Intelligent virtual agents : 5th international working conference, IVA 2005, Kos, Greece, September 12-14, 2005 : proceedings / Themis Panayiotopoulos [and others] (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2005, held on Kos Island, Greece, September 12-14, 2005."

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IVAs and Education -- Training Agents: An Architecture for Reusability -- Ask & Answer: An Educational Game Where It Pays to Endear Your Capricious Virtual Companion -- Conversational Agents/NLP -- Natural Behavior of a Listening Agent -- Providing Computer Game Characters with Conversational Abilities -- Fight, Flight, or Negotiate: Believable Strategies for Conversing Under Crisis -- Dialog Simulation for Background Characters -- IVA Architectures -- INTERFACE Toolkit: A New Tool for Building IVAs -- Autonomous Virtual Agents Learning a Cognitive Model and Evolving -- Using Real Objects to Communicate with Virtual Characters -- A Software Engineering Approach Combining Rational and Conversational Agents for the Design of Assistance Applications -- Marve: A Prototype Virtual Human Interface Framework for Studying Human-Virtual Human Interaction -- Cognition, Reasoning and Behaviour -- A Knowledge-Based Scenario Framework to Support Intelligent Planning Characters -- CAA: A Context-Sensitive Agent Architecture for Dynamic Virtual Environments -- When Emotion Does Not Mean Loss of Control -- Social Situated Agents in Virtual, Real and Mixed Reality Environments -- Do You See What Eyes See? Implementing Inattentional Blindness -- Social Causality and Responsibility: Modeling and Evaluation -- NonVerbal Communication -- Teaching Virtual Characters How to Use Body Language -- Direction of Attention Perception for Conversation Initiation in Virtual Environments -- A Model of Attention and Interest Using Gaze Behavior -- Where Do They Look? Gaze Behaviors of Multiple Users Interacting with an Embodied Conversational Agent -- Hierarchical Motion Controllers for Real-Time Autonomous Virtual Humans -- Modeling Dynamic Perceptual Attention in Complex Virtual Environments -- Storytelling/Interactive Narrative -- An Objective Character Believability Evaluation Procedure for Multi-agent Story Generation Systems -- Proactive Mediation in Plan-Based Narrative Environments -- FearNot! -- An Experiment in Emergent Narrative -- Intelligent Virtual Agents in Collaborative Scenarios -- Social Intelligence -- A Conversational Agent as Museum Guide -- Design and Evaluation of a Real-World Application -- Using Ontology to Establish Social Context and Support Social Reasoning -- Integrating Social Skills in Task-Oriented 3D IVA -- Emotions/Affect/Personality -- Emergent Affective and Personality Model -- Judging Laura: Perceived Qualities of a Mediated Human Versus an Embodied Agent -- The Significance of Textures for Affective Interfaces -- Levels of Representation in the Annotation of Emotion for the Specification of Expressivity in ECAs -- Extended Behavior Networks and Agent Personality: Investigating the Design of Character Stereotypes in the Game Unreal Tournament -- Evaluation and Methodology -- Direct Manipulation Like Tools for Designing Intelligent Virtual Agents -- Social Communicative Effects of a Virtual Program Guide -- Maintaining the Identity of Dynamically Embodied Agents -- The Behavior Oriented Design of an Unreal Tournament Character -- MyTutor: A Personal Tutoring Agent -- Poster Session -- Using Facial Expressions Depicting Emotions in a Human-Computer Interface Intended for People with Autism -- A Survey of Computational Emotion Research -- A Study on Generating and Matching Facial Control Point Using Radial Basis Function -- A Platform Independent Architecture for Virtual Characters and Avatars -- GAL: Towards Large Simulations with Tens of Agents -- Virtual Agents in a Simulation of an ISO-Company -- Appraisal for a Character-Based Story-World -- Evolving Emotional Behaviour for Expressive Performance of Music -- A Model of an Embodied Emotional Agent -- Agent Assistance for 3D World Navigation -- NeXuS: Delivering Perceptions to Situated Embodied Agents -- Emotion in Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life Research: Facing Problems -- A Synthetic Agent for Mentoring Novice Programmers Within a Desktop Computer Environment -- vBroker: Agents Teaching Stock Market -- Emergence of Representational Structures in Virtual Agents.