IVA'03 Conference Programme, Sept. 15 -17

The conference starts at about 8:45 am on Monday 15th and closes in the afternoon on Wedenesday 17th September. This page provides an overview on the scheduled sessions and presentations (L = long paper / S = short paper). Presentation slots are 20 minutes for Long Papers and 10 minutes for Short Papers including time for some immediate questions. To foster lively discussions, each session will conclude with a discussion round.

Since we have a tight schedule we have to be rather strict and won't allow presenters to exceed their presentation slot. For those who plan to present their work via slides (PPT etc.) experience shows that a total of about 15 slides is a good landmark for Long Presentations while 6-8 slides may be prepared for Short Presentations. You can ommit long-winded general motivations since all IVA attendees are experts in the field. Also, we encourage presenters to consider other presentation forms, e.g., to show video-clips or to give short live demos of their work. Finally, there is plenty of space for posters. So feel free to bring a poster in addition to your paper presentation.

Hyperlinks to the papers are intentionally disabled to avoid copy-right conflicts, sorry.

Sunday, September 14
20:00 -	Guided tour through the monastery Kloster Irsee

Monday, September 15
08:45-09:00	Welcome Note by the IVA Orgnaisers
09:00-10:35	Session 1: Interface Agents and Conversational Agents
No.	Title	Author(s)	Category
1	Happy Chatbot Happy User	G. Tatai, L. Laufer, A. Csordas, A. Kiss, A. Szalo	Long
2	Interactive Agents Learning Their Environment	M. Hildebrand, A. Eliens, Z. Huang, C. Visser	Long
3	Socialite in Spittelberg: Incorporating animated conversation into a web-based community-building tool	B. Krenn, B. Neumayr	System /Short
4	FlurMax: An Interactive Virtual Agent for Entertaining By-Passers in a Hallway	B. Jung, S. Kopp	System /Short
5	When H. C. Andersen is not talking back	N.O. Bernsen	System /Short
6	Session Discussion
10:35-11:00	Break
11:00-13:00	Session 2: Emotion and Believability
1	Emotion in Intelligent Virtual Agents: the Flow Model of Emotion	L. Morgado, G. Gaspar	Long
2	The Social Credit Assignment Problem	W. Mao, J. Gratch	Long
3	Adding the Emotional Dimension to Scripting Character Dialogues	P. Gebhard, M. Kipp, M. Klesen, T. Rist	Long
4	Synthetic Emotension: Building Believability	C. Martinho, M. Gomes, A. Paiva	Short
5	FantasyA - The Duel of Emotions	R. Prada, M. Vala, A. Paiva, K. Hook, A. Bullock	Short
6	Double Bind Situations in Man-Machine Interation under Contexts of Mental Therapy	T. Nomura	Short
7	Session Discussion
13:00-14:15	Lunch Break
14:15-16:15	Session 3: Expressive Animation
1	Happy Characters Don't Feel Well in Sad Bodies"	M. Vala, A. Paiva, M.R. Gomes	Long
2	Reusable gestures for interactive web agents	Z. Ruttkay, Z. Huang, A. Eliens	Long
3	A model of Interpersonal Attitude and Posture Generation	M. Gillies, D. Ballin	Short
4	Modelling Gaze Behaviour for Conversational Agents	C. Pelachaud, M. Bilvi	Long
5	A Layered Dynamic Emotion Representation for the Creation of Complex Facial Expressions	E. Tanguy, P. Willis, J. Bryson	Short
6	Eye-contact Based Communication Protocol in Human-Agent Interaction	H. Nonaka, M. Kurihara	Short
7	Session Discussion
16:15-16:45	Break
16:45-18:15	Session 4: Embodiment and Situatedness
1	Embodied in a look: Bridging the gap between humans and avatars	N. Courty, G. Breton, D. Pele	Long
2	Modelling Accessibility of Embodied Agents for Multi-Modal Dialogue in Complex Virtual Worlds	D. Sampath, J. Rickel	Long
3	Bridging the Gap Between Language and Action	T. Tokunaga, T. Koyama, S. Saito and M. Okumura	Long
4	VideoDims as a Framework for Digital Immortality Applications	D. DeGroot	Short / System
5	Session Discussion
18:45	Dinner
20:30-21:30	Posters and System Demonstrations

Tuesday, September 16
08:45-10:35	Session 5: Motion Planning
1	Motion Path Synthesis for Intelligent Avatar	Liu Feng, Ronghua Liang	Long
2	"Is it in my Reach?" - An Agents Perspective	Z. Huang, A. Eliens, C. Visser	Long
3	Simulating Virtual Humans Across Diverse Situations	Brian Mac Namee, Simon Dobbyn, Padraig Cunningham, Carol O'Sullivan	Short
4	A Model for Generating and Animating Groups of Virtual Agents	M.B. Villamil, S.R. Musse, L.P.L. de Oliveira	Short
5	Scripting Choreographies	S.M. Gruenvogel, S. Schwichtenberg	Sytem / Short
6	Behavioural Animation of Autonomous Virtual Agents helped by Reinforcement Learning	T. Conde, W. Tambellini, D. Thalmann	Short
7	Session Discussion
10:35-11:00	Break
11:00-13:00	Session 6: Modells, Architectures, and Tools
1	Comparing Different Control Architectures for Autobiographic Agents in Static Virtual Environments	Wan Ching Ho, K. Dautenhahn, C.L. Nehaniv	Long
2	KGBot: A BDI Agent Deploying within a Complex 3D Virtual Environment	In-Cheol Kim	Short
3	Using the BDI Architecture to Produce Autonomous Characters in Virtual Worlds	J. Torres, L. Nedel, R.H. Bordini	Short
4	Programmable Agent Perception in Intelligent Virtual Environments	S. Vosinakis, T. Panayiotopoulos	Short
5	Mediating Action and Music with Augmented Grammars	P. Casella, A. Paiva	Short
6	Charisma Cam: A Prototype of an Intelligent Digital Sensory Organ for Virtual Humans	M. Bechinie, K. Grammer	System / Short
7	Designing Commercial Applications with Life-Like Characters (Invited Session Talk)	A. Reinecke	Long
8	Session Discussion
13:00-14:15	Lunch Break
14:15-15:25	Session 7: Mobile and Portable IVAs
1	Edutainment Agents for the Personal Exploration\\ of Active Cultural Heritage (Invited Session Talk)	A. Krueger	Long
2	Agent Chameleons: Virtual Agents Real Intelligence	G. O'Hare, B.R. Duffy, B. Schoen, A.N. Martin, J.F. Bradley	Long
3	A Scripting Language for Multimodal Presentation on Mobile Phones	S. Saeyor, S. Mukherjee, K. Uchiyama, M. Ishizuka	Short
4	Session Discussion
15:25-16:05	Session 8a: Narration and storytelling
1	Interacting with Virtual Agents in Mixed Reality Interactive Storytelling (Invited Session Talk)	M. Cavazza, O. Martin, F. Charles, S.J. Mead, X. Marichal	Long
2	An Autonomous Real-Time Camera Agent for Interactive Narratives and Games	A. Hornung, G. Lakemeyer, G. Trogemann	Long
16:05-16:30	Break
16:30-18:15	Session 8b: Narration and storytelling
3	Solving the narrative paradox in VEs - lessons from RPGs	S. Louchart, R. Aylett	Short
4	That's my Point! Telling Stories from a Virtual Guide Perspective	J. Ibanez, R. Aylett, R. Ruiz-Rodarte	Short
5	Virtual Actors in Interactive Storytelling	I. Iurgel	Short
6	Symbolic Acting in a Virtual Narrative Environment	L. Schaefer, B. Bokan, A. Oldroyd	Short
7	Enhancing Believability using Affective Cinematograhy	J. Laaksolathi, N. Bergmark, E. Hedlund	Short
8	Agents with no aims: Motivation-driven continous planning	N. Avradinis, R. Aylett	Short
9	Session Discussion
18:45 -	Beer Tasting at the Kloster Brewery
19:30 -	Dinner

Wednesday, September 17
08:45-10:35	Session 9: Evaluation and Design Methodologies
1	Embodiement and Interaction Design Guidelines for Designing Credible, Trustworthy Embodied Conversational Agents	A. Cowell, K.M. Stanney	Long
2	Analysis of Virtual Agent Communities by Means of AI Techniques and Visualization	D. Kadlecek, D. Rehor, P. Nahodil, P. Slavik	Long
3	Persona Effect Revisited. Using Bio-signals to Measure and Reflect the Impact of Character-based Interfaces"	H. Prendinger, S. Mayer, J. Mori, M. Ishizuka	Long
4	Effects of embodied interface agents and their gestural activity	N.C. Kraemer, B. Tietz, G. Bente	Long
5	A Study into the Believability of Animated Characters in the Context of Bullying Intervention	S. Woods, L. Hall, D. Sobral, K. Dautenhahn, D. Wolke	Short
6	Embodied Conversational Agents: effects on memory performance and anthropomorphism	R.J. Beun, E. de Vos, C. Witteman	Short
7	Agents across Cultures	S. Payr, R. Trappl	Short
8	Session Discussion
10:35-11:00	Break
11:00-13:00	Session 10: Education and Training
1	Key Note Speech "Interactive Pedagogical Drama: Carmen's Bright IDEAS Assessed"	S. Marsella
2	Steve Meets Jack: the Integration of an Intelligent Tutor and a Virtual Environment with Planning Capabilities	G. Mendez, J. Rickel, A. de Antonio	Long
3	Machiavellian Characters and the Edutainment Paradox	D. Sobral, I. Machado, A. Paiva	Long
4	Socially Intelligent Tutor Agents	D. Heylen, A. Nijholt, R. op den Akker, M. Vissers	Short
5	Multi-modal Training between Agents	M. Rehm	Short
End of IVA 2003
13:00	Lunch Break
14:30 -	VICTEC Workshop Special Sponsored Session on Pedagogical Agents (organised by Ruth Aylett and Ana Paiva

Posters (can be displayed from Monday till Wednesday)
1	Intelligent Camera Direction in Virtual Storytelling	B. Bokan, L. Schaefer	Poster
2	Exploring Agent-Driven 3D Learning Environment for Computer Graphics Education	Weihua Hu, Jiejie Zhu, Zhigeng Pan	Poster
3	An efficient synthetic vision system for 3D multi-character systems	M. Lozano, R. Lucia, F. Barber, F. Grimaldo, A. Lucas, A.F. Bisquerra	Poster
4	Avatar Arena: Virtual Group Dynamics in Multi-Character Negotiation Scenarios	M. Schmitt, T. Rist	Demo
5	Emotional Behavior Animation of Virtual Human in Intelligent Environment	Zhen Liu, Zhi Geng Pan	Poster
6	Empathic Virtual Agents	C. Zoll, S. Enz, H. Schaub	Poster
7	Introducing a Multi-Agent System Based on Emotional Learning Algorithm	R. Daneshvar, C. Lucas	Poster
8	GESTYLE: Doing the same in different styles	H. Noot, Z. Ruttkay	Poster
9	Automated Interactive Storytelling	J. de Lemos and A. Acs	Poster
10	Lexicle CS -- a commercial ECA	D. Jackson, S. Manandhar, P. Olivier, C. Wiggins	Poster + Demo
...	Presenters of Long and Short Papers are invited to bring additional posters about their work on IVA's for display during the coference		Poster