| 2016 | A Deep Learning Methodology for Semantic Utterance Classification in Virtual Human Dialogue Systems. Debajyoti Datta, Valentina Brashers, John Owen, Casey White, Laura E. Barnes |
| 2016 | A Design Proposition for Interactive Virtual Tutors in an Informed Environment. Joanna Taoum, Bilal Nakhal, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Ronan Querrec |
| 2016 | A Disclosure Intimacy Rating Scale for Child-Agent Interaction. Franziska Burger, Joost Broekens, Mark A. Neerincx |
| 2016 | A Distributed Intelligent Agent Approach to Context in Information Retrieval. Reginald L. Hobbs |
| 2016 | A Parameterized Schema for Representing Complex Gesture Forms. Huaguang Song, Michael Neff |
| 2016 | A Smartphone-Based Virtual Agent for Atrial Fibrillation Education and Counseling. Everlyne Kimani, Timothy W. Bickmore, Ha Trinh, Lazlo Ring, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Jared W. Magnani |
| 2016 | Acceptability of Embodied Conversational Agent in a Health Care Context. Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi, Patricia Sagaspe, Etienne de Sevin, Stéphanie Bioulac, Alain Sauteraud, Pierre Philip |
| 2016 | An Architecture for Biologically Grounded Real-Time Reflexive Behavior. Ulysses Bernardet, Mathieu Chollet, Steve DiPaola, Stefan Scherer |
| 2016 | An Enhanced Intelligent Agent with Image Description Generation. Ben Fielding, Philip Kinghorn, Kamlesh Mistry, Li Zhang |
| 2016 | An Exploratory Study Toward the Preferred Conversational Style for Compatible Virtual Agents. Ameneh Shamekhi, Mary Czerwinski, Gloria Mark, Margeigh Novotny, Gregory A. Bennett |
| 2016 | An Interactive Tangram Game for Children with Autism. Beatriz Bernardo, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Maria Graça Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2016 | Assessing Agreement in Human-Robot Dialogue Strategies: A Tale of Two Wizards. Matthew Marge, Claire Bonial, Kimberly A. Pollard, Ron Artstein, Brendan Byrne, Susan G. Hill, Clare R. Voss, David R. Traum |
| 2016 | Bidirectional LSTM Networks Employing Stacked Bottleneck Features for Expressive Speech-Driven Head Motion Synthesis. Kathrin Haag, Hiroshi Shimodaira |
| 2016 | Blissful Agents: Adjuncts to Group Medical Visits for Chronic Pain and Depression. Ameneh Shamekhi, Timothy W. Bickmore, Anna Lestoquoy, Lily Negash, Paula Gardiner |
| 2016 | CAAF: A Cognitive Affective Agent Programming Framework. Frank Kaptein, Joost Broekens, Koen V. Hindriks, Mark A. Neerincx |
| 2016 | Composing the Atmosphere of a Virtual Classroom with a Group of Student Agents. Masato Fukuda, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Naoki Ohta, Kazuhiro Kuwabara |
| 2016 | Cross Modal Evaluation of High Quality Emotional Speech Synthesis with the Virtual Human Toolkit. Blaise Potard, Matthew P. Aylett, David A. Baude |
| 2016 | Development of a Mobile Personal Health Guide for HIV-Infected African American MSM. Sangyoon Lee, Yifan Lu, Apurba Chakraborty, Mark S. Dworkin |
| 2016 | Development of a Virtual Classroom for High School Teacher Training. Hung-Hsuan Huang, Yuki Ida, Kohei Yamaguchi, Kyoji Kawagoe |
| 2016 | Do Avatars that Look Like Their Users Improve Performance in a Simulation? Gale M. Lucas, Evan Szablowski, Jonathan Gratch, Andrew W. Feng, Tiffany Huang, Jill Boberg, Ari Shapiro |
| 2016 | Evaluating Presence Strategies of Temporarily Required Virtual Assistants. Andrea Bönsch, Tom Vierjahn, Torsten W. Kuhlen |
| 2016 | Evaluating Social Attitudes of a Virtual Tutor. Florian Pecune, Angelo Cafaro, Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud |
| 2016 | Exploring the Impact of Environmental Effects on Social Presence with a Virtual Human. Kangsoo Kim, Ryan Schubert, Greg Welch |
| 2016 | Facial Expressions of Appraisals Displayed by a Virtual Storyteller for Children. Nesrine Fourati, Adeline Richard, Sylvain Caillou, Nicolas Sabouret, Jean-Claude Martin, Émilie Chanoni, Céline Clavel |
| 2016 | Familiarity Detection with the Component Process Model. Joseph P. Garnier, Jean-Charles Marty, Karim Sehaba |
| 2016 | Fast-Forwarding Crowd Simulations. Cliceres Mack Dal Bianco, Adriana Braun, Soraia Raupp Musse, Cláudio Rosito Jung, Norman I. Badler |
| 2016 | Generating Needs, Goals and Plans for Virtual Agents in Social Simulations. Anton Bogdanovych, Tomas Trescak |
| 2016 | How Students Perceive the Gender and Personality of a Visually Androgynous Agent. Annika Silvervarg |
| 2016 | Impact of Individual Differences on Affective Reactions to Pedagogical Agents Scaffolding. Sébastien Lallé, Nicholas V. Mudrick, Michelle Taub, Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Cristina Conati, Roger Azevedo |
| 2016 | Increasing Engagement with Virtual Agents Using Automatic Camera Motion. Lazlo Ring, Dina Utami, Stefan Olafsson, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2016 | Intelligent Virtual Agents - 16th International Conference, IVA 2016, Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 20-23, 2016, Proceedings David R. Traum, William R. Swartout, Peter Khooshabeh, Stefan Kopp, Stefan Scherer, Anton Leuski |
| 2016 | Interacting with Virtual Agents in Shared Space: Single and Joint Effects of Gaze and Proxemics. Jan Kolkmeier, Jered Vroon, Dirk Heylen |
| 2016 | Making AutoTutor Agents Smarter: AutoTutor Answer Clustering and Iterative Script Authoring. Zhiqiang Cai, Yan Gong, Qizhi Qiu, Xiangen Hu, Art Graesser |
| 2016 | Managing Dialog and Joint Actions for Virtual Basketball Teammates. Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2016 | Manipulating the Perception of Virtual Audiences Using Crowdsourced Behaviors. Mathieu Chollet, Nithin Chandrashekhar, Ari Shapiro, Louis-Philippe Morency, Stefan Scherer |
| 2016 | Multi-party Language Interaction in a Fast-Paced Game Using Multi-keyword Spotting. Jill Fain Lehman, Nikolas Wolfe, André Pereira |
| 2016 | On Constrained Local Model Feature Normalization for Facial Expression Recognition. Zhenglin Pan, Mihai Polceanu, Christine L. Lisetti |
| 2016 | Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations. Natasha Jaques, Yoo Lim Kim, Rosalind W. Picard |
| 2016 | Physical vs. Virtual Agent Embodiment and Effects on Social Interaction. Sam Thellman, Annika Silvervarg, Agneta Gulz, Tom Ziemke |
| 2016 | Playing with Social and Emotional Game Companions. Andry Chowanda, Martin Flintham, Peter Blanchfield, Michel F. Valstar |
| 2016 | Psychologically Based Virtual-Suspect for Interrogative Interview Training. Moshe Bitan, Galit Nahari, Zvi Nisin, Ariel Roth, Sarit Kraus |
| 2016 | Robots or Agents - Neither Helps You More or Less During Second Language Acquisition - Experimental Study on the Effects of Embodiment and Type of Speech Output on Evaluation and Alignment. Astrid M. Rosenthal-von der Pütten, Carolin Straßmann, Nicole C. Krämer |
| 2016 | Shyness Level and Sensitivity to Gaze from Agents - Are Shy People Sensitive to Agent's Gaze? Tomoko Koda, Masaki Ogura, Yu Matsui |
| 2016 | Simulink Toolbox for Real-Time Virtual Character Control. Ulysses Bernardet, Maryam Saberi, Steve DiPaola |
| 2016 | Socially-Aware Virtual Agents: Automatically Assessing Dyadic Rapport from Temporal Patterns of Behavior. Ran Zhao, Tanmay Sinha, Alan W. Black, Justine Cassell |
| 2016 | Talk to Me: Verbal Communication Improves Perceptions of Friendship and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interaction. Elena Corina Grigore, André Pereira, Ian Zhou, David Wang, Brian Scassellati |
| 2016 | The Benefits of Virtual Humans for Teaching Negotiation. Jonathan Gratch, David DeVault, Gale M. Lucas |
| 2016 | The Effect of Embodiment and Competence on Trust and Cooperation in Human-Agent Interaction. Philipp Kulms, Stefan Kopp |
| 2016 | The Effect of an Intelligent Virtual Agent's Nonverbal Behavior with Regard to Dominance and Cooperativity. Carolin Straßmann, Astrid M. Rosenthal-von der Pütten, Ramin Yaghoubzadeh, Raffael Kaminski, Nicole C. Krämer |
| 2016 | The Effects of a Robot's Nonverbal Behavior on Users' Mimicry and Evaluation. Nicole C. Krämer, Carina Edinger, Astrid M. Rosenthal-von der Pütten |
| 2016 | The LISSA Virtual Human and ASD Teens: An Overview of Initial Experiments. Seyedeh Zahra Razavi, Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Tristram H. Smith, Lenhart K. Schubert, Mohammed (Ehsan) Hoque |
| 2016 | Thinking Outside the Box: Co-planning Scientific Presentations with Virtual Agents. Ha Trinh, Darren Edge, Lazlo Ring, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2016 | This Is What's Important - Using Speech and Gesture to Create Focus in Multimodal Utterance. Farina Freigang, Stefan Kopp |
| 2016 | Topic Switch Models for Dialogue Management in Virtual Humans. Wenjue Zhu, Andry Chowanda, Michel F. Valstar |
| 2016 | Towards Personal Assistants that Can Help Users Plan. Peng Yu, Jiaying Shen, Peter Z. Yeh, Brian Charles Williams |
| 2016 | Translating Player Dialogue into Meaning Representations Using LSTMs. James Owen Ryan, Adam James Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin |
| 2016 | Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language. Natasha Jaques, Daniel McDuff, Yoo Lim Kim, Rosalind W. Picard |
| 2016 | User Engagement Study with Virtual Agents Under Different Cultural Contexts. Zhou Yu, Xinrui He, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky |
| 2016 | Using Multiple Storylines for Presenting Large Information Networks. Zev Battad, Mei Si |
| 2016 | Using Temporal Association Rules for the Synthesis of Embodied Conversational Agents with a Specific Stance. Thomas Janssoone, Chloé Clavel, Kevin Bailly, Gaël Richard |
| 2016 | Using Virtual Agents and Interactive Media to Create an ElectronixTutor for the Office of Naval Research. Whitney O. Baer, Qinyu Cheng, Cadarrius McGlown, Yan Gong, Zhiqiang Cai, Arthur C. Graesser |
| 2016 | Using Virtual Agents to Deliver Lessons in Reading Comprehension to Struggling Adult Learners. Whitney O. Baer, Qinyu Cheng, Cadarrius McGlown, Yan Gong, Zhiqiang Cai, Arthur C. Graesser |
| 2016 | Using Virtual Characters to Study Human Social Cognition. Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Xueni Pan, Paul Forbes, Joanna Hale |
| 2016 | Virtual Agents in the Classroom: Experience Fielding a Co-presenter Agent in University Courses. Timothy W. Bickmore, Ha Trinh, Michael Hoppmann, Reza Asadi |
| 2016 | Virtual Dreaming: Simulating Everyday Life of the Darug People. Tomas Trescak, Anton Bogdanovych, Simeon J. Simoff, Melissa Williams, Terry Sloan |
| 2016 | Virtual General Game Playing Agent. Hafdís Erla Helgadóttir, Svanhvít Jónsdóttir, Andri Már Sigurdsson, Stephan Schiffel, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson |
| 2016 | What Kind of Stories Should a Virtual Human Swap? Setareh Nasihati Gilani, Kraig Sheetz, Gale M. Lucas, David R. Traum |
| 2016 | flexdiam - Flexible Dialogue Management for Incremental Interaction with Virtual Agents (Demo Paper). Ramin Yaghoubzadeh, Stefan Kopp |