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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2011, held in Reykjavik, Island, in September 2011. The 18 revised full papers and 27 revised short papers presented together with 25 po
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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson Stefan Kopp Stacy Marsella Kristinn R. Thórisson (Eds.)
Intelligent Virtual Agents 11th International Conference, IVA 2011 Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15-17, 2011 Proceedings
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson Reykjavik University, Iceland E-mail: [email protected] Stefan Kopp Bielefeld University, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Stacy Marsella University of Southern California, Playa Vista, CA, USA E-mail: [email protected] Kristinn R. Thórisson Reykjavik University, Iceland E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-23973-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-23974-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011935934 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, I.2.11, H.4-5, D.2, I.4, I.6 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence
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Preface
Welcome to the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. While this conference represents a field of specialization within computer science and artificial intelligence, it celebrates an endeavor that requires the integration of knowledge, methodologies and theories from a wide range of fields such as sociology, psychology, linguistic, cognitive science and interactive media. The vision is bold: essentially create our own likeness in silicon. Intelligent virtual agents are animated characters that not only move, but also exhibit human-like competence when dealing with the world around them, be it virtual or real. In particular these agents communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as speech and gestu
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