Intelligent Virtual Agents
13th International Conference, IVA 2013, Edinburgh, UK, August 29-31, 2013. Proceedings
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Modeling Trust and Empathy for Socially Interactive Robots
This chapter examines how notions of trust and empathy can be applied to human–robot interaction and how it can be used to create the next generation of emphatic agents, which address some of the pressing issues ...
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Do You Think I Approve of That? Designing Facial Expressions for a Robot
This paper discusses initial work with a broad age range neuro-typical sample (N \(=\) ...
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The Interaction Between Voice and Appearance in the Embodiment of a Robot Tutor
Robot embodiment is, by its very nature, holistic and understanding how various aspects contribute to the user perception of the robot is non-trivial. A study is presented here that investigates whether there ...
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Open AccessModeling culture in intelligent virtual agents
This work addresses the challenge of creating virtual agents that are able to portray culturally appropriate behavior when interacting with other agents or humans. Because culture influences how people perceiv...
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Games Robots Play: Once More, with Feeling
In this chapter we first examine the requirements for social game-play robots in three game scenario types: robot play companions, robots and digitised games, robots and augmented reality. We consider issues r...
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Learning to Overcome Cultural Conflict through Engaging with Intelligent Agents in Synthetic Cultures
Providing opportunities for children to engage with intercultural learning has frequently focused on exposure to the ritual, celebrations and festivals of cultures, with the view that such experiences will res...
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Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous Synthetic Characters
This paper discusses the process of creating agents that are capable of socially interacting with each other and forming groups in a similar way to humans, without losing their autonomy. Our approach is to mod...
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Investigating Narrative Modelling for Digital Games
In this article, we discuss the notion of context from the perspective of narrative articulation or authorial trajectories in digital games. We conduct a survey of narrative contextual considerations in digita...
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From Non-human to Human: Adult’s and Children’s Perceptions of Agents Varying in Humanness
While most interface agents have been designed from an adult perspective, the present paper compares adults’ and children’s views of agents that vary in their degree of humanness. Four synthetic characters ran...
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The Partial Poker-Face
Research on emotional expressive embodiments for simulated affective behavior resulted in impressive systems allowing for characters being perceived as more natural. In consequence we want to explore what happ...
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Off the Beaten Track! The Infinite Scotland Serious Game Design Approach
In this article, we discuss the development of the Infinite Scotland Facebook serious game. The Infinite Scotland serious game was supported by the Scottish National Heritage, Creative Scotland and Creative Se...
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A Step towards Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous Synthetic Characters
This paper discusses the ability of IVAs to show group behaviour and act as a team, increasing their ‘believability’ as groups. We discuss the modelling of group behaviour based on the theory of interpersonal ...
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Develo** Interactive Embodied Characters Using the Thalamus Framework: A Collaborative Approach
We address the situation of develo** interactive scenarios featuring embodied characters that interact with users through various types of media easily presents as a challenge. Some of the problems that deve...
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Erratum to: “FearNot!”: a computer-based anti-bullying-programme designed to foster peer intervention
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Suitability of Modelling Context for Use within Emergent Narrative
In Emergent Narrative it can be asked that without mandatory author-controlled way-points, how does a story remain emotionally significant to an interactive user? A plausible solution lies in the use of contex...
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Demonstrating SerenA: Chance Encounters in the Space of Ideas
We demonstrate SerenA, a multi-site, pervasive, agent environment that suppers serendipitous discovery in research. SerenA attempts to assist researchers by presenting them with information that they did not know...
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Traveller: An Interactive Cultural Training System Controlled by User-Defined Body Gestures
In this paper, we describe a cultural training system based on an interactive storytelling approach and a culturally-adaptive agent architecture, for which a user-defined gesture set was created. 251 full body...
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Towards Empathic Virtual and Robotic Tutors
Building on existing work on artificial tutors with human-like capabilities, we describe the EMOTE project approach to harnessing benefits of an artificial embodied tutor in a shared physical space. Embodied i...
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SerenA: A Multi-site Pervasive Agent Environment That Supports Serendipitous Discovery in Research
We present SerenA, a multi-site, pervasive, agent environment that suppers serendipitous discovery in research. The project starts from the premise that human users cannot be aware of all the research information...
