| 2018 | A Systematic Survey of 15 Years of User Studies Published in the Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference. Nahal Norouzi, Kangsoo Kim, Jason Hochreiter, Myungho Lee, Salam Daher, Gerd Bruder, Greg Welch |
| 2018 | A User Simulator Architecture for Socially-Aware Conversational Agents. Alankar Jain, Florian Pecune, Yoichi Matsuyama, Justine Cassell |
| 2018 | A perceptual study on the manipulation of facial features for trait portrayal in virtual agents. Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell |
| 2018 | Accuracy of Perceiving Precisely Gazing Virtual Agents. Sebastian Loth, Gernot Horstmann, Corinnna Osterbrink, Stefan Kopp |
| 2018 | Adapted Foreigner-directed Communication towards Virtual Agents. Birgit Lugrin, Benjamin Eckstein, Kirsten Bergmann, Corinna Heindl |
| 2018 | Addressing Sexist Attitudes on a College Campus through Virtual Role-Play with Digital Doppelgangers. Ning Wang, David Schwartz, Gabrielle Lewine, Ari Shapiro, Andrew W. Feng, Cindy Zhuang |
| 2018 | Assessing the Impact of Virtual Human's Appearance on Users' Trust Levels. Mohan Zalake, Julia Woodward, Amanpreet Kapoor, Benjamin Lok |
| 2018 | Automatic Generation System of Virtual Agent's Motion using Natural Language. Ryo Ishii, Taichi Katayama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita |
| 2018 | Cultural Social Signal Interplay with an Expressive Robot. Peter E. McKenna, Ayan Ghosh, Ruth Aylett, Frank Broz, Gnanathusharan Rajendran |
| 2018 | Culture, Errors, and Rapport-building Dialogue in Social Agents. Gale M. Lucas, Jill Boberg, David R. Traum, Ron Artstein, Jonathan Gratch, Alesia Gainer, Emmanuel Johnson, Anton Leuski, Mikio Nakano |
| 2018 | Decision-Theoretic Personality-Based Reasoning about Turn-Taking Conflicts. Kathrin Janowski, Elisabeth André |
| 2018 | Do you see groups?: The impact of crowd density and viewpoint on the perception of groups. Fangkai Yang, Jack Shabo, Adam Qureshi, Christopher Peters |
| 2018 | Effects of Perceived Agency and Message Tone in Responding to a Virtual Personal Trainer. Gale M. Lucas, Nicole C. Krämer, Clara Peters, Lisa-Sophie Taesch, Johnathan Mell, Jonathan Gratch |
| 2018 | Effects of Posture and Embodiment on Social Distance in Human-Agent Interaction in Mixed Reality. Chengjie Li, Theofronia Androulakaki, Alex Yuan Gao, Fangkai Yang, Himangshu Saikia, Christopher Peters, Gabriel Skantze |
| 2018 | Emergence of efficient, coordinated solutions despite differences in agent ability during human-machine interaction: Demonstration using a multiagent "shepherding" task. Patrick Nalepka, Rachel W. Kallen, Maurice Lamb, Michael J. Richardson |
| 2018 | Enhancing Social Believability of Virtual Agents using Social Power Dynamics. Mojgan Hashemian, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Samuel Mascarenhas |
| 2018 | Evaluation of Speech-to-Gesture Generation Using Bi-Directional LSTM Network. Dai Hasegawa, Naoshi Kaneko, Shinichi Shirakawa, Hiroshi Sakuta, Kazuhiko Sumi |
| 2018 | FACSHuman a Software to Create Experimental Material by Modeling 3D Facial Expression. Michaël Gilbert, Samuel Demarchi, Isabel Urdapilleta |
| 2018 | FACSvatar: An Open Source Modular Framework for Real-Time FACS based Facial Animation. Stef van der Struijk, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Maryam Sadat Mirzaei, Toyoaki Nishida |
| 2018 | Flipper 2.0: A Pragmatic Dialogue Engine for Embodied Conversational Agents. Jelte van Waterschoot, Merijn Bruijnes, Jan Flokstra, Dennis Reidsma, Daniel P. Davison, Mariët Theune, Dirk Heylen |
| 2018 | Generating Body Motions using Spoken Language in Dialogue. Ryo Ishii, Taichi Katayama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junji Tomita |
| 2018 | Grounded Word Learning on a Pepper Robot. Matthias Hirschmanner, Stephanie Gross, Brigitte Krenn, Friedrich Neubarth, Martin Trapp, Markus Vincze |
| 2018 | He is not more persuasive than her: No gender biases toward robots giving speeches. Sam Thellman, William Hagman, Emma Jonsson, Lisa Nilsson, Emma Samuelsson, Charlie Simonsson, Julia Skönvall, Anna Westin, Annika Silvervarg |
| 2018 | How do you introduce an agent?: The effect of introduction type on how a teachable agent is experienced by students. Annika Silvervarg, Kristian Månsson |
| 2018 | Inducing and maintaining the intentional stance by showing interactions between multiple agents. Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Junya Karasaki, Toyoaki Nishida |
| 2018 | Inducing rapport-building behaviors in interaction with an embodied conversational agent. David G. Novick, Mahdokht Afravi, Adriana I. Camacho, Laura J. Hinojos, Aaron E. Rodriguez |
| 2018 | Influence of Individual Differences when Training Public Speaking with Virtual Audiences. Mathieu Chollet, Pranav Ghate, Catherine Neubauer, Stefan Scherer |
| 2018 | Intelligent Distributed Human Motion Simulation in Human-Robot Collaboration Environments. André Antakli, Erik Herrmann, Ingo Zinnikus, Han Du, Klaus Fischer |
| 2018 | Intelligent Travel Advisor: A Goal Oriented Virtual agent with Task Modeling, Planning and User Personalization. Roshni R. Ramnani, Shubhashis Sengupta, Poulami Debnath |
| 2018 | Interpreting Social Commitment in a Simulated Theater. Daniel Veutgen, Marco Massetti, Joy Rossi, Leonardo Veroli, Athena Ásgeirsdóttir, Gudrun Baldursdóttir, Sigrún Gissurardóttir, Gísli Gudmundsson, Tinna Sigurðardóttir, Valdimar Laenen, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson |
| 2018 | Investigating the use of recurrent motion modelling for speech gesture generation. Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell |
| 2018 | Is Two Better than One?: Effects of Multiple Agents on User Persuasion. Reshmashree B. Kantharaju, Dominic De Franco, Alison Pease, Catherine Pelachaud |
| 2018 | Look Me in the Lines: The Impact of Stylization on the Recognition of Expressions and Perceived Personality. Philipp Hahn, Susana Castillo, Douglas W. Cunningham |
| 2018 | Looking the Part: The Effect of Attire and Setting on Perceptions of a Virtual Health Counselor. Dhaval Parmar, Stefan Olafsson, Dina Utami, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2018 | Managing Chronic Conditions with a Smartphone-based Conversational Virtual Agent. Timothy W. Bickmore, Everlyne Kimani, Ha Trinh, Alexandra Pusateri, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Jared W. Magnani |
| 2018 | Medical Shared Decision Making with a Virtual Agent. Zhe Zhang, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2018 | Model for Verbal Interaction between an Embodied Tutor and a Learner in Virtual Environments. Ronan Querrec, Joanna Taoum, Bilal Nakhal, Elisabetta Bevacqua |
| 2018 | NADiA: Neural Network Driven Virtual Human Conversation Agents. Jason Wu, Sayan Ghosh, Mathieu Chollet, Steven Ly, Sharon Mozgai, Stefan Scherer |
| 2018 | Non-Responsive Virtual Humans for Self-Report Assessments. Mohan Zalake, Benjamin Lok |
| 2018 | PICA: Proactive Intelligent Conversational Agent for Interactive Narratives. Jessica Falk, Steven Poulakos, Mubbasir Kapadia, Robert W. Sumner |
| 2018 | Pedestrian simulation as multi-objective reinforcement learning. Naresh Balaji Ravichandran, Fangkai Yang, Christopher Peters, Anders Lansner, Pawel Andrzej Herman |
| 2018 | Personality Analysis of Embodied Conversational Agents. Susana Castillo, Philipp Hahn, Katharina Legde, Douglas W. Cunningham |
| 2018 | Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation. Salam Daher, Jason Hochreiter, Nahal Norouzi, Laura González, Gerd Bruder, Greg Welch |
| 2018 | Predicting User Engagement in Longitudinal Interventions with Virtual Agents. Ha Trinh, Ameneh Shamekhi, Everlyne Kimani, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2018 | Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2018, Sydney, NSW, Australia, November 05-08, 2018 Anton Bogdanovych, Deborah Richards, Simeon Simoff, Catherine Pelachaud, Dirk Heylen, Tomas Trescak |
| 2018 | Proposal of a Multi-purpose and Modular Virtual Classroom Framework for Teacher Training. Masato Fukuda, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Toyoaki Nishida |
| 2018 | Results of the First Annual Human-Agent League of the Automated Negotiating Agents Competition. Johnathan Mell, Jonathan Gratch, Tim Baarslag, Reyhan Aydogan, Catholijn M. Jonker |
| 2018 | SOGO: A Social Intelligent Negotiation Dialogue System. Ran Zhao, Oscar J. Romero, Alex Rudnicky |
| 2018 | Shared Planning for building Human-agent Therapeutic Alliance. Amal Abdulrahman, Deborah Richards, Samuel Mascarenhas |
| 2018 | Simulating Crowd Evacuation: From Comfort to Panic Situations. Gabriel Rockenbach, Conrado Boeira, Diogo Schaffer, André Antonitsch, Soraia Raupp Musse |
| 2018 | Simulating Crowds with OCEAN Personality Traits. Paulo Knob, Marcio Balotin, Soraia Raupp Musse |
| 2018 | Simulating Virtual Humans Crowds in Facilities. Diogo Schaffer, Conrado Boeira, Gabriel Rockenbach, Guilherme Maurer, André Antonitsch, Soraia Raupp Musse |
| 2018 | Speaker Hand-Offs in Collaborative Human-Agent Oral Presentations. Prasanth Murali, Lazlo Ring, Ha Trinh, Reza Asadi, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2018 | Spoken Conversational AI in Video Games: Emotional Dialogue Management Increases User Engagement. Jamie Fraser, Ioannis Papaioannou, Oliver Lemon |
| 2018 | Study of Nine People in a Hallway: Some Simulation Challenges. Claudio Pedica, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson |
| 2018 | The Effects of Author Identity on Dialogue for Virtual Human Communication Skills Training. Stephanie Carnell, Benjamin Lok |
| 2018 | The impact of agent facial mimicry on social behavior in a prisoner's dilemma. Rens Hoegen, Job Van Der Schalk, Gale M. Lucas, Jonathan Gratch |
| 2018 | To animate or anime-te?: Investigating sign avatar comprehensibility. Heike Brock, Shigeaki Nishina, Kazuhiro Nakadai |
| 2018 | Towards Automatic Generation of Peer-Targeted Science Talk in Curiosity-Evoking Virtual Agent. Bhargavi Paranjape, Yubin Ge, Zhen Bai, Jessica Hammer, Justine Cassell |
| 2018 | Towards a Repeated Negotiating Agent that Treats People Individually: Cooperation, Social Value Orientation, & Machiavellianism. Johnathan Mell, Gale M. Lucas, Sharon Mozgai, Jill Boberg, Ron Artstein, Jonathan Gratch |
| 2018 | User Gaze Behavior while Discussing Substance Use with a Virtual Agent. Shuo Zhou, Timothy W. Bickmore, Amy Rubin, Catherine Yeksigian, Molly Sawdy, Steven R. Simon |
| 2018 | Users' perceptions of empathic dialogue cues: A data-driven approach to provide tailored empathy. Deborah Richards, Ayse Aysin Bilgin, Hedieh Ranjbartabar |
| 2018 | Virtual Agents as a Service: Applications in Healthcare. Martin H. Luerssen, Tim Hawke |
| 2018 | Virtual Humans to Manage Epistemic Emotions in Educational Virtual Worlds. Hedieh Ranjbartabar, Deborah Richards, Anupam Makhija |
| 2018 | Virtual Intimacy, this little something between us: A study about Human perception of intimate behaviors in Embodied Conversational Agents. Delphine Potdevin, Céline Clavel, Nicolas Sabouret |
| 2018 | Who are my neighbors?: A perception model for selecting neighbors of pedestrians in crowds. Fangkai Yang, Himangshu Saikia, Christopher Peters |