Table of Contents

• Reusable virtual coach for smoking cessation and physical activity coachingWalter Baccinelli, Sven van der Burg, Robin A. Richardson, Djura Smits, Cunliang Geng, Lars Ridder, Bouke L. Scheltinga, Nele Albers, Willem-Paul Brinkman, Eline Meijer, Jasper Reenalda. [doi]
• A realistic, multimodal virtual agent for the healthcare domainGuido M. Linders, Julija Vaitonyte, Maryam Alimardani, Kiril O. Mitev, Max M. Louwerse. [doi]
• Towards a sentiment-aware conversational agentIsabel Dias, Ricardo Rei, Patrícia Pereira, Luísa Coheur. [doi]
• A virtual human interaction using scaffolded ping-pong feedback for healthcare learners to practice empathy skillsHeng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Anokhi Bafna, Devon Peterkin, Jenelle Richards, Megan L. Rogers, Adriana Foster, Igor Galynker, Benjamin Lok. [doi]
• The artificial-social-agent questionnaire: establishing the long and short questionnaire versionsSiska Fitrianie, Merijn Bruijnes, Fengxiang Li, Amal Abdulrahman, Willem-Paul Brinkman. [doi]
• Negotiation game to introduce non-linear utilityJames Hale, Harsh Jalan, Nidhi Saini, Shao Ling Tan, Junhyuck Woo, Jonathan Gratch. [doi]
• Adapting conversational strategies to co-optimize agent's task performance and user's engagementLucie Galland, Catherine Pelachaud, Florian Pecune. [doi]
• Re-architecting the virtual human toolkit: towards an interoperable platform for embodied conversational agent research and developmentArno Hartholt, Ed Fast, Zongjian Li, Kevin Kim, Andrew Leeds, Sharon Mozgai. [doi]
• Towards a comprehensive repair framework for human-chatbot interaction: the case of rephrasingAlina Asisof. [doi]
• The need for a female perspective in designing agent-based negotiation supportKatja Bouman, Iulia Lefter, Laurens Rook, Catherine Oertel, Catholijn M. Jonker, Frances M. T. Brazier. [doi]
• Assessing artificial trust in human-agent teams: a conceptual modelCarolina Centeio Jorge, Myrthe L. Tielman, Catholijn M. Jonker. [doi]
• Can we talk about bruno?: exploring virtual human counselors' spoken accents and their impact on users' conversationsPedro Guillermo Feijóo García, Mohan Zalake, Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok. [doi]
• Impact of adaptive multimodal empathic behavior on the user interactionMukesh Barange, Sandratra Rasendrasoa, Maël Bouabdelli, Julien Saunier, Alexandre Pauchet. [doi]
• A cautionary tale of side-by-side evaluations while developing emotional expression for intelligent virtual agentsRicardo Rodrigues 0005, Ricardo Silva, Ricardo Pereira, Carlos Martinho. [doi]
• Effects of rhetorical strategies and skin tones on agent persuasiveness in assisted decision-makingAmama Mahmood, Chien-Ming Huang 0001. [doi]
• Personality analysis of face swaps: can they be used as avatars?Leslie Wöhler, Susana Castillo 0001, Marcus A. Magnor. [doi]
• Extending the menge crowd simulation framework: visual authoring in unityMichelangelo Diamanti, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson. [doi]
• Training lay counselors with virtual agents to promote vaccinationPrasanth Murali, Farnaz Nouraei, Mina Fallah, Aisling Kearns, Keith Rebello, Teresa O'Leary, Rebecca Perkins, Natalie Pierre Joseph, Julien Dedier, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Timothy W. Bickmore. [doi]
• Multimodal adaptive empathic agent architectureMukesh Barange, Sandratra Rasendrasoa, Maël Bouabdelli, Julien Saunier, Alexandre Pauchet. [doi]
• Building the dream team: children's reactions to virtual agents that model collaborative talkJoseph B. Wiggins, Toni V. Earle-Randell, Dolly Bounajim, Yingbo Ma, Julianna Martinez Ruiz, Ruohan Liu, Mehmet Celepkolu, Maya Israel, Eric N. Wiebe, Collin F. Lynch, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer. [doi]
• Exploring humanlikeness and the uncanny valley with furhatIsabella Ågren, Annika Silvervarg. [doi]
• Comprehensive guidelines for emotion annotationMd. Adnanul Islam, Md. Saddam Hossain Mukta, Patrick Olivier, Md. Mahbubur Rahman. [doi]
• More than buttons on controllers: engaging social interactions in narrative VR games through social attitudes detectionGeorgiana Cristina Dobre, Marco Gillies, David C. Ranyard, Russell Harding, Xueni Pan. [doi]
• Shaping unbalanced multi-party interactions through adaptive robot backchannelsRonald Cumbal, Daniel Alexander Kazzi, Vincent Winberg, Olov Engwall. [doi]
• How does a virtual human earn your trust?: guidelines to improve willingness to self-disclose to intelligent virtual agentsChristopher You, Rashi Ghosh, Andrew Maxim, Jacob Stuart, Eric Cooks, Benjamin Lok. [doi]
• Errare humanum est?: a pilot study to evaluate the human-likeness of a AI othello playing agentEnrico Lauletta, Béatrice Biancardi, Antonio Norelli, Maurizio Mancini, Alessandro Panconesi. [doi]
• "I have an idea!": enhancing children's verbal creativity through repeated interactions with a virtual robotNatalia Calvo-Barajas, Ginevra Castellano. [doi]
• Preference interdependencies in a multi-issue salary negotiationJames Hale, Peter Kim, Jonathan Gratch. [doi]
• Boiling the frog: ethical and behavioral impacts of technological exposure and availabilityNoah Ari, Nusrath Jahan, Johnathan Mell. [doi]
• Motivating health behavior change with a storytelling virtual agentHye Sun Yun, Matias Volonte, Timothy W. Bickmore. [doi]
• Virtual backlash: nonverbal expression of dominance leads to less liking of dominant female versus male agentsJanet Wessler, Tanja Schneeberger, Leon Christidis, Patrick Gebhard. [doi]
• Increasing resilience and preventing suicide: training and interventions with a distressed virtual human in virtual realityTal Nakash, Tom Haller, Maya Shekel, Dan Pollak, Moti Lewenchuse, Anat Brunstein Klomek, Doron Friedman. [doi]
• Examining the impact of emotion and agency on negotiator behaviorEugene Lee, Zachary McNulty, Alex Gentle, Prerak Tusharkumar Pradhan, Jonathan Gratch. [doi]
• Evaluating data-driven co-speech gestures of embodied conversational agents through real-time interactionYuan He, André Pereira 0001, Taras Kucherenko. [doi]
• Determining most suitable listener backchannel type for speaker's utteranceAkira Morikawa, Ryo Ishii, Hajime Noto, Atsushi Fukayama, Takao Nakamura. [doi]
• Pose augmentation: mirror the right wayJonathan Windle, Sarah Taylor, David Greenwood 0001, Iain Matthews. [doi]
• Tunable tension for gesture animationMichael Neff. [doi]
• Don't walk between us: adherence to social conventions when joining a small conversational group of agentsAlessandro Iop, Sahba Zojaji, Christopher E. Peters. [doi]