Welcome

09.00

Middleware Architectures

Interfacing a Cognitive Agent Platform with Second Life        

Surangika Ranathunga, Stephen Cranefield & Martin Purvis  

(slides)

09.05

CIGA: A Middleware for Intelligent Agents in Virtual Environments

Joost Van Oijen, Loïs Vanhée & Frank Dignum

09.30

How to compare usability of techniques for the specification of virtual agents’ behavior? An experimental pilot study with human subjects

Jakub Gemrot, Cyril Brom, Joanna Bryson & Michal Bida  

(slides)

09.55

Discussion

10.15

Dialogues and Learning

Dialog Designs in Virtual Drama: Balancing Agency and Scripted Dialogs

Edward C.-C. Kao & Von-Wun Soo

(slides)

11.00

Learning by Playing in Agent-oriented Virtual Learning Environment

Yundong Cai & Zhiqi Shen   

(slides)

11.25

Collection and Analysis of Multi-modal Interaction in Direction Giving Dialogues: Towards an Automatic Gesture Selection Mechanism for Met-averse Avatars   

Takeo Tsukamoto, Yumi Muroya, Masashi Okamoto & Yukiko Nakano

(slides)

11.50

Discussion

12.10

Lunch

12.30

Adaption and Emergence

Organizing Scalable Adaptation in Serious Games

Joost Westra, Frank Dignum & Virginia Dignum

(slides)

14.00

Inferring Pragmatics from Dialogue Contexts in Simulated Virtual Agent Games

Yu-Hung Chien & Von-Wun Soo

(slides)

14.25

Socially-aware Emergent Narrative

Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià, Sofia Panagiotidi, Arturo Tejeda, Luis Oliva & Javier Vázquez-Salceda

(slides)

14.50

Discussion

15.10

Agent Architectures

ADAPT: Abstraction Hierarchies to Better Simulate Teamwork

Meirav Hadad & Avi Rosenfeld

(slides)

16.00

An Architecture for Affective Behaviours Based on Conservation of Resources

Sabrina Campano, Etienne De Sevin, Vincent Corruble & Nicolas Sabouret

(slides)

16.25

Panel Discussion (All Participants)

16.45