Schedule

Here you can find the currently planned schedule for the activities of each day of the conference. The schedule may suffer changes, so visit often to keep up to date.

Program at a Glance

Detailed Program

Below is a detailed schedule of the event. This program is subject to changes. Make sure to check back on it closer to and during the event. You can also download a PDF version of this schedule here.

Tuesday, Sep 6

8:30	Registration
9:00	Tutorial (T1) – Open-Task Multimodal Conversational Assistants (PART I) João Magalhães and Rafael Ferreira	Doctoral Consortium (Check detailed Program)
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Tutorial (T1) – Open-Task Multimodal Conversational Assistants (PART II) João Magalhães and Rafael Ferreira	Doctoral Consortium (Check detailed Program)
12:30	Lunch Break
14:00	Tutorial (T2)- FAtiMA-Toolkit: An accessible tool for the development of socio-emotional agents (PART I) Manuel Guimarães, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos and Joana Campos	Doctoral Consortium (Check detailed Program)
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Tutorial (T2)- FAtiMA-Toolkit: An accessible tool for the development of socio-emotional agents (PART II) Manuel Guimarães, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos and Joana Campos	Doctoral Consortium (Check detailed Program)
17:30	End of Day

Wednesday, Sep 7

8:30	Registration
9:30	Welcome – Opening Session
10:00	KEYNOTE Claudio Pinhanez “New Challenges and Opportunities in Conversational Agents”
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Session 1: Creating IVAs Chair: Jonathan Gratch
	The Artificial-Social-Agent Questionnaire: Establishing the long and short questionnaire versions Siska Fitrianie, Merijn Bruijnes, Fengxiang Li, Amal Abdulrahman and Willem-Paul Brinkman
	Comprehensive Guidelines for Emotion Annotation Md. Adnanul Islam, Md. Saddam Hossain Mukta, Patrick Olivier and Md. Mahbubur Rahman
	Re-Architecting the Virtual Human Toolkit: Towards an Interoperable Platform for Embodied Conversational Agent Research and Development Arno Hartholt, Ed Fast, Zongjian Li, Kevin Kim, Andrew Leeds and Sharon Mozgai
12:30	Lunch Break
14:00	Session 2: Health and Dialogue Chair: Dirk Heylen
	Increasing Resilience and Preventing Suicide: Training and Interventions with a Distressed Virtual Human in Virtual Reality Tal Nakash, Tom Haller, Maya Shekel, Dan Pollak, Moti Lewenchuse, Anat Brunstein Klomek and Doron Friedman
	Can We Talk About Bruno? Exploring Virtual Human Counselors’ Spoken Accents and Their Impact on Users’ Conversations Pedro Guillermo Feijóo-García, Mohan Zalake, Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira and Benjamin Lok
	A virtual human interaction using scaffolded ping-pong feedback for healthcare learners to practice empathy skills Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Anokhi Bafna, Jenelle Richards, Devon Peterkin, Megan L. Rogers, Adriana Foster, Igor Galynker and Benjamin Lok
	Training Lay Counselors with Virtual Agents to Promote Vaccination  Prasanth Murali, Farnaz Nouraei, Mina Fallah, Aisling Kearns, Keith Rebello, Teresa O’Leary, Rebecca Perkins, Natalie Pierre Joseph, Julien Dedier, Michael Paasche-Orlow and Timothy Bickmore
16:00	Demo Madness Chair: Nuno Garcia (*) Demo Papers in the Conference Proceedings
	A Realistic, Multimodal Virtual Agent for the Healthcare Domain (*) Guido M. Linders, Julija Vaitonytė, Maryam Alimardani, Kiril O. Mitev and Max M. Louwerse
	Multimodal Adaptive Empathic Agent Architecture (*) Mukesh Barange, Sandratra Rasendrasoa, Mael Bouabdelli, Julien Saunier and Alexandre Pauchet
	Reusable Virtual Coach for Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity Coaching (*) Walter Baccinelli, Sven van der Burg, Robin Richardson, Bouke Scheltinga, Nele Albers, Djura Smits, Cunliang Geng, Willem-Paul Brinkman, Jasper Reenalda, Eline Meijer and Lars Ridder
	Affective Agents in Augmented Reality: Integrating FAtiMA and Hololens 2 Manuel Guimarães, Joana Campos, João Dias and Pedro A. Santos
	Animated Avatars in a Negotiation Game Lindsey Schweitzer, James Hale, Edward Fast, Johnathan Mell and Jonathan Gratch
	Examining the Impact of Emotion and Agency on Negotiator Behavior Eugene Lee, Zachary McNulty, Alex Gentle, Prerak Tusharkumar Pradhan and Jonathan Gratch
	Extending the Menge Crowd Simulation Framework: Visual Authoring in Unity Michelangelo Diamanti and Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson
	Human-agent teamwork in grid world scenarios developed with MATRX package Carolina Centeio Jorge, Myrthe L. Tielman and Catholijn M. Jonker
	Playing the “Taboo” Game with a Virtual Agent Ronald Cumbal
	Presenting Bot – Interactive agents with data-driven gestures Yuan He, André Tiago Abelho Pereira and Taras Kucherenko
16:30	Coffee Break
17:00	Demo Showcase
19:00	End of Day

Thursday, Sep 8

8:30	Registration
9:00	KEYNOTE Ruth Aylett “Expressive behavior, social signals, and embodiment”
10:00	Coffee Break
10:30	Session 3: Social Adaptation & Emotion Chair: Carlos Martinho
	Impact of Adaptive Multimodal Empathic Behavior on the User Interaction Mukesh Barange, Sandratra Rasendrasoa, Maël Bouabdelli, Julien Saunier and Alexandre Pauchet
	Don’t Walk Between Us: Adherence to Social Conventions When Joining a Small Conversational Group of Agents Alessandro Iop, Sahba Zojaji and Christopher Peters
	A Cautionary Tale of Side-by-side Evaluations while Developing Emotional Expression for Intelligent Virtual Agents Ricardo Rodrigues, Ricardo Silva, Ricardo Pereira and Carlos Martinho
	Preference Interdependencies in a Multi-Issue Salary Negotiation James Hale, Peter Kim and Jonathan Gratch
	How does a virtual human earn your trust? Guidelines to improve willingness to self-disclose to intelligent virtual agents Christopher You, Rashi Ghosh, Andrew Maxim, Jacob Stuart, Eric Cooks and Benjamin Lok
12:30	Lunch Break
14:00	Session 4: Behavior Generation Chair: Catherine Pelachaud
	Tunable Tension for Gesture Animation Michael Neff
	Shaping unbalanced multi-party interactions through adaptive robot backchannels Ronald Cumbal, Daniel Alexander Kazzi, Vincent Winberg and Olov Engwall
	Evaluating Data-Driven Co-Speech Gestures of Embodied Conversational Agents through Real-Time Interaction Yuan He, André Tiago Abelho Pereira and Taras Kucherenko
15:00	IVA Awards Nominations
15:30	Poster Madness Chair: Ana Paula Claudio
	Adapting conversational strategies to co-optimize agent’s task performance and user’s engagement Lucie Galland, Florian Pecune and Catherine Pelachaud
	Agent’s belief in human teammate’s trustworthiness Carolina Centeio Jorge, Myrthe Tielman and Catholijn Jonker
	Boiling the Frog: Ethical and Behavioral impacts of Technological Exposure and Availability Noah Ari, Nusrath Jahan and Johnathan Mell
	Determining Most Suitable Listener Backchannel Type for Speaker’s Utterance Akira Morikawa, Ryo Ishii, Hajime Noto, Atsushi Fukayama and Takao Nakamura
	Errare humanum est? A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Human-Likeness of a AI Othello Playing Agent Enrico Lauletta, Beatrice Biancardi, Antonio Norelli, Maurizio Mancini and Alessandro Panconesi
	Examining the Impact of Emotion and Agency on Negotiator Behavior Eugene Lee, Zachary McNulty, Alex Gentle, Prerak Tusharkumar Pradhan and Jonathan Gratch
	Exploring the Uncanny Valley with Furhat Annika Silvervarg and Isabella Ågren
	Extending the Menge Crowd Simulation Framework: Visual Authoring in Unity Michelangelo Diamanti and Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson
	Motivating Health Behavior Change with a Storytelling Virtual Agent Hye Sun Yun, Matias Volonte and Timothy Bickmore
	Negotiation Game to Introduce Non-linear Utility James Hale, Harsh Jalan, Nidhi Saini, Shao Ling Tan, Junhyuck Woo and Jonathan Gratch
	Pose Augmentation: Mirror The Right Way Jonathan Windle, David Greenwood, Sarah Taylor and Iain Matthews
	Towards a Comprehensive Repair Framework for Human-Chatbot Interaction Failure: The Case of Rephrasing Alina Asisof
	Towards a Sentiment-Aware Conversational Agent Isabel Dias, Ricardo Rei, Patricia Pereira and Luísa Coheur
16:00	Coffee Break & Poster Session
18:00	End of Poster Session
19:30	Welcome Drink (“Porto de Honra”) Location: Faro Story Spot
20:00	Social Event / Dinner Location: Tertúlia Algarvia

Friday, Sep 9

9:30	Session 5: Human Perception of IVAs Chair: Joana Campos
	Virtual Backlash: Nonverbal expression of dominance leads to less liking of dominant female versus male agents Janet Wessler, Tanja Schneeberger, Leon Christidis and Patrick Gebhard
	Building the Dream Team: Children’s Reactions to Virtual Agents that Model Collaborative Talk Joseph B. Wiggins, Toni V. Earle-Randell, Dolly Bounajim, Yingbo Ma, Julianna Martinez Ruiz, Ruohan Liu, Mehmet Celepkolu, Maya Israel, Eric Wiebe, Collin F. Lynch and Kristy Elizabeth Boyer
	The Need for a Female Perspective in Designing Agent-based Negotiation Support Katja Bouman, Iulia Lefter, Laurens Rook, Catharine Oertel, Catholijn Jonker and Frances Brazier
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Effects of Rhetorical Strategies and Skin Tones on Agent Persuasiveness in Assisted Decision-Making Amama Mahmood and Chien-Ming Huang
	“I have an idea!”. Enhancing Children’s Verbal Creativity through Repeated Interactions with a Virtual Robot Natalia Calvo-Barajas and Ginevra Castellano
	Personality Analysis of Face Swaps: Can They be Used as Avatars? Leslie Wöhler, Susana Castillo and Marcus Magnor
12:00	Session 6: Industry Track Chair: Tiago Ribeiro
	More than buttons on controllers: engaging social interactions in narrative VR games through social attitudes detection Georgiana Cristina Dobre, Marco Gillies, David C. Ranyard, Russell Harding and Xueni Pan Industry Forum Bridging the gap between Academia and Industry: how technology innovation can spark into the industry faster. This will be a participatory forum session where all conference attendees are invited to participate. It will be a semi-guided discussion headed by a panel of speakers and subject to change direction based on the questions from the audience.  Forum Speakers: Tiago Ribeiro Senior Research Engineer, Autonomous Animation Soul Machines Veronica Orvalho CEO Didimo, Prof. Universidade do Porto Nuno Galandim Head of Conversational AI Two Impulse Cristina Dobre PhD Researcher Goldsmiths, University of London (part of IGGI CDT)
13:00	IVA Awards
13:30	Closing session / Next IVA reveal