Program

International Workshop on

Lifelike Animated Agents
Tools, Affective Functions, and Applications

http://www.miv.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pricai02-LAA/pricai02-agents-ws.html

August 19, 2002
National Center of Sciences (Room D), Tokyo, Japan

9:30-9:40 Welcome  
9:40-10:40 Invited Talk: An evolutionary perspective on animated presentation agents and their application fields
Thomas Rist (DFKI, Germany)
abstract
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00-12:30 Session on Tools for Life-like Agents  
11:00-11:25
Open-source software for developing anthropomorphic spoken dialog agent
Shin-ichi Kawamoto, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Shigeki Sagayama, Tsuneo Nitta, Takuya Nishimoto, Satoshi Nakamura, Katunobu Itou, Shigeo Morishima, Tatsuo Yotsukura, Atsuhiko Kai, Akinobu Lee, Yoichi Yamashita, Takao Kobayashi, Keiichi Tokuda, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsushi Yamada, Yasuharu Den, Takehito Utsuro
 
11:25-11:50
STEP: A scripting language for embodied agents
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliens, Cees Visser
 
11:50-12:15
Communicating multimodal information on the WWW using a lifelike, animated 3D agent
Istvan Barakonyi, Naiwala P. Chandrasiri, Sylvain Descamps, Mitsuru Ishizuka
 
12:15-12:30
Specifying cooperation between modalities in lifelike animated agents
Sarkis Abrilian, Stephanie Buisine, Christophe Rendu, Jean-Claude Martin
 
12:30-12:50 General Discussion  
12:50-14:00 Lunch  
14:00-15:00 Invited Talk: So you want your agent to feel...: Issues in the modeling and expression of emotion for interactive virtual humans
Jonathan Gratch (USC-ICT, USA)
abstract
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break  
15:15-16:40 Session on Modeling Affective Behavior  
15:15-15:40
Integrating internal behavioural models with external expression
Marco F.P. Gillies, Daniel Ballin, N.A. Dodsgon, Mel Slater
 
15:40-15:55
Synthesis of facial caricatures using Eigenspaces and its application to humanlike animated agents
Masahide Kaneko, Mitsuhiko Meguro
 
15:55-16:10
An algebra for combining MPEG-4 compliant facial animations
Aldo Paradiso
 
16:10-16:25
Adaptive controls of personified locomotive agents
Shigeru Kuriyama, Yusuke Irino, Toyohisa Kaneko
 
16:25-16:40
Interpolation and extrapolation of motion capture data
Kiyoshi Hoshino
 
16:40-16:50 Break  
16:50-18:00 Session on Applications of Life-like Agents  
16:50-17:15
Emotional interaction in a hybrid conversational group
Ido A. Iurgel
 
17:15-17:30
System architecture to realize widely applicable and interactive behavior of the robot
Yosuke Matsusaka, Tetsunori Kobayashi
 
17:30-17:45
Animated agents that understand natural language and perform actions
Hozumi Tanaka, Takenobu Tokunaga, Shinyama Yusuke
 
17:45-18:00
VHML - a Virtual Human Markup Language
Virtual Assistant of Andrew Marriott
 
18:00-18:05
Announcements of Related Events  
18:05-18:45
General Discussion  
19:00
Gathering for Dinner  

For questions, contact Helmut Prendinger.

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