2014 Events
Sort events by year:Advances in Photoreal Digital Humans in Film and in Real-Time
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: CineGrid International Workshop 2014
ADOLESCENT SUICIDAL RISK ASSESSMENT IN CLINICIAN-PATIENT INTERACTION: A STUDY OF VERBAL AND ACOUSTIC BEHAVIORS
Speaker: Stefan Scherer
Host: 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014)
Suicide among adolescents is a major public health problem: it is the third leading cause of death in the US for ages 13-18. Up to …
What’s the Next Big Thing in Gaming – Panel Discussion
Speaker: Todd
Host: SoCal Innovation Forum
Advances in Photoreal Digital Humans in Film and in Real-Time
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Clinical Society of Genito-Urinary Surgeons' 92nd Annual Meeting
Dyadic Behavior Analysis in Depression Severity Assessment Interviews
Speaker: Louis-Philippe Morency
Host: The 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014)
Computational Analysis of Persuasiveness in Social Multimedia: A Novel Dataset and Multimodal Prediction Approach
Speaker: Sunghyun Park
Host: The 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014)
Our lives are heavily influenced by persuasive communication, and it is essential in almost any types of social interactions from business negotiation to conversation with …
A Multimodal Context-based Approach for Distress Assessment
Speaker: Sayan Ghosh
Host: The 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014)
Isolated word recognition in the Sigma cognitive architecture
Speaker: Paul Rosenbloom
Host: 2014 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Efficient message computation in Sigma¹s graphical architecture
Speaker: Himanshu Joshi
Host: 2014 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Virtual Standardized Patient Authoring Workshop
Speaker: Brett Talbot
Host: Association of American Medical Colleges Medical Education Conference
7th International ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games 2014 (MIG 2014)
Speaker: Hao Li, Evan Hirsch, Javier van der Pahlen, Erwin Coumans, James O'Brien, Paul Debevec
Host: ICT
Games have become a very important medium for education, therapy and entertainment. Motion plays a crucial role in computer games. Characters move around, objects are …
Virtual Reality Demos and Panel Discussion
Speaker: Skip Rizzo
Host: The Web Summit
An Authoring Tool for Movies in the Style of Heider and Simmel
Speaker: Melissa Roemelle, Andrew Gordon
Host: International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
Seventy years ago, psychologists Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel described an influential study of the perception of intention,where a simple movie of animated geometric shapes …
Civilian Analogs of Army Tasks
Speaker: Andrew S. Gordon, Catherine Wang, Matt Bosack, and Jessa Sininger
Host: International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
Over the last decade, millions of people have used their public weblogs to tell personal stories about their life experiences. Often intended only for close …
The Warrior’s Return: From Surge to Suburbia
Speaker: David Finkel, Skip Rizzo and Tom Curwen
Host: Library Foundation of Los Angeles
When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? When their deployments end and they return—many of …
Graphics Talk and Panel Discussion
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: National Animation and Design Centre
Virtual Humans: Applications in Medicine, Psychology and Nursing
Speaker: Arno Harthold
Host: Symposium on Virtual Medicine
digiSTORY 2014 Keynote and Breakout Session
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: digiSTORY 2014: The Power of Digital Storytelling Conference
Debevec is part of the technical team working on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2. In his morning keynote at digiSTORY2014, he will talk about …
Beware of computers bearing smiles: Modeling the social and cognitive effects of emotion in virtual humans
Speaker: Jonathan Gratch
Host: ARL Fellows Meeting
Over forty years ago, Herb Simon argued that emotions would be required by any intelligent entity that must act in a dynamic, semipredictable and social …
Interactive Media Forum
Speaker: Todd Richmond
Host: USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
Mind-Reading for Robots: Anthropomorphism in Human-Computer Interaction
Speaker: Andrew Gordon
Host: USC Fisher Museum of Art
This talk is from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Join Andrew S. Gordon, research associate Professor of computer science at the USC’s Institute for Creative …
A Conceptual Audio Model for Simulating Pulmonary Auscultation in a High-Fidelity Virtual Physical Examination
Speaker: Brett Talbot
Host: International Lung Sounds Association Conference
Physician lung auscultation skills in the USA are suboptimal, primarily due to lazy technique and weak recognition of clinical findings. Virtual patients often play sampled …
Keynote Talk: Designing the User in User Interfaces
Speaker: Mark Bolas
Host: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
In the good old days, the human was here, the computer there, and a good living was to be made by designing ways to interface …
A Raycast Approach to Hybrid Touch / Motion Capture Virtual Reality User Experience
Speaker: Rhys Yata, Evan Suma
Host: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
Poster Presentation
Real-time and Robust Grasping Detection
Speaker: Chih-Fan Chen, Evan Suma
Host: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
Poster Presentation.
Mr. Clue – A Virtual Agent That Can Play Word-Guessing Games
Speaker: Eli Pincus
Host: 3rd Workshop on Games and NLP
Opening Speech: Disruptive TV Technologies on the Horizon for 2020
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Prix Italia 66
What Will It Mean to Fly in the Age of Cyber-Humanism?
Speaker: Randall W. Hill, Jr.
Host: Military Flight Training 2014
Beware of computers bearing smiles: Modeling the social and cognitive effects of emotion
Speaker: Jonathan Gratch
Host: Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science Colloquium Series
Over forty years ago, Herb Simon argued that emotions would be required by any intelligent entity that must act in a dynamic, semipredictable and social …
Advances in Photoreal Digital Humans in Film and in Real-Time
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: The Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons: Minimally Invasive Surgery Week / Annual Meeting and Endo Expo
Detection and computational analysis of psychological signals using a virtual human interviewing agent
Speaker: Skip Rizzo
Host: 10th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies
It has long been recognized that facial expressions, body gestures and vocal features/prosody play an important role in human communication signaling. Recent advances in low …
Science Friday Live: The Science of the Silver Screen
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Science Friday Live
Science Friday is headed to the movies! Ira Flatow and the SciFri staff will join KPCC’s Sanden Totten at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium on Wednesday, Aug. …
Generative Models of Cultural Decision Making for Virtual Agents Based on User’s Reported Values
Speaker: Elnaz Nouri
Host: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2014
Poster Presentation
Generative Models of Cultural Decision Making for Virtual Agents Based on User’s Reported Values
Speaker: Elnaz Nouri
Host: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2014
Poster Presentation Abstract. Building computational models of cultural decision making for virtual agents based on behavioral data is a challenge because nding a reasonable mapping …
Rapid Avatar Capture Demo
Speaker: Wei-Wen Feng
Host: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2014
Workshop on Architectures and Standards for IVAs
Speaker: Arno Hartholt, Stefan Scherer, AmirAli Bagher Zadeh
Host: Fourteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2014)
The scope of building a complete intelligent virtual agent is too vast for a single research group to fully tackle. It requires interdisciplinary collaborations between …
Hair Today: Measurement and Modeling of Microfacet Distribution under Deformation
Speaker: Koki Nagano, Oleg Alexander, Hao Li, Jernej Barbič, Paul Debevec
Host: SIGGRAPH 2014
A model to simulate dynamic microfacet distribution for rough surfaces such as human skin that models the dynamic surface reflectance under deformation. For rendering, dynamic …
Real-Time Live! Make Your Own Avatar
Speaker: Ari Shapiro, Evan Suma
Host: SIGGRAPH 2014
This near-automatic pipeline captures a human subject and, in just a few minutes, simulates the person in a virtual scene. The process can be fully …
Rapid Avatar Capture and Simulation Using Commodity Depth Sensors
Speaker: Ari Shapiro
Host: SIGGRAPH 2014
This system can capture a human figure using a Microsoft Kinect without assistance, create a 3D model of the subject, then automatically rig, skin, and …
Creating a Life-Sized Automultiscopic Morgan Spurlock for CNN’s “Inside Man”
Speaker: Andrew Jones
Host: SIGGRAPH 2014
This new system for capturing and rendering life-size 3D human subjects on an automultiscopic projector array was used to create a 3D digital Morgan Spurlock …
Digital Ira and Beyond: Creating Photoreal Real-Time Digital Characters
Speaker: Paul Debevec, Graham Fyffe, Hao Li, Javier von der Pahlen (Activision), Jorge Jimenez (Activision), Etienne Danvoye (Activision),
Host: SIGGRAPH 2014
This course summarizes the process of creating Digital Ira, presented in SIGGRAPH 2013 Real-Time Live! It covers the complete set of technologies from high-resolution facial …
Countering User Deviation During Redirected Walking
Speaker: Evan Suma
Host: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
Virtual Reality Goes to War—Advances in the Assessment and Treatment of PTSD
Speaker: Skip Rizzo
Host: American Psychological Association Annual Convention
This panel hosted by Rizzo also includes: Update and Expansion of the Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan PTSD Exposure Therapy System. The stressful experiences that have been characteristic …
Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Theory of Mind in the Sigma Cognitive Architecture
Speaker: David Pynadeth
Host: The Seventh Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Distributed Vector Representations of Words in the Sigma Cognitive Architecture
Speaker: Volkan Ustan
Host: Seventh Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Sigma Cognitive Architecture Tutorial
Speaker: Paul Rosebloom, Abram Demski, Volkan Ustun
Host: Seventh Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Situated Pedagogical Authoring Demo and Talk
Speaker: H. Chad Lane
Host: The Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2014 Conference
Deconstructing Episodic Memory and Learning in Sigma
Speaker: Paul Rosenbloom
Host: CogSci 2014
Bridging the gap between human and non-human decision makers
Speaker: Jonathan Gratch
Host: International Association for Conflict Management
Gravity Lighting R&D, Digital Ira, and a Hologram of Morgan Spurlock
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Mundos Digitales
Make Your Own Avatar
Speaker: Ari Shapiro, Evan Suma
Host: SIGGRAPH
This near-automatic pipeline captures a human subject and, in just a few minutes, simulates the person in a virtual scene. The process can be fully …
Civilian Analogs of Army Tasks: Supporting Pedagogical Storytelling Across Domains
Speaker: Mark Core
Host: International Conference of the Learning Sciences
Friends You Haven’t Met Yet Presentation
Speaker: Andrew Gordon and Chris Weinberg
Host: ACM Web Science 2014 Conference
Single-Agent vs. Multi-Agent Techniques for Concurrent Reinforcement Learning of Negotiation Dialogue Policies
Speaker: Kallirroi Georgila
Host: The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Can a conversation be a game? Designing conversational strategy games for health & medical training
Speaker: Brett Talbot
Host: Games for Health Conference
The Future Holistic Training Environment Panel Discussion
Speaker: Todd Richmond
Host: Combined Arms Center-Training
As part of CAC-T’s Training and Education 2025 Industry Forum, panelists cover the current status of the Army’s Integrated Training Environment and the future merging …
A Demonstration of Dialogue Processing in SimSensei Kiosk
Speaker: David DeVault, Fabrizio Morbini
Host: Sigdial 2014
This demonstration highlights the dialogue processing in SimSensei Kiosk, a virtual human dialogue system that conducts interviews related to psychological distress conditions such as depression, …
Panel: Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers
Keynote Address: From Avatar to Gravity: Lighting Photoreal Digital Actors
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Display Week 2014's Best in Show & Display Industry Awards
Amazingly, we have entered an age where even the human actors in a movie can be created as computer generated imagery. Somewhere between Final Fantasy …
Premiere of “Friends you Haven’t Met Yet”
Speaker: Andrew Gordon and Chris Weinberg
Host: Dances with Films
“Friends You Haven’t Met Yet” premieres Tuesday, June 3 at the Dances with Films film festival at the famous Chinese Theaters in Hollywood. The documentary …
Privacy Considerations for Public Storytelling
Speaker: Christopher Wienberg
Host: The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-14)
The popularity of the web and social media have afforded re- searchers unparalleled access to content about the daily lives of people. Human research ethics …
Towards Cloth-Manipulating Characters
Speaker: Ari Shapiro
Host: 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014)
Virtual Coaches over Mobile Video
Speaker: Sin-Hwa Kang
Host: 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014)
Towards a Multimodal Taxonomy of Dialogue Moves for Word-Guessing Games
Speaker: Eli Pincus
Host: Multimodal Corpora workshop 2014
We develop a taxonomy for guesser and clue-giver dialogue moves in word guessing games. The taxonomy is designed to aid in the construction of a …
A Multimodal Corpus of Rapid Dialogue Games
Speaker: Maike Paetzel
Host: The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Rapid Avatar Capture and Simulation using Commodity Depth Sensors
Speaker: Ari Shapiro
Host: 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014)
Affective Computing for the Assessment of Depression
Speaker: Stefan Scherer
Host: 26th Annual Convention for the Association for Psychological Science
Keynote Talk – Virtual Humans: Bridging the Gap between People and Machines
Speaker: Bill Swartout
Host: Culture and Computer Science Conference
Human Matters: Developing Technologies and Strategies with Meaningful Impact
Speaker: Randall W. Hill, Jr., Christian Madsbjerg, Gardiner Morse
Host: USC ICT, ReD Associates, Harvard Business Review
The USC Institute for Creative Technologies, ReD Associates, and Harvard Business Review invite you to a panel discussion about the power of a human-centered approach …
Imaging, Simulation and Animation in Medicine
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: American Urological Association Annual Meeting (AUA 2014)
From Avatar to Gravity: Lighting Photoreal Digital Actors
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: 33rd International Space Development Conference (ISDC 2014)
Uncertainty During Interpersonal Negotiations: Perceptual and Physiological RamificationsDuring Interpersonal Negotiations: Perceptual and Physiological Ramifications
Speaker: Peter Khooshabeh
Host: USC Center for Economic and Social Research
Emotion is important in motivated performance scenarios such as negotiations. But studying complex interpersonal tasks is difficult with existing behavioral science research methods because of …
Invited Talk: Sequential Decision-Making in Human-Agent Interactions
Speaker: David Pynadeth
Host: AAMAS: Workshop on Multiagent Sequential Decision Making
Itís Only a Computer: The Impact of Human-agent Interaction in Clinical Interviews
Speaker: Jonathan Gratch
Host: 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
Gesture Generation with Low-dimensional Embeddings
Speaker: Chung-Cheng Chiu
Host: 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Panel: R&D Educational Engagement with the Industry
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia
Do We Punish the Robot
Speaker: Gale Lucas
Host: Western Psychological Association Annual Convention
“Gravity”, Lighting R&D and “Digital Ira”
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia
Michael Naimark Talk: Cycloramas Re-Imagined
Speaker: Michael Naimark
Host: ICT Graphics Lab
“VR is back!”, and while for most this means head-mounted displays and fantasy imagery, collective displays and realworld imagery are untapped both as a new …
Demonstrations of E2C2 Work
Speaker: Ryan Spicer and Ryhs Yahata
Host: 2014 IEEE Virtual Reality
Unity Virtual Reality Tutorial at IEEE VR
Speaker: Arno Hartholt
Host: IEEE VR 2014
This tutorial will provide an introduction to Unity (http://www.unity3D.com) and several VR components that are designed to work with Unity. These VR components can be …
Relative Facial Action Unit Detection
Speaker: Louis-Philippe Morency
Host: IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
Mahmoud Khademi of McMaster University and ICT’s Louis-Philippe Morency will present their paper.
Triangle Charades: A Data-Collection Game for Recognizing Actions in Motion Trajectories
Speaker: Melissa Roemmele
Host: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Toward Crowdsourcing Micro-Level Behavior Annotations: The Challenges of Interface, Training, and Generalization
Speaker: Sunghyun Park
Host: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Kitchen Talk: Can we build Passionate Intelligent Tutoring Systems?
Speaker: H. Cha
Host: Newcastle University, Computing Science Department
The intersection of affective computing, educational games, and intelligent learning technologies has produced heightened interest in the construct of engagement and its role in learning. …
Demo: Mobile Personal Healthcare Mediated by Virtual Humans
Speaker: Anton Leuski
Host: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Building the Holodeck
Speaker: Todd Richmond
Host: AUSA Winter Symposium
Panel discussion
Integrating Intelligent Tutoring Systems in Virtual World Training/Learning
Speaker: Julia Campbell and Mark Core
Host: Next Med/Medicine Meets Virtual Reality
Advances in Photoreal Digital Humans in Film and in Real-Time
Speaker: Paul Debevec
Host: Next Med/Medicine Meets Virtual Reality
Can we build Passionate Intelligent Tutoring Systems? Promoting Engagement and Learning with Pedagogical Agents
Speaker: H. Chad Lane
Host: The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation - University of Edinburgh
The continued intersection of affective computing, educational games, and intelligent learning technologies has produced heightened interest in the construct of engagement and its role in …
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference Tours ICT
Speaker: Randall W. Hill, Jr. and Skip Rizzo and more
Host: Skip Rizzo and NextMed VR
On Friday evening, conference participants from the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference can enjoy a tour and reception at the University of Southern California’s Institute …
Gale Lucas: “Do we punish the robot?: Effects of agency on endorsing punishment”
Speaker: Gale Lucas
Host: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention
Abstract: While “computers-as-social actors” theory implies that people may punish machines for undesirable behavior just like humans, perceptions of “free will” also affect recommendations for …
Interpolating vertical parallax for an autostereoscopic 3D projector array
Speaker: Andrew Jones
Host: SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXV
Simulation and Training Workshop
Speaker: Randall W. Hill, Jr.
Host: 2014 Joint Forces Simulation & Training Conference
Collecting the Cosmos
Host: USC Visions and Voices
It’s not every day that you find a lightning storm inside a library. Dramatizing NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter, Dan Goods and David Delgado’s art installation Beneath the Surface simulates a lightning …
Poster: A Semi-Automated Evaluation Metric for Dialogue Model Coherence
Speaker: Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum
Host: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSD 2104)