Events & Seminars
February 1, 2011
Workshop on Reasoning with Text at ICT
Toward Learning and Evaluation of Data-Driven Dialogue Policies with Text Examples
Intelligent robots of the future are going to need to know a lot of stuff. They are going to need to know…
January 27, 2011
Celso de Melo Presents Poster at 2011 Emotion Pre-Conference
The Impact of Emotion Displays in Embodied Agents on Emergence of Cooperation with People
Acknowledging the social functions of emotion in people, there has been growing interest in the interpersonal effect of emotion…
January 6, 2011
Medical VR Group at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show
Dr. Albert “Skip” Rizzo and the ICT Medical Virtual Reality group will be attending and presenting SimCoach and Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan demonstrations at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las…
December 15, 2010
Abhijeet Ghosh at Siggraph Asia 2010
Dr. Ghosh will be participating in the Siggraph Asia 2010 conference which will be held Dec. 15-19 in Seoul, Korea.
http://www.siggraph.org/asia2010/
December 2, 2010
Matt Hays Presenting in Orlando, FL at I/ITSEC 2010
In February 2009, the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) at the University of Southern California was contracted to develop a training system for Soldiers and Marines. The goal of the training system was to reduce…
November 13, 2010
Paul Rosenbloom at the 1st International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture
The titel of Paul Rosenbloom’s talk is Implementing First-Order Variables in a Graphical Cognitive Architecture.
November 8, 2010
Louis-Philippe Morency in Beijing, China
Louis-Philippe Morency is attending and presenting at the 12th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and 7th Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI 2010), Beijing, China.
Traditionally listener response prediction models are…
November 4, 2010
Ramy Sadek Presenting Two Audio Papers at the Audio Engineering Society Convention
Audio systems for virtual reality and augmented reality training environments commonly focus on high-quality audio reproduction. Yet many trainees may face real-world situations wherein hearing is compromised. In these cases, the hindrance caused by impaired…
October 21, 2010
Jacki Morie at the Immersive Technology Summit 2010
Jacki Morie will give a presentation titled, “ICT’s Immersion and Virtual Human Work.” Learn more about the Immersive Technology Summit and register by visiting immersivetech.org.
October 21, 2010
Belinda Lange at Meaningful Play 2010
Many clinics are adopting the use of these off-the-shelf devices for exercise, social interaction and entertainment. However, many of the games provide significant barriers for people with different injuries and levels of ability. These barriers…
October 16, 2010
ICT at the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Conference
ICT’s researchers and artists provided hands-on, live demonstrations of the ICT technology being used by the USC School of Social Work at the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) conference at the Oregon Convention Center…
October 9, 2010
H. Chad Lane Presents at Academic Lessons from Video Game Learning
In this presentation I will give an overview of the issues involved with providing guidance in game-based learning environments. With roots in the classic debate between discovery and guided learning, the tension arises from simultaneous…
September 25, 2010
Kallirroi Georgila at SIGDIAL
We build a model for speech disfluency detection based on conditional random fields (CRFs) using the Switchboard corpus. This model is then applied to a new domain without any adaptation. We show that a technique…
September 24, 2010
Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum at the 11th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue in Tokyo
We perform a study of existing dialogue corpora to establish the theoretical maximum performance of the selection approach to simulating human dialogue behaviour in unseen dialogues. This maximum is the proportion of test utterances for…
September 22, 2010
Presentation of the Virtual Human Toolkit at the Tools Tutorial at IVA10
Arno Hartholt’s presentation provides an overview of the capabilities of the Virtual Human Toolkit.
September 20, 2010
Sin-hwa Kang Presents at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
In typical communication situations, it is desirable to avoid any type of simultaneous talking due to lack of coordination between communicators, as it is not easy to maintain sufficient mutual clarity over conversation at the…
September 20, 2010
Lixing Huang Presents at the 10th IVA
Backchannel feedback is an important kind of nonverbal feedback within face-to-face interaction that signals a person’s interest, attention and willingness to keep listening. Learning to predict when to give such feedback is one of the…
September 20, 2010
Celso De Melo Presents at the 10th IVA
Acknowledging the social functions that emotions serve, there has been growing interest in the interpersonal effect of emotion in human decision making. Following the paradigm of experimental games from social psychology and experimental economics, we…
September 20, 2010
Bill Swartout Presents at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Swartout’s paper is titled, “Ada and Grace: Toward Realistic and Engaging Virtual Museum Guides.” To increase the interest and engagement of middle school students in science and technology, the InterFaces project has created virtual museum…
September 8, 2010
ICT’s H. Chad Lane at The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
H. Chad Lane is presenting a paper at the The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, which has an educational focus this year. It is attended primarily by European researchers, thus providing…
September 7, 2010
ICT WORKSHOP: Game Theory and Human Behavior Retreat
Click here to learn more about the Game Theory and Human Behavior Retreat.
September 7, 2010
Paul Debevec SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Speaker Tour
SIGGRAPH Asia is honored to present Paul Debevec, who shared a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award for his work on the LightStage device, which was used in “Avatar” and other recent films. He will deliver…
September 2, 2010
ICT Researchers Travel to Chile to Present at the ICDVRAT Conference
Visual biofeedback and force plate systems are often used for treatment of balance and mobility disorders following neurological injury. Conventional Physical Therapy techniques have been shown to improve balance, mobility and gait. The training program…
August 26, 2010
Kenji Sagae Presents at The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Beijing
The title of Kenji Sagae’s presentation is “Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts for Multimodal Prediction Modeling.” During face-to-face conversation, people naturally integrate speech, gestures and higher level language interpretations to predict the right time to…
August 26, 2010
ICT Presents at Virtual Worlds conference, Seattle WA
The University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies is developing SimCoach, a semi-immersive, online, interactive virtual support program where users can be guided by a virtual human agent. SimCoach is a web portal to…
August 12, 2010
Skip Rizzo Speaks about Clincial Virtual Reality at American Psychological Association Convention
Rizzo presents a review of basic research Into the clinical efficacy of virtual environments in clinical care as part of the APA convention’s Therapeutic Use of Interactive Virtual Environments symposium.
August 7, 2010
Paul Rosenbloom Presents at the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM)
Paul Rosenbloom’s presentation is called, “Combining Procedural and Declarative Knowledge in a Graphical Architecture.”
A prototypical cognitive architecture defines a memory architecture embodying forms of both procedural and declarative memory, plus their interaction. …
August 5, 2010
Jacki Morie Invited to a Workshop in Houston for NASA Human Behavioral Research
With the explosion and pedagogical potential of online virtual worlds (VWs), the possibilities for using VWs for countermeasures and long duration spaceflight is increasing. This poster discusses the various benefits of VWs for individual training,…
August 4, 2010
ICT WORKSHOP: Predictive Models of Human Communication Dynamics Conference
In the study of human face-to-face communication, the patterning of interlocutor actions and interactions, moment-by-moment, is a matter of great scientific interest; and predictive models of such behavior are needed in order to build systems…
July 23, 2010
ICT at the 7th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization
Does culture affect the perception of emotion in virtual faces?
Previous research, which has used images of real human faces and mostly from the same facial expression database [Matsumoto and Ekman 1988], has…
July 15, 2010
Kenji Sagae Presents at 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Kenji Sagae’s presentation is titled, “Self-Training without Reranking for Parser Domain Adaptation and Its Impact on Semantic Role Labeling.”
Sagae compares self-training with and without reranking for parser domain adaptation and examines the…
July 15, 2010
David Traum Presents at ACL 2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue System
Companioning is a tough job, and few if any current dialogue systems are up to the task. How can systems develop a relationship with their users that will transcend a simple task interaction or momentary…
July 15, 2010
Belinda Lange Presents at an NIH Workshop in Washington D.C.
Belinda Lange will give a talk called, “Gaming and Exer-Gaming.”
July 14, 2010
Anton Leuski and David Traum Present Paper at AAAI-10
Leuski and Traums’s talk is titled, “Practical Language Processing for Virtual Humans.” NPCEditor is a system for building a natural language processing component for virtual humans capable of engaging a user in spoken dialog on…
July 11, 2010
Paul Rosenbloom at Visual Representations and Reasoning Workshop at AAAI-10
A new approach to implementing cognitive architectures based on graphical models holds the potential for simpler yet more functional architectures. It also raises the possibility of incorporating visual representation and reasoning into architectures in a…
June 17, 2010
Stacy Marsella at The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Stacy Marsella will give the keynote speech, “Modeling Emotion and its Expression.”
Emotion and its expression play a powerful role in shaping human behavior. As research has revealed the details of emotion’s role,…
June 15, 2010
Ning Wang to Present at The Tenth Int’l Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Previous studies on the Politeness Effect show that using politeness strategies in tutorial feedback can have a positive impact on learning (McLaren et al. 2010; Wang and Johnson 2008; Wang et al. 2005). While prior…
June 15, 2010
Paul Debevec Presents at E3 Expo 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center
Paul Debevec will participate as speaker/panelist at the E3 Expo 2010 being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
June 14, 2010
David Traum at the 14th SEMDIAL Workshop Series on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
David Traum’s talk is called, “Intentions, Belief, Common Ground and Communication.”
Intentions (including Gricean intentions that these intentions be recognized) play an important part in both the planning and understanding of communicative behavior.…
June 14, 2010
ICT Researchers Present Paper at the CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference
Edward Haynes, Jacki Morie and Eric Chance will present their research paper entitled, “Jogging in a Virtual World Using Breath as Avatar Control” at CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference. Recent research in the fields of Complementary…
June 7, 2010
Arno Hartholt, Jon Gratch, Stacy Marsella and Kim LeMasters at the AAAI ‘AI and Fun’ Workshop 201
Arno Hartholt presents ‘Creating Gunslinger, By Far the World’s Most Fun Mixed-Reality, Multi-Agent, Story-Driven, Interactive Experience’
Gunslinger is an interactive-entertainment application of virtual humans that transforms an iconic Wild West movie scene into…
June 1, 2010
David Traum, David DeVault and Kenji Sagae at NAACL-HLT 2010
ICT’s David Traum, David DeVault and Kenji Sagae will give a presentation called, “Interpretation of Partial Utterances in Virtual Human Dialogue Systems.”
Dialogue systems typically follow a rigid pace of interaction where the…
May 20, 2010
Paul Rosenbloom Discusses Joint Research on Presidential Funding at the Soar Workshop
Paul Rosenbloom discusses joint research on presidential funding with John Laird in a talk titled, “A Graphical Memory Architecture.” This talk discusses a new approach to building diverse long-term memories – including procedural, semantic and…
May 20, 2010
Anton Leuski Presents at The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
ICT’s Anton Leuski will give at talk called, “NPCEditor: A Tool for Building Question-Answering Characters” at The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. NPCEditor is a system for building and deploying virtual characters capable…
May 19, 2010
ICT Researchers Talk at The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
As conversational agents are now being developed to encounter more complex dialogue situations it is increasingly difficult to find satisfactory methods for evaluating these agents. Task-based measures are insufficient where there is no clearly defined…
May 17, 2010
David Krum Presents at Ubiprojection at Pervasive 2010
David Krum will present his paper accepted to the Ubiprojection workshop which is part of the Pervasive 2010 conference (Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing). The title of Krum’s presentation is “Augmented Reality Applications and…
May 12, 2010
Jacki Morie and Edward Haynes Host a Workshop at the Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds
Morie and Haynes will host a workshop to show attendees how they created the world in their project, TOPSS: “Transitional Online Post-Deployment Soldier Support in Virtual Worlds.” Click here to learn more about…
May 12, 2010
Kallirroi Georgila to Present Accepted Paper at Speech Prosidy 2010
At this conference, Georgila will present the following paper: Prediction and Realisation of Conversational Characteristics by Utilising Spontaneous Speech for Unit Selection.
Unit selection speech synthesis has reached high levels of naturalness and…
May 3, 2010
Paul Debevec Gives Keynote Speech at FMX conference
Dr. Debevec is the keynote speaker with the FMX conference which is held in Stuttgart, Germany. Also, Dr. Debevec will visit the Technical Univ. in Berlin and the Bubelsberg Studio.
April 28, 2010
H. Chad Lane Gives Keynote Speech at the Army’s Junior Science and Humanities Symposium National
Virtual humans are embodied, artificially intelligent characters that bring with them new social dimensions to computing. One of their most popular roles is that of pedagogical agent, or teacher. In the last decade, they have…
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