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
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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 |
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| 11:25-11:50
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STEP: A scripting language for embodied agents Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliens, Cees Visser |
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| 11:50-12:15
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Communicating multimodal information on the WWW using a lifelike,
animated 3D agent Istvan Barakonyi, Naiwala P. Chandrasiri, Sylvain Descamps, Mitsuru Ishizuka |
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| 12:15-12:30
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Specifying cooperation between modalities in lifelike animated agents Sarkis Abrilian, Stephanie Buisine, Christophe Rendu, Jean-Claude Martin |
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| 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
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Integrating internal behavioural models with external expression Marco F.P. Gillies, Daniel Ballin, N.A. Dodsgon, Mel Slater |
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| 15:40-15:55
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Synthesis of facial caricatures using Eigenspaces and its
application to humanlike animated agents Masahide Kaneko, Mitsuhiko Meguro |
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| 15:55-16:10
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An algebra for combining MPEG-4 compliant facial animations Aldo Paradiso |
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| 16:10-16:25
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Adaptive controls of personified locomotive agents Shigeru Kuriyama, Yusuke Irino, Toyohisa Kaneko |
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| 16:25-16:40
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Interpolation and extrapolation of motion capture data Kiyoshi Hoshino |
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| 16:40-16:50 | Break | |
| 16:50-18:00 | Session on Applications of Life-like Agents | |
| 16:50-17:15
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Emotional interaction in a hybrid conversational group Ido A. Iurgel |
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| 17:15-17:30
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System architecture to realize widely applicable and interactive
behavior of the robot Yosuke Matsusaka, Tetsunori Kobayashi |
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| 17:30-17:45
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Animated agents that understand natural language and perform actions Hozumi Tanaka, Takenobu Tokunaga, Shinyama Yusuke |
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| 17:45-18:00
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VHML - a Virtual Human Markup Language Virtual Assistant of Andrew Marriott |
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| 18:00-18:05
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Announcements of Related Events | |
| 18:05-18:45
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General Discussion | |
| 19:00
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Gathering for Dinner |
For questions, contact Helmut Prendinger.