| 2021 | A Friendly Face in the Crowd: Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety with an Emotional Support Agent in the Audience. Prasanth Murali, Ha Trinh, Lazlo Ring, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2021 | Agents United: An Open Platform for Multi-Agent Conversational Systems. Tessa Beinema, Daniel P. Davison, Dennis Reidsma, Oresti Banos, Merijn Bruijnes, Brice Donval, Álvaro Fides-Valero, Dirk Heylen, Dennis Hofs, Gerwin Huizing, Reshmashree B. Kantharaju, Randy Klaassen, Jan Kolkmeier, Kostas Konsolakis, Alison Pease, Catherine Pelachaud, Donatella Simonetti, Mark Snaith, Vicente Traver, Jorien van Loon, Jacky Visser, Marcel Weusthof, Fajrian Yunus, Hermie Hermens, Harm op den Akker |
| 2021 | Attention-Guidance Method Based on Conforming Behavior of Multiple Virtual Agents for Pedestrians. Naoto Yoshida, Tomoko Yonezawa |
| 2021 | Being Guided or Having Exploratory Freedom: User Preferences of a Virtual Agent's Behavior in a Museum. Andrea Bönsch, David Hashem, Jonathan Ehret, Torsten W. Kuhlen |
| 2021 | Comparing The Accuracy of Frequentist and Bayesian Models in Human-Agent Negotiation. Emmanuel Johnson, Jonathan Gratch |
| 2021 | Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety. Joy O. Egede, Dominic Price, Deepa B. Krishnan, Shashank Jaiswal, Natasha Elliot, Richard F. Morriss, Maria J. Galvez Trigo, Neil Nixon, Peter Liddle, Christopher Greenhalgh, Michel F. Valstar |
| 2021 | Designing Personality Shifting Agent for Speech Recognition Failure. Tatsuki Hori, Kazuki Kobayashi |
| 2021 | Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study. Joy Egede, Maria J. Galvez Trigo, Adrian Hazzard, Martin Porcheron, Edgar Bodiaj, Joel E. Fischer, Chris Greenhalgh, Michel F. Valstar |
| 2021 | Diversity Informatics: Reducing Racial and Gender Bias with Virtual Agents. Timothy W. Bickmore, Dhaval Parmar, Everlyne Kimani, Stefan Olafsson |
| 2021 | Do you mind if I ask?: Addressing the cold start problem in personalised relational agent conversation. Hedieh Ranjbartabar, Deborah Richards, Ayse Aysin Bilgin, Cat Kutay |
| 2021 | EEG Model: Emotional Episode Generation for Social Sharing of Emotions. Ana Antunes, Joana Campos, João Dias, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada |
| 2021 | Effect of politeness strategies in dialogue on negotiation outcomes. Kazunori Terada, Mitsuki Okazoe, Jonathan Gratch |
| 2021 | Effects of Virtual Humans' Gender and Spoken Accent on Users' Perceptions of Expertise in Mental Wellness Conversations. Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García, Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok, Felix G. Hamza-Lup |
| 2021 | Enhancing Conversational Agents with Empathic Abilities. Jacky Casas, Timo Spring, Karl Daher, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux |
| 2021 | Factors associated with acceptance of a virtual companion providing screening and advices for sleep problems during COVID-19 crisis. Lucile Dupuy, Etienne de Sevin, Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi, Pierre Philip |
| 2021 | Generation of Multimodal Behaviors in the Greta platform. Michele Grimaldi, Catherine Pelachaud |
| 2021 | Human or Robot?: Investigating voice, appearance and gesture motion realism of conversational social agents. Ylva Ferstl, Sean Thomas, Cédric Guiard, Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell |
| 2021 | INSHA: Intelligent Nudging System for Hand Hygiene Awareness. Sopicha Stirapongsasuti, Kundjanasith Thonglek, Shinya Misaki, Yugo Nakamura, Keiichi Yasumoto |
| 2021 | IVA '21: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Virtual Event, Japan, September 14-17, 2021 |
| 2021 | Informing the Design of a News Chatbot. Zhirun Zhang, Xinzhi Zhang, Li Chen |
| 2021 | Interruptions in Human-Agent Interaction. Liu Yang, Catherine Achard, Catherine Pelachaud |
| 2021 | Introducing VHMason: A Visual, Integrated, Multimodal Virtual Human Authoring Tool. Arno Hartholt, Ed Fast, Andrew Leeds, Sharon Mozgai |
| 2021 | Learning Speech-driven 3D Conversational Gestures from Video. Ikhsanul Habibie, Weipeng Xu, Dushyant Mehta, Lingjie Liu, Hans-Peter Seidel, Gerard Pons-Moll, Mohamed A. Elgharib, Christian Theobalt |
| 2021 | Linking Theory of Mind in Human-Agent Interactions to Validated Evaluations: Can Explicit Questionnaires Measure Implicit Behaviour? Evelien Heyselaar, Tibor Bosse |
| 2021 | Multimodal and Multitask Approach to Listener's Backchannel Prediction: Can Prediction of Turn-changing and Turn-management Willingness Improve Backchannel Modeling? Ryo Ishii, Xutong Ren, Michal Muszynski, Louis-Philippe Morency |
| 2021 | Once Upon a Story: Can a Creative Storyteller Robot Stimulate Creativity in Children? Maha Elgarf, Gabriel Skantze, Christopher Peters |
| 2021 | Pandemic Panic: The Effect of Disaster-Related Stress on Negotiation Outcomes. Johnathan Mell, Gale M. Lucas, Jonathan Gratch |
| 2021 | Questionnaire Items for Evaluating Artificial Social Agents - Expert Generated, Content Validated and Reliability Analysed. Siska Fitrianie, Merijn Bruijnes, Fengxiang Li, Willem-Paul Brinkman |
| 2021 | Reactive Virtual Agents: A Viewpoint-Driven Approach for Bodily Nonverbal Communication. Pierre Raimbaud, Alberto Jovane, Katja Zibrek, Claudio Pacchierotti, Marc Christie, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettré, Anne-Hélène Olivier |
| 2021 | Social Signals of Cohesion in Multi-party Interactions. Reshmashree B. Kantharaju, Catherine Pelachaud |
| 2021 | Someone or Something to Play With?: An Empirical Study on how Parents Evaluate the Social Appropriateness of Interactions Between Children and Differently Embodied Artificial Interaction Partners. Jessica M. Szczuka, Hatice S. Güzelbey, Nicole C. Krämer |
| 2021 | Speech2Properties2Gestures: Gesture-Property Prediction as a Tool for Generating Representational Gestures from Speech. Taras Kucherenko, Rajmund Nagy, Patrik Jonell, Michael Neff, Hedvig Kjellström, Gustav Eje Henter |
| 2021 | Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems with Grammar-Based Evolution. Dilini Samarasinghe, Michael Barlow, Erandi Lakshika, Kathryn Kasmarik |
| 2021 | Towards Designing Enthusiastic AI Agents. Carla Viegas, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2021 | Towards Understanding How Virtual Human's Verbal Persuasion Strategies Influence User Intentions To Perform Health Behavior. Mohan Zalake, Krishna Vaddiparti, Pavlo D. Antonenko, Benjamin Lok |
| 2021 | Using Intelligent Agents to Examine Gender in Negotiations. Emmanuel Johnson, Jonathan Gratch, Jill Boberg, David DeVault, Peter H. Kim, Gale M. Lucas |
| 2021 | Virtual Reality in Sexual Harassment Prevention: Proof-of-Concept Study. Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, Jonathan Giron, Shir Fridman, Maxine Hanrieder, Shany Goldstein, Doron Friedman, Shir Brokman |