Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Using Virtual Doppelgängers to Increase Personal Relevance of Health Risk Communication
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   Chapter 2 Luke, I am Your Father: Dealing with Out-of-Domain Requests by Using Movies Subtitles
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   Chapter 3 Animated Faces, Abstractions and Autism
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   Chapter 4 Is That How Everyone Really Feels? Emotional Contagion with Masking for Virtual Crowds
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   Chapter 5 Narrative Scenarios as a Testbed for Moral Agents
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   Chapter 6 On the Sociability of a Game-Playing Agent: A Software Framework and Empirical Study
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   Chapter 7 Effects of Coupling in Human-Virtual Agent Body Interaction
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   Chapter 8 Improving Motion Classifier Robustness by Estimating Output Confidence
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    Chapter 9 A Method to Evaluate Response Models
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    Chapter 10 When to Elicit Feedback in Dialogue: Towards a Model Based on the Information Needs of Speakers
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    Chapter 11 Representing Communicative Functions in SAIBA with a Unified Function Markup Language
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    Chapter 12 An Exploratory Analysis of ECA Characteristics
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    Chapter 13 Motion Parameterization and Adaptation Strategies for Virtual Therapists
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    Chapter 14 Corpus Creation and Perceptual Evaluation of Expressive Theatrical Gestures
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    Chapter 15 From Non-verbal Signals Sequence Mining to Bayesian Networks for Interpersonal Attitudes Expression
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    Chapter 16 ERiSA: Building Emotionally Realistic Social Game-Agents Companions
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    Chapter 17 Building Virtual Humans with Back Stories: Training Interpersonal Communication Skills in Medical Students
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    Chapter 18 Agents Behavior Semi-automatic Analysis through Their Comparison to Human Behavior Clustering
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    Chapter 19 Upper Body Animation Synthesis for a Laughing Character
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    Chapter 20 Simulating Deceptive Cues of Joy in Humanoid Robots
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    Chapter 21 Recommendations for Designing Maximally Effective and Persuasive Health Agents
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    Chapter 22 Recorded Speech, Virtual Environments, and the Effectiveness of Embodied Conversational Agents
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    Chapter 23 Exploring the Difference of the Impression on Human and Agent Listeners in Active Listening Dialog
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    Chapter 24 Planning Motions for Virtual Demonstrators
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    Chapter 25 With Us or Against Us: Simulated Social Touch by Virtual Agents in a Cooperative or Competitive Setting
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    Chapter 26 A Step towards Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous Synthetic Characters
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    Chapter 27 Dynamical Systems to Account for Turn-Taking in Spoken Interactions
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    Chapter 28 Virtual Reflexes
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    Chapter 29 Ascribed Gender and Characteristics of a Visually Androgynous Teachable Agent
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    Chapter 30 Full Body Interaction with Virtual Characters in an Interactive Storytelling Scenario
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    Chapter 31 Effects of an Agent’s Displaying Self-adaptors during a Serious Conversation
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    Chapter 32 Let’s Be Serious and Have a Laugh: Can Humor Support Cooperation with a Virtual Agent?
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    Chapter 33 Towards Realistic Female Avatar Creation
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    Chapter 34 Metaphoric Gestures: Towards Grounded Mental Spaces
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    Chapter 35 From Data to Storytelling Agents
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    Chapter 36 Building Community and Commitment with a Virtual Coach in Mobile Wellness Programs
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    Chapter 37 Look on the Bright Side: A Model of Cognitive Change in Virtual Agents
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    Chapter 38 Naturalistic Pain Synthesis for Virtual Patients
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    Chapter 39 Generative Models of Cultural Decision Making for Virtual Agents Based on User’s Reported Values
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    Chapter 40 Mapping Personality to the Appearance of Virtual Characters Using Interactive Genetic Algorithms
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    Chapter 41 Towards a Computational Architecture of Dyadic Rapport Management for Virtual Agents
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    Chapter 42 A Cognitive Model of Social Relations for Artificial Companions
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    Chapter 43 An Eye Tracking Evaluation of a Virtual Pediatric Patient Training System for Nurses
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    Chapter 44 Personalization and Personification: A Constructive Approach Based on Parametric Agents
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    Chapter 45 Interpersonal Attitude of a Speaking Agent in Simulated Group Conversations
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    Chapter 46 Birth Control, Drug Abuse, or Domestic Violence? What Health Risk Topics Are Women Willing to Discuss with a Virtual Agent?
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    Chapter 47 Evaluating the Impact of Anticipation on the Efficiency and Believability of Virtual Agents
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    Chapter 48 Developing Interactive Embodied Characters Using the Thalamus Framework: A Collaborative Approach
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    Chapter 49 The Right Agent for the Job?
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    Chapter 50 Exploring Gender Biases with Virtual Patients for High Stakes Interpersonal Skills Training
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    Chapter 51 A Qualitative Evaluation of Behavior during Conflict with an Authoritative Virtual Human
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    Chapter 52 Steps towards a Challenging Teachable Agent
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    Chapter 53 Large-scale Collection and Analysis of Personal Question-Answer Pairs for Conversational Agents
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    Chapter 54 Design Guidelines for a Virtual Coach for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Patients
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    Chapter 55 Intelligent Virtual Agents
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    Chapter 56 AsapRealizer 2.0: The Next Steps in Fluent Behavior Realization for ECAs
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    Chapter 57 A Data-Driven Method for Real-Time Character Animation in Human-Agent Interaction
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    Chapter 58 Compound Gesture Generation: A Model Based on Ideational Units
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    Chapter 59 Statistical Dialog Manager Design Tool for Health Screening and Assessments
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    Chapter 60 Towards Learning Nonverbal Identities from the Web: Automatically Identifying Visually Accentuated Words
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    Chapter 61 Maintaining Continuity in Longitudinal, Multi-method Health Interventions Using Virtual Agents: The Case of Breastfeeding Promotion
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    Chapter 62 Towards a Dyadic Computational Model of Rapport Management for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction
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    Chapter 63 Agent-User Concordance and Satisfaction with a Virtual Hospital Discharge Nurse