Technical Program

Sep 15

Session 1: Natural Language, Sep 15, 19:00-20:00 JST

Session chair: Kristiina Jokinen (AIST)

• Enhancing Conversational Agents with Empathic Abilities (Article No.20, Full Paper)
  Jacky Casas, Timo Spring, Karl Daher, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux

• EEG Model: Emotional Episode Generation for Social Sharing of Emotions (Article No.18, Full Paper)
  Ana Antunes, Joana Campos, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos and Rui Prada

• Informing the Design of a News Chatbot (Article No.47, Full Paper)
  Zhirun Zhang, Xinzhi Zhang and Li Chen

Session 2: Social Interaction, Sep 15, 20:30-21:50 JST

Session chair: Divesh Lala (Kyoto University)

• Multimodal and Multitask Approach to Listener's Backchannel Prediction: Can Prediction of Turn-changing and Turn-management Willingness Improve Backchannel Modeling? (Article No.50, Full Paper)
  Ryo Ishii, Xutong Ren, Michal Muszynski and Louis-Philippe Morency

• Social Signals of Cohesion in Multi-party Interactions (Article No.54, Full Paper)
  Reshmashree Bangalore Kantharaju and Catherine Pelachaud

• Do you mind if I ask? Addressing the cold start problem in personalised relational agent conversation (Article No.46 ,Full Paper)
  Hedieh Ranjbartabar, Deborah Richards, Ayse Aysin Bilgin and Cat Kutay

• Interruptions in Human-Agent Interaction (Article No.16, Extended Abstract)
  Liu Yang, Catherine Achard and Catherine Pelachaud

Session 3: Nonverbal Behavior Generation, Sep 15, 22:20-23:40 JST

Session chair: Merijn Bruijnes (Delft University of Technology)

• Speech2Properties2Gestures: Gesture-Property Prediction as a Tool for Generating Representational Gestures from Speech (Article No.7, Extended Abstract, Honorable Mention Extended Abstract)
  Taras Kucherenko, Rajmund Nagy, Patrik Jonell, Michael Neff, Hedvig Kjellström and Gustav Eje Henter

• Learning Speech-driven 3D Conversational Gestures from Video (Article No.9, Full Paper, Best Paper Award!)
  Ikhsanul Habibie, Weipeng Xu, Dushyant Mehta, Lingjie Liu, Hans-Peter Seidel, Gerard Pons-Moll, Mohamed Elgharib and Christian Theobalt

• Generation of Multimodal Bahaviors (Article No.26, Demo)
  Michele Grimaldi and Catherine Pelachaud

• Reactive Virtual Agents: A Viewpoint-Driven Approach for Bodily Nonverbal Communication (Article No.35, Extended Abstract)
  Pierre Raimbaud, Alberto Jovane, Katja Zibrek, Claudio Pacchierotti, Marc Christie, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettré and Anne-Hélène Olivier

Sep 16

Poster Session 1, Sep 16, 07:00-09:00 JST

• Papers of Live Session 1 - 5 (19 papers)
  7:00-8:00 Article ID: 7, 9, 16, 18, 20, 26, 46, 47, 50, 54, DC
  8:00-9:00 Article ID: 12, 14, 24, 35, 49, 58, 59, 63, 69, DC
  

Session 4: Impression of Virtual Agents, Sep 16, 18:30-19:50 JST

Session chair: Tomoko Yonezawa (Kansai University)

• Human or Robot? Investigating voice, appearance and gesture motion realism of conversational social agents (Article No.12, Full Paper, Best Paper Nominee)
  Ylva Ferstl, Sean Thomas, Cédric Guiard, Cathy Ennis and Rachel McDonnell

• How to Overcome Resistance Towards an Intelligent Virtual Agent Using non-verbal mimicry – A Pilot Study. (Article No.69, Late Breaking Report) [PDF]
  Barbara Müller, Weronika Trzmielewksa, Wolf-Gero Lange and Tibor Bosse

• Diversity Informatics: Reducing Racial and Gender Bias with Virtual Agents (Article No.59, Full Paper)
  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 (Article No.63, Full Paper)
  Pedro Guillermo Feijóo-García, Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok and Felix Hamza-Lup

Session 5: Effects of Virtual Agents, Sep 16, 20:20-21:40 JST

Session chair: Daisuke Katagami (Tokyo Polytech University)

• A Friendly Face in the Crowd: Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety with an Emotional Support Agent in the Audience (Article No.58, Full Paper)
  Prasanth Murali, Ha Trinh, Lazlo Ring and Timothy Bickmore

• Once Upon a Story: Can a Creative Storyteller Robot Stimulate Creativity in Children? (Article No.49, Full Paper)
  Maha El Garf, Gabriel Skantze and Christopher Peters

• Attention-Guidance Method Based on Conforming Behavior of Multiple Virtual Agents for Pedestrians (Article No.24, Full Paper, Best Paper Nominee)
  Naoto Yoshida and Tomoko Yonezawa

• Being Guided or Having Exploratory Freedom: User Preferences of a Virtual Agent’s Behavior in a Museum (Article No.14, Full Paper)
  Andrea Bönsch, David Hashem, Jonathan Ehret and Torsten Wolfgang Kuhlen

Session 6: Evaluation, Sep 16, 22:10-23:10 JST

Session chair: Timothy Bickmore (Northeastern University)

• Linking Theory of Mind in Human-Agent Interactions to Validated Evaluations (Article No.19, Full Paper)
  Evelien Heyselaar and Tibor Bosse

• Questionnaire Items for Evaluating Artificial Social Agents - Expert Generated, Content Validated and Reliability Analysed (Article No.17, Extended Abstract)
  Siska Fitrianie, Merijn Bruijnes, Fengxiang Li and Willem-Paul Brinkman

• 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 (Article No.30, Extended Abstract)
  Jessica M. Szczuka, Hatice Suzan Güzelbey and Nicole Kraemer

Sep 17

Poster Session 2, Sep 17, 07:00-09:00 JST

• Papers of Live Session 6 - 10 (18 papers)
  7:00-8:00 Article ID: 8, 10, 11, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 30
  8:00-9:00 Article ID: 33, 36, 38, 41, 43, 45, 52, 55, 61

Session 7: Intelligent Virtual Agents in Global Pandemic, Sep 17, 17:00-18:40 JST

Session chair: Joost Broekens (Leiden University)

• Pandemic Panic: The Effect of Disaster-Related Stress on Negotiation Outcomes (Article No.38, Full Paper)
  Johnathan Mell, Gale Lucas and Jonathan Gratch

• Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety (Article No.52, Full Paper)
  Joy O. Egede, Maria J. Galvez Trigo, Shashank Jaiswal, Dominic Price, Neil Nixon, Deepa Bagepalli Krishnan, Richard Morriss, Christopher Greenhalgh and Michel Valstar

• Factors predicting acceptance of a virtual companion providing screening and advices for sleep problems during COVID-19 crisis (Article No.8, Full Paper)
  Lucile Dupuy, Etienne de Sevin, Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi and Pierre Philip

• Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study (Article No.33, Full Paper)
  Joy O. Egede, Maria J. Galvez Trigo, Adrian Hazzard, Martin Porcheron, Edgar Bodiaj, Joel E. Fischer, Chris Greenhalgh and Michel Valstar

• INSHA: Intelligent Nudging System for Hand Hygiene Awareness (Article No.43, Full Paper)
  Sopicha Stirapongsasuti, Kundjanasith Thonglek, Shinya Misaki, Yugo Nakamura and Keiichi Yasumoto

Session 8: Negotiation, Sep 17, 19:10-20:30 JST

Session chair: Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne Universite)

• Effect of politeness strategies in dialogue on negotiation outcomes (Article No.10, Full Paper)
  Kazunori Terada, Mitsuki Okazoe and Jonathan Gratch

• Using Intelligent Agents to Examine Gender in Negotiations (Article No.27, Full Paper)
  Emmanuel Johnson, Jonathan Gratch, Jill Boberg, David DeVault, Peter Kim and Gale Lucas

• Comparing The Accuracy of Frequentist and Bayesian Models in Human-Agent Negotiation (Article No.41, Full Paper)
  Emmanuel Johnson and Jonathan Gratch

• Towards Understanding How Virtual Human’s Verbal Persuasion Strategies Influence User Intentions To Perform Health Behavior (Article No.23, Full Paper)
  Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Krishna Vaddiparti, Pavlo Antonenko and Benjamin Lok

Session 9: Designs of Virtual Agents, Sep 17, 21:00-22:00 JST

Session chair: Arno Hartholt (USC ICT)

• Designing Personality Shifting Agent for Speech Recognition Failure (Article No.25, Extended Abstract)
  Tatsuki Hori and Kazuki Kobayashi

• Towards Designing Enthusiastic AI Agents (Article No.61, Extended Abstract, Honorable Mention Extended Abstract)
  Carla Viegas and Malihe Alikhani

• Virtual Reality in Sexual Harassment Prevention: Proof-of-Concept Study (Article No.45, Extended Abstract)
  Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, Jonathan Giron, Shir Fridman, Maxine Hanrieder, Shany Goldstein, Shir Brokman and Doron Friedman

Session 10: Tools for Virtual Agents, Sep 17, 22:20-23:20 JST

Session chair: Kohei Ogawa (Nagoya University)

• Agents United: An Open Platform for Multi-Agent Conversational Systems (Article No.36, Full Paper)
  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

• Introducing VHMason: A Visual, Integrated, Multimodal Virtual Human Authoring Tool Article No.55, Full Paper)
  Arno Hartholt, Ed Fast, Andrew Leeds and Sharon Mozgai

• Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems with Grammar-Based Evolution (Article No.11, Full Paper)
  Dilini Samarasinghe, Michael Barlow, Erandi Lakshika and Kathryn Kasmarik