Rifca Peters, J. Broekens, Kangqi Li, Mark Antonius Neerincx
{"title":"Robot Dominance Expression Through Parameter-based Behaviour Modulation","authors":"Rifca Peters, J. Broekens, Kangqi Li, Mark Antonius Neerincx","doi":"10.1145/3308532.3329456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329456","url":null,"abstract":"A mayor challenge in human-robot interaction is the synthesis of social signals through non-verbal behaviour expression. Appropriate perception and expression of dominance (verticality) is essential for social interaction. In this paper, we present our work on algorithmic modulation of robot bodily movement to control dominance expression. We developed a parameter-based model for body expansiveness. This model was applied to a variety of behaviours and evaluated by human observers in two different studies with respectively static postures (N=772) and gestures (N=31). Modulation of body expansiveness proved to robustly influence perceived dominance independent of behaviour and viewing angles.","PeriodicalId":112642,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115078516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Can I Agree with You Better?","authors":"Mei Si","doi":"10.1145/3308532.3329447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329447","url":null,"abstract":"This work investigates how to automatically create wordplay during small talk, and use wordplay to make the conversation more engaging. In small talk, conversational partners often agree with each other. We hypothesize that using wordplay in the responses will make the speaker seem more engaged and the dialogue exchange more entertaining. An empirical study was conducted and the hypotheses are largely supported.","PeriodicalId":112642,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115357011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Kantharaju, A. Pease, D. Reidsma, C. Pelachaud, Mark Snaith, Merijn Bruijnes, R. Klaassen, Tessa Beinema, Gerwin Huizing, Donatella Simonetti, D. Heylen, H. O. D. Akker
{"title":"Integrating Argumentation with Social Conversation between Multiple Virtual Coaches","authors":"R. Kantharaju, A. Pease, D. Reidsma, C. Pelachaud, Mark Snaith, Merijn Bruijnes, R. Klaassen, Tessa Beinema, Gerwin Huizing, Donatella Simonetti, D. Heylen, H. O. D. Akker","doi":"10.1145/3308532.3329450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329450","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents progress and challenges in developing a platform for multi-character, argumentation based, interaction with a group of virtual coaches for healthcare advice and promotion of healthy behaviours. Several challenges arise in the development of such a platform, e.g., choosing the most effective way of utilising argumentation between the coaches with multiple perspectives, handling the presentation of these perspectives and finally, the personalisation and adaptation of the platform to the user types. In this paper, we present the three main challenges recognized, and show how we aim to address these.","PeriodicalId":112642,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130644730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patrick Gebhard, T. Schneeberger, Gregor Mehlmann, Tobias Baur, E. André
{"title":"Designing the Impression of Social Agents' Real-time Interruption Handling","authors":"Patrick Gebhard, T. Schneeberger, Gregor Mehlmann, Tobias Baur, E. André","doi":"10.1145/3308532.3329435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329435","url":null,"abstract":"Human interaction partners can deal with interruptions and then resume the interaction. This ability should be emulated by social agents. How fast interruptions are handled might influence the overall impression of an agent. In this paper, we present the results of a user study on how a human dialog partner perceives the be- havior of a virtual agent handling verbal user interruptions with different reaction times. The study goes beyond typical perception experiments by preserving the real-time interaction experience. For the evaluation, we rely on a parametrizable parallelized computa- tional model that represents dialog flow, overlap detection, conflict recognition, and conflict handling in real-time. The evaluation re- sults show that the timing of the agent's interruption handling in interactive human-agent dialogues is related to different interper- sonal attitudes.","PeriodicalId":112642,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","volume":"349 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114742115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Falala-Séchet, L. Antoine, I. Thiriez, C. Bungener
{"title":"Owlie","authors":"C. Falala-Séchet, L. Antoine, I. Thiriez, C. Bungener","doi":"10.1145/3308532.3329416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329416","url":null,"abstract":"We’ll first outline the problems faced by patients coping with psychological problems (amount of time between sessions, difficulties in the everyday life, difficulty accessing care or certain types of therapy, isolation). Then, we’ll talk about how we wanted to respond to these challenges in a creative way. We’ll explain how Owlie was created empirically, through a continuous dialogue with users. We’ll discuss our methodology as well as our processes for creating content and creating the personality of our conversational agent. We’ll also talk about the feedback we’ve received from people who have used Owlie and how Owlie is used. We’ll also address how Owlie can be incorporated into treatment programs (at the beginning of a treatment program, during, and at the end of program), give recommendations, and discuss Owlie’s limitations. And finally, we’ll touch on the vital ethical questions surrounding the use of new tools like, such as Owlie, such as: what","PeriodicalId":112642,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121978499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Mancini, Béatrice Biancardi, Soumia Dermouche, Paul Lerner, C. Pelachaud
{"title":"Managing Agent's Impression Based on User's Engagement Detection","authors":"M. Mancini, Béatrice Biancardi, Soumia Dermouche, Paul Lerner, C. Pelachaud","doi":"10.1145/3308532.3329442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329442","url":null,"abstract":"When interacting with others, we form an impression that can be declined along the two psychological dimensions of warmth and competence. By managing them, high level of engagement in an interaction can be maintained and reinforced. Our aim is to develop a virtual agent that can form and maintain a positive impression on the user that can help in improving the quality of the interaction and the user's experience. In this paper, we present an interactive system in which a virtual agent adopts a dynamic communication strategy during the interaction with a user, aiming at forming and maintaining a positive impression of warmth and competence. The agent continuously analyzes user's non-verbal signals to determine user's engagement level and adapts its communication strategy accordingly. We present a study in which we manipulate the communication strategy of the agent and we measure user's experience and user's perception of the agent's warmth and competence.","PeriodicalId":112642,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","volume":"60 24","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120817490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addressing Public Speaking Anxiety in Real-time Using a Virtual Public Speaking Coach and Physiological Sensors","authors":"Everlyne Kimani, T. Bickmore","doi":"10.1145/3308532.3329409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329409","url":null,"abstract":"Oral presentations are important and challenging tasks that most people struggle with due to public speaking anxiety. Virtual agents have been shown to be effective communication skills training coaches and effective as virtual audiences for inducing anxiety in public speaking exposure therapy. To date, there are fewer research interventions, including virtual agents, that are designed to assist presenters manage their anxiety in real-time during presentations. Our research attempts to fill this gap by exploring ways in which technologies, including virtual agents, can help reduce anxiety during presentations. To help presenters manage their anxiety, we will design and evaluate an automated real-time framework for detecting public speaking anxiety and explore behavioral just-in-time techniques that presenters can use while presenting. Our automated framework will be guided by a physiological detection model, use a virtual agent as the user interface, and will assist presenters during their presentation.","PeriodicalId":112642,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126123202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Szilas, Lucie A. Chauveau, Kasper Andkjaer, Anna Laura Luiu, Mireille Bétrancourt, Frédéric Ehrler
{"title":"Virtual Patient Interaction via Communicative Acts","authors":"N. Szilas, Lucie A. Chauveau, Kasper Andkjaer, Anna Laura Luiu, Mireille Bétrancourt, Frédéric Ehrler","doi":"10.1145/3308532.3329457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329457","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of assisting informal caregivers of Alzheimer Disease patients, this article presents the design and preliminary implementation of a serious game in which two agents -a user-controlled caregiver and a virtual patient- communicate via specifically-designed dialog acts, reflecting both pedagogically appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.","PeriodicalId":112642,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128363226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a Platform for RNN Driven Multimodal Interaction with Embodied Conversational Agents","authors":"Hung-Hsuan Huang, Masato Fukuda, T. Nishida","doi":"10.1145/3308532.3329448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329448","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes our ongoing project to build a platform that enables real-time multimodal interaction with embodied conversational agents. All of the components are in modular design and can be switched to other models easily. A prototype listener agent has been developed upon the platform. Its spontaneous reactive behaviors are trained from a multimodal data corpus collected in a human-human conversation experiment. Two Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) based models are switched when the agent is speaking or is not speaking. These models generate the agent's facial expressions, head movements, and postures from the corresponding behaviors of the human user in real-time. Benefits from the flexible design, the utterance generation part can be an autonomous dialogue manager with hand crafted rules, an on-line chatbot engine, or a human operator.","PeriodicalId":112642,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129010795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Framework for Authoring Repeatable Scenarios in Virtual Environments Populated with Stochastic Virtual Agents","authors":"Y. Papelis, G. Watson, M. Croll","doi":"10.1145/3308532.3329432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329432","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual Environments (VEs) are used extensively for training systems because of their ability to provide interactive experiences. Effective use of such environments requires the ability to generate consistent scenarios, which involve one or more realistic yet repeatable interactions between the trainee and the virtual humans in the training environment. This paper presents a framework that facilitates the development of rich interactive scenarios between one or more virtual humans and a trainee. The framework utilizes a scenario authoring system with runtime elements that ensure the trainee encounters realistic and stochastic, yet repeatable, well-orchestrated and precisely choreographed situations to meet specific training goals. Core elements of the framework include the use of probabilistic state machines for controlling the behavior of virtual elements along with triggers which ensure pre-determined outcomes even when utilizing stochastic behavioral models for the virtual humans.","PeriodicalId":112642,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125728917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}