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Sort events by year:Paul Graham: “Measurement-Based Synthesis of Facial Microgeometry”
Speaker: Paul Graham
Host: Eurographics 2013
Introduction: Current scanning techniques record facial mesostructure with submillimeter precision showing pores, wrinkles, and creases. However, surface roughness continues to shape specular reflection at the …
Randall Hill, Jr. at the 51st National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
Speaker: Randall Hill, Jr.
Host: 51st National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
ICT Executive Director Randall Hill, Jr. will give the keynote address at the 51st National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. The National JSHS will bring …
Paul Debevec: “Lighting Hollywood’s Photoreal Digital Actors”
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: RTT Excite
Abstract: Creating photoreal digital humans has been a ‘holy grail’ for computer graphics, and may revolutionize the production and impact of movies and video games. …
Stefan Scherer: “Automatic Behavior Descriptors for Psychological Disorder Analysis”
Speaker: Stefan Scherer
Host: FG 2013
Abstract: We investigate the capabilities of automatic nonverbal behavior descriptors to identify indicators of psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). …
Bruce John: “Training Effective Investigative Child Interviewing Skills through Use of a Virtual Child”
Speaker: Bruce John
Host: 5th International Simulation Symposia and Workshops
Introduction In abuse testimony, children are portrayed by the defense highly suggestible. As a result, child witnesses are often not believed. On the other hand, …
Stacy Marsella: “Felt emotion and social context determine the intensity of smiles in a competitive video game”
Speaker: Stacy Marsella
Host: FG 2013
Abstract: The present study uses automatic facial expression recognition software to examine the relationship between social context and emotional feelings on the expression of emotion, …
Paul Debevec: “From Spider-Man to Avatar, Emily to Benjamin: Achieving Photoreal Digital Actors”
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Paris ACM SIGGRAPH
Abstract: Somewhere between Final Fantasy in 2001 and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008, digital actors crossed the “Uncanny Valley” from looking strangely …
Belinda Lange: “Gaming Technology for People with Cerebral Palsy & Severe Movement Disorders”
Speaker: Belinda Lange
Host: Margaret Jones Conference on Cerebral Palsy Family Forum
Belinda showcased the work she has been doing in collaboration with Dr. Eileen Fowler and Blair Webb, including the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit …
Albert “Skip” Rizzo: “Virtual Reality Goes to War: Clinical Applications for the Prevention and Treatment of the Psychological Wounds of War”
Speaker: Albert "Skip" Rizzo
Host: Defense Game Tech Users' Conference
Abstract: War is perhaps one of the most challenging situations that a human being can experience. The physical, emotional, cognitive and psychological demands of a …
David Traum: “Non-cooperative and Deceptive Dialogue”
Speaker: David Traum
Host: Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science LTI Colloquium
Abstract: Cooperation is usually seen as a central concept in the pragmatics of dialogue.There are a number of accounts of dialogue performance and interpretation that …
Yuyu Xu, Andrew W. Feng and Ari Shapiro: “A Simple Method for High Quality Artist-Driven Lip Syncing”
Speaker: Yuyu Xu, Andrew W. Feng and Ari Shapiro
Host: ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D)
Abstract: We demonstrate a real-time lip animation algorithmthat can be used to generate synchronized facial movements with audio generated from a text-to-speech engine or from …
MxR Uses 3D Printers to Make DIY Head Mounted Displays at IEEE VR
Speaker: Mark Bolas, Evan Suma, Adam Jones
Host: IEEE VR 2013
OPEN VIRTUAL REALITY, Research Demo Booth March 18 – 20 Description: The ICT Mixed Reality Lab is leveraging an open source philosophy to influence and …
Albert “Skip” Rizzo: “Interfacing with Virtual Rehabilitation”
Speaker: Albert “Skip” Rizzo
Host: International Conference on Recent Advances in Neurorehabilitation
Abstract: Virtual reality (VR) has undergone a transition in the past 20 years that has taken it from the realm of expensive toy and into …
Belinda Lange and Sebastian Koenig: “Using Technology to Enhance Clinical Practice: What Rehabilitation Psychologists Need to Know”
Speaker: Belinda Lange and Sebastian Koenig
Host: Rehabilitation Psychology Conference
The 15th Annual Rehabilitation Psychology Conference is sponsored by the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology and the Division of Rehabilitation Psychology of the American Psychological …
Ari Shapiro and Andrew W. Feng: “The Case for Physics Visualization in an Animator’s Toolset”
Speaker: Ari Shapiro and Andrew W. Feng
Host: The 8th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications
Abstract: By associating physical properties with a digital character’s joint and bones, we are able to visualize explicitly a number of properties that can help …
Randall Hill, Jr.: “Warfighter Training in the Human Dimension”
Speaker: Randall Hill, Jr.
Host: Joint Forces Simulation & Training Conference
In the talk: ELITE: Leader development with Virtual Humans UrbanSIM: Mission Command using Social Simulation SimCoach: Web-accessible Coaching for Post Traumatic Stress Injuries Emerging technologies …
Abram Demski: “Logical Prior Probability”
Speaker: Abram Demski
Host: The Fifth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Abstract: A Bayesian prior over fi rst-order theories is de fined. It is shown that the prior can be approximated, and the relationship to previously studied priors …
Paul: Rosenbloom: “Extending Mental Imagery in Sigma”
Speaker: Paul Rosenbloom
Host: The Fifth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Abstract: This article presents new results on implementing mental imagery within the Sigma cognitive architecture. Rather than amounting to a distinct module, mental imagery is …
Paul Rosenbloom: “Deconstructing Reinforcement Learning in Sigma “
Speaker: Paul Rosenbloom
Host: The Fifth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Abstract: This article describes the development of reinforcement learning within the Sigma graphical cognitive architecture. Reinforcement learning has been deconstructed in terms of the interactions …
Randall Hill, Jr. at the USC Symposium on Digital Media Research, Education and Innovation
Speaker: Randall Hill, Jr.
Host: USC Symposium on Digital Media Research, Education and Innovation
ICT Executive Director Randall Hill, Jr. is participating in the USC Symposium on Digital Media Research, Education and Innovation being held at Shutters on the …
H. Chad Lane: “Using Virtual Humans to Educate and Inspire”
Speaker: H. Chad Lane
Host: Western Center Academy Charter School
Overview: I will begin by presenting several surprising findings from studies on the psychology of learning. Sometimes our self-perceptions and beliefs can interfere with our …
Matt Hays, Julia Campbell and Matthew Trimmer: “Can role-play with virtual humans teach interpersonal skills?”
Speaker: Matt Hays, Julia Campbell and Matthew Trimmer
Host: IITSEC
Abstract: Interpersonal and counseling skills are essential to Officers’ ability to lead (Headquarters, Department of the Army, 2006, 2008, 2011). We developed a cognitive framework …
Matt Hays, Julia Campbell and Todd Richmond: “Beyond Doctrine: Mobile Training for Dismounted Threat Assessment”
Speaker: Matt Hays, Julia Campbell and Todd Richmond
Host: IITSEC
Abstract: During patrols, Soldiers are often dismounted (on foot, outside the protection of a vehicle). Dismounting provides several tactical and strategic benefits. However, the training …
Paul Debevec: “The Light Stages and Their Application to Photoreal Digital Actors”
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: SIGGRAPH Asia 2012
Abstract: The Light Stage systems built at UC Berkeley and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies have enabled a variety of facial scanning, reflectance measurement, …
Abhijeet Ghosh: “Polarised Light in Computer Graphics”
Speaker: Abhijeet Ghosh
Host: SIGGRAPH Asia 2012
Abstract: In Computer Graphics, the polarisation properties of light currently play a role in several contexts: in certain forms of highly realistic ray-based image synthesis …
Abhijeet Ghosh: “Measurement and Modeling of Detailed Facial Reflectance”
Speaker: Abhijeet Ghosh
Host: SIGGRAPH Asia 2012
Abstract: We present a set of new techniques for practical acquisition and modeling of detailed facial reflectance including separation of individual reflectance components and fitting …
Morteza Dehghani: “Interpersonal Effects of Emotions in Morally-charged Negotiations”
Speaker: Morteza Dehghani
Host: Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference
Abstract: Witnessing and displaying emotional expressions play a significant role in the facilitation and coordination of our social interactions. We investigate the impact of facial …
Paul Debevec: “Creating Photoreal Digital Actors: Capturing Light and Reflectance”
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Color and Imaging Conference
Paul Debevec will be presenting a Keynote at the conference. Abstract: Photoreal digital actors have become a practical reality in the last decade and are …
Andrew W. Feng, Yuyu Xu and Ari Shapiro: “Automating the Transfer of a Generic Set of Behaviors Onto a Virtual Character”
Speaker: Andrew W. Feng, Yuyu Xu and Ari Shapiro
Host: 5th International Conference on Motion in Games
Abstract: Humanoid 3D models can be easily acquired through various sources, including online. intervention in order to associate such models that is compatible with the …
Andrew W. Feng and Ari Shapiro: “An Analysis of Motion Blending Techniques”
Speaker: Andrew W. Feng and Ari Shapiro
Host: 5th International Conference on Motion in Games
Abstract: Motion blending is a widely used technique for character animation. The main idea is to blend similar motion examples according to blending weights, in …
Technology & Innovation for the Prevention & Treatment of PTSD Conference
Host: USC ICT
War is perhaps one of the most challenging situations that a human being can experience. The physical, emotional, cognitive and psychological demands of a combat …
Lunchtime Book Talk by Science Journalist and Author Matt Kaplan
Speaker: Matt Kaplan
Host: Randall W. Hill, Jr.
Tuesday, October 30 from 12:30-1:30 PM Introduction by Randy Hill Get into the Halloween spirit with a lunchtime book talk with science journalist and author …
Sunghyun Park: “Crowdsourcing Micro-Level Multimedia Annotations: The Challenges of Evaluation and Interface”
Speaker: Sunghyun Park
Host: International ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia
Abstract: This paper presents a new evaluation procedure and tool for crowdsourcing micro-level multimedia annotations and shows that such annotations can achieve a quality comparable …
Andrew Gordon and Christopher Weinberg: “PhotoFall: Discovering Weblog Stories Through Photographs”
Speaker: Andrew Gordon and Christopher Weinberg
Host: The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012)
Abstract: An effective means of retrieving relevant photographs from the web is to search for terms that would likely appear in the surrounding text in …
Paul Debevec: “A Single-Shot Light Probe”
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Bogota ACM SIGGRAPH
Abstract: We demonstrate a novel light probe which can estimate the full dynamic range of a scene with multiple bright light sources. It places diffuse …
Paul Debevec: “Measurement-Based Synthesis of Facial Microgeometry”
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Bogota ACM SIGGRAPH
Abstract: Current face scanning techniques provide submillimeter precision, recording facial mesostructure at the level of pores, wrinkles, and creases. Nonetheless, the effect of surface roughness …
Stefan Scherer, Louis-Philippe Morency and Albert “Skip” Rizzo: “Multisense and SimSensei — A Multimodal Research Platform for Real-time Assessment of Distress Indicators”
Speaker: Stefan Scherer, Louis-Philippe Morency and Albert "Skip" Rizzo
Host: DARPA
Overview: USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a leader in basic research and advanced technology development of virtual humans who think and behave like …
Jacquelyn Ford Morie, Eric Chance and Dinesh Rajpurohit: “Virtual Worlds and Avatars as the New Frontier of Telehealth Care”
Speaker: Jacquelyn Ford Morie, Eric Chance and Dinesh Rajpurohit
Host: The 17th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference
Abstract: We are entering a new age where people routinely visit, inhabit, play in and learn within virtual worlds (VWs). One in eight people worldwide …
Jacquelyn Ford Morie and Edward Haynes: “Storytelling with Storyteller Agents in Second Life”
Speaker: Jacquelyn Ford Morie and Edward Haynes
Host: Cyberworlds 2012
Abstract: The “Coming Home” project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies was started in 2009 to research how virtual worlds could …
Sin-hwa Kang and Jonathan Gratch: “Socially Anxious People Reveal More Personal Information with Virtual Counselors That Talk about Themselves using Intimate Human Back Stories”
Speaker: Sin-hwa Kang and Jonathan Gratch
Host: The 17th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference
Abstract: In this paper, we describe our findings from research designed to explore the effect of virtual human counselors’ self-disclosure using intimate human back stories …
Belinda Lange: “Virtual Rehabilitation: From Video Games to Virtual Humans”
Speaker: Belinda Lange
Host: HYPER Summer School on Neurorehabilitation
Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Bruce John, Josh Williams, Bradley Newman, Thomas Parsons, Sebastian Koenig, Belinda Lange and John Galen Buckwalter: “Stress Resilience in Virtual Environments: Training Combat Relevant Emotion Coping Skills Using Virtual Reality”
Speaker: Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Bruce John, Josh Williams, Bradley Newman, Thomas Parsons, Sebastian Koenig, Belinda Lange and John Galen Buckwalter
Host: International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies
Abstract: The incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in returning OEF/OIF military personnel has created a significant behavioral healthcare challenge. This has served to motivate …
Stefan Scherer, Stacy Marsella, Giota Stratou, Yuyu Xu, Fabrizio Morbini, Albert “Skip” Rizzo and Louis-Philippe Morency: “Perception Markup Language: Towards a Standardized Representation of Perceived Nonverbal Behaviors”
Speaker: Stefan Scherer, Stacy Marsella, Giota Stratou, Yuyu Xu, Fabrizio Morbini, Albert "Skip" Rizzo and Louis-Philippe Morency
Host: 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Abstract: Modern virtual agents require knowledge about their envi- ronment, the interaction itself, and their interlocutors’ behavior in order to be able to show appropriate …
Chung-Cheng Chiu and Stacy Marsella: “Subjective Optimization”
Speaker: Chung-Cheng Chiu and Stacy Marsella
Host: 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Abstract: An effective way to build a gesture generator is to apply machine learning algorithms to derive a model. In building such a gesture generator, …
Sin-hwa Kang, Albert “Skip” Rizzo and Jonathan Gratch: “Understanding the Nonverbal Behavior of Socially Anxious People during Intimate Self-disclosure”
Speaker: Sin-hwa Kang, Albert "Skip" Rizzo and Jonathan Gratch
Host: 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Abstract: This study explores the types of nonverbal behavior exhibited by socially anxious users over the course of an interview with virtual agent counselors that …
Celso De Melo: “The Effect of Virtual Agents’ Emotion Displays and Appraisals on People’s Decision Making in Negotiation”
Speaker: Celso De Melo
Host: 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Abstract: There is growing evidence that emotion displays can impact people’s decision making in negotiation. However, despite increasing interest in AI and HCI on negotiation …
Louis-Philippe Morency and Stefan Scherer: “Investigating the influence of pause fillers for automatic backchannel prediction”
Speaker: Louis-Philippe Morency and Stefan Scherer
Host: Interspeech
Andrew Gordon and Christopher Weinberg: “Different Strokes of Different Folks: Searching for Health Narratives in Weblogs”
Speaker: Andrew Gordon and Christopher Weinberg
Host: ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing
Abstract: The utility of storytelling in the interaction between healthcare providers and patients is now firmly established, but the potential use of large-scale story collections …
Arno Hartholt: “PTSD Treatment Using Intelligent Human Agents”
Speaker: Arno Hartholt
Host: Unite
Abstract: This talk will cover the development of virtual reality medical simulations for the treatment and assessment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as well …
Paul Rosenbloom at NEXT: People | Science | Tomorrow
Speaker: Paul Rosenbloom
Host: The Crawford Family Forum
NEXT: People | Science | Tomorrow — the Crawford Family Forum’s new series on the convergence of science, technology and society – an exploration of …
Graham Fyffe: “High Fidelity Facial Hair Capture”
Speaker: Graham Fyffe
Host: SIGGRAPH 2012
Abstract: Modeling human hair from photographs is a topic of ongoing interest to the graphics community. Yet, the literature is predominantly concerned with the hair …
Abhijeet Ghosh: “Estimating Diffusion Parameters from Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination”
Speaker: Abhijeet Ghosh
Host: SIGGRAPH 2012
Abstract: Accurately modeling and reproducing the appearance of real-world materials is crucial for the production of photoreal imagery of digital scenes and subjects. The appearance …
Abhijeet Ghosh and Paul Debevec: “Estimating Specular Normals from Spherical Stokes Reflectance Fields”
Speaker: Abhijeet Ghosh and Paul Debevec
Host: SIGGRAPH 2012
Abstract: Despite being at the focal point of intense research in both computer graphics as well as in computer vision, accurately reproducing the shape and …
Abhijeet Ghosh and Paul Graham: “Measurement-Based Synthesis of Facial Microgeometry”
Speaker: Abhijeet Ghosh and Paul Graham
Host: SIGGRAPH 2012
Abstract: Current face scanning techniques provide submillimeter precision, recording facial mesostructure at the level of pores, wrinkles, and creases. Nonetheless, the effect of surface roughness …
Andrew Jones: “A Cell-Phone Platform for Facial Performance Capture “
Speaker: Andrew Jones
Host: SIGGRAPH 2012
Poster presentation.
Albert “Skip” Rizzo: “Virtual Reality Goes to War: Innovations in Military Behavioral Healthcare”
Speaker: Albert "Skip" Rizzo
Host: American Psychological Association Convention
Abstract: War is perhaps one of the most challenging situations that a human being can experience. The physical, emotional, cognitive and psychological demands of a …
Albert “Skip” Rizzo: “Virtual reality exposure therapy for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder”
Speaker: Albert “Skip” Rizzo
Host: American Psychological Association Convention
Abstract: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic, debilitating, psychological condition that occurs in a subset of individuals who experience or witness life-threatening traumatic events. …
Rich DiNinni: “Future Learning Technologies”
Speaker: Rich DiNinni
Host: Advanced Distributed Learning iFest 2012
Established in 1999 as a University Affiliated Research Center with a multi-year contract from the U.S. Army, the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative …
Celso De Melo and Jonathan Gratch: “Reverse appraisal: The importance of appraisals for the effect of emotion displays on people’s decision making in a social dilemma”
Speaker: Celso De Melo and Jonathan Gratch
Host: Cognitive Science Center
Abstract: Two studies are presented that explore the interpersonal effect of emotion displays in decision making in a social dilemma. Experiment 1 (N=405) showed that …
Elnaz Nouri, Kallirroi Georgila and David Traum: “A Cultural Decision-Making Model for Negotiation Based on Inverse Reinforcement Learning”
Speaker: Elnaz Nouri, Kallirroi Georgila and David Traum
Host: CogSci 2012
Abstract: We learn culture-specific weights for a multi-attribute model of decision-making in negotiation, using Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL). The model takes into account multiple indi- …
Ning Wang, David Pynadath and Stacy Marsella: “Toward Automatic Verification of Multiagent Systems for Training Simulations”
Speaker: Ning Wang, David Pynadath and Stacy Marsella
Host: 11th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Abstract: Advances in multiagent systems have led to their successful application in experiential training simulations, where students learn by interacting with agents who represent people, …
Belinda Lange: “Virtual Rehabilitation: Opportunities and Challenges”
Speaker: Belinda Lange
Host: The US-Turkey Advanced Study Institute
This is a Plenary talk for the US-Turkey Advanced Study Institute on Global Healthcare Challenges. The presentation will present and discuss the opportunities and challenges …
Kallirroi Georgila, Anton Leuski and David Traum: “Reinforcement Learning of Question-Answering Dialogue Policies for Virtual Museum Guides”
Speaker: Kallirroi Georgila, Anton Leuski and David Traum
Host: SIGdial 2012
Abstract: We use Reinforcement Learning (RL) to learn question-answering dialogue policies for a real-world application. We analyze a corpus of interactions of museum visitors with …
Fabrizio Morbini, Eric Forbell, David DeVault, Kenji Sagae, David Traum and Albert “Skip” Rizzo: “A Mixed-Initiative Conversational Dialogue System for Healthcare”
Speaker: Fabrizio Morbini, Eric Forbell, David DeVault, Kenji Sagae, David Traum and Albert "Skip" Rizzo
Host: SIGdial 2012
Abstract: We present a mixed initiative conversational dialogue system designed to address primarily mental health care concerns related to military deployment. It is supported by …
David DeVault and David Traum: “A Demonstration of Incremental Speech Understanding and Confidence Estimation in a Virtual Human Dialogue System”
Speaker: David DeVault, David Traum
Host: SIGdial 2012
This demonstration highlights some emerging capabilities for incremental speech understanding and processing in virtual human dialogue systems.
Anton Leuski and David DeVault: “A Study in How NLU Performance Can Affect the Choice of Dialogue System Architecture”
Speaker: Anton Leuski and David DeVault
Host: SIGdial 2012
Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of how the level of performance achievable by an NLU module can affect the optimal modular design of a …
Joel Jurik and Paul Debevec: “Geometry-Corrected Light Field Rendering for Creating a Holographic Stereogram”
Speaker: Joel Jurik and Paul Debevec
Host: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
We present a technique to record and process a light field of an object in order to produce a printed holographic stereogram. We use a …
David Traum: “Advanced Dialogue Models for 4Multi Negotiation”
Speaker: David Traum
Host: Honda Research Institute
Abstract: In this talk, I will present the dialogue model for virtual human negotiation, developed through a series of projects at the Institute for Creative …
Louis-Philippe Morency: “Multi-View Latent Variable Discriminative Models For Action Recognition” and “3D Constrained Local Model for Rigid and Non-Rigid Facial Tracking”
Speaker: Louis-Philippe Morency
Host: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
“Multi-View Latent Variable Discriminative Models For Action Recognition” Abstract: Many human action recognition tasks involve data that can be factorized into multiple views such as …
Belinda Lange: “Getting it into the hands of the consumer: Designing, Developing and Commercializing Games for Rehabilitation”
Speaker: Belinda Lange
Host: Games For Health Conference
This one hour discussion will present and discuss important issues around the design and development of games for rehabilitation within the academic setting and present …
David Traum: “Recent Research in the ICT Natural Language Dialogue Group”
Speaker: David Traum
Host: Microsoft
The Institute for Creative Technogies has developed natural language dialogue capability for a variety of virtual human characters that can be used for role-play training, …
Celso de Melo: “Model of the Social Effects of Emotion in Decision-Making in Multiagent Systems”
Speaker: Celso de Melo
Host: 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Research in the behavioral sciences suggests that emotion can serve important social functions and that, more than a simple manifestation of internal experience, emotion displays …
Celso De Melo and Jonathan Gratch: “Bayesian Model of the Social Effects of Emotion in Decision-Making in Multiagent Systems”
Speaker: Celso De Melo and Jonathan Gratch
Host: 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Abstract: Research in the behavioral sciences suggests that emotion can serve important social functions and that, more than a simple manifestation of internal experience, emotion …
Rich DiNinni and Julia Kim: “Cognitive Cartography: Small Unit Readiness through Pre-deployment Priming of Mental Maps”
Speaker: Rich DiNinni and Julia Kim
Host: Human Dimension Workshop
Abstract: Visual representations and story telling are the oldest traditions of remembering, recounting events, imparting lessons and projecting affect. These formats structure information in part-whole …
Thomas Talbot: “Designing Medical Education for Today’s Brain”
Speaker: Thomas Talbot
Host: Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Information Resources
Disruptive advances in technology, returns on cognitive science research and societal changes are leading us to question basic assumptions about medical education. This June 4th, …
David DeVault and David Traum: “Incremental Speech Understanding in a Multi-Party Virtual Human Dialogue System”
Speaker: David DeVault, David Traum
Host: NAACL-HLT 2012
David DeVault and David Traum will present a demonstration of ICT’s incremental speech processing capabilities at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of …
Matt Hays, H. Chad Lane, Daniel Auerbach: “Clear and presence danger: Feedback in serious games.”
Speaker: Matt Hays, H. Chad Lane, Daniel Auerbach
Host: 11th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Serious games are generally designed with two goals in mind. First, they are designed to promote learning. Second, like most games, they seek to create …
Edward Haynes: “A Sequencer Tool for Non-Verbal Behavior in the ELITE Leadership Training System”
Speaker: Edward Haynes
Host: SVR 2012
Abstract: The Emergent Leader Immersive Training Environment (ELITE) is a training tool developed for the US ARMY that uses an interactive virtual human to teach …
Anton Leuski: “The BladeMistress Corpus: From Talk to Action in Virtual Worlds”
Speaker: Anton Leuski
Host: 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012)
Abstract: Virtual Worlds (VW) are online environments where people come together to interact and perform various tasks. The chat transcripts of interactions in VWs pose …
Kallirroi Georgila, Alan W. Black, Kenji Sagae, David Traum: “Practical Evaluation of Human and Synthesized Speech for Virtual Human Dialogue Systems”
Speaker: Kallirroi Georgila, Alan W. Black, Kenji Sagae, David Traum
Host: 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012)
The current practice in virtual human dialogue systems is to use professional human recordings or limited-domain speech synthesis. Both approaches lead to good performance but …
Angela Nazarian: “The Interplay between Accent and Warmth on Person Perception”
Speaker: Angela Nazarian
Host: Association for Psychological Science
This randomized study manipulated temperature prime (hot or cold) and accent of a female speaker (American English or Indian English). Results found that Indians rated …
Priti Aggarwal, Ron Artstein, Jillian Gerten, Athanasios Katsamanis, Shrikanth Narayanan, Angela Nazarian, David Traum: “The Twins Corpus of Museum Visitor Questions”
Speaker: Priti Aggarwal, Ron Artstein, Jillian Gerten, Athanasios Katsamanis, Shrikanth Narayanan, Angela Nazarian, David Traum
Host: 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012)
The Twins corpus is a collection of utterances spoken in interactions with two virtual characters who serve as guides at the Museum of Science in …
David Traum: “ISO 24617-2: A semantically-based standard for dialogue annotation”
Speaker: David Traum
Host: 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012)
Abstract:This paper summarizes the latest, final version of ISO standard 24617-2 “Semantic annotation framework, Part 2: Dialogue acts”. Compared to the preliminary version ISO DIS …
Paul Debevec: “From Spider-Man to Avatar, Emily and Benjamin: Achieving Photoreal Digital Actors”
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: 33rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics 2012)
Somewhere between “Final Fantasy” in 2001 and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” in 2008, digital actors crossed the “Uncanny Valley” from looking strangely synthetic …
Paul Debevec: “Avatar and Beyond: Lighting Hollywood’s Real and Virtual Actors”
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: LIGHTFAIR International (LFI 2012)
Photoreal digital actors have become a practical reality in the last decade and are poised to revolutionize the entertainment industry. Paul Debevec from USC’s Institute …
Thomas Talbot: “What is a Virtual Patient Anyway?”
Speaker: Thomas Talbot
Host: MedBiquitous
Overview: Speaking of simulation research in medicine and the role of technology standards, what is a virtual patient in the first place? A variety of …
Priti Aggarwal: “Ada and Grace: Engaging virtual human museum guides”
Speaker: Priti Aggarwal
Host: 2nd USA Science and Engineering Festival
Presenting the Twins and Coach Mike @ USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo with NSF
Dava Casoni, Andres Chan, Cheryl Birch: “A-21: Preparing for Change; How the proposed revisions to A-21 impact you”
Speaker: Dava Casoni, Andres Chan, Cheryl Birch
Host: 2012 Regional Meeting of Region VI of the National Council of University Research Administrators
The OMB is rewriting Circular A-21 in an attempt to decrease administrative burdens on Universities. The presentation covers the areas OMB is addressing, comments by …
Jacki Morie: “Social Networks and Virtual Worlds for Building Team Resilience”
Speaker: Jacquelyn Morie
Host: Specialists Meeting on "Social Media: Risks and Opportunities in Military Applications" (HFM-201)
The phenomenal success of Internet-enabled social networks can be leveraged for many types of training and behavioral improvement. Social networks, especially support maintaining group connectedness, …
Paul Rosenbloom: “Towards a 50 msec Cognitive Cycle in a Graphical Architecture”
Speaker: Paul Rosenbloom
Host: 11th International Conferenct on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2012)
Achieving a 50 msec cognitive cycle in any sufficiently sophisticated cognitive architecture can be a significant challenge. Here an investigation is begun into how to …
Jonathan Gratch: “Why people still matter: Modeling human behavioral processes in agents”
Speaker: Jonathan Gratch
Host: 11th International Conferenct on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2012)
At its heart, research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems is multi-disciplinary. Rooted in artificial intelligence, the AAMAS community draws heavily from research in economics …
Paul Rosenbloom: “Towards a 50 msec Cognitive Cycle in a Graphical Architecture”
Speaker: Paul Rosenbloom, ICT
Host: 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling
Paul Rosenbloom’s talk at ICCM 2012 in Berlin is called “Towards a 50 msec Cognitive Cycle in a Graphical Architecture.”
Paul Rosenbloom: “Graphical Models for Integrated Intelligent Robot Architectures”
Speaker: Paul Rosenbloom
Host: The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and Stanford University Department of Computer Science 2012 Spring Symposium Series
The theoretically elegant yet broadly functional capability of graphical models shows intriguing potential to span in a uniform manner perception, cognition and action; and thus …
Paul Rosenbloom: “Towards Functionally Elegant, Grand Unified Architectures”
Speaker: Paul Rosenbloom
Host: 21st Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling Simulation (BRIMS 2012)
When developing cognitive architectures, the ultimate goal is typically a unified theory of intelligent behavior, with the working focus then being on integrating across the …
Jacki Morie: “Using Virtual Worlds are an Adavnced Form of Telehealth Care”
Speaker: Jacki Morie
Jacki Morie will be reporting on how we are making advances in using Virtual Worlds as advanced telehealth care through the TOPSS-VW Project at ICT.
Thomas Talbot: “How Interactive Agents Can Benefit Medical Devices”
Speaker: Thomas Talbot
Host: Design of Medical Devices Conference
Abstract: The Department of Defense has made a considerable investment in virtual human technology. Recent advancements with interactive artificial intelligence (AI) agents have created virtual …
Andrew W. Feng, Yuyu Xu, Ari Shapiro: “An Example-Based Motion Synthesis Technique for Locomotion and Object Manipulation”
Speaker: Andrew W. Feng, Yuyu Xu, Ari Shapiro
Host: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D 2012)
We synthesize natural-looking locomotion, reaching and grasping for a virtual character in order to accomplish a wide range of movement and manipulation tasks in real …
NCOA Leadership Workshop
Conference Website: NCOA Leadership Workshop
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Paul Debevec: “From Spider-Man to Avatar: Achieving Photoreal Digital Actors”
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: ACM SIGGRAPH at Texas A&M University
Somewhere between “Final Fantasy” in 2001 and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” in 2008, digital actors crossed the “Uncanny Valley” from looking strangely synthetic …
Thomas Parsons, Skip Rizzo and Chris Courtney: “Virtual Reality Paced Serial Assessment Test for Neuropsychological Assessment of a Military Cohort”
Speaker: Thomas Parsons, Skip Rizzo and Chris Courtney, ICT
Host: 19th Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference
The assessment and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) has become a difficult challenge for the DoD medical health system. Clinical neuropsychologists are being asked …
