith, Vicente Traver Salcedo, Jorien van Loon, Jacky Visser, Marcel Weusthof, Fajrian Yunus, Hermie Hermens and Harm Op den Akker

• Pandemic Panic: The Effect of Disaster-Related Stress on Negotiation Outcomes
  Johnathan Mell, Gale Lucas and Jonathan Gratch

• Comparing The Accuracy of Frequentist and Bayesian Models in Human-Agent Negotiation
  Emmanuel Johnson and Jonathan Gratch

• INSHA: Intelligent Nudging System for Hand Hygiene Awareness
  Sopicha Stirapongsasuti, Kundjanasith Thonglek, Shinya Misaki, Yugo Nakamura and Keiichi Yasumoto

• Do you mind if I ask? Addressing the cold start problem in personalised relational agent conversation
  Hedieh Ranjbartabar, Deborah Richards, Ayse Aysin Bilgin and Cat Kutay

• Informing the Design of a News Chatbot
  Zhirun Zhang, Xinzhi Zhang and Li Chen

• Once Upon a Story: Can a Creative Storyteller Robot Stimulate Creativity in Children?
  Maha El Garf, Gabriel Skantze and Christopher Peters

• Multimodal and Multitask Approach to Listener's Backchannel Prediction: Can Prediction of Turn-changing and Turn-management Willingness Improve Backchannel Modeling?
  Ryo Ishii, Xutong Ren, Michal Muszynski and Louis-Philippe Morency

• Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety
  Joy O. Egede, Maria J. Galvez Trigo, Shashank Jaiswal, Dominic Price, Neil Nixon, Deepa Bagepalli Krishnan, Richard Morriss, Christopher Greenhalgh and Michel Valstar

• Social Signals of Cohesion in Multi-party Interactions
  Reshmashree Bangalore Kantharaju and Catherine Pelachaud

• Introducing VHMason: A Visual, Integrated, Multimodal Virtual Human Authoring Tool
  Arno Hartholt, Ed Fast, Andrew Leeds and Sharon Mozgai

• A Friendly Face in the Crowd: Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety with an Emotional Support Agent in the Audience
  Prasanth Murali, Ha Trinh, Lazlo Ring and Timothy Bickmore

• Diversity Informatics: Reducing Racial and Gender Bias with Virtual Agents
  Timothy Bickmore, Dhaval Parmar, Everlyne Kimani and Stefan Olafsson

• Effects of Virtual Humans’ Gender and Spoken Accent on Users’ Perceptions of Expertise in Mental Wellness Conversations
  Pedro Guillermo Feijóo-García, Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok and Felix Hamza-Lup

Extended Abstracts

• Speech2Properties2Gestures: Gesture-Property Prediction as a Tool for Generating Representational Gestures from Speech
  Taras Kucherenko, Rajmund Nagy, Patrik Jonell, Michael Neff, Hedvig Kjellström and Gustav Eje Henter

• Interruptions in Human-Agent Interaction
  Liu Yang, Catherine Achard and Catherine Pelachaud

• Questionnaire Items for Evaluating Artificial Social Agents - Expert Generated, Content Validated and Reliability Analysed
  Siska Fitrianie, Merijn Bruijnes, Fengxiang Li and Willem-Paul Brinkman

• Designing Personality Shifting Agent for Speech Recognition Failure
  Tatsuki Hori and Kazuki Kobayashi

• Someone or Something to play with? An empirical study on how parents evaluate the social appropriateness of interactions between children and differently embodied artificial interaction partners
  Jessica M. Szczuka, Hatice Suzan Güzelbey and Nicole Kraemer

• Reactive Virtual Agents: A Viewpoint-Driven Approach for Bodily Nonverbal Communication
  Pierre Raimbaud, Alberto Jovane, Katja Zibrek, Claudio Pacchierotti, Marc Christie, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettré and Anne-Hélène Olivier

• Virtual Reality in Sexual Harassment Prevention: Proof-of-Concept Study
  Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, Jonathan Giron, Shir Fridman, Maxine Hanrieder, Shany Goldstein, Shir Brokman and Doron Friedman

• Towards Designing Enthusiastic AI Agents
  Carla Viegas and Malihe Alikhani

Demo

• Generation of Multimodal Bahaviors
  Michele Grimaldi and Catherine Pelachaud